Quick and easy outdoor play ideas.

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I have recently moved from a house with a beaut garden.
Playhouse, fruit trees, veg patch etc to a garden that is not as nice.

What could I do the make my new weed patch garden interesting for my mindees?

I have a sand pit, slide, water table and some ride on toys. But nothing else.

What quick ideas could I implement. I am well over due an Ofsted Inspection. And my current garden just doesn't cut it!

Tyres or tubs to plant things?
An area that they can chalk/paint?
A plank on some bricks for balancing?

I'd have a scout on pinterest - there's so much I would do there if we had a garden.

A mud kitchen? Water wall?

you need some logs and tyres and crates for building and balancing
some guttering for water play
a mud or sand kitchen
pebbles, pine cones, conkers etc for counting, sorting
you need to be growing and eating what you grow
sensory plants,
a bug hotel
some sheets and pegs for den building
and anything that you do inside you can do out

Get some of the clear plastic shoe storer thingies, fix to wall and grow plants in them.

Mud pie 'kitchen'

Plant a 'windmill' garden. Or have some dangly shiny and twisty things from trees. Or both.

Bird feeders/bath (there are loads of birdcake recipes available online, make some as an activity)

Giant garden games (jenga, et al)

Pavement chalk. Or squeezy bottles of coloured water for mark making.

Take then to the garden centre and get them to help choose some new plants for the garden! (Lambs tongue, twisty bamboo, dogwood, herbs, etc)

Skipping ropes, hula hoops, bean bags for throwing (into the hoops if necessary).

Get some marine ply and blackboard paint, make a blackboard and screw that to a fence.

Thank you all!

I am so cross with myself as I left behind loads of tree stumps and logs as we had had an open fire. But it was just the last thing on the list to take.

We have loads of crates from the move.

I did buy a bird feeding station in the first week from the garden centre.
I might see if we can do some planting next week.

And take a trip to B&M / pounds world. To buy some twirly tat for the hedge.

Might see if we can have a day in the garden tomorrow, luckily DH loves this kind of stuff so I can set him in with some jobs.

This weekend We made a sorting station for counting pine cones etc.
and a water / ball run on the wall out of guttering.

Going to the garden centre tomorrow to get some Daffodils and other spring bulbs.