What do you have in your backyard for the littlies?
Okay, so starting to want to have more fun things to keep the kids amused outside. What exciting things do you have in your backyard - cubby, sandpit, swing/slide set, table and chairs.....hit me with your ideas, cheap or not so cheap....
We have 2 plastic kitchens (both found on the side of the road!) with lots of wooden spoons, bowls etc from op shop,s wheelbarrows, one of those plastic climbing cubbies but it hardly gets used, and a sand/water table that gets used the most. I want to get a cubby too but we are planning our yard first to see where it will go. Mine both love swings so I have deliberately not got one for the yard so that the park is a fun thing to do!
Mine love to get dirt, sand and water and mix it up with lawn clippings - and then make mud cakes. Hours of fun and it's cheap!
ALso have bikes, scooters, a trampoline, balls and trucks that all get used a lot!
We have a cubby with a kitchen inside, dolls pram, cradle etc. We have a swing set, sandpit which gets the most use and a large bird avery with a few guinea pigs in it which the kids also love getting inside to play with them. They also have one of those things with the tennis ball on the stick which they hit with the rackets. They love that also. They also love making mud pies and stealing my kitchen utensils.
We have a swing/slide set that has room for both kids at once, a sandpit and a trampoline. I can usually spend about an hour at a time out there rotating between activities. When the weather gets better we have soccer goals and some cones for them to kick a ball around and we have a little picnic table so they can eat lunch out there in the summer.
Oooh we have a tennis ball on a stick! Key with that if you have little ones is one bat at a time or else it becomes "hit your brother on the head with a bat accidentally
My backyard looks like a childcare centre.
We have a cubby on stilts with a sandpit underneath and a slide attached. The sand is strewn for metres either side. It's on this weird gravel driveway (we're in company housing), and Nate has as much enjoyment from carting gravel in his bid dump trucks as he does from the sandpit. We have a swing set adaptable for different ages. We have a trampoline but due to the heat here that only gets used half the year.
We have a vege patch they're allowed to play in and a bit of dirt set aside for them to dig and mix in.
We have a sand and water table that's used for all sorts of things not just sand and water.
They have a table and chairs but they also have an art table that's a bit higher and used for making/painting under the verandah
They have their bikes/scooters/gyrobikes (very cool and a great toy)/skateboard etc that they can ride under the verandah
totem tennis
bucket of large chalk
Cubby house on stilts with a slide attached to it
Sandpit
Tub of different sized balls
Plastic golf club set
Bikes
Cosy Coupe' (imitation one)
Skipping rope
Trampoline
I have a sandpit shell which is in hibernation for winter and until last weekend that was it! I just bought a swing which dd puts the toys in. It's hanging from a giant peach tree in our tiny backyard. I want to build a platform in the tree and attach some climbing things so the tree can become a cubby for her. My parents want to get a proper cubby house for us, but the yard is so tiny I'm not sure where it would go.
Cakes and mud pies are a year round hit for us...I would love a toy kitchen to go with it all!
plastic play fort with slide - one of the ones you can connect the hose to.
inflatable swimming pool which doubles as a ball pit in bad weather
vegie patch with some space for her to do whatever she wants
couple of little bikes and prams in the shed that come out when she wants them
ummmm
footballs, soccer ball
soon to be added - totem tennis (she's not quite old enough yet)
trampoline (at Christmas)
we have water features that she can play in (shouldn't, but she does - we just make sure she is supervised)
and we have a couple of tables out the back - we set one up as a craft table for paints, playdoh etc
ETA - her fave "game" is to garden with daddy - which involves lots of dirt, mud, water, rocks - anything she can do to help him out - and make a mess of course!
she has her own little wheelbarrow, but doesn't see the point - it's not big enough to do anything - she'd rather ride on top of the dirt on daddy's barrow!
Moo has a sand & water table, swing plus little trikes & Cozy Coupe car. Come Christmas time he will also have a little pool & mesh sided trampoline as well as a plastic jungle gym thing with a slide. We're going to attach a big chalkboard to the side of the house at some point.
we have a trampoline, a slippery slide that i sometimes set up so we can slide into the blow up water pool (hot here in darwin), a sandpit with lots of digging things, watering cans (kids size, tonka trucks, old baby bath (filled with water) a water dolly, a wash cloth and old pump bottle with soap to wash the babies, diggers for the sandpit, balls and bats, and bikes/trikes. oh i also have an easel that we painted with blackboard paint.
i also want some climbing frames and walking planks and a cubby with a play kitchen, but our yard is not very big so waiting to move for these things
What do you have in your backyard for the littlies?
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