I have a 3 year old daughter, she likes to touch everything. Big Smokey can get very hot. My solution? Put wheels and a base on Big Smokey and roll her outside the fence. So here's what I did. I Picked up 2 stationery wheels and 2 rotating wheels all 3 inches in size. One 2x6x8 pressure treated piece of pine and a pint of redwood stain. I cut two 3 foot pieces and two 1 foot pieces out of the board. Placed the 3 foot pieces side by side and then screw the 1 foot pieces on each end. I then drilled 1/2 inch holes through both pieces of the wood to put bolts for the wheels in (look at the enlarged photo to see what I'm talking about). Then just bolt the two stationery wheels on one end and the two rotating wheels on the other. This lets you steer the smoker like a fork lift. Yeah, if you don't need to make Big Smokey a mobile smoker you can just use some 2x6 pieces of wood screwed to the legs so she will be a little more stable.
You can also see I left a little room at one end of the stand. I am thinking about adding a place to put a gas bottle to use for starting the wood. As of now I'm just using an old barrel to burn my wood down and add it to the smoker.