• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
    • Work With Me
    • Disclosure
    • Press and Recognition
  • Recipes
    • Recipe Index
    • Roundups
    • Top 10
    • Holiday
  • Travel
    • Tips
    • Things To Do
    • Hotels
    • Restaurants
  • Fun
    • Gift Ideas
    • Pets
    • Military
    • Parties
    • Disney
    • Crafts
    • Printables
  • Parenting
    • Ava and Stella
    • Breastfeeding
    • Pregnancy
  • Cooking Videos
  • Subscribe
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

For the Love of Food

DIY Kid’s Kitchen Helper Stool & Learning Tower

August 22, 2015 2 Comments

737 shares
  • 51
My handy dandy husband is at it again! 
He built a wooden Kitchen Helper Stool for Ava and it’s his best work yet!
Toddler step stool
Also scroll down for Ava’s 10 minute DIY Dress Up Closet How To.
Ava loves to help me in the kitchen and I have been on the lookout for a safety stool for her to reach the counter. I found plastic “Learning Towers” online for around $200 but that was way out of our price range. So AShton decided to build Ava one out of wood one afternoon. He purchased plywood, wheels, paint, and knobs and got to work creating an awesome safety stool for our daughter. 
It was made in a day and cost around $30!

Ava’s DIY Kitchen Helper Stool 

Hardware needed: 

  • screws or nails (whichever you prefer, we used screws.)
  • 4 castor wheels that lock
Tools needed:

  •  circular saw or table saw
  • sander 
  •  drill
Wood needed:
(measurements in inches)
 
3/4 inch plywood
 
  • 12X35: 2 
  • 4 X18: 1 
  • 12X18: 1
  • 6X18: 1
  • 1 X12: 2
  • 2X18: 1
 
1/2 inch plywood
 
  • 5 1/2 X 18 1/2: 1
 
Add ons: 
 
  • Quart of paint, color/s of choice
  • Letter decals, optional
  • decorative knobs/hooks for sides

 

The back slides out so Ava can easily step in her stool 
and then it can be slid back in again so she is boxed in safely.
Ashton also added a small step at the bottom for Ava to climb up on.
Ava chose the paint colors, purple and pink of course, 
and it only took a quart to paint the entire stool. 
I added decals I already had at home to spell “Mommy’s Helper”
 and sealed them with Mod Podge.
The front has a piece of wood flat across as a safety bar.
There are also 4 wheels that lock attached to the bottom.
We added pink knobs to the sides to hang aprons, towels, and kitchen utensils on.

Ava’s DIY Dress Up Closet

Also check out this dress up closet Ashton and I made for $20!
Target bookshelf (at a yard sale) -$10
Target banner and sticker letters- $6
Dowel rod- $1
Wrapping paper (to line the inside)- $1
Sticky hooks- $2
Bonus: the dress up outfits and accessories were given to us or purchased at yard sales- $5 for all!  
 
We simply removed the lower shelves and added a dowel rod to hang the clothes. I lined the inside with pretty pink floral wrapping paper. I used baskets I already for hats and accessories and we put sticky hooks on the side for necklaces. I made the banner and taped it on the front. 
 
Done in 10 minutes!

737 shares
  • 51

Filed Under: Crafts, Things To Do Tagged With: build, diy, kitchen helper, stool

Previous Post: « Cajun Shrimp Boil Grill Packs
Next Post: Vintage Kentucky Bourbon Black Fruit Cake with Cinnamon Glaze »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. cathy

    January 26, 2017 at 3:49 am

    These are cute toddler stools that are personalized. I thought it would relate to the blog.
    https://www.etsy.com/listing/507131159/personalized-childrens-foldable-stool?ref=shop_home_active_5

    Reply
  2. James

    August 12, 2022 at 3:35 pm

    good article

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow Me

PhotobucketPhotobucketPhotobucket

Photobucket

My Family


Nicole with her husband Ashton and daughters Ava and Stella

Search My Blog!

Popular Posts

Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham

Crock-Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham for the Holidays

Chef Salad on a Stick

Crock-Pot Rotisserie Chicken

Crock-Pot Rotisserie Style Chicken

Biscuit and Gravy Casserole

Biscuit and Sausage Gravy Casserole

Poor Man’s Lobster | Butter Baked Cod

Duck Dynasty Potatoes

Duck Dynasty Mashed Potato Casserole

Proud Military Wife

Archives

Footer

Springtime Favorites

Communities

 

© 2025 NICOLE HOOD FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD " Privacy Policy

DMCA.com Protection Status