How do you change the graco 5 in 1 convertable lillian crib into a toddler bed?

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Here's the instructions for the Graco Crib that you requested :

Graco Crib Instructions

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I have this bed for my son!! i just converted it all you do is remove the hardware at the very bottom of the rail that stops the front from falling off and then remove the front piece and taadaa you have a toddler bed :)

First off...your crib is in the recall and you need to get a kit for it.

Graco-Branded Drop Side Cribs Recalled due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards

The instructions are available here

Page 12 describes how to convert it into a Toddler Bed.

sure hope this is what you're looking for...
download.gracobaby.com/ProductInstructionManuals/A-RTAUPS01-00.pdf
may your toddler sleep well.

You just take off the rail and Tada! it's a Toddler bed.
Then you can change from elmo sheets to Pokemon sheets and Tada! it's a Day/Bed. I don't know how they get away with advertising it as a 4-in-1 since there is no material difference between the daybed and the toddler bed.

Check this CPSC link.

Most if not all of the simplicity brand cribs have been recalled reguardless of whether they had wood or metal mattress supports.

There were 2 different recalls on the wood version but both were recalled for the drop-side issues.

This link specifically includes the Aspen 3 in 1 cribs and model #: 8740

We took ours to our local walmart last summer (we purchased it in a different state almost 8 years ago). I brought to cpsc report with me. They had not issue with the recalled information we has matching it to our crib. It did take the clerk a bit to find our crib in their system because it was older, but once she did we recieved a full refund, without a receipt.

As far as changing them to a toddler bed. When we converted ours to a toddler bed we simply removed the drop-side from the crib. The drop-side parts can be unscrewed from the side rails. Then we screwed the toddler rails to the bottom of the crib. Ours had screw holds for the toddler rails on the mattress support. If you do not have the holes for it, then you may have put the mattress support on backwards ie with the side that has the holes for the toddler bed rails on the backside of the crib.

If it's Graco or Simplicity brand:

You can try online at Graco's web site: http://www.gracobaby.com/CustomerService/ProductInstructions/Pages/default.aspx?page=ProdInst

Or here is Graco's contact information if you can't find it on their web site:

Postal AddressGraco Children’s
Products Inc.
Attn: Consumer Services
150 Oaklands Boulevard
Exton, PA 19341

PhoneGraco® Customer Support is available Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm EST.
800-345-4109 (US)
800-667-8184 (Canada)

Or Simplicity: http://www.simplicityforchildren.com/
Simplicity Customer Service - 1-800-858-8323, Monday thru Friday - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST
E-mail Customer Service: [email protected]

I have all the instructions posted in an album on photobucket.com. In the site only search field (not the web search) type emilykenepp and change the search criteria from images to people. This should bring you to my profile- under my albums I have an album titled Graco Lauren Crib Assembly Instructions. Click on that and you should be good to go! Pages 10 and 11 are for the conversions. Also, for any further assistance, the customer service number for LaJobi (the people who actually manufacture the crib for Graco) is 1-888-266-2848 and for Graco it's 1-800-345-4109. Hope this helps!

if you have the conversion kit for the crib to convert to a toddler bed, you should also have the white caps that go one the end of the guard rails for the toddler bed. I found with mine that they are the same ones as that are on the stationary side of the crib on the back side. if you do not mind having a crib with out a drop side you can remove both tracks and take those pieces and make it a stationary crib by merely following the way the rear side is put together. I have done it with mine as a guide was broken on mine. there should be four caps in the conversion kit that go on the two rails on the front side when you convert to a day bed. I figured out that they are the same as the ones on the back because you do actually use the ones off of the back side when you make it a toddler bed and put all four rail on.

i need to know how to get another round piece that goes into the conversion rails for the toddler bed.