I am going to make a play table tent....

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Got some quilts in the works (at least in the creating stage) but my grand daughter wanted a "club house" this week and I tossed some blankets over/around my square kitchen table (taller one with bar seat style) and she loved that so that gave me the idea of making a table house cover..thingy. Easy to do, just get sheets and cut same size as top of table and four pieces the size of each side of the table and sew them together like an upside down "box" or purse bottom. Then we started talking about it and really got into it..well, me more than she but she'll climb aboard soon as she gets back in 2 days! But I have 3 other GD and 1 GD....all under 10 and want to make it for them to...so I thought about doing things on the inside "walls"...like a phone, and aquarium etc. And decorate the outside "walls" too...felt, velcro and double sided iron on interfacing will be my best friends! This is the kind of thing I used to do "back in the day" before my quilting obsession so not new to this world at all! So I went on line to get some ideas for both construction and decoration and found this site...she makes them and sells them! How cool is that! And she has so many different styles and themes! http://www.etsy.com/listing/79754154...cupcakery-with She only decorates the outside "walls" and I was planning on decorating the INSIDE walls, but now I want to do both...I was going to make a felt phone with a ribbon "cord"...GD said she wants an aquarium on it so I have some fabric of fish that I can make appliques with. On the front I will do a mail box, and then found a few ideas here for the outside and the inside...love the cupcake theme and GD had already said she wanted an aquarium on the wall for which I went through my fabric and there is some fish fabric that are the perfect size to make appliques out of. I can make a toy shelf with a few toy items on it for the little girls and the son..he has a large lizard and I have fabric with some lizards on it. I plan on going to the thrift store tomorrow..hope they have a "merry christmas" sale going on ...if not, I'll go back on Wed when they have 25% off everything sale and pick up some sheets. They often have bed ruffles and other things that I can use part of...like one with flowers and I can add that to the bottom of the outside for a "garden" effect. I plan to do alot with felt and velcro to make things they can take off and on to actually PLAY with..like the cupcakes on a table etc. So...first...anyone have any suggestions if you have worked in this world before as to ease of construction? Second...anyone have any good sites for coloring book pages that have large pictures to use as appliques? I know to google them but if someone has a site they like, care to share? Or any other ideas? Thanks!