DIY high chair. Children's chairs: options, diagrams, sizes, with and without a table, folding

One of good points in favor wooden furniture, that's what's real to do wooden chair do-it-yourself feeding bowl. Naturally, in the case of twins, you will have to make two chairs at once. Note that usually home-made children's highchairs made of wood are different - classic folding, transformers and growing ones.

In this article, in the “for dummies” style, we will tell you how to make a highchair for feeding with your own hands using the example of a wooden transformer highchair. We will show two working options for a do-it-yourself feeding table-chair with drawings and dimensions, and also make some considerations about them.

ATTENTION!!! The article turned out to be long, as we write not only for experienced craftsmen, but also for beginners, as well as people who rarely do anything with their own hands. If you don't want to read everything, use the table of contents. Pop-up heading tips will help you understand what is there, and choose the right one.

If you want to make a high chair with your own hands, but not a transformer, or you know everything how to do it and love brevity, it doesn’t matter either. Over time, a link to the entry will appear at this place, where information about homemade highchairs for feeding will be collected in one heap. In the meantime, we are looking at the site map and the rubric, there are articles there.

The content of the article:

Do-it-yourself highchair - why a children's wooden highchair TRANSFORMER. MOTIVATION

One of the big advantages of children's wooden transformers for feeding is that the design of high chairs is extremely simple, so even a beginner can build them on their own. You can make such a highchair for feeding with your own hands either from improvised materials, or you can easily purchase material at a low price.

In the article high chair for do-it-yourself feeding, we examined in detail how a folding highchair is made. It turned out that it is done quite simply. But its relevance is very doubtful - wooden furniture is always bulky and heavy, and in two years such a high chair will have to be disassembled into spare parts and made separately for a children's table and chair.

But the chair - transformer immediately "kills" two birds with one stone: it is both a chair and a table - a desk. First, the high chair is used for its intended purpose, together with a small table, and then, after 1.5 years, it is disassembled, and the child gets a separate desk and high chair. Convenient and practical. Perhaps this is precisely what causes constant interest in a wooden highchair transformer for feeding made by oneself.

It remains only to figure out how to make such a miracle of technology on your own. And in the beginning, let's see the video of one of the craftsmen.

Do-it-yourself feeding chair or wooden high chair do-it-yourself transformer for feeding a baby getting started

Searching on the Internet on the topic of a do-it-yourself feeding chair, it will become clear that there are two options for a transforming chair.

The first option is more complicated, but for some reason it is the one that is popular on the Internet. Most likely, once someone made a wooden transformer chair for feeding with their own hands in this way, and then articles on how to make it yourself miraculously mindlessly multiplied. Because where to get correct option unclear. We give here the most understandable (for the author) description and sane drawings.

The second version of the do-it-yourself feeding chair is simpler and more logical, it is according to it that factory wooden transformers are made. And we also bring it here, with our own measurements.

If everything is clear with the material and you are only interested in drawings and dimensions for a do-it-yourself high chair, then immediately proceed below to the parts of how to make a do-it-yourself high chair - Option 1, and How to make a do-it-yourself wooden high chair - Option 2. A for now, since we decided to write a story in the “for dummies” style, let’s talk about the materials used.

DIY high chair - Materials

To make a highchair for feeding with your own hands you will need wooden bars. A board with a thickness equal to the thickness of the bar used can be added. Plywood or chipboard, self-tapping screws, glue, fabric washable upholstery and any soft filler. Well, more staples for a construction (furniture) stapler.

You can use any timber that is sold or available. It would be better if he was trimmed. So with him less fuss. Otherwise, you will have to plan it yourself and make it smooth. It is most convenient to take the size of the beam 20x30 mm.

Chipboard or thick plywood - from 10 to 15 mm thick - will be used as a table top for a desk table and a small removable table for a high chair.

The hard parts of the back and seat of the do-it-yourself feeding chair can be made from fiberboard or plywood. It is not necessary to use thick plywood, from 5 to 10 mm thick is enough. In general, plywood will be stronger, but in Fiberboard is easier the stapler staples come in.

Some parts are glued together. To do this, you can use wood glue or just PVA glue.

To make a soft back and seat on a high chair with your own hands, you will need an external upholstery - a durable, easy-to-wash fabric, such as raincoat fabric or bologna, or just oilcloth, and inside a soft filler - foam rubber, batting, synthetic winterizer or something else. See for yourself how much you need. Soft filler can be glued to the hard parts of the back and seat, or simply fastened with a construction stapler, or you can combine both options. Upholstery is easier to immediately fasten with a stapler. So it will be more reliable. The size of the staple depends on the stapler and the chosen thickness of the upholstery.

It's also a good idea to have a medium sandpaper to sand the parts and make them smooth.

In the first version of the do-it-yourself highchair, only 4 wood screws are used: for attaching the tabletop to the desk-table. Other wooden details interconnected with homemade dowels, also made of wood. You can put the rest of the bars on the dowels.

In the second version of the do-it-yourself feeding chair, there are practically no dowels, but there are many self-tapping screws for fastening all the parts together. Factory transformers are made on euro self-tapping screws, and a do-it-yourself wooden highchair transformer for feeding can be assembled on any. The main thing is to assemble correctly. Dowels are used only if you decide to make rounded parts that are conveniently attached to the bars with their help.

Both the wooden table and the do-it-yourself feeding chair have rounded elements, although you can do without them. These elements can be made either from a board with a thickness corresponding to the thickness of the bar used. If the beam is taken, as here, 20x30 mm, then we take a board 20 mm thick, but 30 mm is also possible, this depends on how you put the bars, joke F). If there is no board, then the same bars are perfect. You just need to glue them together.

Depending on how much and how you arrange the rounded elements for cutting on the board or glued bars, this is the length of them (boards, bars) and you need to take. On glued bars or a board, 4 elements must be laid at once. Therefore, the length will be from 0.5 to 1 m, and maybe 2 m is not enough.

Do-it-yourself feeding chair - separate words about wood and paintwork

I propose to pay attention to the wood material of the high chair. We note right away that a children's wooden chair for feeding with their own hands is best made from linden. However, like any other children's furniture for kids. Since conifers often used in the manufacture of wooden furniture may not be suitable here: pine emits resin, which is very toxic. And it is better not to risk children's health. However, pine is often found in hardware stores, so we try to take it as dry as possible and without interspersing resin. Believe me, the child will be better, and it will be easier for you to do it yourself.

For shine, color and protection against environment It is better to use ACRYLIC varnish, or paint. It is not as harmful to the baby as the rest. Why exactly him? The answer is - what if the baby tries a table or a chair for feeding, which you yourself made with your own hands? You are responsible for the consequences. Although if it doesn’t matter or it’s not possible to get them, then you can cover the feeding chair with your own hands with whatever you want.

Do-it-yourself wooden transformer highchair - Option 1

To understand what a do-it-yourself highchair in the form of constituent parts option 1, here are the drawings and dimensions.

To make parts of a children's high chair for feeding a wooden transformer with our own hands, we take a bar with a section, for example, 20x30mm. From it we will make the following details. Specify the length and quantity.

