How To Construct A DIY Mud Kitchen

Discover ways to construct a mud kitchen for youths that’s excellent for preserving them entertained outdoors. Listed below are step-by-step mud kitchen plans for making an out of doors DIY mud kitchen for beneath $100. They’ll be cooking up nature soup and dirt pies very quickly.

How To Build A Mud Kitchen for under $100

*Initially printed 5/2020. Up to date 2/2023*

Hello pals!

Able to discover ways to make a DIY mud kitchen for youths? Final week, I didn’t even know there was such a factor and now right here we’re! I noticed somebody point out one on Instagram and I knew instantly that my children would love one! They’ve been on an enormous nature soup kick the previous few weeks making soups and stews out of leaves, grass, dandelions, and so on so a DIY mud kitchen appeared like an awesome match for us.

Mud Kitchen DIY

That is a type of occasions (and there are plenty of them) when it’s so good to have a helpful husband! I spent a couple of minutes scrolling by means of mud kitchens on Pinterest, screenshotted just a few footage to indicate him and requested him if he may construct us one and 6 hours later, voila!

That is clearly not the one approach you may construct one. You may simply make one with only a board and a few cinder blocks or utilizing no matter wooden you have got laying round, however I LOVE the best way ours turned out! A number of individuals requested for dimensions, supplies and so on so we put collectively a blueprint and instructions for a way my husband made ours.

Remember we’re not a DIY weblog AND we weren’t planning to show this right into a submit so we didn’t do the very best job taking photographs. However my husband supplied drawings for every step of meeting with measurements and so on for somewhat out of doors kitchen plans PDF. Between these and the typed instructions under, hopefully you’ll have a fairly good concept easy methods to construct one your self!

Home made DIY Out of doors Sink

Our plans embody a sink however we don’t have it hooked as much as water to make it operating water. If that’s one thing you’re on the lookout for you would possibly like this Outdoor Pallet Kid’s Mud Kitchen with Working Sink!

Pallet Mud Kitchen

Talking of pallets, we didn’t use them however you possibly can positively make a DIY pallet mud kitchen. Try this tutorial for an Easy DIY Pallet Mud Kitchen (utilizing scrap wooden and pallets).

How To Construct A Mud Kitchen For Youngsters

Supplies For Out of doors Play Kitchen

(7) cedar 2x4s
(8) 6′ cedar fence boards
1.25-inch deck screws (approx 54) and a couple of.5-inch deck screws (approx 50)
exterior stain (an effective way to make use of some up when you’ve got it laying round! We used what we had leftover after staining our screened porch)
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Rubbermaid 10 gallon plastic tub

Dimensions:

Body: 2 toes tall x 4 toes lengthy (depth relies on the container you’re utilizing to your “sink”)
Tub: We used a 10-gallon plastic Rubbermaid tub. Measuring just below the lip, it was 14.5″ extensive x 20.75″ lengthy. (We needed to minimize off the handles to make it match down within the body which was a ache so we advocate on the lookout for one with out handles.

man and son building mud kitchen cooktop

Instructions For How To Construct A DIY Mud Kitchen

**Scroll down for a hyperlink to a free PDF blueprint and printable instructions**

Step 1: Assemble the body for the cooktop utilizing 2x4s.

Lower one 2×4 in half for the lengthy sides, which might be nearly precisely 48″.
Measure slightly below the lip of the bathtub you’re utilizing to get measurements for the opening to your sink. Ours was 14.5″ extensive x 20.75″ lengthy.
Lower the 4 shorter items of your body to the size of your tub.
Drill pilot holes after which use 2.5-inch deck screws to construct your rectangular body with two items within the center to carry the bathtub between them.

Step 2: Add legs.

Entrance legs are 24 inches, again legs are 48 inches to increase up and make the backsplash.
Entrance legs go contained in the body and the again legs go outdoors the body.
Connect the entrance legs, then have somebody maintain it degree whereas attaching the again legs.

Step 3: Make the decrease shelf body.

Lower two 45″ items of two×4 for the back and front.
Lower three items which can be three inches shorter than your aspect items for the cooktop. Ours have been 17.75 inches because the sides to our cooktop have been 20.75 inches. It’s also possible to simply measure the gap between the back and front legs and subtract 3 inches.
Drill pilot holes and use 2.5 inch deck screws.

how to build a mud kitchen - man measuring for lower frame

Step 4: Connect the decrease shelf body.

Connect decrease shelf body to the again of the entrance legs and the entrance of the again legs about 6 inches from the bottom utilizing 2.5 inch deck screws.

mud kitchen with cedar fence boards and 2x4s

Step 5: Add cedar prime, shelf prime, and backsplash with fence boards

Do the underside shelf first. Measure from the periphery to periphery sides of the shelf body. Lower 3 cedar fence boards to that size. Evenly house boards and fasten with 1.25-inch deck screws to make a shelf.
Do cooktop subsequent. Lower 3 cedar fence boards after measuring from backsplash to entrance edge of two×4. Begin closest to tub on either side and work out. There could also be somewhat overhang on the outer items.
For backsplash: Use fence board as a spacer when putting in. We did 3 cedar fence boards after which a 2×4 degree with the highest

Step 6: Add 2×4 topper on the backsplash

We added one other 2×4 throughout the highest, connecting it to the two×4 operating horizontally throughout the highest of the backsplash and the highest of the again legs.

Step 7: Sand the cooktop

The cedar fence boards are tough sawn so we sanded them till easy with 120 grit paper and an influence sander.
Hubby additionally rounded the sides and corners. Easy surfaces are simpler to maintain clear and allowed us to attract “burners”.

Step 8: Draw the “burners”

Draw cooktop burners by tracing circles and portray them black.

Step 9: Stain

We used leftover stain from our porch to seal the wooden.
We additionally added a coat of exterior grade polyurethane to the countertop space to carry up higher towards mud and water. As well as, the black paint for the burners gained’t settle for the stain so the poly helps seal it in.

Step 10: Add the small print

We made knobs out of a leftover 2×4 to “flip the burners on”
Add hooks, baskets and so on if you wish to!
After we took the image, we additionally added an affordable brass hose bibb to appear like a faucet over the sink. (It was $5)
Furnish with outdated pots and pans, pie tins, tupperware, outdated spice containers, spoons and ladles. Thrift shops and storage gross sales are nice locations to seek out provides.

Since we didn’t have the very best step-by-step photographs to share, my husband sketched out a visible of every step of the method to assist present you the way we measured, the place we put our screws and so on.

CLICK HERE FOR A FREE BLUEPRINT PDF and PRINTABLE DIRECTIONS

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Just a few recommendations:

We advocate utilizing cedar as a result of it’s naturally immune to decay with none chemical compounds and it smells good
Cedar 2x4s are kinda dear however the cedar fence boards are low cost so all of it evened out! Our complete got here out to proper round $100.
You’ll want a buddy to assist maintain varied items of wooden in place when you’re drilling pilot holes and so on.