Next, I lined the interior of the container with tin foil – the bottom and the sides, and secured with clear packing tape.

This was in fact the only purchase I made – hence the $15 cost. I ended up buying a clear Rubbermaid container with a clear lid. Super easy, super inexpensive, and it couldn’t work better. In the end, I am thrilled with how our Light Table turned out. Tinkerlab’s tutorial was really good, but I did a little modifying. I read quite a few tutorials over the years:Īnd Next Comes L has SO many cool activities to do on the light table, and a great tutorial – but I wanted super simple YEARS of contemplating - tons of time dreaming about the activities we could do - and it all took a grand total of 10 minutes. So I made one -and it is! All the time! And it took me …. The knowledge that it would actually be used. THAT was just the push I needed to finally make one. So my light table dreams were pushed aside a little more.īut this year, Benjamin has one in his preschool room and is drawn to it like a moth! Last year Sammy had a light table in his kindergarten room, but wasn’t really drawn to it.

I am not sure why I wasn’t making it, really – they look so cool – and I found some super easy tutorials online too.īut for years we remained a light table-less family. I had been thinking about making a DIY light table for years.

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