Monday 28 October 2013

Activity Toys Direct (with tots100)…my dream garden!

This is a tots100 competition for Activity Toys Direct.  I love a competition, and this one - to design your dream kids garden - really got my imagination fired up!

So…
“This blog post is an entry into the Tots100/Activity Toys Direct garden makeover competition”


Squiblet loves books, she loves imaginary play and she gets lost in her own little world of everything she reads.  A dream garden for us would be a space where she can explore and create and imagine!

At present we have a tower with a climbing wall and slide...

This could be enhanced to encourage imaginative play…
(Charlie Cook's Favourite Book, Swallows and Amazons, The Famous Five)

Telescope and steering wheel:


A hammock or a cosy nook to read and play...

Fairy doors...
(Brambly Hedge, Postman Bear)





A huge sandpit with buried treasure, dinosaurs and footprint stilts...
(How to Grow a Dinosaur)






A broom...
(Room on the Broom)

A child safe pond...
(Room on the Broom, pond dipping, science play!)

A hazelnut tree...
(The Gruffalo)





Three Bears...
(Goldilocks)



A "river" of blue rubber chips with stepping stones and some "swishy swashy grass"
(We're going on a bear hunt)







And lastly, on the Activity Toys Direct website I noticed these trampolines.

Squiblet loves to bounce but I've always felt like our garden wasn't really big enough for one of those giant trampolines...until now!  The way they are sunk into the ground is so clever and makes them seem like they take up less space.


My literary link...Dear Zoo..."so they sent me a...frog...but he was too bouncy so I sent him back!"



Hope you like my ideas!

:)



3 comments:

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    1. Thank you! I really want to make that river of rubber chips, even if I don't win!

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  2. I'm glad to see the great detail here!. Kids Trampolines

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