How to make your own portable bed for the kids

Perfect for sleepovers and stores and washes so easily!

Have you lots of visitors coming to stay with kids? Is yours a house of many sleepovers? Do your kids stay over at relatives houses? Expecting a full house this Christmas?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then we have the perfert hack for you!
Simple when you think about it, but just sewing together some pillowcases can create a portable kids bed thats super easy to store, wash and is very inexpensive to make (by comparison to a guest bed)
You'll need:
  • 4 Pillows
  • 4 Pillowcases
  • Needle & Thread/Sewing Machine
How to do it:
  • Sew together the 4 pillowcases leaving the slot for the pillows open
  • Insert the pillows into each of the four slots
  • That's it!
  • You can fold the top pillowcase back on the 2nd to create a pillow within in bed- genius!

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