Children's age is a time of new interesting discoveries, knowledge of the surrounding world and endless movement. That is why one of the main tasks of adults should be to protect the health of the child at this age. If you want your kid to be safe and visible during your garden work, then making a playground for him with your own hands is an important and quite feasible task.
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Ideas for a children's playground
Children's playgrounds for kids and for older children differ somewhat in design, as well as in equipment used on them. So, for children from one year to seven years, a simple "mushroom" over a sandbox, a small hill and a swing, and a small "house" that is open for viewing will suffice. It all depends on your skill, the availability of building materials. And also free space.
For older children, a small pond or pool will be of interest. Also for 10-year-old children, you can easily make a maze, a table for crafts, a horizontal bar, make a flower bed, a "house" on high legs, install a trampoline, a hammock, various "lazilki" and "logs" for walking, sports equipment, depending on your imagination and other interesting details of the interior of the children's playground.
Choosing a place for a playground
Place for the children's playground should choose the safest, viewed from all sides of the site and windless. It is desirable that it was closer to the holiday home, but not under the windows (to avoid injury to broken glass). If there is such an opportunity, it is desirable that the playground was in a place sheltered from the sun. Undesirable is its proximity to the greenhouses (for the same reason as with the windows), with spiny plants and shrubs. Also check to see if there are any poisonous and dangerous to the kids babies near the playground. If so, get rid of them.
The play zone should be located as far as possible from the locations of various construction works and storage of tools. Check also whether there are any power lines or gas and water pipes near the playground.
How to make a playground for yourself
Before you can equip a children's playground with your own hands, you should compile a detailed thought-out plan and put it on paper in the form of a simple diagram. It is worthwhile to calculate in advance all material and time, as well as labor.
Of course, after choosing a suitable place for the site, it should be leveled and cleaned of anything that can prevent the kids from fully playing and developing. It should be considered what a safe and secure fence can be installed around it.
Also, you should think about the correct coverage for the game area. After all, children move much, run, they can fall and injure themselves. Therefore, they should not play on the ground, it is best to lay a safe and environmentally friendly artificial cover. If you are against any artificial coatings for a playground, and want your child to run barefoot in the open air, we advise you to plant a lawn on the place before installing the playground. There are special, resistant to trampling, varieties.
Or you can cut natural growing weeds and sprinkle loose grass areas with sand, and lay out the paths with flat stones or paving stones. Some make a cover from wooden boards. Then it is important to make sure that they, like all the wooden elements of the site, be carefully cut and polished. It is desirable to cover them from above with a frost-resistant coating, for example a special varnish. This tip is applicable to any playgrounds made of wood. It is inadmissible that a child, playing, would pierce his finger on his arm or leg.
Remember. That safety is first of all. Therefore, the pond or pond should be shallow, and the hill is not high. Instead of an artificial pond, you can simply put on the children's playground to give an inflatable pool. On both sides of the swing should be free space of at least two meters. Do not forget that the grounds of the swing should be carefully buried in the ground to a depth of at least half a meter. This rule is valid for other gaming elements of the playground (house, log, "lazilok", sandbox, etc.).
Sandbox for children's playground with their own hands
The design of a children's playground for toddlers can include the manufacture of a simple sandbox. To make it is not difficult.
To begin with, you should dig a small and shallow pit (not more than half a meter deep). It would be nice to think also of a kind of drainage system, for this purpose take the usual river pebbles (or small gravel, or butt), and fill it with the bottom of the hole dug. At the edges of the pit, in the supposed four corners of the future sandbox, in the form of a square, drive four wooden beams vertically.
Then, to these driven wedges, nail four smooth, smooth and polished wooden planks. To make shops for sitting, it is necessary on already installed wooden boards (namely on their edges), put four dostochki.
Now it remains only to fill our sandbox with a clean sand, and here - the place for exciting games is ready!
It would be nice to provide some kind of shelter from the sun over the sandbox - it could be a large umbrella, a wooden "mushroom" or just a large branchy tree, under which you can place it initially. Do not forget to give the kids some kind of a container with water for wetting sand - a small bucket is quite suitable.
And, in conclusion, a little about the design of the playground. Children love everything bright, beautiful. On an attractive playground for them, the child will play with enthusiasm, without interfering with your important work. But how can you decorate the playground with your own hands? You can color it with environmentally friendly paints. You can make decorative jewelry in the form of funny little animals from the available materials.
And you can break a small flower garden in its territory. Also today on sale you can see a lot of bright beautiful devices for the equipment of a children's playground - hills, swimming pools, horizontal bars, "mushroom-umbrellas" and much more. It all depends on your means, the desire to make your children happy and, of course, fantasies!
So, in this article we learned about how you can make a playground with your own hands. We bring to your attention a small video, where you can visually see how you can make a playground in the country with their own hands.
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