Do you want to know how to make play complexes for a summer residence with your own hands? Ideas for compact and functional playgrounds will help you out. Children will be able to spend time pleasantly and interestingly in nature if adults install playgrounds for them for summer cottages. It is quite possible to make such with your own hands, showing diligence and ingenuity.
Planning a children's playground
Measure the area that you are ready to select for it. Look in advance so that there are no beds or bushes with your favorite flowers nearby, as the child will sometimes be entertained while playing active games. Then the thrown ball, the boomerang does not remember the landing.
Now transfer the dimensions to a sheet of paper, after calculating the scale. Depending on the size of the territory and the age of the children, the playground may include:
- sandbox;
- swing vertical and horizontal;
- pool;
- children's house;
- sports complex.
It is important that the children's playground for the dacha is safe. All wooden parts must be well sanded and painted so that there are no splinters. Younger children will be interested in tinkering in the sandbox, and older children - to play in a house, which for such children can be built on the ground or low on a tree, on uneven beams. But in any case, swimming in the pool should only be under the supervision of an adult. Therefore, it must be placed in such a way as to be able to observe the reservoir or covered with durable "covers" made, for example, of plywood, plastic. To prevent the child from having access to water outside of school hours.
Once everything is carefully planned and thought out, determine what materials you need. Purchase them or get them “from stocks” and get down to interesting work.
How to make an open sandbox with your own hands?
When equipping it, one must not forget that a child can be under the sun only in the morning and after 4 pm. Therefore, it is better to shade over it in the form of a fungus, a canopy, or install a sandbox under a tree so that a shadow falls here in the middle of the day.
But if this place is located in a small lowland, and children, playing with the sand, often pour water on it, be prepared for the fruit tree to get wet and die. Therefore, it is better to build a sandbox under a moisture-loving shrub, for example, under a viburnum, and form it in the form of a tree, removing excess lateral branches and shoots. If forest trees grow on the site, you can install such a place for games under them.
Before making a sandbox, decide whether it will be open (under the canopy of a tree) or closed. Below is a simple example of the first option.
Here are the materials you need to use for it:
- pebbles, rubble or rubble;
- 4 bars;
- boards;
- timber;
- corners;
- nails or screws;
- antiseptic impregnation or paint.
To make the sandbox an even rectangular shape, drive in 4 pegs in the corners, pull the rope around the perimeter. If it is a square, the sides must be the same size. If a rectangle - 2 parallel sides will be equal. The diagonals should also be the same, check this also with the tensioned ropes.
Now, under this rectangle, dig a hole 30–40 cm deep. We lay it down for drainage and so that the sand does not "go" deep into pebbles, rubble or small gravel. Next, remove the pegs in the corners, drive in the bars instead. Pre-sand them and other wooden components of the sandbox, walk over them with impregnation or paint, and let dry.
If you are using oil paint, be prepared to sand the old paint and re-coat it every spring or year. The impregnation is more durable. Now nail 4 thick boards horizontally between the bars, laying them on their side. A bar can be used instead. Further, boards are stuffed flat on top, which will become benches. There can be 1–4 of them.
It remains to fill in the sand and admire what a beautiful children's playground for the summer cottage you get. If you want to put here an original sandbox in the form of a ship - this is also in your hands!
Closed sandbox "Korablik" in the country
It consists of:
- four wide and four small boards;
- two beams;
- 4 screws with a ring;
- fabrics;
- ropes;
- crossbeams;
- bolts and nuts.
To make a sandbox for children in the shape of a ship, take 2 wide boards, saw off their smaller sides so that the upper corners are 45 °. These two boards must be the same size as the other two. On the latter, we leave all the corners at 90 °. Now make holes with a drill to attach the short side boards to the long front ones, thread the bolts here, tighten the nuts.
If you want your sandbox to be portable, then don't drive the beams into the ground. In this case, if necessary, several people can move it to another place. Measure the width from side to side to determine the length of the bar. While the planks are parallel to the ground, attach the bar perpendicular to them.
Also make a hole with a drill in the bar and in the appropriate places in the long wide board, which is the side of the boat, match, fix the parts with bolts and nuts. Attach the second bar to the second side in the same way.
Nail small boards on the sides of the sailboat, which will also become a bench for children. Drive the sharp edges of the clamps into the corners, threading the rope through the rings. Place a rectangle of fabric over the bar and attach the top ends of the pieces of string to it.
To prevent the sand from going deep, and the sandbox would be mobile, attach plywood to the bottom. You can use geotextiles together. Here is what a wonderful sandbox for a summer residence you have turned out.
How to make a swing in the country?
