20 DIY Toy Box Ideas in 2022

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Soft Closing Toy Box

If you’ve got kids you just don’t think will remember to close their toybox, this is a great option. It’s a soft-closer, so no slamming, either. It’s an elegant choice that can sit in the living room, kids’ playroom, or anywhere. You’ll need some wood, lid stays, heavy casters, chipboard screws, concealed hinges, and a large D handle to make this beautiful box. And as to tools, you’ll need a hinge hole cutter, a drill, and other basic supplies.

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Wild Animal Cage Toy Box

If your playroom is full of wild stuffies, you may want to get them under control through making this awesome and fun toy box your kids will love playing with and in, not just keeping their tigers, and lions, and bears in. It’s perfect for a zoo-themed room. You’ll just need some wood, screws, washers, conduit, and basic tools to make this awesome toy box.

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Toy Bin Storage Center

If you want a really well-organized toy center, this is a perfect choice for you. You’ll build a bin center that keeps everything in its place through the use of plastic bins labeled according to contents. The center can help your kids learn how to organize their own things, too, which makes it a real winner. You’ll need some pine boards, some Ikea Trofast bins – or similar – a Kreg Jig, drill, brad nailer, Gorilla wood glue, and wood stain.

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Pirate’s Treasure Toy Chest

For those who love a good yarn, this pirate’s treasure chest toy bin is the perfect addition to the playroom. The simple, straightforward design is fun, easy, and basic enough that most people can put together through following the basic instructions. You’ll need some lumber and basic tools – including a table saw and miter saw – and a few hours to build.

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Toy Storage Console

This console is a beautiful option for the family that wants easy access and great organization in their play area. The console has three large openings on the top for smaller toys like cars, small dolls, et cetera. And beneath there are two large rolling bins for larger toys. Overall, it’s a rustic toy console made from some plywood, boards, screws, and castors.

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Simple Wood Toy Chest

This is the perfect project for the less handy person who’s dying to get started with woodworking and needs something really practical and fun. It’s a simple toy box that you can construct easily in a single day, and you don’t need a load of fancy tools for it. You will need whatever wood you like best, a miter saw or skill saw, a Jigsaw, biscuit cutter, sander, and drill, plus some basic supplies like a pencil, tape, and screws.

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Bookcase With Toy Storage

This is the perfect toy storage unit for the family that reads. It’s got enough shelves to keep current reading books out in the playroom and keep the toys in order below in the storage chest. You can  grab some plywood, baseboard trim, brad nails, pocket screws, and some decorative molding. In a few hours, you’ll have this fantastic toy box/bookshelf in order, ready to paint.

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Stackable Toy Box

This fun toy box option is totally customizable for the number of toys your kid has. You start at one and go up from there.  Then just stack them up and you’re all taken care of. Plus, if they aren’t too full of heavy toys, they actually become a toy themselves that your kids will enjoy stacking and using.

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Humvee Toddler Bed with Toy Box

If you want a two-in-one option for your toddler’s room, this is the perfect choice for car lovers.  It’s a bed and toy chest in one, wrapped up in a cute package. It’s absolutely adorable and totally functional. And it’s not that crazy hard to build. You just need access to some basic cutting tools and other common supplies.

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Ultimate Toy Storage

So this one is pretty much the ultimate in toy storage. You’ve got slots for your storage bins, a section for those stuffed animals, shelves for games and books, and a desk top your kid can use for playing, coloring, or working on homework. You’ll need a Kreg jig, circular saw, and miter saw and drill, plus the wood supplies and fasteners.

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Stackable Wooden Toy Bins

These attractive wooden toy bins are the perfect organizer for the family who has a “public” play area. They’re easy to build, really attractive, and easy to customize for your space. You can make as many as you need to stack up as much as you want. To make these beautiful bins, you’ll need a sliding miter box saw, a table saw, some wood glue, nails and a nail gun, sandpaper, mending plates, and a screwdriver.

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Recycled Old Tire Toy Shelves

For the fans of the upcycling/recycling movement, you’ll love this project. Not only does it reuse something that would otherwise stink up the landfills and worsen the environment, but it’s really cheap, fun, and unique for the kids’ play area. You’ll need an old tire, pine board, Panhead screws, quick-dry gray paint primer – for plastic – and quick-dry spray paint – also bonds to plastic – in your color choice.

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Light-Up Truck Grille Toy Organizer

Here’s the perfect choice for the child who loves cars and trucks. Not only will it help the kids display their favorite toys, but it incorporates elements of a real truck into the décor for that unique touch the child will be thrilled to use and show off to all her friends. You’ll  need some screws, anchors, shelf hangers, headlamps that fit, wood board, long bolts, and some basic tools, including a blow torch.

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Personalized Wooden Toy Box

This beautiful toybox is perfect for the child who loves personalization and pretty things.  The wooden box is designed fairly simply but incorporates special details that take it from plain to dazzling and fun. You’ll need a miter box and fine-tooth handsaw, a circular saw, drill, sander, and basic safety gear.

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Wood Blocks  Toy Box

Well, this toy box is the blending of the toy with the storage needed for those blocks into one fun organizing unit. You’ll be able to customize it perfectly for your child’s name and favorites, too. To make this one, you won’t need extensive woodworking knowledge, but you will need a miter saw, cordless drill, rotary sander, and other basics like clamps, wood boards, quarter round molding, and transparent plastic letter-sized sheets.

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Comics Chalkboard Toy Box

If your kid loves comic books and drawing, this is the perfect toybox for your home. It combines upcycling of old comic books – double-check the value on them before you cut them up, though! – and a chalkboard top into a super fun toybox for the kiddos. You’ll need a circular saw or drop saw, a drill, orbital sander, and basic painting supplies.

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Toy Box  and  Desk Combo

This unique toybox and desk combination is a beautiful design that doesn’t look like anything else you’ve seen. It uses a unique open-square design that’s absolutely beautiful. And then mixes in the functionality of the desk and toybox to help your growing child get and stay organized. To make this, you’ll start with a HOL storage box, some planed softwood, and basic fasteners.

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Lego Table and Storage Center

Got a billion Legos lying around the house? Wish your kid had someplace specific to play with them and keep them? Then this is the project for you. It combines the fantastic storage with an open workspace for easy fun building off the floor – hopefully saving your feet from the painful little blocks. To make this, you’ll upcycle some Ikea products – the Lack table and Trofast bins – and combine them with some Lego base plates.

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Galvanized Toy Tub Bench

This is a super cute, multi-functional toybox that your kids will love using in their rooms.  You’ll convert an old galvanized tub into a toy bin that also works as a soft bench for sitting or a stool for adding a little height in the bathroom, or wherever your child needs a boost. You’ll just need the supplies – the galvanized tub, some plywood and lumber, upholstery foam, and furry fabric – and a Jigsaw.

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Personalized Transfer Toy Box Makeover

This is the perfect upgrade for your basic toybox into something beautiful and unique. So, whether you’ve got an old toybox that needs a makeover, a cheap toybox that just isn’t that good looking, or you just want to make the box personalized, this project is for you. You’ll need a toybox, some sandpaper, transfer paper, and some Chevron fabric.

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