With the arrival of heat, most kids continue to sit in stuffy houses and apartments. The only entertainment of the modern child is cartoons and computer games. Even the 2-3-year-old kid quickly focuses on electronic devices, and maybe even without knowing how to read, quickly finds the right game. It is unlikely that such a child will remember his childhood. So let's not deprive your children of joyful emotions - it is enough to build a children's sandbox in the courtyard and the child will be happy to spend time there.

Choose a suitable place

Let's start with the main thing - choosing a place for the future sandbox. This important point cannot be missed. If the sandbox is installed in the country, then parents must see what their child is engaged. For a large and noisy yard, this rule should also be observed. Therefore, rule No. 1 is foresight. The sandbox should be well visible and being accessible.

Rule number 2 - according to hygienic requirements, the place for games can not be placed right under the tree, because dry branches and leaves can fall from it, and the bird litter will not add positive emotions. Installing a sandbox under the scorching sunshine - a bad idea. Therefore, if there is no suitable place in your summer cottage or in the courtyard of a multi-storey house, you will have to think about protection against leaves and the sun. An excellent option is the western side of the house. You can build a small sandbox with a strong roof, which will serve simultaneously with wind protection and burning sunlight.

Rule number 3 - Do not try to reinvent the bike and sculpt the sandbox from the remains of building materials. Plastic sheets, drywall and wooden bars will not give the product of strength, and this sandbox will not last long. It is worth making everything according to the rules and adhere to generally accepted norms - to make a sandbox from an environmentally friendly material - wood.

For the manufacture of children's sandbox with their own hands, wooden boards will be needed. You can build a sandbox and brick and post them around the perimeter, but the main problem of such a structure is children's injuries. So we will not subjected to kids danger and make a sandbox from the tree.

By the way, you can find traditional sandboxes from wood (rectangular shape) from plastic and even iron. Design sizes will depend on the number of children. Standard dimensions - 1.2 x 1.2 m or 1.5 x 1.5. The height of the sandbox walls is about 20-30 cm. If you have a lot of free space, you can make a large sandbox 3 x 3 meters and add decorative elements.

It is desirable to:

1. The sandboxes had reliable walls to prevent the sand mix with the soil and maintain the original form of the design.
2. If the walls are low, then after the game, all the sand will crumble, so the side parts of the sandbox should be not lower than 20 cm.
3. It is possible to make comfortable seats around the perimeter of the design, and on the perimeter of the sandbox, to put rubkeroid, tiles or any other material on the ground.
4. The space around the sandbox can be seeded with clover or other low grass, resistant to large loads.

The basic requirements for which the sandbox must be answered: safety and durability, so it is necessary to securely fix all the details and smooth the sharp corners.

A few words about the sand: it must be excellent quality. Sand can take sea, career and river. Sea sand is large and taste salty, career contains a lot of clay.

For children, river sand is suitable. It can be purchased in a construction store. Before buying, pay attention to the instruction, often like sand is sold for the preparation of cement solutions and is not suitable for sandboxes. Such a filler will contain a large number of clay inclusions and when contact with clothing and skin will be all soiled. Going to the search for sand, ask consultants about the presence of special quartz sand with additives that scare insects. By the way, such a filler for the sandbox is absolutely harmless to kids.

You can independently bring sand from the river (if it is not far) or bring the real sea sand. Of course, such pleasure can do without hachers, but children will play with small sand with great pleasure. Remember to fill the standard sandbox, you will need at least 1 ton of sand.

Before filling the sandbox with sand, you need to carefully check and remove stones, fragments and other trash. It is advisable to sift it through a metallic sieve or use the old mesh mesh.

How to make sandbox

Since we are with love we treat the younger generation, then we will do the sandbox for the cottages in all the rules

Preparation of the basis

1. As you already understood, the shape and size of the sandbox can be selected independently. We offer to build a standard sandbox for children from 2 years. Design size - 1.7 x 1.7 m.
2. There will be a marking tape, pegs, cord - it is necessary to protect the plot around the perimeter.
3. The next step is to prepare the place. It is necessary to remove the upper layer of the Earth, but not more than 30 cm. In the center of the sandbox, you need to make a small recess, about 60-70 cm deep, sizes 40-50 cm, flooding this hole with small pebbles or sand and slightly tamper. You must have a drainage well.
4. Next, it is necessary to make a small slope from the edge of the sandbox (sides) to the middle. Due to this, after falling out of strong precipitation, the sandbox will not accumulate a large amount of moisture and will dry faster.
5. You must have a rectangular pit. Its dimensions: 1.7 x 1.7 x 30 cm (slope to the middle).

Lay out the foundation

1. For sandbox to be made in all the rules, it is necessary to put polyethylene, geotextile tissue or paving slabs on the soil. Even plywood is suitable and even a tight cardboard, only it needs to make holes for drainage.
2. Of course, this item can be skipped, but after some time the sand is mixed with the ground and will have to buy and bring the filler again, and this is not cheap. In addition, the presence of the base will become an obstacle to penetration of insects and spiders. Agree, this is a good argument to not be lazy and do everything according to the rules.
3. A small nuance - the material for the litter must be laid not on bare ground, but first a little sand. The pillow must be no higher than 5-6 cm.

