FULLY FUNCTIONAL MONTESSORI TODDLER KITCHEN | IKEA DIY HACK | WORKING SINK!
I loved making over this IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen to be a fully functional Montessori kitchen. Here are the products I used:
IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen: www.ikea.com/us/en/p/duktig-p...
Water pump: amzn.to/3uZfBYZ
Contact paper for the countertop: amzn.to/4akdEGt
Lower handles: amzn.to/3NqeeJg
Microwave handle: amzn.to/3RlWTlF
Hooks: amzn.to/3NlxXd2
Fork/Knife/Spoon LARGE decal for the tray: amzn.to/41BBwSl
Fork/Knife/Spoon SMALL decal for the side of the box:amzn.to/4auH98S
Cutting Board: www.ikea.com/us/en/p/proppmae...
Kitchen towels: www.ikea.com/us/en/p/salviken...
Magnetic locks: amzn.to/47052C9
Utensils/Silverware: www.montessoriservices.com/ch...
Cup and pitcher are from the Lovevery subscription service
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iPhone 11 Pro
Ring light: amzn.to/2TKy4G2
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Keywords: Ikea, Montessori, Play Kitchen, DIY
I love the kitchen! This was very helpful!. Thank you so much for posting!
Thank you so much for commenting! I’m so glad it helped! Are you working on any other projects where a video would be helpful? I loved both redoing the kitchen and making the video. Thanks again for being so kind and good luck if you’re ready to do your own!
Really cool idea. Thanks for posting and sharing!
Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words!
Thank you so much for posting the links to everything and walking through how you went about building it.
Thanks so much for commenting and liking!
Excited to see the matching cleaning set!
Thanks! I hope to share it soon!
love this!
Thank you so much!
Very cool; I was expecting you to turn the microwave into an 'easy bake oven' when it said fully functional though.
That’d be so cool! Sorry to disappoint! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi, thankyou for the good idea! I want to change my toddler ikea kitchen but she’s only 15months. I’m afraid thats to early to change this kitchen to be montessori kitchen🥲 I'm just curious. how old was your child, when you changed the kitchen?
Nice one
Thank you so much and thank you for taking the time to comment!
Hi mom!! Thank you for the walk through! Sooooo helpful! I bought the hooks you linked but can’t seem to figure out how to take off the pole.. could you please help 😅🥹😭😭
Sure! You need to actually loosen or take off one of the sides of the top to slip the rod out. Here’s the instructions for the kitchen so you can see what you need to loosen. Check out step 15/16 www.ikea.com/il/he/assembly_instructions/duktig-play-kitchen-birch__AA-1799826-13-2.pdf
I'm so impressed by your design and the return you made on the unwanted items. Has the childproofing door caused any tantrums?
Thanks so much for the kind words. No tantrums yet from the door, though it’s easier if filling/emptying the bottles in that side get done without a child present!
Excellent!! Thank you Where can you find such a water pump please?
Hi! Everything I used is linked in the description
I love this. I am wondering how many times do you need to empty the dirty water in this kitchen?
Hi! Thanks for watching and for your kind comment. As you probably suspect, how often you need to change the water depends on how your child uses the kitchen. If they run the water a long time when washing hands or wash several times a day you probably need to change daily. Otherwise you may have longer between changes. Remember though you can change the dirty water when the clean runs out. Your below sink containers should be roughly the same size. I hope that helps!
I clicked because it said fully functional and my mind immediately went "There's no way she got a working microwave and over on that kitchen" OBVSLY I didn't ACTUALLY expect that to be the case but that's where my mind went with "FULLY FUNCTIONAL"
Sorry to disappoint! I definitely could have at least added one of those little mini refrigerators to make it even closer to fully functioning!
This is wonderful but the only thing I would change is the plastic container for fresh water, I would us glass.
You can certainly do that easily! Good luck and thank you for the kind comment.
Hiya. How did you Secure the water pump? It moves whenever my Grandson touches it so he wants to pull it up.
You can use a bunch of different things…velcro like the sink or even something like Quake Hold or command strips. Good luck!
HI I have just come across this kitchen hack !! but i would like to ask doesnt the water dispenser come off ? like how did u make it stick into the hole ? if it makes sense…
I am afraid my toddler will just pull out the water dispenser..
Some people use Velcro or that blue sticky clay. I thought I might need something additional to secure it but haven’t. Good luck and thanks for watching!
Would it be easier to have like a large tub under the sink that has the correct amount of water but also goes under sink like a washing up shape bowl, secure the water pump hose to it so it takes water out but then drains directly back into it like a full round operational system if that makes sense struggling to explain Just because I know I'd be useless at swapping them 😅
I think you’re just suggesting the same water recirculate :) certainly an option though remember that water is getting dirty too so still probably needs to be swapped at some interval
How did you get the metal rings on the wooden dowel?
Hi! It’s a metal rod but I just separated the top piece of the kitchen from the bottom and just that little bit of wiggle room let it drop out. Hope that helps. Thank you for commenting and sorry I didn’t see it sooner!
How did you make the silverware box?
Thanks for asking and for watching. I just used a wood puzzle piece box and then used wood glue to put cut-down paint sticks as dividers. Then I added the decals. Links to those in the video description :)
How do you attach the water faucet?
I used blue tac for my daughter and she pulled it out in a few days :D I am thinking of getting velcro now. Actually it was just a lil bit of blue tac so it didnt last.
I tried velcro like what I used for the sink but wasn’t super happy with it because the bottom isn’t flat. Blue tac sounded promising!
@@myfrugalmommylife Ahh!!! I try more blue tac then. It was the last pack and I didnt have enough when i used the last time.
my daughter keeps pulling the water pump out. Any tips anyone?
I’ve seen people try velcro and earthquake hold (kind of like a clay). Good luck!
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