DIY Children's Chair: Manufacturing and Decorating Process

Purchased furniture for a child's room, especially made from natural materials, can be quite expensive. You won't always find the option you like in a store or online. You can create a wooden children's chair and table yourself. The work will not be difficult if you prepare all the necessary parts and tools, use your ingenuity and imagination. The reward for your work is a unique product that is as comfortable as possible for your baby and practical for home use.

Wooden children's chair — You can create a children's chair and table from wood yourself.

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The Benefits of Making a Chair Yourself
Necessary materials and tools
We decide on the design and construction
Manufacturing process: step-by-step instructions
Decorating a chair
VIDEO: DIY Children's Chair
50 DIY Photo Ideas for Designing a Children's Chair

The Benefits of Making a Chair Yourself

A chair made by yourself will cost significantly less, and one made according to your own sketch will meet the intended parameters and the required level of comfort for the baby.

children's chair — The reward for your work is a unique product that is extremely convenient for your baby and practical for home use.

All natural wood parts can be purchased in specialized departments of construction stores. They will select boards and bars of the required sizes for you.

Children's wooden chair — A chair made by yourself will cost significantly less.

A children's chair, created with your own hands, is a good piece of furniture for a child. In the process of work, you take into account the dimensions of the seat and backrest, the most comfortable for a growing baby, check the strength of the structure directly at home.

Children's chair made of natural wood — All parts made of natural wood can be purchased in specialized departments of construction stores.

A wooden chair made with your own hands can be decorated according to your taste, rather than being satisfied with a ready-made solution from purchased furniture.

Children's chair-pine — They will select boards and beams of the required sizes for you.

Necessary materials and tools

To create a chair, you will need various materials. Individual parts will be made from them. First of all, these are wooden blocks and planks, from which the frame, seat and back are assembled. Instead of natural solid wood, you can use chipboard or plywood, but these materials are short-lived. For fastenings, take self-tapping screws in sufficient quantity. You will need medium-hard sandpaper.

Children's chair white — A children's chair made with your own hands is a quality piece of furniture for a child.

Dimensions of bars (length):

support legs – up to 20 cm;
seat frame connecting strips – up to 20 cm;
backrest crossbars – up to 20 cm.

growing chair (tree) — A wooden chair made with your own hands can be decorated to your taste.

In the manufacturing process, the thickest bars with a cross-section of 5x5 cm are used for the legs. For the planks, parts with a diameter half as large as the support ones are taken.

Children's chair made of beech — For the strips, take parts with a diameter half that of the support ones.

The parameters of the seat board (height and width) should also not exceed 20 cm. The back part can be slightly higher, but preferably no more than 30 cm.

We recommend that you avoid plastic products for two reasons:

they are less durable;
The environmental friendliness of such products has not been proven 100%.

Children's wooden chair feeding chair — The parameters of the seat board (height and width) should also not exceed 20 cm.

To make a chair with your own hands, you need the right tools:

screwdriver;
screwdriver;
jigsaw;
wood saw.

Growing chair — The back part can be slightly higher, but preferably no more than 30 cm.

The assembled chair will "require" original decor. In addition to the carving option, you can use paint or other materials to apply a drawing or applique. To accurately apply the image, you will need a stencil.

making a children's chair — The assembled chair will “require” original decor.

We decide on the design and construction

Any option can be created for a wooden product. A children's chair is usually made with straight supports and the following forms of the back structure:

solid square or rectangular;
wide truncated cone;
straight through (with a crossbar).

I cut it out of plywood — To apply the image accurately, you will need a stencil.

For the selected design solution, the parts are processed in accordance with it.

Making a product with your own hands requires careful preparation. It is imperative to make a draft of the project in advance. Visually depict the connection diagram of all the parts separately with calculations of sections and lengths. Following the sketches, you will recreate the model in reality with precise parameters. A chair where all the thoughtful dimensions are observed will be “fit” the baby, will not create inconvenience.

DIY Baby Highchair — You can come up with any option for a wooden product.