How to make fires

1. It is necessary to prepare 4 wooden bars (size 45x5x5 cm), 4 boards (size in cm 130 x 2.5 x 30), boards for horizontal sides - they are put on top throughout the perimeter of the design.
2. When preparing this material, it is necessary to carefully polish the boards so that the child does not paint the fingers and the handles - the offices are very painful to extract! In this difficult, but a very important case will help you by the Bulgarian or an electric door with a grinding nozzle.
3. After processing, it is necessary to cover the wooden billets several times with a olifa or any antisptic for wood (it is well hampered to rot the bitumen).
4. At the outlined corners, insert bars, deepening them by 15 cm in the ground.
5. To the bars you need to nail the boards. If you failed to find wide boards, they can be replaced by 3 narrow, 10 cm wide and for each wall of the sandbox to nourish 3 boards.
6. On the perimeter of the design you need to secure horizontal lining (upper sides), for which kids sit down so much during the game to relax. Therefore, do not forget about comfort, it is better to round the tree or choose a wider board. It will simultaneously serve as a lining and seats for kids.

Make the sandbox cover

This attribute is not at all necessary, but very necessary. Without it, it is quite possible and to do. But who hunting every time to remove traces of staying stray animals? Especially love the sand of a cat and dogs - they believe that this place is just intended to go by need. So it turns out that children can play in the sand where there are similar surprises. From the point of view of hygiene, the protective cover on the sandbox will save the child from the infection with helminths and from other terrible troubles. In addition, the lid will be a reliable protection against dry foliage, twigs and other similar garbage. Protection can be made of boards or simply stretch from above. But then you will have to pull it out and fix it every time.

We offer an interesting and simple version of the folding lid, which during the games will serve as a child bench:

1. You will need boards width 20 cm, hammer, nails and hinged door loops.
2. Connect the boards with each other and attach them to the base.
3. Now the baby will be able to independently open and close the sandbox. For the first time he needed to show how it is done.

As you can see, the sandbox is not difficult to build, the main thing is to have the necessary material, the tool and some patience. Even the newcomer can easily cope with the task if try.

Look at these photos: sandboxes can be different - it all depends on the fantasy and skills, even a simple sandbox for the defensive can turn out from a simple old tire:

Several useful tips

Construction independently sandbox, do not be lazy to familiarize yourself with these tips, maybe they will help you quickly cope with the task:

1. When it was decided to make a large sandbox for 4 and more children, then the cover must be done - it will save you from constant sanding of sand and other troubles.
2. The optimal sandbox size is 1.5 per 1.5 m. Such a compact sandbox can be easily moved from one place to another. It is very convenient if the country area is large and parents can not follow the children. In this case, the design is transferred and is installed in a convenient location - closer to adults so that the parents have the opportunity to observe children.
3. Little kids after a while it becomes difficult to sit in squatting, and if you sit down in the sand and pull out the legs - parents may not be allowed. Especially if the street is not hot and the sand is cool. Therefore, make a comfortable side, so that the kids can feel good and pull out the legs, sit on a comfortable bench.
4. The sandbox height should be no less than 25 cm so that the children do not overdo and do not "have done" to the ground or land.
5. Push the sand with a thick layer - do not save. The thickness of the sand should be from 15 cm.
6. Sandbox chalkboard thickness - 32 mm. This will allow the designs not to fall apart, and the tree does not crack at the slightest temperature fluctuations.

Useful addition

Remember the kindergartens with funny hats in the form of mushrooms? Just such a canopy defended the gauge from scoring sunlight. Alone, too, you can make a similar canopy, and it can have a different form. The main appointment is to protect against the sun and sudden rain.

To build an ordinary canopy mushroom must be prepared:

• wooden timing of 100 x 100 mm - 3 meters. It will be a support;
• wooden boards for a hat;
• nails;
• hinges;
• joiner tool.

The tree must be previously treated with an antiseptic. The base should be inserted into the ground at a depth of at least 1 m. From the boards, make triangles and secure them with each other. From the inside, adjust the hat to the base. The outer part for beauty can be chopped plywood and paint into bright colors. The width of the hat should be at least 2.5 m - this will be quite enough to protect against bad weather.

When there is no possibility and a suitable material for the construction of a canopy, you can simply thoroughly fix the folding umbrella from the Sun. It is also convenient to move together with the sandbox in the country area.

Decor sandbox

Here you can show your fantasy and please the child with colorful drawings. Buy bright colors and color sandbox in bright colors. Do not limit the boring blocking of the boards, remember the golden rule: children learn and know the world in the game. Therefore, you can draw geometric shapes, numbers and letters. Let the kid playing, mastering the score to 10 and teaches his first letters. In addition, on your children's sandbox can "settle" favorite fabulous characters of crumbs, beautiful butterflies and flowers.

How to make a sandbox yourself, see this video: