I need suggestions.

[JBark]

Okay, the first child will be a girl (thank you medical science) and I am panicing early on what I can build for her in the shop. Of course I thought if I had a boy I could make trucks, trains, a castle...the list goes on. Hey, when I was a kid one of the best toys I ever had was the box our refrigerator came in because I tweaked it here and there to be the cockpit of a WWI biplane, so I thought I would make a scaled down biplane for my son. So he could shoot the neighbors, of course.

What do I make a girl? Okay, the doll house is an option, of course, but what else? Fathers? Daughters? Brothers? Help me out.


John


P.S. - The mother is one big tomboy who divides her time between palying soccer and watching football, bullriding, and ultimate fighting. No suggestions from her.

[WoodMangler]

Hmm... gonna have to go with the doll cradle I guess...

I'm too sleepy to actually come up with anything creative :)

[Sonny Edmonds]

Make a mobile to hang over her bed. Get a music box and use it to turn the mobile around. Butterflys are nice, and flowers.
You'll have plenty of time to think up projects. You can dream them up at those 2 and 4 AM feedings, for example.
Gonna need some shelves for toys and such. I like Oak, and the kids whitewashed them for the grand daughters room. That's OK, she can refinish them later into oak or anything she wants.

Mama likes bull ridin? Probably why she picked you, stud. :P LMAO! :7

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[WoodDrummer]

She may love the trucks, trains, and castle as well as any boy, ya just never know.

You could probably come up with some fun block puzzles and there's always the playhouse down the line (if you have space).

Congrats and good luck.

[grandpaw]

Mine were both boys but what I made would work just as well for a girl.

In order....
Cradle
Baby bed
Rocking chair
Toy box
Then toys
Bed
Desk

I might add that both of my sons have used these items and have now been passed down to my grandson and he has used each piece except the desk so far. Memories are just priceless, Jeff

Each of my projects are marked handcrafted by ...... and have the date they were made on each piece.

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Very Good Days :) :) :) or just Plain Good Days :) :). I just refuse to have bad ones!!!"

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[sjc1989]

The Taj Mahal of doll houses. If it doesn't have a minimum of four floors and miniature Pella Windows (at full price of course) then you probably don't love your daughter. At least that's what my wife told me.

Steve Cox

"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph, or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal He is supercivilized, and I do not know how to deal with him" Aldo Leopold

[rhull]

> The Taj Mahal of doll houses.

Yeah, here ya go. :)

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[Cameron]

The nursery furniture is a great idea. I also recommend (based on my young daughter):

Shelves for toys/stuffed animals (especially if you have any dogs)
Stick pony (a must-have for any toddler)
rocking horse
jigsaw puzzles
blocks
bookshelves for all of the books you'll read to her

There is lots of stuff you can make, just try thinking ahead to what you or she might need down the line.

Mike

[desperry]

I was just remembering the other day about how much my sister liked (and USED) the doll-size bunk-beds that she got for Christmas one year.

It would be fairly easy to design and build them -- and you have at least a couple of years before they are needed, so you have plenty of time to do the planning and building.

[arcticfox46]

There is absolutely NO need at all to panic.

For the first two years they remember absolutely NOTHING.

Even another year after that they remember nothing.

Heck they don't even remember anything till they are 4-5 years old,and even then it is absolutely minimul. REMEMBER - Kids are RESILIENT.

Do YOU remember anything from when you were 2 or 3 or even 4. NO!!, I didn't think so.

Until they are about 5 it doesn't matter what on earth you do (-!!! except love them !!!-) with toys. For that matter you could hang wiskey bottle's over thier crib and they would NEVER know the difference.

Sooooo, Don't panic. You got 5 years where nothing - EXCEPT !! LOVE !! - matters nothing at all !!!!!!

NOW, when they are 6-9 years old they will remember something.

MY kiddies remember the blocks I made for them -(when they were 6-10).

Michelle told me she loved them - Michelle is now married and is 27 years old. She remembers them clearly an she told me she really loved those moments, when she played in my workshop with those blocks. She played with them and stacked them. In reality the blocks she played with were nothing more than scraps of wood from projects I was working on - not really blocks at all. But she - and - even Shawn - who is now 25 loved them. See - even at 6-10 years old they don't have the thought patterns to decipher reality yet. It doesn't matter. KIDS are RESILIENT. Unbeleivable little creatures. You just have to love them. REALLY all you need to do is -LOVE- them.

Don't worry about all the small stuff - JUST LOVE THEM - that's all they REALLY need, and REALLY, they NEED that - not toys. Don't skimp -LOVE- them. They don't really need anything more than that. LOVE them. REALLY - LOVE is a real NEED. LOVE is what they NEED - Toys mean absolutely NOTHING - LOVE means EVERYTHING.

The best part was when they were teens - "I" really loved that part. That is when they can "reason" and explore abstract thought. After 14 years old that is. Lots -LOTS- more can be said about this. But alas THIS is not the time for that. After the drivers license is when they start to gain their independance. Still they are a blessing.

I am an empty nester now - I LOVE my kids. They are truly a blessing, from God.

Sooo, whatever you decide to make - It matters NOT. It is absolutely nothing - YOU can make NO mistakes - no matter what you make. Just have fun doing it, that is ONLY for you..

BUT - WHATEVER, you decide to do - just remember - to LOVE your child. THAT - "IS" - the ONLY thing that matters.