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Arrangement of a children's corner on a personal plot, how to do it correctly, filling the children's play area
Arriving at the summer cottage, the question often arises for parents: What to do with the child ?. After all, work in the country will always be found, and paying attention only to the baby is impossible.
A children's corner located on the site will be the best solution to the problem. A properly organized and equipped playground will help children to have fun and usefully. The game complex will become a child’s favorite place and decoration of a personal plot.
Content
- What to choose: a ready-made complex or a home-made site?
- Stages of creating a do-it-yourself kids corner
- We fulfill children's dreams video video
- Safety rules for children in a summer cottage
What to choose: a ready-made complex or a home-made site?
Children's game complex can be purchased ready-made, ordered in a specific configuration or built independently. As an option, you can buy ready-made items (plastic slide, swing, wall for mountain climbing) and connect them as you wish.
When buying a ready-made playground, you need to pay attention to the quality and safety of all components of the complex. Equipment for games should be stable, not have sharp corners, protruding edges and bolts. The supporting structures of the installation must be buried in the ground, and, if necessary, concreted.
It should be noted that ready-made children's corners for summer cottages are identical in their configuration with complexes located in the yard or park. Therefore, the child can quickly get bored with climbing and riding on a site familiar to him.
A do-it-yourself children's corner on the site has several advantages:
- money saving ready-made complexes are expensive, and it will be possible to equip a children's town independently with the help of improvised materials;
- introducing the child to work, the kid will participate with pleasure in creating his own playground;
- the ability to fully control the strength of the assembly structure;
- placement on the site of gaming zones, different in content.
Of course, it will take more time to independently arrange the site than to buy ready-made models. However, the result of painstaking work will long delight children, parents and guests of the cottage.
Stages of creating a do-it-yourself kids corner
site selection and site preparation
The arrangement of the children's corner should begin with the search for the optimal location for the site, adhering to important criteria and tips:
- the game complex should not be located under the scorching sun (the optimal location is the southwestern side of the site);
- well, if there is a large tree near the site, the crowns of which protect from wind and sun (to protect from wind, you can install a hedge of climbing plants);
- it is not advisable to place a children's corner in a cottage in a lowland or on the northern slope (dampness after rain lasts longer);
- the place should be well visible so that parents can watch the games of children from the window of the house and from different points of the site.
Once you have decided on the location of the site, you need to restore order in the allotted territory. The surface should be as flat as possible, without stones, gravel and objects that could be injured.
As a flooring, you can use sand or special screenings (grains are not sharp and larger than sand grains).
A green lawn is suitable for the smallest summer residents well-kept lawn. The grass mixture to be sown must be thick and strong (varieties suitable for sports lawns are suitable).
You can add brightness and ensure safety in the children's play area by laying multi-colored mats based on rubber crumb. Such a coating is laid even on embossed surfaces and has good water permeability.
division of the complex into game zones
In order for children's entertainment to be interesting and bring not only joy, but also benefit, it is necessary to take care of different game zones.
The following children's play areas can be equipped:
- sports;
- entertaining;
- cognitive;
- labor.
In the sports area, you can place various bars, horizontal bars, hang a basketball hoop or dart board. School children will be happy with a homemade tennis table.
The entertainment area may include a swing (stationary or mobile), a rope ladder, bungee or hanging tires. Indispensable attribute of the playground sandboxin which kids can play for hours, creating castles and towns.
A child’s acquaintance with nature will be more fruitful if a young botanist is allocated a small bed for planting plants. The kid will be happy to observe the growth of self-planted crops, and take care of them.
Where else, no matter how in the suburban area to teach children to work? Children love to feel like adults and carry out important tasks. In the play corner you can allocate a place for a children's workshop. It can be a small table, a box with the necessary (children's) tools and improvised materials (plywood, boards, pegs, ropes).
selection of materials and filling a children's corner
When arranging the game complex, all kinds of materials can be used: bars, steel pipes, boards, old tires, ropes, ropes and more.
You can build a horizontal bar from steel pipes. If the child is still small, then the horizontal bar can be used as a support for mobile swings. A rope ladder made of a rope and wooden beams can be hung on it.
Using an old tire and rope, you can create an interesting hanging swing. In addition, the tires dug into the ground at a short distance from each other will be kind of horses for kids to jump on.
All the elements of the slide can be made independently, except for the ramp it is better not to risk it and purchase a ready-made ramp (plastic).
To create a sandbox, you need planed boards. The size of the sandbox depends on the number of children in the family (average dimensions 2.5 square meters), the height of the sides is about 25 cm. In order for the sand to remain dry and clean, it is necessary to provide flooring on the sandbox. It can be either a special cover (made of wood, plastic) or cellophane, which can be used to cover the sand after the game.
We fulfill children's dreams
When wondering how to design a children's corner, parents often want to create something special that would take kids from reality to the fairy world.
You can implement the most unusual ideas for a children's corner by arranging a theme area. For instance, make a sandbox in the form of a pirate ship with sails and equip it with a real compass.
If the area of \u200b\u200bthe site allows, then you can install a children's house a real treasure for any child. The assortment of finished houses is very large, it is both plastic and wooden models; for boys and for girls. Having skills in construction, you can create a home with your own hands from a wooden frame.
An alternative to the house is an improvised hut made of twigs and branches or an ordinary tourist tent.
Well, and which of the children does not dream of their own treehouse? If there is an opportunity (experience in assembling wooden structures, material, time), a worthy tree with strong trunks and a great desire, then you can build an air castle yourself.
Young car enthusiasts will appreciate a car or motorcycle made from boards and tires, but with a real steering wheel.
Safety rules for children in a summer cottage
The final stage in the arrangement and design of the children's corner is checking the site for safety.
- Between the game complex and the reservoir (including the fountain pool) there should be a fence (net or fence).
- Screws and nails should not peek out from the structures, and the joints should be constantly checked and have a reliable fastening.
- Plants with poisonous seeds (broom, juniper, hellebore) should not be planted near a children's corner.
- It is highly undesirable to have glazed greenhouses near the site, or glass structures should be unbreakable and shatterproof.
- Most of the elements of the playing area can be done independently (sandbox, swing, decor, rope ladders, bungees, wheels, etc.), but it’s best to entrust the production of some (a ramp for a slide, a climbing wall) to professionals.
- Please note that garden tools (scythes, rakes, shovels, saws, stepladders) are not lying around the site.
A well-equipped playground will give children the joy of hanging out on the street, and adults will give them the opportunity to work effectively or relax without worrying about their kids.
