Ich möchte einen wirklich coolen natürlichen Spielgarten für die Kinder schaffen. Wahrscheinlich haben Sie die normalen Sachen wie ein Trampolin und eine Schaukel. Ich suche aber nach coolen natürlichen Spielideen zum Thema des Fotos aus diesem RHS-Artikel. Irgendwelche Ideen, idealerweise günstig, es wird jedoch ein gewisses Budget dafür vorhanden sein. Irgendwelche Empfehlungen für die Beschaffung von Materialien hierfür? (Rinde für Boden, Baumstümpfe, Stöcke usw.)
Von: Present-Beautiful225
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Depending on what’s near you, you might find parks, forests or reservoirs or places like that to grab lots of sticks and things. We recently walked through a local reservoir that is absolutely covered in fallen trees, sticks, bark and all sorts and took a nice collection of all of the above to make a bug hotel in the garden!
Make sure it’s been dry for a good few days first and check if it’s okay to take things, generally things like nature reserves and such probably wouldn’t love you grabbing bits.
Alternatively, know any local gardeners or keep an eye on Facebook for anyone trimming trees (more likely to be in the spring I’d imagine) where you’d be helping by taking some offcuts. I had to prune a few apple trees and an ash and i used most of the sticks to create a cover for me to sit under and watch birds and some of the thinner ones as plant supports.
One thing to note, depending on the age/sturdiness of your kids:
I personally wouldn’t have giant rhubarb and ferns in my kids play area. From experience, they really enjoy getting hands on with the fauna, often pruning, ripping, and making pretend food. So I stick to stuff that’s non toxic, fast growing, and not thorny.
I start with that as a pre-requisite for choosing plants and work from there.
If you can’t find enough limbs/sticks to make this shelter, you might be able to source some thicker, longer bamboo poles to use. Lash them together at the top and weave flexible willow withies in and out of the bamboo poles.
I’ve used bamboo conical or pyramidal frames to make kids dens, outdoor Xmas trees (string solar lights around them). Bamboo is a great building material because it’s pretty weather resistant for a few seasons, it’s straight and you’re not depleting woodland of sources of insect habitats.
I used the same RHS garden as inspiration for creating something for my kids! Mine isn’t quite as natural-looking because, well, I don’t have RHS level time and resources… but I’m happy with it so far (only 2nd year) and I’m improving it each year.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/8J8nWg7
I dug down 15 cm in the shadiest part of our garden, used steel edging (I wanted something that would last) and filled with play-grade wood chip – this stuff: https://www.oakleyturf.com/product/play-grade-chip
The area was already mostly planted around already, but I’m adding more ferns and other evergreens as it matures. I’ve also added a whisky barrel pond this year, and expanded one of our borders to then put a chip path down the middle of it which leads to the play area.
As my kids get a bit bigger I will add some stuff like large logs or rocks to sit and play on, and hopefully the space can mature with them (only 1 & 4 yrs atm). The wooden teepee I bought instead of making – again for longevity.
Depends where you live I guess. When we were kids (a long time ago) we were forever bringing big sticks back from woodland walks. My kids have done it too. So collecting wood isn’t too difficult. Give them an area they can really mess about with – bark chippings maybe, a little mud kitchen, some shallow pools, loads of sticks and something to make dens with. My girls wanted to buy fairies from the garden centre and place them round the pond and also sea shells – I wasn’t keen around the pond but they have them elsewhere in the garden now.
Also, a small veg patch is great for kids.