While the child is small, he needs to make a seat and supporting sides on all four sides. To make them, prepare:
- 5 wooden planks measuring 33 x 4 x 1.7 cm (length, width, thickness) (A);
- 2 wooden planks 27 x 3.5 x 1.7 cm (B);
- self-tapping screws;
- other braided rope;
- 3 planks 33 x 2 x 1.7 cm (H);
- 2 planks 27 x 2 x 1.7 cm (D);
- 2 rings;
- bars with holes in the center.
Here's how to make a swing. We start with the seat. Place 5 planks measuring 33x4x1.7 cm, marked as "A" in the list of necessities, parallel to each other. To fasten them, we put one and the second planks measuring 27x3, 5x1, 7 cm perpendicularly from the right and left edges (B). We fasten each one firmly with self-tapping screws.
Now you need to make 4 holes in the corners of the seat with a drill of sufficient thickness. They will be cross-cutting. Do the same on narrow boards, marked as "V", "G". Now place them, as in the photo, so that there are 2 boards "B" on the back of the seat, in front - one of the same, from one and the other side, one "G". Cut 2 identical ropes, put on a ring on each, fold in half. Thread the bottom edge of the ropes through the holes in the planks. Put wooden blocks on the ropes, their height should be the same. You can use hollow plastic parts instead of bars. Tie the ropes at the bottom tightly, at least 3 knots.
After you have made the swing, you need to hang them in the country. You can attach doors, verandas in the opening, or weld a support from three metal pipes (2 vertical and one transverse) and drive it into the ground. You can make such a base from a bar.
Swings for older children will be without seat dividers. For such, it is enough to have in stock:
- planed board;
- rope;
- 2 metal rings.
We drill 4 holes in the board - at its corners. We pass the rope, the ends of which must be carefully tied, after putting on 2 rings, for which we hang the swing.
If you have a welding machine, iron pipes, and you want to know how to make a swing, drawings will help you with this.
For them to be stable, their "legs" must be buried in the ground. The seat and backrest are made of a wooden picket fence, which must be attached to a pre-welded metal base.
A swing made of metal can be installed in another way. The pipes are welded as shown in the drawing. The best ground contact is achieved by securing the lower boom to the ground with anchor bolts.
If you are limited by the size of the territory, then make a small playground for children. There will also be a swing, but also a Swedish wall. A drawing of this structure will help make a children's complex.
Children will like not only vertical but also horizontal swing. Making them even easier. If you have uprooted a tree or have small logs from sawing windows in a newly built house, place one on the ground and a wide board on top of it. Nail it to the block in the center, and your DIY garden swing is ready.
Children's houses for summer cottages
It's good if there is enough space in the corner for children in nature for such a building. Here, the guys will be able to hide in the heat, play comfortably.
Such a house is made with your own hands, like an ordinary large one, but in miniature. For him, take:
- timber 100x100 mm and 50x50 cm;
- floorboard;
- lining;
- paint;
- fittings (door hinges, handle);
- nails.
Road tiles can act as a foundation. After all, the structure is not heavy and will not go into the soil. But you can also fill in a shallow strip foundation made of cement, sand and gravel.
Now we lay 4 beams horizontally on the foundation, sawing out their ends so that when one is applied to the other, the surface is even. We fix these places with screws or nails, and for strength - also with corners.
Further, we put a planed beam of the same thickness in the corners of the just made wooden base, and also fix it with screws and corners. Now you need to fill the floorboard. If the house is large, then first put the logs so that the floor does not "play" when walking and is strong.
Where there will be a window, put vertical bars with a cross section of 50 cm on both sides of it. Do the same with the place where the door is planned, depending on its weight, you can put a bar of this or a slightly larger section.
For the roof, we saw off the ends of the thick boards at an angle of 45 °. We attach them in pairs, placing them on a narrower side. We fill the boards from above, cover them with roofing material. It can be soft tiles that are lightweight. We make a country house for children further.
Cover the walls with clapboard or plank, put a window, secure it. Attach hinges to the door, a handle, hang it. You can put a decorative fence around the building, a garden figurine of a dog, and call a joyful daughter for a housewarming.
A spacious town for children
If there is not enough space, pay attention to children's playgrounds for summer cottages, which take up little space, but are very functional.
As you can see, there is a place for a sandbox on the lower “floor”. Upstairs there is a small house for children. From it they get onto a slide, from which they slide down with pleasure. On the right - on a strong beam, a swing is fixed. There is a rope ladder on the left, which you can climb freely.
The basis of the structure on the left and in the center on the right is vertical wooden beams, which must be dug into the ground and securely fixed. On the right, the beams are installed at an acute angle to each other, fixed at the top with washers and bolts. At the bottom, they are connected by transverse boards.
You can make these children's playgrounds for summer cottages yourself. The video will show you how to make a swing.