Legs - 390 mm, 4 pcs.
Rounded parts - 4 pcs.
Armrests, they are also the upper crossbars of the chair - 195 mm, 2 pcs.
Planks running parallel to the armrests, they are also crossbars, 335 mm, 2 pcs. On these crossbars we will then attach the seat with the crossbars of the feeding chair
Planks on which the seat and back are attached, they are also crossbars - 300 mm, 3 pcs. Two for the seat and one for the back
Small table on a chair (H x W) 340x340 mm. It lies on the armrests of the chair 340 mm = 300 (length of the chair crossbar) + 20 + 20 mm.
The seat and back have the same dimensions (H x W) 250x290 mm. Width 290 mm \u003d 300 (length of the cross bar) - 5 - 5 (gaps on both sides for upholstery and soft filler), mm.

Legs 500 mm 4 pcs.
Planks for the lower and upper part 410 mm 4 pcs. On the lower slats there is a table for feeding, on the upper slats a tabletop is attached.
Cross bars 340 mm 4 pcs. To fasten the sides of the table. Length 340 (mm) = 300 (length of chair crossbar) + 20 + 20 (mm). This is done so that the chair gets up between the sidewalls of the table.
Tabletop (H x W) - 440 × 380 mm. 1 PC. The tabletop rests on the upper slats and does not protrude beyond the sidewalls. Width 380 (mm) = 340 (cross bar length) + 20 + 20 (mm). Length 440 (mm) = 410 (length top bar) + 30 mm

How to make a high chair with your own hands

Work begins with a chair. To do this, according to the size, the bars are cut to the desired length. Separately, you need to make rounded parts - they connect the legs and armrests in front and behind. Naturally, all sawn parts must be made smooth, lint-free and processed with special care. sandpaper- Small children are always an increased risk of injury. Therefore, to the question of how to make a highchair for feeding with your own hands, we give a pretentious answer - we work conscientiously.

Roundings for a wooden highchair transformer for feeding do-it-yourself are cut out separately - according to the drawing. For rounded parts there is one IMPORTANT moment. If you glue the bars and place the part with wood fibers in a different way than shown in the figure, then such a part may break in the most unexpected way during sawing or further operation. Therefore, the bars must be glued with wood fibers parallel to each other. And you need to place the rounded part of the highchair for feeding with your own hands along these parallels. The same applies to the board - we place the part for sawing parallel to the wood fibers of the board.

To successfully glue the bars, we use wood glue or PVA. Additionally, the bars do not need to be jointed and leveled. At the bars, you need to choose fairly even planes, position them correctly and simply press them harder with clamps. It will dry out in a day for sure.

Then, from the waste bars for the highchair for feeding with your own hands, you can make rectangular panties. Dimensions - 8x20x50 mm. In general, the length of the dowel should be 4-5 mm less than the total depth of the groove of the two fastened parts. The edges of the dowels can be slightly rounded.

On all parts, mark places for planting dowels. To do this, mark the contours of the groove, for example, with a pencil. Rectangular grooves for dowels should be made approximately 30 mm deep. To do this, drill 4-5 holes with a drill with a diameter of 6 mm. Next, using a chisel, align the walls of the groove and fit it to your own, individual, home-made dowel. And if there is a router, then we make the grooves with a router, it’s easier.

When all the details are ready, there are dowels and grooves for fastening, you can start assembling a children's high chair for feeding a wooden transformer with your own hands.

Do-it-yourself wooden highchair transformer for feeding a child - assembly

wooden chair do-it-yourself transformer for feeding we begin to assemble from the sidewalls. First one is done, then the second. On the dowels, draw a line in the middle of the length. Using a light hammer, install to the marked line. Then we take the part to be connected and insert the dowel into it. We connect the parts first dry, i.e. without glue. After all the details of the sidewalls are connected, we check for cracks. If everything is fine, then carefully separate the parts and glue the dowels, and then assemble them again, as indicated above. Then you need to pull off the parts and let dry, about 1 day. You can tighten it with clamps, or tightly wrap it on both sides with a rope. But at the same time, make sure that nothing is warped, and no gaps are obtained. It is less reliable to tighten with a rope than with a clamp, but not everyone has clamps of this size.

While the sides of the transformer highchair for feeding the child are drying, you can do the seat and backrest with your own hands. They are cut out of plywood or fiberboard, according to the drawing. If the plywood is not thick or fiberboard is used, then to give strength it is better to cut out 3 parts of the seat and back and glue them together. Lubricate with glue and clamp with clamps. It also dries overnight.

After the sidewalls, seat and back are assembled and cut out, we assemble everything completely. On the seat and backrest from the planned reverse side of the wooden highchair of the transformer for feeding the child with your own hands, you can immediately attach the crossbar strips. To do this, use either dowels, or, which will be even easier, small self-tapping screws. To get it right, the slats must be fastened with gaps of 5 mm on each side along the width of the seat and back. Backrest and seat can be connected to each other metal corner, or a metal strip bent along.

If we do it on dowels, then we drill holes in the seat for fastening to the crossbars of the chair. Mount better on 4 pcs. standard cylindrical dowels. For the back of such dowels - 2 pcs. We connect the sidewalls with crossbars on which the seat will then lie. We do it without glue to check and see the positions of the seat and back. Also, without glue, we put the seat on the crossbars on the dowels. Bending and bending the back, mark the position of the bar for fixing the back, and then disassemble. If you wish, you can cut off the side of the backrest according to the picture. No desire - everything will be fine too.

At the children's highchair for feeding a wooden transformer, we sheathe the seat and back with a soft filler with our own hands: we glue it to the hard part or nail it with a stapler. Then, again with the help of a stapler, we stretch the upholstery. It is better not to save, and do not try to fasten the upholstery and the soft part with the same bracket. Something might be skewed, and it will not be good.

Then we collect all the parts on dowels smeared with glue. We put in place, check the corners. We fasten the back bar to the back on 2 cylindrical dowels. We check the gaps and tighten with clamps or a rope. We are waiting for it to dry. That's it, a chair from a wooden transformer highchair for feeding with your own hands is ready .

We repeat. If there is no desire to mess with dowels, all parts can really be connected using ordinary self-tapping screws. It may not be as strong, but it is easier to assemble. To decide, of course, the master. And it is most convenient and most durable to fasten the roundings with the help of dowels, and then carefully coat them with glue. After that, leave the finished sidewall to dry for a day.

Last step: cut to size small table on a highchair for feeding with your own hands. It can be left rectangular, it can be rounded in the part closest to the child. It's not essential. Only a matter of aesthetics and fuss. This table is attached to the edges of the armrests. It is possible on cylindrical dowels, it is possible on self-tapping screws. And when the child grows up, he just takes off and that's it, he is no longer needed.

A table for a do-it-yourself highchair is assembled in the same way as a chair. First dry, then with glue. Either self-made dowels or self-tapping screws are used. We start with the sides. We attach the upper and lower strips to the legs, we get two rectangles. When the sides are assembled, they, like the chair, must be pulled off and wait a day until they dry.

