Learn how to build a tree house or backyard in your country house. There are also simpler options - a wigwam made of slats and fabric and a tent for children from the same materials. The kids need their own place to play. For this, children's houses are perfect, which you can build with your own hands. If this seems difficult to you, then see how to make a wigwam. You can install this not only in the country, but also at home.
Children's wooden house
The children will be simply delighted if you build such a convenient and beautiful structure for them on your personal plot.
On hot days, a pleasant coolness will reign here. Children can relax and play plenty. Inside, you will place a table, chairs, and a toy rack. A doll's bed, a children's stove will also find a place here.
To erect such a structure, you will need:
- bars for the bottom strapping, for rafters and for floor logs with a section of 50–70 mm;
- boards for the floor, walls, roof battens;
- 4 windows;
- one door;
- balusters for the terrace;
- railings;
- roofing material;
- nails;
- self-tapping screws;
- corners;
- hammer;
- saw;
- screwdriver;
- dye;
- brushes;
- antiseptic impregnation.
Such children's houses are erected on a pre-arranged base of concrete, stone or paving slabs. Put four rectangular bars on it, fix them in the corners with corners and screws. In the same way, attach the floor logs here, placing them parallel to each other in increments of 60 cm.
The second half of the building is an open terrace, here you don't have to stuff logs. We continue to create a children's wooden house. Stuff boards on the floor. Then, using screws and corners, place the vertical posts. Fasten them and the horizontal ones in the places where the windows will be.
We sheathe the walls, stuff the boards horizontally here.
To make a children's wooden house further, put two bars vertically in the corners of the veranda, and put two on top. We make rafters for the roof from 6 beams, which need to be connected in pairs at an angle, fastened with wood triangles. On the veranda, nail the balusters with the same pitch, attach the railing on top.
If you have solid roofing material, then you can lay it down immediately. If not, stuff more planks onto the rafters and then cover the roof.
Place and secure windows, doors, carvings for decoration. It remains to paint the house and the veranda, after which you can celebrate a housewarming and see how happy the guys are with such a gift.
How to build a wigwam with your own hands
To create it, you do not need windows and doors, but you need a little - these are:
- 6 bars with a cross section of 50 cm;
- self-tapping screws;
- drill;
- hot glue gun;
- rope rope;
- scissors;
- roulette;
- the cloth.
For small children, you need wooden blocks 1 m 80 cm long, for large children you need to take 2.5 meters long. Having retreated from the top of each rail by 20-30 cm, make such holes with a drill so that a rope can be threaded through them, which you will do. Attach each turn to the knot.
Place the resulting structure so that there is space for the entrance in front, the bars are symmetrically located to the side and back, approximately at the same distance. To fix it, rewind it at the top with the same rope rope.
Measure with a tape measure or a measuring tape the volume of the building near the junction of the bars. Cut the first strip of fabric to this size to cover the nursery wigwam. Zigzag the ends of the canvas with scissors, attach it with a hot glue gun.
This is followed by a second wide strip of fabric. Attach it in the same way as the first, zigzag the edges.
Measure the distance between two adjacent planks to cut horizontal sides of this size from the fabric. Make curtains for the entrance. Attach all of these fabric blanks to the pieces of wood with a glue gun.
Decorate the children's wigwam with feathers, Sew on the strings so that you can fix the opened wings.
You can make a fabric cover not from pieces, but from a single piece of fabric. But to fit it under the frame, you need to cut it into large triangles corresponding to the size of each sidewall. It is necessary to grind two such blanks located at the entrance, at the top, then we leave them free so that you can move the curtains apart and enter and exit.
How to make another wigwam for children? It will require:
- 6 bamboo sticks;
- strong rope;
- the cloth;
- scissors.
Tie the sticks at the top. At the bottom, place them at the same distance, also secure with a rope.
Cut a semicircle out of the fabric according to the dimensions shown. As you can see, it is 2 meters long and 1 meter wide. Stretch the fabric over a bamboo frame, secure with a glue gun. Lay a soft rug inside so that the child is comfortable playing in such a children's house.
You can sew a round rug and lay it in the wigwam. Look at the design option for such a children's house for a girl.
If you also cover the wooden frame with fabric, you get such a children's tent house.
Let's take a closer look at how to do it. You will need:
- 4 slats 2 m 20 cm high;
- 1 with a height of 1 m 70 cm;
- two bars of 1, 5 meters;
- one - 1 m 20 cm;
- drill;
- screws with screws.
Cross four identical stands measuring 220 cm in pairs, connecting them with bolts and screws, put them opposite each other. To do this, you must first make holes with a drill, mark them with a pencil. Take the slats that go under number 3, fix the previous ones with them, put them horizontally, just above the floor. At the top, fasten the main posts to the rail number 2. To make the back wall strong, connect it with a bar, which is 120 cm in size.
