This is a must have in our books! My cousin told me about activity tables for Daycares. I thought, “Why in the world would I buy 2 high chairs if I could have one of those?!” I checked the price and those things sell for $300+, which is not in our high chair budget. Plus I would want something to accommodate the whole family at mealtime. I decided to make one instead for a fraction of the price. I found replacement seats for the table online (pkg of 6 chairs for $16.99 and pkg of 2 belts for $2.99 on elitedeals.com) and had Jared cut holes in our free Ikea table. We figure we can invest in a new table when the babies are bigger. In the meantime, we will make wood fillers for the holes when we have company over. The table/chairs are good for kids up to 24+ months.

The table rocks! When the chairs are turned facing out, we can feed the babies easily when they are infants. Jared is demonstrating our plan at 1:00AM when we finished the job. We were so excited for the next morning’s feed.

The chairs can be rotated to face inward, as Jared is demonstrating.

When the chairs are inward, the babies can use this as an activity table with toys or later, coloring/playdo/painting/crafts OR for eating together as a family. Our home is soooo small that this fits our space perfectly!

Joslyn & Jakob BEFORE eating:

Joslyn & Jakob AFTER eating:

Feeding twins at the same time is a circus act! This table has improved our efficiency and the babies love it! The babies just turned 6 months in these pictures and we began the weaning process, which means more mess with solids. The chairs come out easily and I can rinse them out in the sink…seriously, brilliant!

We haven’t implemented the “No Feet on Table” rule yet.

oh, the joy of twins…hahaha. im sure they will make any parent super multi-taskers.
with credits to the workman’s blog
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