Sadly, some people still live in the stone-ages of strictly-enforced gender-assigned toys. I know I got a few funny looks when I told people we were getting our 3-year-old son a play kitchen for Christmas last year. Whatever dudes, he loved it. This year he got an E-Z Bake Oven. Who knows, maybe he’ll grow up to be the next Mario Batali. Hopefully minus the grungy orange Crocs. We encourage open minds, just not that open.
Anyhoo, here are a couple of girly-girl toys that Better After reader Lisa refried for her little boy. How cute is that Edelweiss-inspired playhouse? Answer: really cute. You can see more pics from Lisa right HERE.
17 Comments
Lindsey @ Better After
January 27, 2011 at 8:38 PMDoh! You are right Steve & Ally! I actually googled that to be sure, but the first link that popped up was about transgenderedness…so yeah, that’s what I went with. Didn’t read it real close, obviously! Ha!
Irene Robertson
January 27, 2011 at 3:38 PMHold the phone!
Did she actually put mosaic tile on a play kitchen?
I love her!
Steve and Alli
January 27, 2011 at 4:08 PMI think you meant to say XX(female) to XY(male) at any rate I LOVE what she did, I’m not a fan of pink anything so I think my girls would love a play kitchen like the one she did. Thanks for posting, ideas are swirling now!
A Prairie Girl in California
January 27, 2011 at 4:52 PMCUTE!!!:D
Denise
January 27, 2011 at 4:58 PMI too buy these for my little man, Evan. For Christmas he got a kitchen. Just last night I purchased 2 Fisher Price cars for him and one was pink!
This was a great post (lovin the tile!)
Denise
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Morgana
January 27, 2011 at 5:33 PMeeek! I’m so stoked right now. I just passed over several large play toys for my toddler at the thrift store because they were grungy AND girly. (Not that I care about the color as much as the grunge…) But I think I’m going to have to go back and rescue them now- I’ve been inspired.
♥Amber Filkins♥
January 27, 2011 at 5:38 PMHoly cow! I never, EVER thought to paint those play structures like that! They get so grungy, so fast. This one looks brand new again. SO genius.
lauren@WESTFURNITUREREVIVAL
January 27, 2011 at 6:06 PMHOW CUTE YOUR KIDS MUST BE LOVIN
THEM
Kelly and Gunner
January 27, 2011 at 6:25 PMWhat kind of paint did she use on the plastic house???
Heather
January 27, 2011 at 6:51 PMThey are so cute, even I’d like to play with them!
Amber
January 27, 2011 at 7:53 PMKelly and Gunner,
I was wondering the same thing, so I googled it. It looks like other people have used Krylon Fusion spraypaint for plastic on the same type of project.
Chandra Chinnis
January 27, 2011 at 9:28 PMLove those projects. I wish I would have thought about that for my boys when they were 3. Now at 7 and 5 their into other things. I can however do that for my 2 yr old daughter with those thrift store toys I think don’t look the best. I love the ideas I get from blogging.
http://www.mysouthernlife.blogspot.com
Ginny
January 27, 2011 at 9:52 PMMy middle-school aged son LOVED playing kitchen when he was a toddler/preschooler. Now he loves to cook real food for us, especially waffles, pancakes, and French toast. In fact, he made French toast for dinner last night. I just wish I’d had a cute kitchen like Lisa’s instead of a plastic one!
Jenny
January 28, 2011 at 12:15 AMAwesome!!
MMB Creations
January 28, 2011 at 4:01 AMI did the transformation on a desk for Christmas. The original had kitten decals.
http://mmbcreations.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/desk-upcycle/
The Studes
January 28, 2011 at 9:28 PMI have this same kitchen for my daughter and I’m pretty sure I”m going to re do it now because I think its to girly.. lol such a great idea!
Kymberly Foster Seabolt
February 6, 2011 at 2:21 PMLove this and glad to see other parents are breaking beyond the “gender barrier” in the toy aisle.
We have parents who raise boys to believe and behave as if they can only play with trucks – blue ones.
Then we wonder why we end up with legions of men who behave as if their genitals will detach if they so much as touch a stove or a vacuum cleaner.