Certain models are designed for the child to sit at a common table with other family members. In this case, high legs are chosen for the product, which are not attached exactly vertically to the seat and the floor, but more widely. The lower part of such a chair will look like a truncated cone, connected for stability by wooden blocks along the perimeter. The upper part will be approximately 30-35 cm below the table level.

Children's chair - ash — A children's chair is usually made with straight supports and the following forms of back structure

If you have certain skills, you can assemble a folding product. Such items are easy to put away in storage places if necessary.

set table 2 chairs for children's room made of wood — For the selected design solution, the parts are processed in accordance with it.

Manufacturing process: step-by-step instructions

After preparing a drawing with precise parameters, we begin to assemble a simple children's chair.

Calculate the length of the legs exactly according to the diagram and cut off the excess with a hacksaw.
Cut out the crossbars to size that will secure the frame in the seat area.
Connect them to the supporting structure. Add furniture glue for reinforcement.
Attach the pre-cut back and seat using self-tapping screws.
All wooden parts must be sanded to remove any roughness or burrs.

Wooden chair for kindergarten — A chair that has all the right dimensions will fit the baby and will not create any discomfort.

If the parts are disproportionate, "adjust" them according to the calculation scheme using a hacksaw. To make the chair created with your own hands comfortable, ask the child to sit on it, ask how comfortable it is.

If all the dimensions were determined correctly, the child will like the new furniture. To make the parts smooth, go over the surface with sandpaper again.

Adjustable children's chair — Certain models are designed to allow the child to sit at a common table with other family members.

For varnishing the product, use only safe compounds - a special coating for children's furniture, environmentally friendly and having the appropriate certificate.

Children's chair (blue) — The top will be approximately 30-35 cm below table level.

After the external varnishing, let the chair dry thoroughly, a day or two. Then you can proceed to decorative finishing, if such is intended. If it consists of applying carving, then varnishing is done after the artistic processing and sanding of the parts is completed.

Decorating a chair

Use a jigsaw for carving. You can make a decoration in the form of a flower by cutting it out in the center of the back, or any geometric figure. First, mark the place of the future decoration with a pencil so that the carving is even. Such parts as legs and the back can be carved. The corners of the seat can be rounded using a jigsaw and sandpaper.

Baby high chair — During the manufacturing process, the thickest bars with a cross-section of 5x5 cm are used for the legs.

The top can also be made not strictly rectangular, but a truncated cone, rounded, composite. In the latter version, additional bars and crossbars will be needed - one or two. They are fixed by special holes in the places of connection with the back frame. This is a rather labor-intensive process, but if desired, you can choose this option.

Features of the chair — For fastenings, take self-tapping screws in sufficient quantity.

All processing of the parts must be carried out before the chair is assembled - this way the work process will be faster, more convenient and neater.

Main types of children's chairs — If you have certain skills, you can assemble a folding product.

To make a hand-made piece of children's furniture look more interesting, you can apply a drawing to the back and seat. To do this, you need to use safe paints. The color scheme should be bright and cheerful. Simple ornaments, plant patterns, and imitation children's toys, such as cars, look great on wooden furniture.

Chair for children's room — Instead of natural solid wood, you can use chipboard or plywood, but these materials are not durable.

Due to the small size of the product, the large pattern will become a kind of accent, attracting the child’s attention – he will enjoy sitting on such a beautiful chair, playing or having breakfast.

Baby chair Donkey — You can use appliques for decoration – there are plenty of bright adhesive films on sale.

The image will turn out smooth if you use a stencil pre-cut from paper or thick plastic.

In decoration, you can use appliques - there are plenty of bright adhesive films on sale. Whether the image will be single-color or multi-colored - depends on your imagination.

Children's wooden chair photo — First of all, these are wooden blocks and planks from which the frame, seat and back are assembled.

It is not recommended to use voluminous (protruding) parts, both small and large, in finishing the seat or back of a child's chair. Firstly, it is inconvenient for the child, and secondly, they quickly fall off with frequent use of the product.