Mom Wanted To Give Her Daughter The Best Gift, What She Did? WOW!

As a kid, I had a lot of time to play games and have fun. Time was my least of worries since I had a lot of it.

Toys were not the only thing that made my day – there was more into having the fun. With a cardboard box, I could do much with it. If you’ve never known, simple toys are the best to play with but what one mom decided to do for her child who needed to have fun is so adorable.

She came up with an entertaining DIY project which was meant to give her daughter many hours of entertainment and fun.A Beautiful Mess is where I came across the clever project. It’s a collapsible project that Mandi Johnson decided to make for her daughter and it has everything the little girl wishes for. How I wish I had a similar playhouse while I was kid.

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In deciding what type of DIY project to make, Mandi had the same impulse as I did. She writes, “If you had given me the choice of a fort made of cardboard and duct tape versus one of those Fisher Price playhouses, I would have chosen the shoddily assembled cardboard version every time.”

Mandi decided to draw up very detailed plans for a playhouse for her daughter. “I thought she’d really enjoy a Mama-made plahouse — and boy, did she ever!”

Mandi carefully measured out the pieces to her house, though she definitely thinks there is room for flexibility. “If you are working with smaller pieces of cardboard or an actual box, why not come up with your own design?”

Since she didn’t have a ton of extra space in her home, Mandi decided to make the playhouse collapsable. She used foam board because it was “the quickest/easiest material to work with since all I need to cut it was my trusty X-Acto blade.” She smartly used household objects to cut out the round shapes in the house.

She cut out her panels, roof, and door. “After cutting out the door, you’ll want to cut away a little extra around it so that it will easily open without getting stuck inside the opening where you cut it from.”

With all of her pieces ready to go, Mandi started to put her house together. She decided to do this on her own, but admitted “it would have been nice to have some help standing up the two sides of the house while I slipped on the front or back panel.”

And how did Mandi make the door functional? She cleverly used white duct tape as a door hinge!

Mandi’s house was fully assembled and ready to play in. But she decided not to stop there. It was time to put her own creative spin on the playhouse!

Mandi “decided to jazz it up a little bit with the addition of paint, gingerbreading, shingles, and a little more detail drawn on with a Sharpie paint pen. There are so many ways you can go with this — it’s really a lot of fun!”

While Mandi built the house and decorated the outside, she decided to let her daughter’s creativity take care of the inside. “I plan on getting inside there with Lucy and some magic markers and letting her interior design the joint to her heart’s content.”

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