{"id":1928,"date":"2018-06-12T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2023-07-22T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:54:14","slug":"diy-bahay-kubo-toddler-friendly-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/12\/diy-bahay-kubo-toddler-friendly-work\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY BAHAY KUBO (TODDLER-FRIENDLY WORK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got a copy of Tahanan’s Bahay Kubo<\/strong><\/a> book last week, and since then, my son just got hooked to the song (listen to our song here<\/strong><\/a>) and the book.<\/p>\n

I thought it was the perfect opportunity to display a miniature bahay kubo at home (we have a farm-themed one, so I wanted one with trees and miniature fruits), so we visited Balikbayan Handicrafts<\/em> and Tesoro’s<\/em> but came home empty-handed. They don’t have bahay kubos except for really small ones in a bottle! And they did not look sturdy enough to survive my toddler’s curious hands.<\/p>\n

It’s okay, they inspired me to just make my own.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we did: a very quick DIY using materials we already have, so it cost us nothing! Yey! (video version HERE<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

NOTE: I love minimalism and the concept of keeping only the things you use, but seriously, it’s so challenging to declutter for me at my stage right now – I’m always thinking, “what if we need this someday?”, and you know what? That ‘someday’ always happens. And while i’m happy we have less stuff, just right now, I want to kick myself for throwing that useless eraser that’s shaped like a peanut. It really was useless as an eraser, but it could be such a wonderful miniature for our bahay kubo. Grrr. And the thing is, I really don’t know where to buy it again. Moving on…our quick DIY..<\/em><\/p>\n

I started with a small wooden house as base<\/strong>. I got the house from Daiso<\/em> about a year ago. And then, I got out the square samples of woven materials<\/strong> sent to me a looong time ago. I attended one of those home expos and inquired about these for I forgot what, and they sent me samples. As I was decluttering, I kept thinking I might have use for them one day, so they stayed…and I’m glad they did. Anyway, if you don’t have samples like these, worry not — you can also use parts of an old woven mat or woven bag. See, now I also want to kick myself for throwing the woven mat that my rabbit ate parts of. LOL. That woven mat’s design was colorful and intricate. Le sigh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The woven materials serve as the cover of the sides of the house as well as the roof, and some serve as the ground and farmlands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I set up the following on our work table: mod podge (or any glue will do, I suppose), sponges for the glue, scissors to cut the woven materials, and the wooden house.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My son helped us out with the glue. I should have put a work mat (one of those silicone mats\/ chopping boards), though. A note for next time.<\/p>\n

After putting glue on the roof and the sides of the house, my husband did the sticking of the cut woven materials.<\/p>\n

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the roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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the sides<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We didn’t bother to stick one on the front anymore, since that would entail more intricate cutting. We left them to dry overnight.<\/p>\n

The day after, we just set up the whole theme using materials we already have!<\/p>\n

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Bahay Kubo the book<\/strong> – which my son loves beside a painting of Bahay Kubo by Teodoro Buenaventura, I think – correct me if I’m wrong (printed from the internet only for personal use, painted 1913)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bahay Kubo setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BREAKDOWN OF MY SOURCES:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1) Wooden Trees<\/strong> – Seed Studio Toys
\n2) Wooden House –<\/strong> Daiso
\n3) Woven Materials<\/strong> – samples
\n4) Baskets<\/strong> – found from a night market in Luang Prabang, Laos
\n5) Wooden Water Buffalos<\/strong> – given to me by my sister, available in Filipiniana stores like Tesoros, Balikbayan Handicrafts, and Kultura<\/em>
\n6) Filipiniana Doll<\/strong> – one of the dolls my niece had when she was still living in the Philippines. Not sure where she got it, but glad I decided against putting it in our declutter box.
\n8) Chicken<\/strong> – from Educational Toys Philippines<\/span><\/a> (you can also get miniature fruits with a banana here, too!)
\n9) Bahay Kubo Book<\/strong> – I highly suggest the one published by Tahanan Books. We also have the one from Adarna, but the one from Tahanan is a loooot nicer. We got our copy from Fully Booked BGC, and the small one is only PHP 100.<\/p>\n

PS: I also made a graphic of all the vegetables found in the Bahay Kubo song. I wish I could share a larger file size with you, but I just downloaded some graphics from the internet, did some photoshop tweaking, and printed it for our own personal use<\/em>. This is how it looks like — hope it encourage you to also make your own. \ud83d\ude42 Please do not use this graphic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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So there. Quick, easy, fun, and best of all – something you can ask your toddler to work on with you!:)<\/p>\n

If you decide to make your own DIY Bahay Kubo, I hope you can tell me about it, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got a copy of Tahanan’s Bahay Kubo book last week, and since then, my son just got hooked to the song (listen to our song here) and the book. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to display a miniature bahay kubo at home (we have a farm-themed one, so I wanted one with trees and miniature fruits), so we visited Balikbayan Handicrafts and Tesoro’s but came home empty-handed. They don’t have bahay kubos except for really small ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,1190,665,377,31],"tags":[578,581,583,579,588,580,584,587,585,582,586],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-culture-and-world","category-diy-crafts","category-home","category-parenting","tag-bahay-kubo","tag-balikbayan-handicrafts","tag-balikbayan-handicrafts-bahay-kubo","tag-diy-bahay-kubo","tag-diy-filipino-house","tag-easy-to-make-bahay-kubo","tag-filipiniana-bahay-kubo","tag-filipino-house","tag-miniature-bahay-kubo","tag-tesoros","tag-tesoros-bahay-kubo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}