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Toys and activities that won’t cost you a cent
Are you fed up with paying top-dollar for the latest piece of over-hyped plastic? Answer “What can we do now Mum?” by making and creating activities from items you already have around the house or that cost nothing at all.
multiactivity playset safety
A multiactivity play piece is something that children seem to enjoy a lot. A place to swing, slide, a little cubby hole to play and where they can meet , and maybe a rope to climb up. All this can be expensive.
Some things to consider are the size of the links if using chains to hang the swings. You may want to make them small enough so a child can’t easily put their finger in them. A child jumping out of a swing with their finger in a link might pull it off. Have an area around the play piece that will be safe for the children to fall or jump into. If you have a climbing rope have the lowest knots spaced farther apart than the rest so that a younger child can’t make it past them and get higher up the rope than they belong. Look out for things that children can get arms or legs stuck into while playing and avoid broken bones. ( Remember the old monkey bars made out of pipe and the damage they caused.) Metal slides can get extremely hot in the summer sun.