Garden Toys for Summer Fun!
You don’t always need to leave home to have some Summer fun with the children. If you invest in some great garden toys you can keep them busy for hours, and ensure they get some fresh air and exercise.
Traditional toys such as swings and slides remain popular. There are many different sizes and styles available, so do make sure that you pick carefully to match the age of the children that will be playing on them, and to ensure they are robust enough.
Trampolines have really increased in popularity in the last five years or so. Do take care to consider where you will place one in your garden. Do you really have a big enough, flat surface available? All but the small junior ones come with safety enclosures. Do read the assembly and usage instructions carefully. Frequently these will say there should be only one person at a time on the trampoline, but this can be tricky to enforce.
Give them a sense of the beach by buying a sandpit. Designs vary from simple circle shaped pits, to shaped items, right through to luxury wooden models, with seats and built- in sunshade. It can be useful to have one with a lid to protect the sand from wet weather. Stores recommend that you buy special play- sand to ensure it is clean, safe and non toxic, and ideal for making sand castles with. Or perhaps you might prefer a play table that incorporates a sand area and water play?
Lots of fun can be had in a paddling pool. These range from very cheap, simple single ring designs, to those with multiple rings, rigid sides, and those incorporating slides and other activities. Ease of inflation is an important consideration when you have excited children waiting to play. Other toys that can help kids have fun with water in
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the garden include sprinklers, and of course water pistols, or as they are more commonly known these days ‘Supersoakers’.
An empty sand pit or paddling pool can also double up as a ball pool.
Or why not have your own World cup or Wimbledon, by investing in football goals or tennis equipment?
If you only have a small garden or limited budget, do not despair, there are still many choices. How about a croquet or skittle set, skipping rope, slingshot, hoola hoop, some blowing bubbles or a small play tunnel? If you’ve not room for ball games requiring lots of space try something like swingball. Or you could let the little ones do some garden role play by buying some play ‘mini garden tools’
Whatever you buy, always check age guidelines and look for quality marks.
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