But do not secure the top rail yet. From the selected fabric, cut out a rectangle measuring 450 cm by 150 cm. Find its middle to sew here a ribbon of fabric, 7 wide, 150 cm long. Put block number 2 into this drawstring so that the children's house tent holds its shape well. In the same way, you can fix the strips numbered 3 or sew ribbons to the ends of the canvas, tie them here.
If you decide, you can make a window. To do this, a rectangle is cut out on the side of the tent, two fabric ribbons are sewn on it crosswise. You can stitch a canvas at the top of the window, close it, fixing it with strings. Determine the width of the entrance curtains and sew them to the fabric sides of the tent. You will fix it with strings.
How to build a tree house?
This must be taken with full responsibility. When choosing a tree, make sure that it is healthy, not young and not old. It should have a strong trunk and roots deep enough for the tree to hold well. The most suitable species are oak, maple, apple, spruce.
It is imperative to think over safety measures: protect the open part with a railing, do not build the house too high. Place straw mats underneath if possible. If you want to build a tree house for children, and the size of the building will be standard - 2.5x2.5 m, then the trunk diameter should be at least 30 centimeters. To find out this value, wrap it with a tape measure or measuring tape. The resulting value is a circle, divide it by pi - 3, 14 cm.
Think about what the tree house will look like. It is good if its barrel is double or even triple. Then you can do without additional supports as pillars. But if the structure is bulky, then you must first dig in the wooden pillars.
If the house is of standard size, then the supports can be attached directly to the tree.
Draw a layout of the future building. Determine how the children will go upstairs, the ladder can be rope, ladder or classic. The latter option is the most preferable, especially if you enclose it with railing on both sides.
If some branches get in the way, saw them off, but first think, maybe it would be more expedient to attach elements of the house to them for greater strength of the structure. Having determined what size the building will be, how it will be attached, draw its project with dimensions and position on the tree.
If you are satisfied with this, then prepare the following materials:
- two boards of 4 meters each 250x50 mm thick;
- 6 boards of 4 meters with a section of 150x25mm;
- 6 pieces of bars 3 meters long, with a section of 150x50 mm, three bars of the same thickness, but 4 meters long;
- galvanized fasteners for beams - 8 pcs.;
- long galvanized screws with washers 4 pcs.;
- galvanized fasteners for beams - 8 pcs.;
- galvanized plates with holes - 8 pcs.;
- screws;
- nails;
- rope;
- tarpaulin;
- boards from an old fence or a new picket fence.
You will also need various construction tools, which can be seen in the photo.
Take two 4-meter boards of the largest section, they will serve as a support. How to build a tree house using them? First, attach one of these beams to one and the second bifurcated trunk, drill a hole in the bar and the tree. Drill the second. Secure these boards with screws using a wrench.
In the same way, attach the second block on the other side of the tree. If there are thick branches between the trunks, attach these boards to them as well, also drilling holes and attaching them with screws.
On two support boards, attach 4 boards perpendicularly using fasteners and a rope rope.
On both sides, you need to screw one more to the ends of these four boards to make a support platform.
Such fasteners will help to cope with the load. They must be galvanized so as not to rust from precipitation and moisture.
To make the tree house strong, install 50x100 mm slats under the support boards at an angle of 45 °. Secure with screws 20 cm long using an adjustable wrench.
To determine exactly where the cutouts for the trunk and branches need to be made on the flooring, tape the newspapers together, place them on top of the finished floor so that the size of the paper template matches it. Place the blank from the newspaper on the supports at the top, draw with a pencil where the cuts will be.
Lower the drawing down to the floor, draw the cutouts according to the template, make these holes. Number the boards, lift them up, attach on the base. We fill the boards, leaving a distance of 1 cm between two adjacent ones so that the water can drain if it rains.
Make a staircase from the remains of the planks.
Make a railing by installing vertical beams with a section of 50 × 100 mm in the corners of the platform. Cover the space under the railing with planks, plywood, or closely spaced balusters.
Install the ladder. To make a roof, measure 2 meters up from the floor level, attach two hooks. Between them you need to pull a cable, onto which a rectangle made of tarpaulin is thrown. You will fix its edges on the props that need to be attached to the railing.
Here's how to build a tree house to give your kids a wonderful place to play. Of course, it is necessary to provide all safety measures and not leave the children alone in order to be able to help at any moment.
If this idea of a house seemed complicated to you, then look at two options on how to make a wigwam, and provide your child with a similar playhouse.
Here's the first idea:
The second plot consists of 2 parts.
