Create A Garden Playhouse


Children love playhouses and creating one in the garden is fun and easy and the children will enjoy helping you create it.

Your children will spend many happy summers playing in one of these and it will become one of their fondest childhood memories.

What You'll Need

A nice sized section of garden area. Make sure there's room enough for the kids to play inside.

Sunflower Seeds (various types, we like very tall ones and then smaller ones)

Various herbs (we like chamomile, lavender, mint, basil, oregano, marigolds and other similar herbs)

Carrots

Snow Peas

Decide On A Shape

Decide what shape you want your garden playhouse to be. You may wish to draw it out with string prior to planting your seeds.

Planting Your Playhouse

Plant your giant sunflower seeds as the outer "walls" of your playhouse. Space them far enough apart that children can go in between them, but close enough together that they make it appear like a secret garden.

Plant snow peas near the tallest sunflowers. They will grow and wind up the tall sunflowers. Children will enjoy nibbling on these while they're playing so be sure to show them how delicious they are.

Intersperse the herbs throughout the sunflowers and plant smaller sunflowers in between as well. You want it to appear as if there is a quaint little garden fence along the outer "walls" of your playhouse so be creative and make the herbs appear to be a fence line or add pops of color here and there.

Plant the carrots along the inside "wall" of the tallest sunflowers. These make great snacks for hungry children while they're in the playhouse.

Water

Help your children water their playhouse every day. Talk to them about how some plants grow faster than other plants. Talk about how some plants have edible seeds (sunflowers) and some have edible roots (carrots) while some have edible flowers and delicious leaves.

Furnishing Your Playhouse

Depending upon the age of your children, you may wish to put some lawn furniture inside the playhouse area. We have a hammock we like in ours.

You could make the inside like a sand castle as well and have a sand bucket or some "earth moving" tools like toy dump trucks etc. Get creative and make this playhouse as personal as you can for your children.

Winding Down The Season

As the season winds down and the sunflowers begin to tip over teach your children about how to dry sunflowers. Remove the heads of the flowers and air dry your seeds. Then toast them with some sea salt and enjoy eating them.

Uproot the remainder of the sunflower stalks and put them in a compost pile. Save the herbs and dry them for eating with dinner in the winter months. Remind the children how the herbs grew in their own playhouse.

Oregano, lavender, chamomile and marigolds will come back year after year so there is no need to remove these. Basil will need to be replanted each year.

Enjoy playing in the playhouse.

You will soon discover that gardening is one of the most wonder filled and satisfying hobbies that you can ever undertake!

You can learn so much more here on my free online DIY gardening tips for beginners guide.

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