The old humble backyard sandpit..... We have had some of those shells for the last few years but the sand was always wet, a bit festy and not somewhere that I wanted to hang out in! So whilst contemplating a section of dead flower bed - i figured we could create our own sandpit, free up the deck and hopfully create a useable space for the kids. Initially i had intended to dig out the soil from the flower bed and just put the sand in there - but after about 20 mins of digger through roots, I gave up and came up with plan B. Minus the sand (it took about 10 bags to fill) the "pit" cost about $8, some pink chalkboard paint that I had lying around, some old carpet i had lying around as a weed mat, and about 30 mins of my husbands time. It is actually the first bit of pink that I have used in the house since little miss arrived, and i have to say - i kind of like it!
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| Trying out the new sandpit for the first time |
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A post roll and a bit of Macgiver ingenuity adds a new element
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| What's a sandpit without a bit of water |
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| The old sand pit gets a new lease on life - a car wash |
Do you have a sand pit at your house? Does it actually get used?
Looks great and I love the pink. We gave up our old shell style sand pit a while back too - it never seemed quite big enough and I didn't like the lack of drainage either. We have one in the corner of the backyard now and the kids love playing in there :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Amanda. We had the same problem with drainage so ended up drilling a few holes in the bottom of one of them - which now makes it a little hard to use that side as a pool! Oops!
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