Next, the transverse bars are attached - with their help, the sidewalls are connected. We fix the crossbars for the feeding table with our own hands according to the drawing. The general idea is that they should be at unequal distances from the edges of the sidewalls. On the lower ones, which will be closer to the edge, there are chair legs in the high chair position. And the upper ones serve as spacers for the legs of the chair, so that the chair stands firmly.

A tabletop cut from plywood or chipboard is mounted on top of the upper parts of the sidewalls and screwed on with self-tapping screws. Everything is gathered together and pulled together as usual, waiting for it to dry.

When the table and chair for feeding with your own hands are ready, we will turn it into a transformer chair for feeding the baby. To do this, we will connect them. The table is turned over, the tabletop is at the back, and the chair is placed on the transverse bars of the table.

Wooden do-it-yourself transformer table for feeding a baby - finishing touches

Finally, when the chair and table are ready, we check for roughness for the last time and sand it if we find one.

When a wooden chair and a transformer table for feeding a child are made with your own hands, they should be completely pierced - use exclusively non-toxic varnishes, or paint with acrylic paint. Pre for giving desired color can be washed and dried.

Everything, the first option is ready. The most adequate description was found on http://mebelsam.com, from this site material was taken for a note on the first option.

Do-it-yourself wooden transformer highchair - Option 2

To understand what a do-it-yourself highchair will be in the form of components of option 2, we present the drawings and dimensions.

To make parts of a children's highchair for feeding a wooden transformer with our own hands, we take a beam with a section, for example, 20x30 mm. From it will need to do the following details: specify the length and quantity.

DIY feeding chair dimensions of spare parts, length and quantity

If there are no rounded parts

Legs 450 mm 4 pcs.
Armrests - 365 mm 2 pcs.

If there are rounded parts

Front legs 450 mm - 2 pcs., Rear 390 mm - 2 pcs.
Armrests - 290 mm 2 pcs.
Rounded detail according to the scheme - 2 pcs

General

Bottom strips on the sidewalls 365 mm 2 pcs.
Cross bars 350 mm 4 pcs. They are attached to the seat and back.
Seat (H x W) 290x330 mm
Backrest (H x W) 450x330 mm

DIY feeding table dimensions of spare parts, length and quantity

Legs - 450 mm 4 pcs. The legs are located in the middle of the table, and are the lower slats of the sidewalls.
Lower and upper crossbeams, on which the table for feeding is in the position of a table-desk, and to which the tabletop is attached - 500 mm 4 pcs.
Cross bars 410 mm 3 pcs.
Tabletop (H x W) 500x510 mm
Fastening straps for chair legs length 230 mm. ATTENTION - in the diagram, the thickness of the bars is 15x15 mm, but you can use any. For example, the same 20x30 mm.

Do-it-yourself wooden highchair transformer for feeding a child - The main differences from option 1

The previous part about a wooden highchair transformer for feeding a child with your own hands turned out to be too voluminous. Therefore, in order not to write a sheet again, let's say that everything is done according to the drawing and dimensions similarly to the first option.

Dowels are not used, with the exception of the rounded parts of the high chair. They are made, as well as in option 1, only they have different sizes. Everything else is fastened with screws. It can be ordinary on wood, it can be euro. If you use euro self-tapping screws, then mark the places where they should go. And in a place with a smaller diameter, we drill a hole for them.

Do-it-yourself highchair - we make parts and assemble

The bars are cut to size. Carefully processed with sandpaper. The cardinal difference from the first version of the do-it-yourself highchair is the absence of special round parts. But since sharp corners are an increased danger for a small child, they must be rounded. It is the upper parts of the chair legs that are slightly rounded on one side. And the two lower crossbars of the table are also rounded - the legs on which it stands.

You can also insert a few bars, rectangular or round, in the sidewalls between the armrest and the bottom bar to which the seat is attached, it does not matter. You can place them anywhere at any distance, most importantly in the seating area. This is so that the baby does not crawl away through the sidewall, and it will go for beauty.

One more stroke.
How to make a do-it-yourself high chair with a movable back? You can make the back of a do-it-yourself feeding chair take several positions. This will have to be dealt with.

To do this, the rear legs and armrests are fastened together using a round part, as was the case in the first version. In this case, the size of the armrest and back leg will be different (see the description of the dimensions of the chair). In the rounding, you need to make a hole where, as a result, a screw will be inserted, with a handle - a fixer at the end. The screw is attached to the back of the chair with one side, the other goes through this hole. The handle is screwed on the edge and secures it in desired position. The back is fixed.

The hole can be made either with a milling cutter, or several small holes can be made with a drill and then modified with a chisel. The size of the hole depends on the screw used. The handle can be whatever you like. In the handle, carefully select the groove for the nut, which will actually be screwed onto the screw and fix the back of the chair. The screw itself is conveniently fixed not in the back of the chair, but in the upper crossbar.

Once again, we note that the rounding of the highchair for feeding with your own hands is more convenient and better fastened with glued dowels. On self-tapping screws it will be uncomfortable and clumsy.

Specifically for the baby, this version of the chair is very convenient, but to make it, you will have to make some efforts. If there is no desire, then it is realistic to do without a movable back, then it makes no sense to make a separate rounding. Just tilt the back as you and the baby are comfortable. We mark the place where the upper transverse bar touches the backrest and the sidewall. We drill a hole there. We fasten the sidewall and back with a self-tapping screw. So on each side.

When the sidewalls for the do-it-yourself highchair for feeding are assembled, two transverse fastening strips for sitting and one on a movable cylindrical dowel for fastening the back are screwed to the lower strips of the sidewall. A movable dowel means that one of the grooves is several (mm) larger than the diameter of the dowel.

The back and seat is done in the same way as in the first version. Only the dimensions here are slightly different - a longer back. It's more convenient for the baby. It is also not necessary to fasten the seat and back together, it is enough to attach them to the transverse slats, and subsequently make them soft and upholstered, for example, with oilcloth. Before upholstery, as usual, skin and paint.

That's it, the do-it-yourself highchair for a children's wooden transformer is ready.

DIY high chair table

A do-it-yourself table for a highchair for feeding is assembled in the same way as in the first version. Sidewalls first. When the sidewalls are assembled, they are fastened together by transverse strips located below - they also serve as supports on which the assembled chair stands. This is important as the high chair is mounted on them and plays a role in its solid installation.

This is the difference from the previous version - there is no additional crossbar in the middle at the bottom of the table, which makes the table not closed, and it is more convenient for an older child to sit at it. At the same time, two crossbars go only from below, where the tabletop is attached - there is only one crossbar. When everything is assembled, it remains to screw the countertop.

There is one moment.
How to make a table top for a transformer highchair for feeding with your own hands? The figure shows the diagram and dimensions of the variant with grooves. For simplicity, the table top for feeding with your own hands can, as in the first version, simply be put on the bars, or you can, as they do at the factory, clamp between the bars. The first option is simpler, but the screws will be visible in the most inappropriate place. The second will require more fuss, but more beautiful. To clamp between the bars, you need to make grooves in them. This is done without problems with a milling cutter, or just a chisel, but it takes longer. Accordingly, the dimensions of the tabletop will be different. The groove is washed away to make the thickness of the table top and a depth of 5 mm.

