Our potty seat picture frame makes a great baby shower gift or toilet training memento. (Especially if the photo is of toilet training!) As an added bonus, you can be relatively sure that no one else has a frame just like it!

It does require a few rudimentary tools - a drill, some sort of saw and a screwdriver - but it's fast and super easy to make.

Supplies

• Garden variety baby toilet seat (you can substitute a regular adult-sized one if desired)
• Two pieces of thin acrylic or other clear plastic large enough to cover the hole in the seat
• Picture hanger
• Three or four short, relatively small-diameter wood screws. (The seat may already have some; see the flange removal step below.)
• Drill
• Drill bit slightly wider than the screws
• Saw suitable for sawing acrylic (coping saw, band saw, scroll saw ...)

Remove flange

There may be some variation between toilet seats, but most will have a flange which holds the baby seat in place when it's placed atop an adult seat.

If yours is similar, start by removing the screws which hold the flange onto the toilet seat. Be sure to save the screws - you'll need them in a later step.

Mark the acrylic

• Sandwich the two pieces of acrylic together and tape them together on three or four sides.
• Lay the acrylic on the back of the toilet seat.
• Mark the position of the toilet seat's existing screw holes on the acrylic.
  Note:
  • The position of the existing holes may not be suitable for the size and shape of your photo. If not, simply drill ones that are more suitable through both the acrylic and the back of the potty seat.
• Drill holes in the acrylic.
• Mark where excess acrylic, if any, must be removed, and saw it off.
  Notes:
  • If excess acrylic will not show when the seat is turned facing right side up, you can skip this step.
  • We made our cut curved, but you don't have to.
  • We used a band saw, but many other types of saws would work just as well. You may also be able to pay to have this done at a lumber yard, hardware store, or plastics fabrication place.
• Remove the tape from the sides of the acrylic.

Finishing the seat back

• Attach a picture hanger to the top of the seat.
• Sandwich the photo between the two sheets of acrylic and screw the acrylic to the seat.
  • The shot at left shows that we put the screws directly through the photo. Obviously if the photo is an heirloom or otherwise irreplaceable you won't want to do that.

The finished picture frame

This is truly a one-of-a-kind memento that will prove embarrassing for years!