How to make a sandbox in the country with your own hands: 4 simple options

We tell how to independently make a sandbox from a tire, hemp and other primary materials.

The sandbox is a good way to organize leisure and boys, and girls, while adults are busy with their affairs. And the design made by yourself is also a good option for saving a family budget. Especially considering the fact that this is temporary entertainment. Let's figure out how to make a sandbox in the country with your own hands: drawings, sizes and materials necessary for this you will see in our article.

All about how to construct a children's sandbox:

Choosing a place

Selection of materials

Types of sandboxes

Popular models

• From automotive tires
• From Penkov
• Design-konta
• Sandbox with lid.

Types of canopies

Criteria for sand selection

Determine the place for the sandbox

So that you are not worried about a child who will certainly spend enough time, playing in the sand, you need to choose the right place under the gaming zone.

• It should be the most viewed, close to home and windows. This will make it easier for control.
• It is advisable to choose a half. But, if there is no such place, it is better to stop on the sunny side. And you can protect kids with a canopy.
• Do not choose places under the trees and next to the bushes. Fallen leaves and in some cases the fruits will pollute the sand. And this is not only not hygienic, but also is dangerous for a small child.

When this moment is resolved, you can proceed to the design of the structure.

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Choose materials

What makes sandbox in the country? There are several options, the choice depends on your preferences.

• In the line of many producers there are plastic models. Their main advantages: security and mobility. However, if you are a supporter of an environmentally friendly lifestyle, such a model is hardly suitable for you.
• Wooden - optimal choice and in terms of security, and from the point of view of ecology. But if you want to make a sandbox for children to give your own hands, you will have to try.
• By the way, fans of the secondary use of things can evaluate the gaming areas from automotive tires.
• Metal models are not the best choice. First, the metal is easily heated in the sun, and secondly, poorly processed parts of parts can be dangerous for kids. In addition, such models are more complicated in the manufacture and afraid of rust.

We choose the design

1. Open. These are the simplest models, made of plastic, metal, wood. They are easy to do their own. To protect the content, you can pull the tarpaulin every time.
2. Closed. More practical and comfortable. After the child played, such a model can be closed. This will ensure the purity of the materials. In addition, often the lid often serves a canopy, so it will not be necessary to break his head over the location of the playing area.

However, canopy can always be made additionally. Below we will look at how to do it.

4 sandboxes for children to give your own hands

1. From the tire

The easiest option, how to make a sandbox in the country with your own hands, - make it from the tire. You will not need neither investments or consumption of materials, except for registration.

For manufacture, tractor tires are suitable. You will also need a rubber hose, with which you can handle the edge of the tire. Of the additional materials: paints, shovel and knife.

1. The top of the tire is cut around the perimeter.
2. The hose is cut along, the resulting protection is put on the edge of the tires.
3. The finished design can be painted in bright colors. Separate entertainment - do it with a child.
4. In order for the bus during games, it is not shifted, it is necessary to pull out a small deepening in the ground by its size.
5. At the bottom of the rallow linoleum, tarpaulin or agrofiber - it will protect the platform from weeds and insects. If you use the film, be sure to do holes in it, so the moisture after the rain will not be stated.

2. From Penkov

Another option is made of hemp or a bar left from the fallen or cut trees.

1. Before use, hemp is treated with an antiseptic. Pay attention to its water-repellent properties so that the tree lights longer.
2. If you wish, you can paint.
3. On the perimeter of the future platform, dumps a depth of 20-25 cm to install hemp in it. It is necessary for their stability, because children will surely run on the fence.
4. There is also a rack tarpaulin or any other protective material.
5. Here attention is paid to the seal of hemp so that they can withstand the weight of the child and active games.

3. Construction-box

Despite the fact that the box is more complicated in the manufacture than the design of tires or hemps, it is quite simple to build it.

First of all, you need to choose wood. Specialists advise you to take a bar of pine.

• It is well processed, not deformed and does not succify.
• This durable material is not subject to rotting and forming fungi and mold.
• Pine has and moisture-resistant characteristics.

If the boards are not processed, they must be cleaned and primed so that there are no bitch, which can lead to zanozam and scratches.

In fact, the clear sizes of the box do not exist, you can make it in your own way: the side of the square begins from 100 cm; The older child, the more. In the drawings you can see rectangular designs in size 210 x 180 cm. Another popular size: 120 x 120 cm.

1. The first thing to do is bore a rectangular frame.
2. It is not necessary to do the bottom, it will only strengthen the design and will additionally protect it from weeds and insects. However, it becomes more faster.
3. For the manufacture of the bottom it is more convenient to use lining.
4. Small benches in the corners are not only a comfortable part, but also additional fastening of the frame.
5. Corners can be closed with wooden corner.
6. The resulting product decorated and decorated.

To the blades, rakes and other toys are not lying around the yard, you can provide a small compartment inside the base. To do this, there will be enough one board bonded across.

The finished platform is set in the same way: the bottom must be made with a protective film. And the box itself slightly deepen.

Some wizards set several beams-legs around the perimeter of the box and these beams serve as a support.

4. Sandbox with lid

It is possible to make with your own hands and a sandbox with a lid to the cottage. Moreover, the lid is a mandatory element, if you have petty pets in the yard or next door. It will protect the gaming area from these irrepressible guests.

The frame is collected by the same principle as a simple box. After it is ready, proceed to the lid.

1. Its sash consist of a fixed part and movable. The boards for the first are fixed directly to the basis of self-draws.
2. Next to them fasten the rolling part (two boards) with the help of gourmet loops.
3. For the manufacture of a simple cover of this enough. If you like the transformer that turns into a bench, you need to add a couple more boards.
4. With the lid they connect two bars. These brows fix on bolts to the boards on which loops are installed. When opening a plate will serve as a support of the back.
5. Additionally, another couple of small bars can be installed on the third and fourth boards from the outside. They will protect the loops sitting from the sharp ends, will ensure support that in the case of which the back does not fall on the back, and additionally fasten the boards.
6. The second half can also be made in the form of a bench or leave simple.

Please note: metal loops must be additionally processed to protect against rust.

How to make a carport

The easiest way to protect the child from sun rays is to set near the beach area. By the way, it is possible to provide a hole in the corner of the box. Another option, if there is enough space, put an umbrella in the center of the base.

A little more complicated - tent type. To do this, in the center, the crossbar is installed and the unscrewed fabric type or nylon type is erected through it. At the edges, it can be pulled with pegs in the ground or loops on curbs.

The roof in the form of an awning is the most complex view of the shadow canopy. It is installed on two or four legs-supports.

How to choose the right sand

When the design is ready, you can proceed to the main thing - to fill it. That the result does not disappoint you, pay attention to some moments when the sand is selected:

• In the sand there should be no extraneous impurities of gravel and clay, dirt and small garbage, it should be homogeneous.
• It is important to make fun and how it is easily from it it turns out to make a figurine.
• Choose the second between the career and river sand. He is cleaner and, in general, closer in its characteristics to the sand for playgrounds. By the way, the latter can also be purchased in the store.
• Sand must be periodically sisived and change once every two years.

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