How to make a children's table so that it can be both an original desk for the child and at the same time a playhouse for toys. In this article we will tell you how to do all this in one day.
Many parents prefer to buy a ready-made table for their child and not bother. But there are also those who simply cannot afford it. Or they like to do everything with their own hands and to the required dimensions of their interior. The advantage of this table is its versatility. This is a desk, a playhouse, and a place to store toys.
In order to make a wooden desk, you need to purchase material, a sheet of furniture chipboard, of a suitable color. Or you can construct it from leftover material from previous creations, or from unnecessary furniture. This is exactly the economical option that will be described in this article, and besides this, you can read what else you can do
Required tools and material
— Electric jigsaw (hand-held circular saw)
— Hacksaw for metal
— Manual milling machine (can be replaced with a feather drill for wood of the required diameter)
— Drill
— Corner with a ruler
- Stationery knife
— Roulette
- Pencil 
Material
— Chipboard
— Fiberboard
— Self-adhesive film of a suitable color
— End tape on chipboard, corresponding color
— Self-tapping screws or furniture screws, nails
Accessories
— Piano loop 1 pc.,
— Furniture hinge 4 pcs.,
Let's move on to the dimensions of the parts and the drawing
First, you need to sketch out a drawing on paper; do not forget that the dimensions can be changed if desired. 
— Sidewalls 2 pcs. (300 mm x 790 mm), angle can be 90 - 60 degrees;
— Shelves 3 pcs. (520 mm x 300 mm), shelf length taking into account the thickness of the side walls;
— Doors 2 pcs. (280 mm x 120 mm);
— Roof 2 pcs. (295mm x 600mm), you can make one half of the roof from fiberboard;
— Back wall 1 pc. (520 mm x 560 mm), it can also be lightened and cut from fiberboard.
Cut out the details of the table - house
So let's get to work. On the surface of the prepared material, draw parts according to size with a pencil and cut them out with an electric jigsaw. 
Attention! The width of the roof parts must be two centimeters wider than the main structure on each side 
The ends where chipboard parts are cut must be glued with adhesive-based end tape. Attach the tape to the end and carefully iron it with a hot iron, placing a sheet of paper between the tape and the iron. Trim the excess edges of the tape with a sharp knife. 
We connect the prepared parts
Making the base
Screw three shelves to one side panel. On the other side of the shelves, attach the second side panel in the same way. In order to hide the screws, they must be recessed into the body of the material. To do this, drill holes in the desired location with a drill larger than the diameter of the screw head. On the front side, the caps can be puttyed if you plan to decorate the end later. Otherwise, use furniture screws with plastic plugs or stickers. The result is the frame of the future desk 
Installing the roof
We take a piano loop and measure the required size, cut off the excess with a hacksaw. We screw the loop to the top shelf and side of the roof at the level of the thickness of the chipboard. To ensure that when laying out the table, the loop does not separate the working area of the desk.
We simply screw the second part of the roof to the base. 
Installing doors
Table doors can be attached either to a piano hinge or to furniture hinges. It must be remembered that when using a piano hinge to secure the door, you need to install stops.
Let's consider the second method of fastening - with a furniture hinge.
Important! The doors must be the correct size, as they serve as the legs of the folding table.
To fasten the door using a furniture hinge, a milling machine was used (or use a special drill). Handles can be made either in the form of holes (decorate them in a child’s style), or they can be screwed onto any furniture handles.
We simply nail the back wall made of fiberboard.
Decoration
All visible parts (if desired, internal parts) can be painted or covered with decorative self-adhesive film. In order for the film to last a long time and stick as tightly as possible to the product, you need to use a soft cloth and a hair dryer.
The children's table and desk is ready, this is how it looks when assembled and looks more like a house: 
And this is how it looks disassembled and looks more like a desk or table: 
Children have to spend a lot of time studying. Take care of the convenience of work and the correct position of their back by making a children's desk with your own hands.
This universal product, due to the ability to adjust its height to suit the child’s individual parameters, is suitable for schoolchildren of absolutely any age.
Such a desk will provide ideal posture and reduce the load on the visual apparatus. Of course, you can buy a rare desk, which an experienced craftsman will restore to excellent condition, but if you have the materials, tools and skills, why not try making a desk yourself?
