Being a mother and childminder I need to keep an area of the garden just for play! Dadar and I created a safe area within our large garden by fencing it of from the veg patch, greenhouse, chickens etc. We erected a swing (which was being thrown out by my Mum's neighbour!) but that was it for a while.
The Chicken Child has lots of outside toys including a fantastic tipi (a Christmas present from Grandma) and a Little Tykes car (a Birthday present from Grandpa).
The children's garden was alright, safe, but a bit boring. I bought a large, shallow trug and filled that with sand. Next I created a digging area by removing some turf, this was instant success with CC and all his friends love to dig and get messy when they come over. It's now baked solid thanks to all this hot weather we've been having so tomorrow I will have to address this! I Found this great example of a digging/growing area and will be taking some ideas from there.
I created a jumping mound, this was also instantly loved. The children use it exactly as I thought they would, with imagination! One moment they're climbing and jumping, the next they are sliding. Sometimes it's a horse others it's a castle, an 8yr old I care for saw it and decided it was a trench! He's been studying the World Wars and is a tad obsessed at the moment.
I would like to make the area more interesting and so over the next week I will be;
- exploring different ways of breaking up the space
- creating shelters, dens and hiding places
- developing a growing area and other points of interest.
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