Toot Toot Tuesday-Play Wooden Pantry Food

So I have been sick and useless the last little bit, and my creative energy must all be going to this little one as extra nutrition.
My best friend knew I was struggling coming up with anything or the energy to do anything this week for a tutorial and jumped in to help!
I am so glad she did, when I am feeling better, my kids are so getting some of these cute toys! Sometimes the best ideas are the most simple ones!

Here is April's tutorial on wooden pantry food, thanks again April!

I LOVE to cook, and loved to play house when I was little. So, a few years ago when the little wooden kitchens started coming out I made sure my girls got one and the obsession began. It's been about three years that we've been collecting kitchen goods. I love the wooden food, metal pots and pans, and super cute tiny utensils.

I love the ceramic dishes, and I scour the goodwill for fun little glass dishes, cutesy little dishtowels, and table linens. I cannot get enough of this stuff.

I have been looking at all the usual makers of wooden food sets to see what sets we don't have, that we would like to get. I kept seeing these pantry sets. Blocks of painted wood with silk-screened images on them. Super cute, upwards of $20.00 shipped. So I got the idea of making some myself......cost = free! I had everything on hand! Supplies needed are:

• from your own canned or boxed foods
• scrap pieces of wood
• craft paint
• mod podge

It's a pretty straight forward project. Sand the wood, paint the wood, apply the labels with mod podge. (Don't forget to write the contents on the now label-less can with a sharpie.) Do a couple of coats of the magical mod podge drying in between coats.

I did do some thicker labels, the cream cheese and graham crackers were too thick to put on the way they were. Those I just had to peel the cardboard backing off to get them as thin as possible. Super easy little project, even so much that I actually let the girls help. For such a control freak that's a big deal.

Finished product:

My girls love them and play with them all the time!

Thanks again April, these are so cute, and you saved me as usual! :)