At achievement of six-month-old age by the kid for parents there is a question of acquisition of a children's stool. Besides use for convenience of feeding of kids, further it can be useful also in other purposes, for example, for various developing classes with the kid.
At the wide range of ready children's stools, on closer examination there are always nuances which for one reason or another do not suit parents. It can be a wide and bulky design of a stool or existence of short-lived plastic elements.
Why parents prefer a self-made stool for feeding
Production of a children's stool the hands is about to happen because of the wide range of the bright, but impractical or unsafe stools offered for sale. Independent production of such piece of furniture means that only the checked materials will be used, all desirable sizes are observed and the quality of all elements of fastening is guaranteed.
With the choice of a design and the scheme of a self-made stool with small technical skills and desire of a problem will not arise. For simplicity, for example, it is possible to use a usual wooden chair to which it is easy to attach additional elements as a basis.
Production of a stool
As material for production of a stool it is the best of all to use a tree as it is simple for work and eco-friendly material. In the presence in a design of a chair of bars it is desirable to choose the smooth wooden blanks which do not have in the structure of cracks, knots and inclusions of pitch. For a table-top and a surface of possible bearing structures it can be used sheets of plywood, a board of small thickness or chipboard (wood chipboards). When choosing use of boards it is necessary to provide arrangement of the made elements at an angle of 45 degrees to the direction of fibers of wood that will increase their durability. The vertical sizes of a stool from sitting to a surface of a table decide on the help of proportions of the sizes of an adult chair and growth of the adult which are used then when calculating necessary height. Other sizes can be varied easily, proceeding from reasons of compactness and convenience. In a design of a stool it is necessary to provide: - supports and the limiter for legs; - armrests; - a table with limiters on a surface; - a convenient back, by the sizes of not exceeding height of a back of the kid. After production and assembly the surface of all elements of a stool needs to be smoothed out emery small cloth and to cover with a protective layer of varnish or paint. Everything that will need to be made then, it to think over soft sitting and a back, using foam rubber or other material for softness. For convenience it is recommended to make the removed covers of the washing or easily erased material.