{"id":4601,"date":"2013-03-21T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:35:05","slug":"diy-fun-outdoor-mud-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4601","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Outdoor Mud Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As much as I wish I had been creative enough to think of this myself, I can’t take full credit for this idea. I originally found this fantastic idea on\u00a0Rhythm of the Home<\/a>\u00a0through Pinterest, and I knew it was a keeper. Hey, it involves mud and cooking utensils. What could be better for a bunch of crumb bums like mine?<\/p>\n

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I searched and searched thrift stores and antique stores until I found the perfect thing: an old beat-up nightstand for $18 that had definitely seen better days. The back of it is all warped out of shape. Which is perfect, because we will be leaving it out in the elements for 3 out of 4 seasons per year, for as long as it lasts, and I won’t feel bad about the weathering that will occur.<\/p>\n

I chose a nightstand with a drawer and a top that could shelter some old cooking tools and pots and pans, the latter of which I picked up at Goodwill over the course of the last couple of weeks for less than $10. Small pots, cake pans, an old eggbeater (the current favorite tool), spoons for scooping and stirring, a sifter, and an old basin for water make up quite a collection of mud kitchen supplies.<\/p>\n

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I placed a large aluminum bucket full of potting soil to the right of the kitchen, and filled a few containers full of cheap kitchen staples, like corn starch and some old rice cereal that no one was ever going to eat. We also added a variety of dried beans, peas, and lentils for decorating their “cakes.” Unfortunately, most of those ended up on the deck after “the dumper” got ahold of them.<\/p>\n

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But despite all the youngest brother attempts at sabotage, Milo and Oliver were able to make some pretty mean cakes. We put them on the garden wall to dry in the sun, but then it turned freezing cold and rainy again, so we will have to try this again (and again, and again) in the heat of summer!<\/p>\n

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As for the outdoor kitchen itself, I am sure we will add to it this spring and summer. A couple of hooks on the side would be useful for holding a couple of old dish rags for drying hands and practicing dish-washing. A few more utensils will also be useful, and measuring cups are a must. \u00a0But for now, the boys are very pleased with this project, and so am I, especially since it means occupying little minds during some long summer days ahead!\u00a0
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As much as I wish I had been creative enough to think of this myself, I can’t take full credit for this idea. I originally found this fantastic idea on\u00a0Rhythm of the Home\u00a0through Pinterest, and I knew it was a keeper. Hey, it involves mud and cooking utensils. What could be better for a bunch … Continue reading “DIY Fun: Outdoor Mud Kitchen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[119,173,75],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-diy","tag-green-living","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}