For greater stability of the highchair standing on the table, in the assembled form of a do-it-yourself highchair for feeding a wooden transformer, you can additionally make four small bars - two on each side. They are located under the countertop, it is better to put them on the "fact". Those. when the table and chair are ready, we put a chair on top of the table, as it should be in the end. We mark from the inside on the sidewalls of the table, where the chair legs closest to the table top pass. On the sides, parallel to the markings, we attach these bars to the sidewalls of the table, one on each side. As a result, it should turn out so that the legs of the chair closest to the countertop pass between these bars, and they, in turn, prevent the chair from moving in different sides. This gives the chair extra stability.

The do-it-yourself feeding table is ready.

DIY highchair - summary and some conclusions

As usual, summing up, we talk about what is easier - to make a highchair for feeding with your own hands, or to buy? The answer is clear - buy. Moreover, wooden transformers are very common today and are inexpensive. But there are people who want to apply their own efforts and imagination, or maybe someone has not sorted out the rubble of their own for a long time. building materials. Then go - creativity has been valued at all times.

The first option, of course, is the most common on the Internet, but it is not the easiest. There you have to fiddle with dowels, make grooves, glue parts. It's great if there is a special large clamp, as an ordinary rope can warp the part. And the details, if you do not compress at all, then maybe nothing will work out at all. In short, take a lot. In addition, over time, such a product will definitely dry out, remember the old swinging chairs. And your child will definitely rock a ready-made highchair for feeding with your own hands.

The second option is not common on the network. But this do-it-yourself high chair looks like a factory transformer high chair. Assembled on self-tapping screws. The main thing is to ensure that during assembly the mating parts of the parts stand at 90 degrees to each other and do not warp. Take a little. Only if you want to make a movable back with a rounded element, then you have to sweat.

At one time, when they wanted to make a wooden transformer for feeding with their own hands, we knew the first option. But he seemed complicated. And then, when they bought a factory one, they found its dimensions and realized that it was no worse, or maybe better than the first option. If I had to do it myself another time, I would choose the second option.

How to make a do-it-yourself high chair video craftsmen

In principle, every craftsman makes his own transformer chair for feeding with his own hands. So to speak, according to your needs and with your capabilities. Here are the most understandable and popular videos. From them it will become clear that the beam can be of any size. The dimensions of the chair-table for feeding can also be any. The main thing is to capture the essence of the design and sequence - how to make a highchair for feeding with your own hands.

It all started with the fact that I had a daughter :) Now she is 1.3 years old and she has already learned how to deftly sit down on her dad's knees and read a book. Each child, like an adult, should have his own chair. Searches in children's stores were unsuccessful, the chairs are all plastic and large or with a hole for the pot. We needed a normal high chair for a very small girl.

Here it is a chair, made by hand in a couple of evenings, not a work of art, but very comfortable and my daughter checked it out!

There were no original drawings, everything was done by eye.

In the photo, my daughter is already sitting on a new chair :)

The high chair is made of 8 mm plywood. The parts are glued with PVA glue, several screws and the whole structure is covered with a colorless varnish in one layer. The weight of the chair is 715 grams, the child calmly drags it around the apartment.

Height from floor to seat 180 mm, seat cover size 240x190 mm, chair height from floor to top edge backrests 360 mm, back dimensions 235x115 mm.

A test version of the chair was made from cardboard in three minutes. It was made in order to get approximate sizes and understand how comfortable it will be for the child. It was not very successful to seat the baby on this chair, but in size it turned out to be just right!

To make the second part of the chair, I just circled the first one with a pencil and also cut it out with a jigsaw.

By the way, I must say about the connection of parts. Initially, I planned to do everything without screws and nails, and since I did everything impromptu, there were some mistakes. The photo below shows that the parts have spikes, one spike is missing on the detail on the right, I forgot to draw it and sawed it off :)

Later, I also sawed off the spike on the part on the left, so the back had to be fixed with screws.

Below in the photo is a detail of the back and a detail that is under the seat, it does not allow the chair to swing. This part also had to have spikes, which I also forgot about :)

After all the details of the chair are cut out, everything needs to be cleaned with sandpaper, I spent a lot of time on this so that not a single bracket! After that, we glue everything with PVA glue or twist it with screws, if suddenly you, like me, forget to make spikes :) And finally, we cover the product with a layer of varnish or, as it is fashionable now, we do decoupage. I would like to paint the chair with bright colored paints, but for now I left the pure color of the wood.

Update: I cut several of these chairs on the CNC, so I had to transfer the drawings to AutoCAD.

Alice: "But I'll still sit in my father's chair!":)

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When a baby appears in the house, new items appear that he needs. And of course, every parent wants to get all the best for the child. And what could be better than making your own. After reading our article, you can effortlessly make a baby highchair with your own hands. Drawings, dimensions, diagrams - all this will be discussed. And most importantly - it will be comfortable and safe for your baby, because you will be sure of the quality of the selected materials and the reliability of the assembly of the entire structure.

DIY highchair

Your baby will need such a feeding chair when he is six months old, and he begins to sit up on his own. On the chair is the formation of the musculoskeletal system of your baby, and his posture. This will be his first property, thanks to which he will get acquainted with the outside world.

That is why a highchair for feeding should be not only comfortable, but also useful.

General requirements

In order for this piece of furniture to turn out to be practical and comfortable, you need to consider the following nuances:

The chair should not be soft. In order for the child's skeleton to develop correctly, the body must feel secure support. But on a highchair, you need relatively thin soft pads on the seat and back.
Chair material. It is important for a child to use non-toxic, natural, for example, wood, plywood, chipboard.

Important! Do not use plastic, as it contains not always harmless substances.

Chair dimensions. In order for your baby to feel comfortable on the seat, you need to correctly calculate the height of the backrest and the length and width of the seat.

Important! There is a special table, which is made for children's furniture. According to this table, we determine that the height of the seat of the chair should be 20 cm if your child's height is from 80 to 90 cm, and the width, depth is 33 and 26 cm, respectively.

Feeding chair options

The child begins to eat common table starting at six months. Of course, it is necessary that the baby eats with all family members. Designed for convenience various options, but putting the baby in a homemade chair, you must be sure of his safety.

Designs of children's chairs for feeding:

A chair with high legs is made on long legs. Sitting in it, the baby will be on the same level with everyone sitting at the dining table.
Soft cover - looks like a slim, which is attached to a regular chair. This option can be taken with you to the country or to visit.
Combined chair - a small chair with restrictive rings is placed on a low table.

Material selection

To make a chair suitable wood conifers pine or spruce. This type quite durable and easy to process, the wood texture is pleasant to look at.

Carpentry tools:

nails, sandpaper;
loops, self-tapping screws, dowels (special connecting elements);
saw;
hammer;
glue for wood;
fiberboard sheet, plywood;
fabric, batting or synthetic winterizer;
varnish or paint for finishing, brushes.

