Toddler / Preschooler Garden Play Spaces Tour 2023, 2024 & 2025
- The Know & Play Space
- 13 hours ago
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2023 & 2024 is already complete. 2025 is coming asap. 2026 will be added this year!
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Happy Knowing & Playing :) - Becca
2023 Garden - 1.5 years old
2023 was the year we moved into our new house. The garden when we moved in was totally unsuitable for a toddler, with broken greenhouse parts, old, rotting vegetable beds, flint rocks everywhere... so we knew we needed to work hard, smart and fast to make it a safe space to play in! We did everything ourselves and sourced as much for free/cheap from Facebook Marketplace to make it as low cost as possible.
The barked area at the back was where the old vegetable beds and green house were - full of rotten wood, screws, flint and goodness knows what else! We dug it all out, bordered the space with wooden gravel boards and then lay black weed suppressant membrane (both from B&Q). We then covered the area with play grade bark and slabbed an area for the playhouse to sit on.
The playhouse was kindly gifted by TP Toys - it's their Lavendar Cottage which we then painted in outdoor paint and put roof felting on the roof to protect it from the elements!
All of the other pieces were DIY-ed by us. We used a pallet to create the water wall, and wooden batons to create the water and sand tables - putting big plastic tubs inside them (much cheaper than buying shop made ones!).
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