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Creating our outdoor 'play based learning garden
Our outdoor play area
My children love playing outside. Over 18 months ago my children never played in the front yard, due to neighbours with teenage boys with cars and their friends with cars. When they moved out and our new neighbours, 3 children of similar ages to my boys, moved in they spend most of their time in the front yard and our cul-de-sac.
With very little time spent in the backyard, I have been trying to work out how to bring the sandpit and other play items into the front yard.
After reading a number of people's blogs over the last few weeks, I decided to create a play area in one of our overgrown front gardens. I should have taken a before shot, but I spent all day yesterday, weeding, pulling out plants, digging out roots and getting this garden ready.
This is the barren space now - there are just a few aloe vera plants to transplant, but the transformation is about to take place.
This in my head will become a great outdoor environment for the kids. I will place the sandpit here, as well as some small hills and gullies for the cars, I will move all of the rocks and create a little rock stream and will place a small water feature (that they can fill when they use it) and probably more when I think of it.
The tree at the moment has become a climbing tree for the kids and yesterday I had 6 monkeys in it so that will feature well for the play area.
This is a work in progress and I will keep you posted on the blog how it is coming along.
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