Important! Choose acrylic-based paint, and non-toxic varnishes on water based, because your baby can not only breathe them, but try on the tooth.

Do-it-yourself combined highchair

We offer detailed description stages of work on the manufacture of parts and assembly of a combined chair for feeding. Here you need to make a chair and a table separately. This assembled option can be used by feeding the child at a common table, and after disassembling it, you can sit the child behind it for various games and activities.

Procurement of parts

The first stage is the preparation of all the details for this chair. You need to prepare the following materials:

timber with a thickness of 200x400 mm - for legs and crossbars;
a small board with a thickness of 200-250 mm - for cutting out armrests;
fiberboard sheet 2x2.1 m for the back and seat;
plywood for countertop.

Preparing parts for the chair

To make a chair, you will need the following parts:

4 children legs - workpiece length 390 mm;
3 children transverse bar - 300 mm long;
4 children rounded elements;
1 children tabletop 200x340 mm (can be changed to your taste);
2 pcs. - upper crossbar size 220 mm;
2 pcs. - bottom crossbar size 340 mm.

Important! In order for your do-it-yourself baby highchair to turn out beautiful and even, the dimensions of the parts must exactly match the drawing.

Making parts for the table

It will require:

4 legs 500 mm long;
4 cross rails size 340 mm;
4 plates 410 mm long;
plywood for countertops with dimensions of 380x450 mm.

Important! You may not buy everything necessary materials, you can choose the right size using items that are unnecessary in your household.

Now we have already reached the main stage - the assembly of the entire structure. Be careful and careful in your work, do everything perfectly, because you are trying for your child, which means that you must ensure him, first of all, safety and convenience.

Wood preparation:

In production, a timber beam is sawn into certain sizes. After cutting the parts into sizes, you need to remove all irregularities, roughness, scratches with sandpaper.
The detail of the rounded element of the side frame for the high chair must be rounded off with carpentry machine or an electric jigsaw.

Important! It is necessary to make roundings of the sidewall according to the drawing of the children's high chair.

It was necessary to fasten with the help of dowels (available in the department furniture fittings). In extreme cases, the use of self-tapping screws is allowed.

Mounting process:

At the attachment points on the board or bar, we cut or drill holes with a depth of 30-40 mm using a drill.

Important! Carefully make holes without drilling through the parts of the chair.

We connect and insert dowels.

Sidewall assembly

Your chair will have two sides to keep your little one from falling. To do this, you will need for each sidewall:

2 roundings;
2 legs;
2 straps top and bottom.

We collect the sidewall separately each. For this you need:

Connect the legs and the lower crossbar.
Fasten the rounding to the top crossbar.
Glue these two pieces together.

Important! Before connecting two bars, the hole and dowel must be lubricated with furniture glue or PVA.

The same collection process will take place for the second part of the sidewall. All elements must be left to dry for a day. After - go over the sandpaper on this part of the chair to finally remove all the bumps.

Important! Make sure that all the corners between the bars are straight and the side parts are symmetrical.

seat manufacturing

Let's start the process:

Cut out 6 rectangles 300x250 mm from chipboard.
Round off 2 corners along the long side.
Sand all edges with sandpaper.
Glue 2 plates put under the press.
Fix the finished parts with a strip of metal bent along or screw with screws.

Seat assembly

We proceed to the assembly of the chair, for this you need:

Connect the sidewalls with transverse strips using dowels, as described above.
Fasten the planks to support the back and the plywood countertop using the same method.

Important! In order to make it more convenient to fold the structure, it is required to outline the installation locations for the dowels, drill holes and bait the bars without glue. Carefully review, remove all flaws. Then you can use glue for the final joining of the elements.

Table making

Myself technological process very similar to assembling a chair.

Table assembly technology:

Attach the top and bottom strips to the legs.
With transverse bars 340 mm long, fasten the side parts of the table.
We grind the sides with fine-grained sandpaper.
Tabletop fastening - it is necessary to fasten from the end of the structure.

seat manufacturing

This stage is optional, but for the comfort of your child, do not spare the material and the time spent. For this you will need:

foam rubber with a thickness of not more than 2 cm;
dense furniture fabric or colorful oilcloth;
construction stapler.

Let's start the process, for which you will need:

Cut the foam along the contour of the seat and back.
Glue to chipboard with PVA.
Cut out the patterns of the back and seat, making 4-5 cm allowances for the hem on the seat, and on the back it will take so much to fit two sides.
Place upholstery on the seat.
Fasten on four sides with staples on the reverse side.
Shoot around the circumference of the seat, while adjusting the uniform tension of the fabric.

Important! Using the same techniques, you need to tighten the back of the seat with the difference that here you will also fit the wrong side, while wrapping the fabric diagonally with an envelope.

Mobile high chair

You can take this version of the chair with you to the country or to visit. We offer you a portable (mobile) version of a high chair that you can sew at home with basic sewing skills.

One of the founders of the Encyclopedia Denis Diderot was once asked by a familiar lady: at what age should one start raising a child? "How old are you?" he asked in response. "Oh, he's only one day old!" The philosopher shrugged his shoulders: "In that case, you are already a day late."

A child will need a high chair not on the first day of his life, but when the baby begins to sit down on his own, at about 6 months. But his role in the formation of the personality of a new person is by no means small. Firstly, the formation of the musculoskeletal system and correct posture begins on the chair. Secondly, a child learns to handle things from a high chair. This is the first property of his that is not a toy. Children who grew up on the lap of their mother or grandmother, on average, get along worse with others and realize their abilities less well.

The interests of parents, too, of course, cannot be discounted. Feeding a small child often causes him a storm of emotions that parents in this moment maybe just tedious. Feeding something that spins like a spinning top on its knees, calmly and kindly, is worth a lot of effort; the child feels it and only gets more excited, which does not benefit him in any way. In addition, you need to protect clothes, carpets, furniture from volleys of porridge, soup or mashed potatoes.

Therefore, from a fairly large number of varieties of children's chairs, the first in importance and the time of the start of use is a high chair. A little later, after about another 4-6 months, he will need a play/work chair. In that order, we will deal with them.

General requirements

To make a useful and comfortable highchair for your baby with your own hands, you must first take into account ergonomics.

First, a chair for children younger ages should not be too soft: in order for the skeleton of the child to grow correctly and the muscles to develop, his body must feel a reliable support. It is desirable to make a high chair generally hard, but relatively thin soft pads on the seat and back are needed on the high chair and work chair. The gaming and work chairs are often the same, how can it be?

You can combine these conditions by sewing the size of the seat and back cushions of the following structure (from bottom to top): canvas or burlap - synthetic winterizer 5-7 mm - flannel, calico or bike - decorative fabric. To fix them, you will have to sew on straps that tie / fasten under the seat or behind the back, but it simplifies the manufacture of the chair itself and its care.

Second, avoid plastics. For children's items today, the safety of polyethylene has been unconditionally confirmed. high pressure(produced without the use of catalysts) and PET, but there are no suitable blanks from them for home craftsmanship. PVC seat upholstery is a relic of the past: when there were no diapers, diaper rash in babies was more common without it.

