As any mother can tell you, when your baby starts crawling, it is an exciting and terrifying time. Exciting because you are so thrilled to watch your little darling grow and explore on her own, but terrifying because you quickly realize that now she can get into everything!
You also realize that as soon as baby starts crawling, she also starts pulling up and babies don’t discriminate when it comes to objects they decide to pull up on. Things like coffee tables and couches are generally a safe object to pull up on, but I learned the hard way when my daughter tried pulling up on a small side table and it came crashing down on her. Talk about scary!
While some flat surfaces aren’t safe for them to be pulling on to stand up, others are just a little too high for their reach. I was finding this to be a problem when my daughter started crawling, so I decided to make her a set of pull up bars. I had seen something similar at a popular toddler gym class and I knew that I could make my own version at home at a fraction of the cost. Here’s how I made them:
What you need:
- (2) 24″ pieces of 3/4″ PVC
- (4) 12″ pieces of 3/4″ PVC
- (2) 14″ pieces of 3/4″ PVC
- (4) 7″ pieces of 3/4″ PVC
- 4 elbow joints
- 4 “T” joints
- 4 end caps
- a roll of colored duck tape
- small rubber stick on footpads (not shown)
What I did:
That is just so fantastic! I love the last photo. She looks so proud! 🙂
This is awesome! We installed a bar on our wall for our daughter to pull up on but my husband hated putting deep holes in our walls. I love that this is also portable, around the house or take it outside.
Off to home depot ~ I will be going soon.. thanks for sharing this post.. very neat idea:).
Did anyone else try this and have a problem with it sliding? Tried it on carpet and a foam mat and it keeps sliding. If anyone had this problem; did you find a solution?
Hi! I actually put little rubber feet on the bottom of the bars I made and I never had a sliding issue. Hope this helps!
What kind of rubber feet did you use?
They were the stick on kind you can find at Lowe’s!
I poured sand in the vertical pieces and let it “pool” up in the floor pieces. That weights it down perfectly.
This is amazing!!! And so flippin’ affordable! I love it. I don’t have a kid of my own yet, but you can bet when I do, I’ll be stealing a page outta your book!
He looks like a little muscle man. This is a great project to make for the little ones.
This is pure genius! I remember following my daughter around, trying to keep her in a bubble when she started trying to pull herself up! What a fabulous idea!
Oh this is awesome! I’ll be needing this sooner than I think! 🙂
How creative! My son just used the couch or coffee table. Haha 🙂 This is way cuter!
Oh my gosh, what a great idea! My son has a genetic growth delay, so his gross motor was slow until he got big enough to have the strength for crawling and pulling up. I wish I had known about this when he was younger- it would have been a great compliment to his physical therapy!
This is so cute. I will be trying this with my granddaughter.