Make your own children's post

Make your own children's post and build a letterbox

Including free craft templates

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Children love role-playing games! In addition to the classics such as play shop, we have a brand new idea for you: why not play post office? With our craft ideas, you can make your own great children's post and build the letterbox to go with it. And to top it all off, there's a free template for our cute envelopes. The whole thing is also super quick and easy - see for yourself!

Children's post and letterbox IKEA hack

You can easily make your own children's post collection point and letterbox. And you don't need much at all:

two TJENA boxes*
yellow paint
Paintbrush
Cardboard
Scissors and glue

How to make the children's post

Firstly, cut out the cardboard strips that will become your dividers. Stick these into the IKEA box*. Then grab the yellow paint and give your children's post its typical bright yellow colour. The box used to be available in bright yellow, but unfortunately IKEA has discontinued this colour. Then all you have to do is stand the box upright and your children's post is ready!

IKEA hack for the wish list: DIY letterbox

Build your own letterbox and send your wish list directly to Father Christmas & Co You don't need many materials and you don't necessarily have to be a talented craftsman. All it takes is a visit to IKEA and printing out the free print templates from Deutsche Post. And you'll have a great letterbox for your Christmas post to Father Christmas, the Christ Child and Father Christmas.

Do you fancy even more crafting?

We have free craft templates for you to print out. You can easily make the envelopes with the cute animals from an A4 sheet of paper.

How to make the envelopes:

Download the free template using the form and print it out.
Cut out the animal faces and fold along the marked edges.
Apply glue to the folded edges and glue the envelopes together.

The cute animal envelopes for the minis are finished. The envelopes don't just look good at Christmas. Invitation cards or nice letters to grandma and grandad also look great with the cute animal faces!

Letters to Father Christmas & Co.

Do you know the towns of Himmelsstadt, Engelskirchen and Nikolausdorf? Our Limmaland letterbox shows these emptying points for a reason, because these places really do exist. And your children can send their Christmas post there! If the wish list post arrives there by 22 December, it will even be answered before Christmas. The post to Father Christmas, the Christ Child and Father Christmas is sent to different places in Germany. Wish lists and letters to Father Christmas are processed in Himmelpfort and Himmelsthür, while letters to the Christ Child can be sent to Engelskirchen, Himmelpforten and Himmelstadt. St Nicholas gets his mail sent to St Nicholas' Village and St Nicholas's. It is somehow logical that the branches of the three heavenly friends are more orientated towards the north of Germany: after all, that is closer to the NORTH of Germany ;). You can find all the addresses for wish lists via the link. And please don't forget to give your kids their return address!

Kiosk for children's post

And where is the best place to play children's post? We at Limmaland love to use furniture in completely different ways and create creative play worlds. But sometimes you just don't have any more space in the children's room. That's when our DIY play shop sticker comes in handy. The LILLE BUD is actually intended as a play shop or market stall. But we think it's just as good for playing post!

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