The next point is the size of the chair. A table of recommended sizes of highchairs for games and activities is shown in fig. The main selection parameter for it is the growth group. The height of the back is obtained by subtracting the height of the seat from the total height of the chair; in the highchair, it must be determined separately, because. his seat is raised for the comfort of the mother. The table was compiled for children's institutions, the dimensions of a chair for a child in a family can be found more accurately and simply: we look carefully at whom he went with height and complexion; about eyes, eyebrows, etc. disputes later. Then the parent-prototype shows which chair she/he is most comfortable in, take measurements from it and multiply by 0.55. A child on such a seat will be fine from about a year old to 4-5.

Note: Based on the foregoing, all dimensions of the following product samples are subject to adjustment if necessary.

materials

What to make a chair for a small question is also important. Metal is better either not to use at all, or in a small amount (for example, fasteners) and so that the child does not have access to it. The children's body is generally more resilient than an adult, but the skin of babies is very sensitive. This is determined by the instinct of self-preservation: what is simply slippery and a little cold for an adult, for a small one is a danger signal. Since he himself cannot yet avoid her, he has to appeal to his parents. How - whoever has children, they know. But they don’t always understand why, and from that, at least scream yourself.

For example, in fig. on the right - the erroneous use of steel fasteners.“Intensive exploitation of the corners” not only does not strengthen the structure, contrary to the assertions of its author, but is also traumatic for the baby. An adult's finger in the corner with a self-tapping screw will go unnoticed, and the baby may get scratched. In general, children do not care about scratches, but if he is regularly put for feeding in something biting, then how will this chair affect the child's psyche? The question is rhetorical.

Processing and finishing

So, we are practically left with only wood, MDF and laminated chipboard of class E0 in terms of the degree of phenol emission. In a high chair for a very young child, it is still better to get by with hardwood or MDF, they are completely without “chemistry”. Hypersensitivity to pine resin or trace phenolic compounds occurs in about 1 in 400,000 babies, but what is the guarantee that this is not yours? It is impossible to detect in advance.

The highchair for babies is exposed to external chemical influences of about the same nature and to the same extent as a kitchen stool, but the sanitary and hygienic requirements for it are much stricter. Therefore, the parts of a children's high chair made of wood must be treated with a water-repellent and bactericidal composition before assembly, and ready product cover with a protective layer.

There is also almost no alternative here: impregnation is a water-polymer emulsion or, instead, PVA diluted three or four times with water. Coating - water-based acrylic lacquer. There is no completely reliable evidence of complete safety for children of other compositions for processing / finishing furniture. Especially beware of stains; varnished children's furniture is best left as is. Design and decor in this case are by no means decisive factors.

About plywood

When making a highchair for the firstborn from wood, an amateur craftsman (who, perhaps, takes up furniture for the first time in his life) will have to face a number of technological difficulties, see below resp. section, not surmountable without a workshop and special tools. Plywood can help out; almost everything can be done from it at home. But - not everyone. Definitely suitable is a simple birch (not waterproof and not baked) and also a simple construction or packaging. The last one is the veneer of the so-called. dry pines, felled in winter. Dry wood pine already contains almost no resins, and during the manufacture of plywood, their residues are completely removed. These types of plywood are made on casein glue, which is absolutely safe for children. Moisture resistance and additional strength are given to them by the impregnation described above, but twice: again after complete drying (about a day) of the initial one.

About glue

PVA is most suitable for gluing and gluing in the manufacture of children's furniture in terms of the combination of qualities. Modern furniture pur-adhesives are much stronger, but also more expensive; for a product whose service life does not exceed 5-7 years, the first is insignificant, but the second can “bite”. But PVA has the following advantages:

It is absolutely harmless and safe, which has been verified by more than half a century of experience. As they say, at least eat it; even if liquid gets into the eyes, it is washed off without residue with water, if only rinsed immediately.
PVA streaks are easily cut off with a mounting knife, and their remains are also easily sanded clean.
The joint on the PVA can be separated by warming up properly with an ordinary household hair dryer. This is important if the high chair needs to be dismantled and put into storage until the next replenishment in the family. Also - if you need to replace its individual parts as the child grows, see below.

The very first chair

The most commonly used schemes for chairs for feeding children are as follows, in order of increasing manufacturing complexity:

Stands / holders - boosters - for feeding the baby on an adult chair, hard and soft;
Typical (classic) home folding high chairs;
Children's sets-transformers and "growing" (for growth) chairs;
Stationary chairs for feeding babies.

The latter are used either in children's institutions for the smallest, or in wealthy households with an excess of living space. In both cases, a high strength is required for a chair: many generations will use it in baby houses, and prestige is important for wealthy owners, and also design. As a result, a stationary chair for feeding children turns into a rather complex product, the manufacture of which requires special tools and working conditions; for an example, see the drawings in fig.

Boosters

These are attachments or devices for feeding a child on a chair and at a table for adults. Hard booster chairs (first 3 from left to right, pos. in the figure) save space in small apartment and therefore quite popular.

However, it is impossible to make them fully comply with the requirements of children's ergonomics, this time. The second is for children from 6 to 9-12 months. they are of little use. Third - soft mounts to an adult chair (leading manufacturers invest a lot of money in their development) do not give a full guarantee that the squishy fidget, delighted with his favorite juice, will not fall sideways with himself, the booster and dad's chair.

Much more practical are soft boosters for feeding babies, which are no longer chairs, but something like a kangaroo bag, on the right in the upper figure. You can’t use them constantly, there is a risk of spoiling the child’s posture. But at the dacha, picnic or on a trip, a feeding pocket - a booster is very useful, especially since it will hardly take up space in my mother's bag.

Making a soft booster for feeding a baby is already a more feminine thing, because. it is sewn; patterns are shown in fig; they are given without processing allowances.

Note: the slings are wound from the sides of the cape on the back of the chair from under the bottom, through the openings they are brought out and tied or fastened.

home classic

How the familiar folding highchair for feeding babies at home is arranged, and its dimensions are given in fig. Materials - timber 40x20, 75x20 (footboard and leg ties), 16x25 (back slats, seat apron, tabletop frame), board 100x20 (inserts into the frame of the front legs) and plywood 6-8 mm (seat, tabletop). Assembly, except for hinges - on confirmations (furniture screws) 60x6.

The connections marked in red are articulated: the table leans up, and the frame of the rear legs is pressed against the front ones. Bolt heads (M6-M8) from the inside and covered with plugs, red mark with an exclamation point. The seat is hung on the front support bar on card loops.

To fold the chair, the table is first raised and the frame of the rear legs is pulled back a little. Then the seat itself lowers, and the frame of the rear legs is fed forward to the stop - the chair is complicated. And when unfolded, all the kinematics of this chair is stopped without additional clamps according to the principle of a dead center, and let the little eater wriggle there as he wants - the chair under him will stand.

