The terrace becomes in summer the best entertainment area for children, so do not hesitate to allocate a part of it to the kids. With some garden furniture prepared for outdoors, umbrellas, gazebos or pergolas to protect them from the sun and other ideas to decorate the garden, for example with planters and planters, You will create a pleasant and conducive environment to perform different activities, such as crafts, gardening and games, perfect to stimulate your creativity.
Spending time to family fun outdoors will help you strengthen ties with them, relax and share unforgettable and unforgettable moments. Time flies by and almost without realizing it they will have grown up! When decorating the garden it is important to define a safe area for children, a space independent of adults that you can create with the advice of the IKEA School of Decoration. To fully enjoy that corner we propose these educational activities and ideas to decorate the garden Very easy to prepare!
Crafts: entertaining and concentrated children
With this activity children experiment with textures, shapes and colors, while focusing attention, develop fine motor skills and patience. When creating a space for crafts, make sure they are well protected from the sun with an awning, a hanging umbrella or an arbor, which will also help you to delimit the space. So that the children are comfortable and quiet doing this activity that they are sitting and resting on plastic garden furniture childproof and materials, such as paint or plasticine. Once the DIY moment with your children is over, it's time to charge batteries with a succulent snack.
Reading and jumping in a fun chillout
You will love this proposal because all children are recommended to read in the summer, and they also because doing it in a chillout area on some soft mattresses and surrounded by a multitude of cushions will invite you to jump nonstop when they finish reading. You can take advantage of the shade of the pergola or the gazebo from your garden to create a beautiful chillout with a blanket or carpet instead of mats and place a decorative mosquito net to read quietly and not be bitten by insects. As they advise in the course to organize celebrations in the garden of IKEA, the chillout is a perfect proposal to spend a pleasant afternoon of picnic.
Orchard: it's time to plant something together on the terrace
Who better to help you decorate the garden and oxygenate your terrace with plants? Take advantage of this activity to encourage your interest in nature and the care of the environment. Vertical gardens are a trend in decoration and creating one on the terrace is something as simple as using a bookcase, as IKEA proposes in the "Terraces with good plant" course. Urban gardens are also in fashion and with some planters and planters you can do wonders. If you do not have space, opt for the cute greenhouses.
For parents who do not have much time, a good idea that will allow you to be more with your children (or rest in your favorite hammock or deck chair) is to decorate the garden with artificial plants in original planters and planters. They always look pretty and, in addition to work, they save water. If you want extra help, do not hesitate to take a look at these course tips to create the perfect IKEA garden.
Adventure games that develop your imagination
The secret hiding places and the houses for the dolls fascinate the little ones and especially the tipis and the shops, which become Indian cabins or medieval castles and promise exciting adventures with which your imagination will fly. IKEA's proposal of the image is so easy that even they can build their own shelter with a sheet, a rope tied to two points and clothes pegs. So that they are comfortable and can rest or read quietly extended some cushions with which, in addition, they will be protected if they fall.
Games with water to cool (and incidentally water the garden)
A summer without battles with water guns is not summer for kids! They have fun and cool while, unintentionally, they water the grass and plants, and it is a great and ecological way of not wasting water. Small balloons are also ideal for filling them with water and throwing them as if they were a ball until they explode or hang them in a similar way to piñatas.
Have you tried the coin game? In a bucket or basin you put water and you throw a coin, to see who takes them before with the mouth and, of course, it remains. For the game "pass the water" you only need a few glasses or similar containers: the children are placed in a row, you fill the glass of water to the first of the tail that, moving the arms back, tries to let the liquid fall into the glass of the next child To have all these "tools" at hand and everything is organized, place some storage boxes in the garden, and so on you will motivate the children to leave everything tidy.
