What do your 4 year olds play with in the garden?

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DD4 id past the baby/toddler phase of small climbing frame/slides (just for size tbh. We don't have room for bigger ones really)

What good garden toys are enjoyed by your little ones?

She has a sandpit turtle and a trampoline that's staying, as she still enjoys them..

Considering giving her section to be a 'mud pit' that she can dig in.

No room for a swing set or other large equipment though.

Wooden mud kitchen was our best buy in lockdown. She was 2.5 then and it’s still well used now at 6.5.

Bug id kit, cheap camera, kids garden tools and seeds.

I don't have a 4 yest old,but I seen a wooden mid kitchen in b&m looked good my don is 2,was thinking for next year.

What about a basketball net? Or s few different cheaper games? Chalk etc

Wooden mud kitchen with various pots and pans, and access to some water. 4YO spends hours making potions or perfumes.

Sticks
Stones
Worms
Snails
Pine cones
Football
Pavement chalk
Trucks
Waterplay

If it's a nice day she takes her Duplo/magna tiles out to build on the grass.

The sticks, stones and pine cones are collected from the park we don't have any naturally occurring in the garden.

And bubbles.

When it's really hot a crazy daisy is great fun

Mud kitchen- up against the fence next to a section of dirt. He loves it!

sandpit with dinosaurs in it.

Planting seeds and watering the flowers

get a pressure spray bottle from poundland- and paint the fences

play chalk- i painted part of the walk with chalkboard paint.

My DS has all sorts, but loves water play. You can get some really nice wooden sand/water tables. Or for his birthday I've got him one of them water play lock boxes so they are easy to store. Also as another has said a crazy daisy. If you have grass he also likes his lawn mower.

• mud kitchen
• water table/buckets of water/spray bottles and watering cans/paint brushes
• pavement chalk
• window pens/crayons (he spends AGES drawing on the outside of our patio doors and has much more concentration/persistence for practicing letter formation on the windows than he does on paper)
• ball games (we have a low basketball hoop and portable football goal that he enjoys, we recently bought swing ball but haven't tried it out with him yet)
• "real gardening" (planting seeds, watering, pruning, weeding, repotting, etc)
• playing with toy trucks in the gravel on the drive
• small piece play with random bits and bobs found around the garden/on walks (stones, sticks, leaves, flowers, pine cones, etc - he just sits and fiddles about with them making patterns)
• bubble machine
• Toy lawn mower and toy chainsaw
• Treasure hunts (stuff from inside hidden outside - he normally sets it up and also finds it lol)

Bubble machine
One of those foam rockets they stamp on the attached launcher and it shoots up

Most fun mine had at that age was free😂
Toy bucket of water and a proper paint brush to paint the fence.
(Although did find he'd painted his name on it in white paint once when he found proper paint🤦)
'Pet sticks and stones'........🤷
Loved playing with the gravel in his toy dumper truck or beach bucket.
Water balloons and big plastic tub filled with water with sponges........soaked and threw at his brothers. (Did get noisy as three boys).
Toy watering can to 'help' water the flowers or flower mister filled with water.
Big sheets of paper to paint on the lawn (less mess than indoors) inevitably led to water play to clean up.
Making potions, any left over bottles with bits of shampoo in and anything else safe like plastic yoghurt pots, kitchen utensils, bits of childrens paint, with youngest usually dressed in older brothers lab coat.

definitely a mud patch. Most played with bit of my garden, i reckon, and we have a swing/trampoline etc. i provide shovels, water buckets and wellies and they spend hours digging. I thought they might have grown out of it this year so could plant it nicely, but they were out digging yesterday 🤦‍♀️