A children's playground is considered an important element of every modern suburban area if the younger generation lives on the territory. Purchasing swings and similar attributes is not a cheap pleasure.
It is much easier and more affordable to build a playground from scrap materials with your own hands. Let's talk about this issue in more detail.
Design process
The most important condition for creating a playground for children is to carry out the design in such a way that the structure is reliable and also as safe as possible in use.
In addition, when deciding on the construction site of the site, you need to focus on a place with excellent visibility.
In addition, the idea for a playground should not include the installation of wires and various traumatic angles at the site of children’s games. Also, the site should not be located next to a pool or river.
The place for games should be as level as possible, equipped with a soft surface that can minimize the risk of injury during an accidental fall.
When choosing a suitable material for decorating a playground, opt for natural solid wood, which is harmless, practical, and easy to use.
Wood is also easy to process, making it possible to build any structure from it.
By painting wood crafts for the playground in a variety of shades, you can get an attractive area for active play for your children.
It is preferable to initially develop the corresponding drawings on a sheet of paper. In the design documentation, be sure to indicate the expected dimensions of the parts that are planned to be placed on the site. Also determine the optimal inclined angle of the children's slide and, of course, the height.
Playhouse
Children often like to be alone, so it’s a good idea to complement playgrounds with a house, even a very small one.
Simple playhouse For older children, you can raise the house higher. A playhouse high above the ground is every child's dream
If you wish, you can even build such a miracle!
A cute little house will decorate your dacha. It’s as easy as shelling pears to build similar houses - if you have the desire! And how to build a more solid children's house made of wood, read the article “Do-it-yourself children's house.”
You can also choose slides and playground houses in our market. Take a look at the selection of slides and playhouses for children.
Without brand Children's slide Plastic 112x65x67 cm RUB 1,899
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Children's house Magical House 102x109x90.2 cm Children's house Magical House 102x109x90.2 cm RUB 3,999
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Optimal ideas
When choosing a suitable design idea for a country playground, it is important to focus on the child’s age, as well as the characteristics of the location of the structure. Basically, the main element of the playground is a swing, a sandbox, and a slide.
In addition, you can build a small fairy-tale house and small slides. Simply put, every element of a children's playground should be interesting for kids.
Slide
Probably, not a single children's playground in the country would be complete without a comfortable slide. I note that making a safe children's slide yourself is not so easy. Here it is necessary to take into account a lot of nuances: carefully polish the surface, strengthen the supports well, provide strong railings and sides. Children's slides with different types of ramps. Therefore, I advise you to still buy a factory product - fortunately, there is a huge selection on sale! And if you still decide to build a slide with your own hands, then at least buy a ready-made ramp for it.
DIY photo of the playground
Basic designs
Having decided on the content of the site, you need to choose a suitable place for it. It should be:
- clearly visible from home so that children’s games can be monitored;
- safe, located away from wells, reservoirs, and electrical equipment. And also from the beds that kids can trample in the excitement of play;
- spacious enough to accommodate everything planned.
If there is not much space, the gaming complex is made compact by combining several elements into one. For example, you can build a house on high supports, adding a ladder on one side, installing a slide on the other, and making a sandbox under it.
Advice! This arrangement of the sandbox will solve two more problems: it will protect the sand from rain and excess dampness, and the kids from the scorching sun. In any case, its long-term exposure must be limited by arranging this element in the shade of a tree, equipping it with an umbrella or canopy.
Sandbox-ship with a canopy Source domnomore.com
See also: Catalog of family house projects
Sandbox
This is the simplest design that anyone can do. The traditional option is a square or rectangular box made from boards. With a little imagination and changing the shape, the sandbox can be turned into a boat, a car or a house.
There are several nuances in making this game element:
- Having marked the place for the sandbox, you need to remove the fertile layer of soil from it so that weeds do not grow through the sand;
- so that water does not stagnate in the sand, the area is deepened to 20-30 cm, a pit is made in the middle and covered with gravel, and the bottom of the sandbox is made with a slight slope towards the pit;
- it can be covered with geotextile or film, having previously made slits in it for water drainage.
The easiest way is to connect the sides of the sandbox using corner bars. Additional rigidity of the structure will be given by triangular gussets at the corners, which will also serve as comfortable seats for children.
Homemade sandbox from boards Source koffkindom.ru
When thinking about how to make a playground with your own hands from scrap materials in the yard, you don’t have to use new building materials to make a sandbox. For this purpose, log cuts left over from the construction of a bathhouse, or old car tires are suitable.
Hemp treated with protective impregnation is simply dug in around the perimeter of the sandbox and tied along the internal contour with tarpaulin or plastic tape.
Sandbox made from wood cuts Source cs8.pikabu.ru
Tires are used differently depending on the size. If you have a large wheel from a tractor or truck, just cut off the inside of it and sand the cut or put a garden hose cut lengthwise on it.
A tire painted in bright colors is impossible to recognize Source b-online.ru
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Tires of small diameter are cut crosswise into 2 or 3 parts and dug into the ground vertically or laid in the shape of a flower, fastening the individual elements to each other. The result is soft sides that are pleasant to sit on and on which you cannot get hurt.
Advice! Children's sandboxes often become a latrine for their own and neighbor's cats. Therefore, you need to build a cover for them or sew an awning.
Swing
If there is no mature tree on the site with thick branches on which to hang a swing, supports with a crossbar are built for them. The material for them can be steel pipes, wooden beams with a cross-section of at least 10x10 cm, or logs of the same or slightly larger diameter.
The main thing is to ensure the stability of the supports, for which they are buried 50-80 cm into the ground and concreted.
U-shaped support for a swing Source moydomik.net
Children's playground with ready-made kits
A children's playground can also be made from purchased exercise equipment. In various stores you can find many designs that are made for installation on playgrounds. Here you can find houses and slides, swings and rope ladders. Installing a children's playground in the courtyard of a private house is not difficult if you have ready-made kits.
The main thing is to read the instructions that are issued along with the design. Exercise equipment for playgrounds must be installed on a rigid base. This requirement is specified in SNIP. Most often, purchased designs have a more attractive appearance than homemade ones. This is confirmed by numerous photographs of such products.
