The One-Year-Old Pirate!

This amazing pile of staff came to me as a gift from my brother and it took a while to figure out to do a pirateship with it! 

 Here are rolls from old wooden mangle, doors from a cabinet, door pieces from a cabin and handrails from chairs.

 By adding this there's enough for a ship, two pieces of drift wood from the river, horce collar and a wooden slab.

 Our baby helped with the craft and design and we planned to finish by her first birthday.

The main structure is like a box with the rolls helping to move it around.

The prow came out of the drift wood pieces and the bottom of the ship got the arch from the handrails,

 This old core of a wheel helped to raise the cockpit to a decent level.

 And the doors became really stylish pirateship cargo doors, the horse collar wonderful boaw of a ship.

 

Old cutting board transformed to be a nice frame for this old brass ship window.

Pair of rows for the edges and the mast.

 

And here it is, the ship as a cabinet, essential function for off play.

 The amazing steering wheel (and an amazing pirate) our baby got for the ship from friends as birthday present.

 The birthday hero playing hide and seek in the cave.

 And the deck full of pirates!