Base
From the end part of the guide element you need to make a 10x10 mm groove, round the edges, fix the leg components together using threaded rods (GOST 22042-76), washers (6958-78) and M8 wing nuts (3032-76).
To attach the top shelf and the foot shelf, you can use confirmats or wood screws.
Lifting mechanism
The starting material is planed board.
Grooves of 10x10 mm should be milled from the outer sides of the guide elements, at their end.
In the center it is necessary to make through holes with a diameter of 20 mm.
Tabletop
The starting material is a sheet of plywood.
To make the rotating mechanism you will need 2mm sheet metal. It is attached to the tabletop using wood screws. Instead of metal, you can use wooden blocks to make the turning mechanism.
All that remains is to insert the lifting mechanism into the grooves and attach the tabletop to the mechanism that regulates the lift using studs, M8 nuts and washers.
The children's desk is ready.
The presented model allows:
— adjust the height of the desk within 570-720 mm in increments of 50 mm;
— vary the tilt angle from 0 to 90° in 5° increments.
The optimal angle of inclination of the tabletop for drawing is in the range of 0-5°, for writing – from 10 to 15°, for reading – 20-30°.
The desk can be equipped with shelves and niches for storing office supplies.
If you have any questions or difficulties, the Home Master will help, who can be found on the online service ordering service.
Good luck to you! May everything work out for you!
And he soon needs to go to school; parents inevitably face the problem of arranging a comfortable workplace.
Both his academic performance and health depend on this.. When the search for a suitable desk ends in failure (it takes up a lot of space, it is made of low-quality material, it does not correspond to the child’s height, etc.), dads come to the idea that they should make something similar on their own.
A homemade children's desk, which can be made, should be folded and save space, is not so difficult to make. However, it is necessary to take into account a number of points.
What you need to know when making a desk for a schoolchild
When making furniture for the younger generation, be it a desk or a children's table, there are points that cannot be ignored:
Creating and decorating a work area for a schoolchild- Environmental friendliness of the material. Preference is given to wood species: oak, pine, birch.
- Taking into account the features of the student’s anatomy. You should not make a desk for growth, since the child’s spine is not yet fully formed, and attempts to “adapt” to the height of the table will lead to scoliotic changes in it with the possibility of complications in subsequent years. The best option that will give a child’s room additional space is a transformable desk, which can be adjusted in height and angle with your own hands.
- Convenience. A children's desk, created by the hands of parents, should be designed in such a way that when sitting at it, the child does not rest his knees on the tabletop. If this happens, it’s a signal that it’s time for the desk to “grow” with it.
- Possibility to adjust table height and tilt angle. It is desirable that the desk have a simple but reliable adjustment mechanism, accessible even to our child. If treated well, it can last all school years.
What to pay attention to when making
- Safety (all corners are rounded, surfaces are polished, there are no protruding parts that a student could get caught on and get hurt or tear clothes);
- The design of a children's table should not be flashy, so as not to distract the child's attention from learning activities;
- It is not recommended to cover the tabletop with a glossy varnish, as this can create glare at a certain angle of incidence of light, which negatively affects the student’s vision;
- Stability (a children's table created according to your own design and with your own hands must be stable and not slip on the floor).
Preparation of necessary materials and tools
To make children's furniture yourself, you will need a standard set of tools:
- hacksaw,
- clamps,
- hammer,
- cutters,
- electric drill,
- sandpaper,
- measuring instruments (tape measure, square),
- carpentry glue,
- screws.
The materials for work are as follows:
- plywood 10 mm,
- piano hinges,
- axles for wheels 250 mm in diameter (if you want to easily transport the table),
- wheels,
- putty,
- primer,
- enamel for painting.
If you live, then in order to make a children's table according to an original design, you will need to remember your drawing lessons and make drawings of the blanks with your own hands, then you should take them to the carpentry shop. This will save you from the need to cut, which entails the appearance of fine wood dust and shavings. And from the finished parts you can already begin assembling the desk.
Instructions for assembling a desk for a schoolchild
- First you need to cut out the front panel (provided that you do this yourself, work with a hacksaw at an angle of 35-40 degrees relative to the surface), carefully go over it with sandpaper and round the upper corners.
