Your favorite Ceradushko will grow up, and it's time to think about a cozy orcharow corner at the cottage. And what do children love most? Of course to play! Create your little family in a kindergarten, as far as possible to take off on a swing, with delight rolling from the slide and, of course, build locks and sandbanks from the sand under the bright "fungus" sandbox. That's about the construction of a children's sandbox with their own hands, we will talk.
It would seem that there is a difficult? The sand is the sand, stalled his boards around the perimeter, crushed - the sandbox is ready! But not everything is so simple. It is necessary to take into account the many important nuances. What? Let's try to figure out.
Sandbox placement
Never hide sandbox for high bushes or housekeeping. Children should always be in sight of you, so lay it out to see your chappers playing in the sand. Try to choose such a place so that half of the sandboxes are in the sun, and half in-shadow.
To do this, it is possible to equip it with an unclausing tree, however, then you will have to regularly clean the platform from foliage and twigs. If there are no suitable places with a shadow, you can install in the sandbox "fungus" zork.
Preparation of the base of the sandbox
The size and shape of the sandbox can be arbitrary, but the standard structures for the children of 2-5 years of age are usually 1.7 × 1.7 m. Here is the stem of the sandbox and we will build.Operating procedure:
- Arm yourself with spikes, milling ribbon, cord.
- Feed the plot around the perimeter.
- Then remove the layer of the Earth 30 cm, and in the center of the sandbox, make a hole with a depth of 60-70 cm and a diameter of 40-50 cm.
- Put it off with rubble or pebbles, slightly sneak - it turns out a kind of drainage well.
- Make a small slope from sandboxes to the center. Now, after heavy rains, your sandbox will not turn into a swamp and will dry quickly.
- As a result, we got a rectangular hole of 170 × 170 × 30 cm with a slope to the center.
Base for sandbox
The base for the sandbox can be a dense polyethylene film, geotextile, paving slabs and even a regular plywood sheet with pre-made holes (for drainage).
You can not do the basis, but then over time the sand is mixed with the earth, and your babies will become inconvenient. In addition, the foundation blocks the path to the Holy Holy Children's Game Games and insect, which (oddly enough) also love sand. One nuance: The base should be laid on the pre-vacated sand "pillow" with a height of 5-6 cm.
Sandboxes
Prepare 4 bar in size 95 × 5 × 5 cm, 4 boards with a size of 150 × 30 × 2.5 cm and 4 boards for satellite-seat (they are placed on top, over the perimeter of the sandbox), carefully polish them. To do this, you can use the usual grinding nozzle on an electric drill or a grinder. Then 2-3 times handle the boards and timber oil (instead of the olifa, any antiseptic means protecting the tree from rotting) can be used.
District bars at the corners of the sandbox, blocking them by 15-20 cm, then approach them the boards. If you do not have wide boards, you can make shields from narrow, for example, take 3 boards 10 cm wide on each sandbox wall. Then around the perimeter of the sandbox, strengthen the horizontal seat overlays, which are convenient to sculpt the culberies where children will be able to rest.
Lid for sandbox
The lid for the sandbox is not a mandatory, but very desirable attribute of such a favorite children's structures. It will protect the sand from garbage from entering (dry foliage, twigs from nearby bushes and trees and so on). And most importantly - will not allow Bars and the balls to use the sandbox as a toilet tray.
You can use the awning as a cover, which will have to constantly stretch on the sandbox. And you can make the lid from the board, which is much more convenient with frequent use.
Very convenient, swinging lid for sandbox made of two shields. Shields are fasten with hinges, equipped with handles. In the deployed form, they turn into comfortable benches with backs.
This design can independently open even a small child of 4-5 years.
Decorating sandbox
There is where to raise your imagination! Color the sandbox in bright tones. You can apply on walls and sides not only colorful pictures, but also various developing drawings: letters, numbers, geometric shapes.
If you like the natural color of wood more to taste, simply process the structure with appropriate impregnations.
The main thing - the sandbox should like children!
Filling sandbox
For the filling of sandboxes, river sand is usually used (it is the cleanest) or quartz (you can buy in the store). Any sand before falling asleep in the sandbox must be sifted. And if you are going to buy a quartz, find such that contains special additives, scaring our smaller brothers. By the way, for our sandbox will need quite a lot of sand, not less than 1 ton.
And if you "include" fantasy, you can build a beautiful children's corners with sand, which will become an excellent dacha decoration. Here are some photos, perhaps some idea you take yourself a note.
Sandbox and hill are the perfect combination.
And you can build a playground from the girlfriend!
So we finished building the simplest sandbox with our own hands. You may want to improve this design, make it different shape and size, install over it all the usual "mushrooms" - experiment bolder! And maybe you have original ideas of creating unusual sandboxes with your own hands from a girlfriend? Share with us :)
