I am now working on a toddler moon bed. The basic design has been around for some time and seems to be popular with the pallet furniture crowd, which typically fashions the bed out of salvaged wooden pallets planks attached to a frame cut from 3/4″ plywood. Instead, this version will include a bent laminate frame. I am doing this because, first, plywood is not engineered to take screws or nails on edge and, second, I do not believe that plywood can withstand the lateral forces an energetic toddler might impose while being a little monkey… and all kids like being monkeys from time to time. The sides will be made using new #1 and #2, 1/2″ pine boards. I am also distorting the overall crescent shape to bring the mattress lower to the floor, as, in my experience, toddlers tend to be short and are known to fall from the bed while playing every now and then. Along the same lines, this version will allow the child to enter the bed from the foot without risk of bruising his shins.