The only technological difficulty in the manufacture of this chair is the rallying of blanks for the sidewalls of the frame of the front legs on dowels (lamellas) in the mustache or dowels. But it can be bypassed by making the front frame plywood, see below. Its operational disadvantage is the thickness of more than 10 cm folded into a bag. For a pantry in a small apartment or a closet in the hallway, this can be too much. And here plywood comes to the rescue, see below.

Transformers and for growth

Children's chairs-transformers for all ages are on sale, 3 pos. on the left in Fig. They are really convenient and functional, but technologically complex: some of the necessary parts can only be made in the workshop at the factory. Accordingly, the cost of such chairs is quite high.

To repeat with your own hands, a kit is more accessible - a chair with a table, on the right in fig. What many do, but it immediately turns out that a set with a shift table takes up more space in the apartment than a high chair and a table separately.

But the main thing is that this building is unhygienic. When the child sits down at the table, the edge of the large tabletop closest to the floor in the feeding position will be under his arms in the literal sense. And also - the undersides of the legs in the position of 6-12 months, which have now become legs, and even uncomfortable protruding upwards.

There are no materials that do not scratch and do not give microcracks. It is impossible to remove stubborn dust from the floor from them, which is what microbes need. Changeling kits for young children have been on sale relatively recently, but cases have already been noted when they became foci of infection. From self-made from wood, the danger is only exacerbated.

The epidemic of fashion for transformable furniture (in this case, you can’t say otherwise) has given rise to real monsters in general, see fig. on right. When the child reaches the “table” age, the chair is simply ... sawn off, and the former supporting pyramid turns over and becomes a table. With the hygiene of a large countertop, everything is clear, see above. As with a too narrow table for feeding: there will be no food on the mother and on the floor, only if a specially programmed robot sits on the chair.

And yet, firstly, put yourself in the place of a child: there is a rigid fence on all sides. It remains, as they say, only to put on a chain. Secondly, a large table will be unusually rolled. Well, have you ever seen tables for adults, neat people, whose legs converge downwards? It’s funny, of course, but whoever starts this at home will probably not be laughing.

"Growing" chairs

In general, if we are talking about a small child, it is better not to experiment with transformable furniture, excluding proven folding designs. For example, let's take "growing" chairs, see fig. left. It’s really possible to sit on this from a fool to his dad, but it won’t be quite comfortable at any age. And in order to adapt the chair to outgrowth for feeding, it will have to be turned into a product comparable in complexity to a stationary chair for babies.

How to take everything from plywood

Highchairs for babies are very often made of plywood. Many homemade designs turn out to be quite practical and good-looking, on the left in fig. However, after the need has passed, it is hardly possible to adapt them for something else, the first. The second - see on the right in fig. scattered details. Waste of material - by eye at least 60% Although good plywood you can buy for 300 rubles / sheet 1550x1550, anyway, it would be desirable to do without now useless crooked scraps.

Here is the time to realize that an adult easily adapts to feeding a baby. folding chair- plywood board, see next. rice. Dad's for fishing or mom's garden, depending on who is in charge in the family. In terms of sanitation and hygiene, it is better, of course, to make this chair immediately for a small one, and let it go for adult use when it grows up.

From the remainder of cutting opening A, you will get 2 struts of a table for a child with L-shaped paws; grooves will need to be cut out under them in the sidewalls of the chair. For feeding a child, it is advisable to supplement such a chair with a fabric back: it will not reduce the comfort for adults, and it will not interfere with the chair hanging on the wall when folded. A small tabletop is attached to the struts on piano or card hinges, then the feeding table will also fold into a compact package.

Note: it is better to measure the dimensions of the struts according to a ready-made unfolded chair. This will be easier and more accurate than fiddling with trigonometry.

Another folding chair of the same type is shown in fig. on right. It is smaller, 500x750 when folded. Not bad because exactly 6 of these come out of a sheet of plywood 1550x1550, and they fit in the trunk of almost any car along the length. The letter w indicates the width of the cut. In general, look at your child, yourself and your needs.

Older chairs

At the age of about a year old, the child will already need a high chair, on which he can sit down, move it, rearrange it. Chairs for young children in the age category following babies are play (on the left in the figure below) and work / for classes, in the center. Working chairs for babies differ from play chairs primarily in armrests; they are necessary for the child to have the correct posture. Then, the seat height of the work chair can be immediately taken based on the oldest of preschool ages, i.e. up to 400 mm. In this case, a footboard is needed; preferably changeable. The approximate dimensions of the highchair for babies of the "second stage" are given on the right, but, as mentioned above, they need to be specified according to the child.

Drawings of chairs for grown children are given on the next. rice. Left - gaming the simplest design. legs optimal length for a child aged 12-36 months who often plays on the floor. Fasteners - wood screws 40x4.2.

Highchair for a child “like adults”

The chair on the right is already more complicated, its parts need to be marked on a grid and grooves should be cut to connect them. But it is universal, playful and working. Small protrusions of the sidewalls above the seat are enough so that a normally active child does not sit down, hanging half of the fifth point in the air. The seat height of 400 mm is the maximum for very young children. It can be made at first minimal, approx. 220 mm, and then change the sidewalls as they grow; it will take a little work and plywood, but mom will have something to say to dad on occasion. So, if dad is prudent, it’s better to immediately cut the sidewalls into outgrowth.

Such a chair, in principle, is simply assembled, like a puzzle. In the mobile version, say, for trips to the country, you can leave it like that. But with constant use, the chair will soon loosen, no matter how tight the joints are initially. Therefore, it is better for a child of this kind to glue PVA home chair. Dismantling if necessary put in storage - see above, about glue.

Finally, there is a category of children who, having barely realized themselves in this world, want everything to be like an adult. This is generally a useful quality, but dad will have to work harder on the chair and other furniture for the child. The device and dimensions of the highchair "as in adults" are shown in fig. on right. A wooden chair of this design will require rather complex technological methods, but even in this case plywood will come to the rescue, see next. chapter.

Video: an example of a simple do-it-yourself mini-chair

Technology and plywood

To make a high chair, kids need to know or have to learn how to make some carpentry joints: on dowels, with the help of dowels (lamellas) and a tenon-groove. How they are made, for examples of carpentry, see the videos, arranged in order of increasing complexity:

Video #1: dowel connections

Video #2: Doweled gusset for frame structures (corner mitering)

Video #3: tongue and groove joint

Video #4: Keyed Straight Joint for Plank Board Ratcheting

As you can see, the houses are simple hand tool only pos. #one. Pos. # 2 and # 3 for a novice carpenter will turn out manually with sin in half, and for pos. #4 and good professional not to do without a workshop and special equipment. And now - ts-s! - all this can be done at home by a “full kettle”, using only a jigsaw and a little chisel. If the blanks of parts are assembled on glue from 3 layers of plywood with a thickness, respectively, in 1/3 of the required one. Among other things, this technology allows you to collect parts complex shape from small-sized fragments, which makes it possible to denser, i.e. economically, cut the material.

