Playground decoration: the best DIY ideas
If there are small children in the family, they definitely need to build and subsequently equip an outdoor playground. Such play areas are an indispensable object on the territory of a private house or cottage.
While the kids are playing outdoors, adults can relax or do housework. As soon as the parents are free, they can always join the children.
An open play area can be made much more interesting, more fun and colorful if you make crafts for the playground. It is not necessary to buy ready-made garden decorations, because there are many exciting ideas that can be easily implemented.
Tire dinosaur
Bottle palms and a plastic zoo
Perfect for making crafts and decorations for the playground.
If you collect bottles of different shapes and sizes, you can make very interesting compositions: palm trees, animal figurines, flowers and other objects. Try making an exotic palm tree corner or a fun menagerie.
It is very easy to make, for example, a piglet: a five-liter bottle is suitable for the body, and two-liter ones are for the limbs. The ears and tail are also cut out of plastic.
The bottle flower garden looks original: cut the necks in the form of bells and other flowers, and the leaves will be bases without a bottom, cut into several parts.
Decorate the bottles with paints and fix in the right places. Such decorations are very practical: they will not deteriorate either from rain or from the sun.
The palm tree is made as follows: the bottom is cut out from the bottles, after which the blanks are strung on top of each other. A metal rod is placed inside the bottles - the base of the tree. The crown consists of one or more bottles, cut from the bases to the necks into strips-leaves.
The strips need to be cut obliquely so that they look like real palm leaves. The crown bottle is inserted with the neck into the barrel. To do without paint, you can use brown and green bottles.
Plywood is an ideal material for making flat figures. On it you can draw everything that your imagination tells you: heroes from films, characters from cartoons, etc. The figures are cut out, painted and placed on the site.
You can create a whole composition from individual elements or paint a bright picture on a large white piece of plywood. Such a picture can be used as a demarcation fence for areas in the garden.
Mounting foam is not used as often as plastic or plywood for playground decoration, but, nevertheless, very interesting compositions can be made from it.
Foam figures look like toys, they look great and kids love them. From foam, you can make any shape, which is then decorated.
Animal figurines from boulders
Large boulders and pebbles are a suitable find for decorating a playground. Round stones are decorated with bright colors, resulting in funny bugs, hedgehogs and other animals.
For stones, it is better to take acrylic paints, which are then covered with a transparent varnish. Pictures with clear contours look interesting.
The outline is first drawn in pencil, then in black or white. The space between the lines is filled with colored paints. From several boulders, you can make a whole family of hedgehogs or ladybugs.
Combining materials - a flight of fancy
Logs of various shapes and sizes are great for decorating children's play corners. Many materials go well with each other: logs or tires and bottles.
From bottles you can make a beautiful fence for a lawn or flower bed in the form of animals, plants and insects. Try to involve the child in the creative process: children always have several original ideas and solutions ready.
If there was an old sawn tree in the garden, do not rush to uproot the stump. A funny figure or a whole house with a door, a roof and windows will come out of it. It is not only fun for children, but also a wonderful decorative element for the garden.
A bright, positive composition can be made from bottles and a small tire. Nail bottle caps around the tire, then screw bottles into them - you get a cheerful sun.
Do not rush to get rid of unused building materials after repair. So, for example, ornate paths or the space around the figures can be laid out with pieces of ceramic tiles. Broken tiles are useful for laying out mosaics and depicting fairy-tale characters.
Draw the outline of the shape on the path, then lay it out with tile pieces. In order for the composition to be durable, it must be laid out on a cement composition. Do not forget to wipe the seams after drying.
In the video, interesting ideas for decorating a playground with your own hands:
This is an essential element of any children's play area. Babies like to have their own corner to hide in. are log and frame. The interior design depends on the imagination of the parents and the child.
Pergolas from climbing plants
If it is not possible to build a wooden house, you can take note of an alternative option: a frame is made of wire, and any climbing plants (bindweeds, grapes, etc.) start around it. Such an arbor pleases the eye of both adults and kids.
Stump decoration
All ideas for the design of stumps can not be counted. Here are the most popular of them: the old forest man and the fly agaric mushroom.
When the bells ring back under a gust of wind, an unusual, fabulous feeling immediately arises. You can make them from iron bottle caps and unnecessary keys.
Make a cozy nest of branches with your baby and place a decorative bird or butterfly in it. Fix the composition on the tree.
A butterfly made together with a child contributes to the development of motor skills and creative abilities. You can make it from beads, clothespins and thick threads.
If you attach a pin to the back of the butterfly, it can be used as a decoration for clothes or curtains.
How else can you decorate a playground or a country yard - a photo selection:
Boxes and baby shoes
A wonderful pirate ship will come out of a cardboard box. You can also make decorative fences and dividers from boxes and unnecessary shoes.
Materials for decorating a children's play area can be very different: from trees and stumps, to old shoes and empty bottles. The main thing is to show imagination and desire.