Yesterday, during naptime, I made the girls a new toy - a mini tent! (The pattern and tutorial are free) Usually, I'll file diy toy projects away for birthdays or Christmas (hello pinterest), rather than making them. But I want to do that less. Plus, last month I hardly made anything because I was sick and the month before that we were traveling so I feel like my creativity took a major nose dive. Overall, I'm trying to make more, which probably has a lot to do with Christmas looming on the horizon! Anyways, the tent was really easy to make, it took about 2 hours. Holly and I went to Home Depot together to get the piping. The pattern calls for faucet connectors, but HD only had those in stainless steel. So instead for $6 I bought 25 ft of polyurethane tubing. Holly chose purple duct tape to wrap it in, The duct tape added some needed sturdiness. The only adjustment I made was I added an inch to the bottom panels (so 12.25" instead of 11.25"). I thought that the tent would be perfect for the little lalaloopsy dolls, or other small to medium dolls. But Holly thinks it was made especially for her corolle doll, aka our third child. When Greta saw the tent, she dived at it thinking it was the perfect size for her! Hopefully they get a lot of play out of it! When I was a little girl I had a tent that I loved to play with.
