…with Garden Buildings! During the half-term holiday use garden buildings to introduce more space to your home and draw your kids outside. Delight in your outdoor space with fun activities, inviting spaces and beautiful wildlife!
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Get Your Children into the Garden
Garden Buildings for Any Weather
Small Green Fingers
Encourage your kids to get involved in gardening and let your kid reap the benefits of being outdoors and surrounded by nature. Gardening allows your children to get involved in a fun activity that will keep them active, be calming, and provide a sense of accomplishment.
How to get your kids interested in the garden:
Engage all your senses
Sensory gardens are excellent to get kids interested in gardening. Feel different textures by introducing different plants (maybe not cacti though!). Listen to sounds like poppy seeds or wind in leaves. Smell calming lavender. Taste fresh fruit and vegetables that you’ve grown. Introduce interesting colours and shapes to your garden to make it visually interesting.
Teach them the benefits of plants
Ferns and sticks can make excellent shelters, birch bark is a fantastic fire starter, and dock leaves can stop nettle stings from hurting.
Involve them in child-friendly gardening activities
Some of our favourite kids’ outdoor activities include painting plant pots, wildlife bingo, making mud pies and crafting botanical bookmarks. You can find more fun activities on the RHS School Gardening website.
Ignite a sense of responsibility and ownership over the garden
Give them their own tools and shed to look after. The Talia Tool Shed would be an excellent storage idea for kids due to its compact nature means it doesn’t take up much room in the garage and is a manageable size for kids to keep tidy.
Log Cabin
When the sun retreats that doesn’t mean the fun has to! Our range of log cabins is the perfect solution to getting the best out of your garden regardless of the weather.
Multiroom
Having multiple rooms means you have the option of using your cabin for multiple different things. For example, you could turn one room into a space for you and the one next to it for your child so that you can encourage their independence while still being able to provide support.
Alternatively, if you have more than one child you can give them both their own space to focus on the projects they want to pursue. However, if you want your log cabin to be a space for the whole family to use consider dedicating the separate rooms to a specific purpose instead of a person – an office in one room and a cinema room in the other, for example. Our His&Hers Log Cabin is the ideal garden building for multipurpose use.
Year-Round Use
Many of our log cabins with optional extras for insulation and double-glazed windows. This makes our log cabins ideal for year-round use. This means you can sit back and relax without having to worry about pausing your film midway through, closing your book without finishing or even avoiding your cabin in its entirety in the winter because of the cold.
Storage
You can also enjoy the flexibility of choosing a side store configuration that works for you. Dunster House side stores are carefully designed to be able to beautifully fit to either side of your log cabin. Enjoy all of this knowing that you’ll never have to compromise on the security of your belongings with our multipoint locking system.
Uses for a Dunster House Log Cabin:
- Playroom
- Library
- Craft Room
- Study Area
- Cinema Room
Wildlife
Attract wildlife into your garden by using bird boxes, bug hotels and hedgehog houses. This not only gets your children involved with wilding projects but can also spark an interest in crafts. These small projects are a great way to get your kids involved without using their interest – you can learn how to build a bird box with recycled materials from your very own kitchen.
Another great way to encourage wildlife into your garden is to provide the things they like for sustenance. For bees that would be flowers, for hedgehogs that would be worms and for birds that would be seeds. The best case scenario would be if you could get these to occur naturally.
For older kids’ bigger projects may be more interesting – if you want to be very ambitious you could try building a pond for fish, frogs and birds. Alternatively, they could put their gardening skills to the test to make wildlife hedges.
With this guide, you can make the most of the sun (or any other weather) and have some fun!
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