Within the past year, Michael had gone from playing with Mega Blocs to regular LEGOs. Since he's grown to love LEGOs, Jon and I decided that we would make him a LEGO table. The thing is, we didn't want it to be a permanent LEGO table. Here's how we did just that.
We bought the
side table and
stools from Ikea. We could have bought the children table to go with the stools, but we wanted to make this table as cheaply as possible.
We bought two
rolls of cork from Michaels and 4 LEGO green base plates from Toys R Us.
Line the plates up like the picture above and have the flat backs facing up.
You're next going to supper glue the cork to the backs of the plates. Jon used this to glue everything together.
One roll will not be large enough to cover all of the plates, but you want to make sure that at least one of the rolls will overlap the center. Cover the plates with your glue.
Spread the roll of cork onto the section that you glued.
Jon placed some of Michael's toys to help flatten the roll and help it adhere to the plates. You'll want to do the same to the other side with your second roll of cork.
Once the glue has dried, you'll want to take a straight edge knife to cut the excess cork off. Jon had put some LEGO bricks down to help hold the four plates together.
The reason for putting the cork on the back is so that the plates would not move as much as if we just placed them on the table. Some have just glued the plates directly to the side table, but we wanted to be able to use it as a table when Michael's not playing with his LEGOs.
Michael loves playing with his LEGOs on his LEGO table. With the way that we made this, we can also switch out what plates we want to use. We bought 4 blue plates and will be doing the same thing. This way if he's wanting a blue foundation, he can just put the blue plates down.
Have you made a LEGO table for your kids? If so, how did you make it? I'm sure your kids will love it as much as Michael does and will spend many hours playing at it.
Update!
I want to suggest to possibly put either plywood or cardboard between the LEGO base plates and the cork. The reason for suggesting this is because the cork has actually ripped apart. So, get a piece of card board to the total size of your LEGO base plates and then glue the cork on one side and then the LEGO base plates on the other side.
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