How direct and angular tongue-and-groove joints are performed in this way is shown in pos. 1 and 2 fig. resp. If the spike is made trapezoidal with rounded corners, then the strength of the joint will increase several times, i.e. will be sufficient for adult furniture. In production, this technology is not used - it is tedious and therefore unprofitable, but at home it’s better than buying or renting a machine for 60-100 thousand rubles.

To glue a package of blanks into a PVA part, you also do not need any special devices:

Lay plastic wrap on a flat floor or table.
Both glued surfaces are lubricated with a thin layer of glue; better to use a brush.
Withstand adhesive layers until semi-dry tack, when the adhesive film begins to become translucent at the edges.
Fold the blanks into a bag and press.
The package is covered with another layer of film and oppression is placed on it from dispersed cargo (books, for example) at the rate of at least 20 kg per 1 sq. m of glued area.

Note: because the workpieces in the bag during gluing may “float away” a little, they need to be cut with an allowance of 1-2 mm for finishing.

Angled tongue-and-groove joint must be reinforced with self-tapping screws with a diameter of not more than 0.5 of the thickness of the stud, a pair per stud. For example, if a part is 15 mm thick from 3 layers of 5 mm each, then the diameter of the hardware is 2-2.5 mm. Glue is applied to the spike and into the groove; the first is introduced into the latter, as soon as the glue begins to peel off (after 2-3 minutes), and then the connection is pulled together with hardware.

How to screw screws

In the above and all other cases of fastening parts with self-tapping screws, it is necessary to pre-drill blind holes with a diameter into the body (rod) of a self-tapping screw without thread and a depth of 2/3 of the length of its threaded part. Also, a hole is pre-selected for the head of the self-tapping screw. After screwing, the head is covered with putty from sawdust of the same plywood on the same PVA; in 1 volume of glue, you can enter up to 2.5-3 volumes of sawdust.

Finally

Well, now on a new thing - new experiences and bon appetit. Just don’t throw porridge for joy, your parents tried hard.

Every parent sooner or later faces the problem of acquiring children's furniture, and a high chair in this case is no exception. Moreover, the market with similar products offers us a fairly wide range, but when choosing, there are often some difficulties. In particular, which material to prefer? The tree in this fight, of course, wins, but the price of such a product leaves much to be desired. You can buy a plastic chair, but it is not very pleasant to the touch and not always comfortable. There is a way out: make children's

Purpose of a baby chair

The use of this piece of furniture has some features that depend on the age of the child. To accustom the baby to a high chair, you need to start at the moment when the child can already sit on his own (usually this is about 6-8 months old). At first, it is used exclusively for feeding, and only then - for sitting during creativity or other activities. To date, do-it-yourself highchairs that can be used for a child are of two types:

simple chairs that can hold even an inexperienced baby;
chairs-transformers that perform several functions at the same time.

With age, the child has a lot of hobbies that require spending a certain amount of time in a sitting position on a chair. The main function is still to use it for sitting at the table, including the dining one. This highchair, made with your own hands, taking into account all the wishes, will become a favorite for your baby.

Necessary materials

Making a highchair with your own hands is very easy, it is enough to strictly follow the sequence of actions and have everything at hand necessary tools and materials. For manufacturing you will need:

several bars that have a section of 50x50 mm;
bars with a section of 25x25 mm;
bars with a section of 25x50 mm;
board with a section of 25 mm;
self-tapping screws;
drill driver;
screwdriver (if necessary);
sandpaper.

Since the highchair is intended for use by children, it is worth remembering high quality material and its safety for health. It is also necessary to think about what the chair should be. This piece of furniture should be made with your own hands, using only those bars that have a flat and dry surface. Only if these rules are observed, the life of the chair will be significant.

Preparatory work

Before you make a highchair with your own hands, drawings of the details must be made. Before starting work, it is necessary to carefully prepare the blanks. The material should be dried, then walk on its surface. The latter must be done until the workpieces are perfectly smooth. This is necessary to exclude the possibility of injury to the baby.

After preparing the material, a schematic drawing, the so-called sketch, should be made. If you are making a highchair with your own hands, try to make the drawings as simple as possible. Then during assembly you will not have any difficulties.

Assembly of legs

You need to start making highchairs with your own hands from the bottom of the future product, namely from its legs. You will need two wooden blanks 27 cm long and 52 cm long. These parts of the chair must be carefully processed using special tools for working with wood - a workbench and a planer. All four sides of the bars must be brought to a size of 40x40 mm. For ease of processing, you can safely use a vise, between which you can put a bar. To avoid dents, preventive measures must be taken, in particular, the use of spacers made of thin aluminum or plywood, having previously given them an L-shape. After processing the legs of the future chair with a planer, you need to mark up and remove all unnecessary parts with an electric jigsaw.

Assembling the rails and back

At this stage, the design of the back of the product, as well as the corresponding crossbars, is carried out. The blanks for the crossbars should be about 17 cm long, and for the back - 16 cm. When cutting the crossbars and backs, you need to make a tolerance of about 5 cm. You can’t forget about this, since they are essential for further processing. The processing itself is similar to the previous procedure. As a result of all actions, you should get bars with the following parameters:

10x15 mm;
20x20 mm;
20x45 mm.

For sitting you need to take wooden planks, there should be two. Moreover, the dimensions should be as follows: 150x250x25 mm. These boards need to be planed on four sides. Gaps are not allowed. After the edges are processed, the sharp corners of the boards need to be rounded off. Various templates will help you with this. At the end, the workpiece data in without fail it is required to work with sandpaper, especially for the ends of the bars, which as a result should be perfectly smooth.

Production of lock elements

This stage involves the following steps. First of all, using a drill, in accordance with the existing markings on the legs of the future chair, you need to make holes that will not be through, but deaf. A well-known tool - a chisel - will help facilitate this task. Using this device in combination with a chisel, all excess wood must be removed from the resulting grooves.

Choice of fastening method

Before direct assembly of all parts, it is necessary to choose the method by which they will be attached to each other. There are several such ways:

with spikes;
using glue;
with nails;
wedge method.

The last method is the most popular. To do this, on the spikes that are located on the crossbars, make a cut for the entire length with a width of 5 mm. The wedges should be about 5 mm shorter than the grooves, but it is recommended to increase their width by 0.5 mm. Before inserting the crossbars into the grooves, the wedge must be mounted in the resulting cut, and then assemble all the parts with a mallet. This will cause the wedge to expand the spike and loosen the chair will not threaten.

Final assembly of the product

After all the blanks are cut out and their surface is smooth enough, you can safely proceed to final assembly products. You will get more reliable highchairs by smearing all their connections with your own hands. You need to start the assembly from the frame. To do this, you will need bars measuring 15x15 mm and self-tapping screws. After the frame is designed, you can mount the board, which will act as a seat. Before that, it is desirable to make holes for self-tapping screws in the bars. This is necessary so that when assembling the chair, namely when screwing the fasteners, the product is not damaged. The bars themselves need to be attached precisely to the inside of the crossbar, and only then install the seat itself.

You can also make children's tables-chairs with your own hands, such as in the photo below.

You can finish the work by covering the entire chair with varnish, after painting the product in the desired color.