- Then mark the places for the long piano loop (on the right) and the vertical bar (on the left). D
- In order for the right folding wall of the desk to slam shut with the left, the bar is placed under the left hinge. P
- In this case, the thickness of the sidewall should be 15-20 mm less than the strip.
- The hinges and the bar are secured with screws, glued with glue, and the remaining parts are connected using a system of grooves.
- The side walls of the desk must have a special recess and grooves. They are made slightly wider than the thickness of the plywood itself from which the structure is constructed.
- In order for the grooves to be uniform on both sides, the templates are pressed against each other with a clamp.
- During assembly, the grooves of the lid and shelf (on the front pillar) and the seat (on the rear pillar) should fit into these grooves.
You are convinced that making a children's table is not at all difficult. To ensure that it does not interfere during the holidays, it is collected and placed in a special case-frame, which is also prepared for this occasion.
Making a case for the assembled desk
The frame is made of thin boards and plywood corners in such a way that the front panel can be placed in it, resting it on the crossbar. The other side of the frame is equipped with a stretch cord (for example, from an expander) and corners for fixing the remaining parts of the desk.
The frame is placed on wheels attached using improvised loops (for example, from bent nails), into which a 250 mm axle is inserted (for example, from an old stroller). A handle is mounted on one of the sidewalls.
Decorating a children's desk Desk finishing
DIY children's table decoration is made using hot drying oil. While the first layer dries, prepare a putty mixture from:
- 1 kg putty,
- 10 g bar soap,
- 30 g wood glue,
- 500 g ground soap,
- 180 g drying oil,
- 0.2 liters of water.
Boil water with glue, then, stirring, pour in the remaining ingredients. At the end, chalk is added for thickness. The mixture is applied hot, smoothing with a spatula. After drying, it is sanded and painted again.
And only after this is it possible to apply paint and varnish.
Recently, it has become fashionable to decoupage a children's table, but in relation to a school desk it is inappropriate to do this, since unnecessary details will only distract the child's attention. If desired, you can decorate the children's table with your own hands on its sides to harmonize with the surrounding interior.
For our granddaughter Mashenka, my son-in-law and I made an age-appropriate small school desk with our own hands and a comfortable chair where you can look through picture books, draw, sculpt from plasticine, or lay out toys.
Required: 50 cm piano hinge confirmations self-tapping screws metal corners cutting a pine furniture board (for a desk, see diagram 1, for a chair, see diagram 2).
DIY drawings of a children's desk
DIY school desk assembly
To ensure that all wooden parts were very smooth, we treated them with sandpaper: first coarse P40, then medium P120 and finer P220. All sharp corners were rounded with a jigsaw. Semicircular grooves were cut out in the legs so that a child, sitting at a desk, could comfortably stand up and turn right and left without resting his knees.
The legs were connected to the bottom of the box using confirm mats and a screwdriver into pre-drilled holes, lowering the bottom 8 cm below the edge of the legs (Diagram 3). Then we fixed the front wall of the box so that its top edge was flush with the legs, forming a smooth box. We attached the back wall of the desk to them with screws so that it protruded a couple of centimeters above the top edge of the legs.
The tabletop was attached using a piano hinge (photo 1) to the back wall of the desk so that it could rise and fall freely and, resting on the legs, formed a flat horizontal surface. This created a shallow drawer under the tabletop for storing albums, coloring books, pencils and other small items.
By the way
The protruding edge of the back wall of the desk prevents pencils and felt-tip pens left on the tabletop from rolling off and falling to the floor when the lid is raised (photo 2).
Assembling a chair for a set with a desk
The legs were secured at an angle to the seat using a trapezoidal support board, which was inserted in the middle between them (Diagram 4). All parts at the joints were secured with metal furniture corners to strengthen the connection (photo 3). The back was attached in the same way (photo 4). For stability, semicircular recesses were cut out on the legs in the supporting part. A groove for the backrest was previously cut out in the seat (photo 5). The latter was rounded off at the top and a heart-shaped hole was cut to make the chair easier to carry.
The furniture was varnished in two layers so that it could be easily washed from paints and spilled liquids.
On a note
To cut out the heart, we first drew it with a pencil on the back, then drilled holes along the inner contour with a drill and connected them using a jigsaw.