Build: kids size play stool
I used Ana White’s play table stool plans to build this stool for a birthday gift.
This birthday boy’s name starts with B, hence the personalization on the stool seat:
The distressed edges are perfect for kids who tend to ‘distress’ furniture in their own way:
My kids got the first build of this stool in red:
And we put it under the clubhouse fort bed in their room to use as a table:
Here’s how I made the stool:
1. Cut wood to size as per Ana’s plans here:
2. Assemble stool using Kreg jig:
3. Sand then paint two coats Behr lake blue:
4. Sand to distress:
5. Stain with Minwax Early American:
6. Print out monogram (I used Ariel font 700 point).
Trace letter using ballpoint pen:
7. Paint on and inside the indent left behind by the pen, start with white acrylic:
8. Then paint over the white with Glidden sunbaked orange, two coats:
9. Add decorative dots with white acrylic:
(I used the end of a glue stick.)
10. Seal with clear gloss spray poly:
Ready for little ones to play:
Karen Mary Butterfly says
June 29, 2012 at 5:25 PMWow. What a great tutorial! I love your glue stick trick! So smart! Thank you! What a cute bed/fort!!!!!!!!