How to make a playground for yourself: advice to new settlers

A picture familiar to all new settlers in Russia, regardless of the city in which they live. New house. Asphalted (not always) yard. One sandbox and several plastic devices, which the representatives of the housing and communal services proudly call the "Children's playground". And the question that tormented new settlers: "How to make a playground? With your own hands or buy it? Hiring professionals? "String" management company? "All methods are good, but the latter usually take a long time, but the result, unfortunately, does not always turn out to be qualitative: remember stories about falling football gates and collapsing slides. Therefore, you can collect not indifferent dads and grandfathers and think together with them how to make a playground with your own hands. Believe me, there are always those wishing to take part. For them, there are some tips.

How to equip a playground with your own hands without buying materials

The most suitable material, of course, is a tree. From the used boards it is possible to assemble a sandbox, build light arbours, slides, put "gymnastic" logs and stuff. But this is not the only material. To answer the question "how to make a playground with your own hands" will help old tires. From them you can get magnificent trampolines, flowerbeds, from them you can build an obstacle course and create a whole puppet town. You just need to fantasize a little, make efforts, and swans, slides, cheburashki will appear on the site. Look at this rubber man. What is not a simulator for future climbers? The advantage of skates is also that it is not as painful to fall on them as on asphalt. Decide the question "how to decorate the playground with their own hands" can also be old dishes. From a leaky enamel bowl and trimming logs you can "grow" mushrooms, plastic bottles easily turn into flowers, giraffes, other real animals. Is not the old kettle on the muzzle of an elephant? Only secure everything so that children do not get hurt.

How to make a playground with your own hands, but at a high cost

Today, many shops, where you can find ready-made children's towns in disassembled form. You can persuade neighbors to raise money for the acquisition of such a town, and then with their own hands to collect and install it. Only in this case (however, as in the construction of a site from improvised means), it is necessary to observe certain rules.

• On the site is to put a special synthetic coating or sow grass (lawn). It, certainly, should be sheared, but to fall to the kid "is more pleasant" on a grass, instead of a tile, asphalt or sand.
• It is better to choose a site that is not flooded with water and is not located close to the driveway.
• We need to take care of the drainage, so that the rainwater does not stagnate on the site, but drains from it.
• Around the area you need to plant chestnuts, willows, lilacs, Christmas trees. Planting fruit trees is not necessary, as well as "downy" poplars. Pooh can cause allergies, and unwashed fruit - a disorder of the digestive tract. Trees and a shadow will be given, and will serve as a natural fence.
• On the site is to plant flowers, they will decorate a children's town, teach children to take care of nature and develop a sense of beauty in them.
• Well, if there is an opportunity to install a canopy above the platform. It can be made from tarpaulins, but better - from inexpensive roofing materials.