Romaine's
Garden
- Play Area
With
memories of enjoying my grandmother's garden with its pathways,
wisteria tunnel, climbing trees and chooks I have aimed to develop
this garden into an enjoyable place for children to play and to
explore.
Just
past the vegetable patch,
protected by our friendly scarecrow, is an elevated cubby house with
water views of St Georges Basin. It is made of both new and recycled
materials. The entrance to the cubby is via a wooden ramp which
reminds me of a sheep ramp from a shearing shed. On one side of the
ramp is the children's mailbox made of an old tin and a paint tray
lid as the flap. My five year old son Raymond has "cleverly" (yes, I
am a biased parent) painted it with the number 25 and colours too
numerous to count.
Ramp
entrance to the Cubby
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View from
our back Veranda
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If you
are game enough to venture into the children's cubby house it
possibly contains: one recycled table, two cane chairs, three
painting books, four matchbox cars, five mobile rabbits, six plastic
cups, seven broken pencils, eight apple cores, nine scraps of
playdough and a partridge in a pear tree.
A slippery dip rescued from the local tip
descends from the eastern side of the cubby house. This happened to
be a good aspect because the metal slippery dip is still shaded from
the hot summer sun. The children, (or adults if we feel the need) can
then land safely in the sand pit to play. Underneath the cubby the
children have a variety of swings which lead through a shaded garden
to the Woven Willows.
Melissa in the cubbyhouse tree
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Our Friendly Scarecrow
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Garden Projects for Children
- Click
here for the projects page and
perhaps email me to share your
suggestions.
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