High Chair Floor Pad

We recently moved to a new house. While I love my new home, the builders obviously didn’t have young children and put light-colored carpet in the dining room. We hope to one day exchange the carpet for wood, but in the mean time, I have a very messy baby who likes to throw food.

I tried to find a plastic sheet to put under the high chair. I found a $7 pad with pictures from the movie Cars. While we are big fans of the movie Cars in our home, I’d prefer not to design my dining room around animated, talking cars. I decided to make my own.

I purchased a clear shower curtain liner for $2.35 cents. I spread it out on the floor and used a dry-erase marker to trace a flower design but moving a large dinner plate around the curtain.

I then cut out the shape with scissors (it cut very easily) and erased the marks.

That’s it! I feel much better about feeding my baby on my lovely carpet, and feel even better that I did it the cheap way!

Posted in Crafts, Kids and tagged carpet, high chair, homemade, pad, sheet

7 Comments

Grandma Linda on August 16, 2011 at 9:13 am

I finally visited your Blog today and read all the posts; but this one really renewed our “bond.” Your resourcefulness, creativity and pure mom-genius really impresses me! And reminded me of some solutions I used in my day. We are truly “kindred spirits.” Love you.

Melissa on August 22, 2011 at 11:02 am

I love this idea. We are renting right now while we decided on where we are going to settle so this is great. I will have to do this because I have the ugly Blues Clues one & I am not a fan of keeping it out ALL the time.. so this is great!

I am a new fan of your page!!

Leslie on October 30, 2011 at 9:41 am

Thanks for the great idea- I’m passing it on to my birthday party parents in my blog post tomorrow – all with credit to you for the idea. It’s not just babies that are or should be messy!

Kids Tips- Cheap Messy Mats for Parties or Crafts on November 1, 2011 at 7:58 am

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Jen on May 25, 2012 at 9:42 am

I think that’s absolutely adorable but in my house we’d need the whole shower curtain because little girl’s got quite a pitching arm. I just use a dollar store flannel-backed tablecloth that I put down before every meal and then take back up. I go shake it outside to get rid of the big bits (or whole plates of food) and wipe it down and we’re done.

Grandma Linda on August 16, 2011 at 9:13 am

I finally visited your Blog today and read all the posts; but this one really renewed our “bond.” Your resourcefulness, creativity and pure mom-genius really impresses me! And reminded me of some solutions I used in my day. We are truly “kindred spirits.” Love you.
Melissa on August 22, 2011 at 11:02 am

I love this idea. We are renting right now while we decided on where we are going to settle so this is great. I will have to do this because I have the ugly Blues Clues one & I am not a fan of keeping it out ALL the time.. so this is great!

I am a new fan of your page!!
Leslie on October 30, 2011 at 9:41 am

Thanks for the great idea- I’m passing it on to my birthday party parents in my blog post tomorrow – all with credit to you for the idea. It’s not just babies that are or should be messy!
Kids Tips- Cheap Messy Mats for Parties or Crafts on November 1, 2011 at 7:58 am

[…] here’s a shout out to thepinkapronblog.com for coming up with a good and cheap idea for messy mats. She’s using it for an under the […]
Jen on May 25, 2012 at 9:42 am

I think that’s absolutely adorable but in my house we’d need the whole shower curtain because little girl’s got quite a pitching arm. I just use a dollar store flannel-backed tablecloth that I put down before every meal and then take back up. I go shake it outside to get rid of the big bits (or whole plates of food) and wipe it down and we’re done.