A few people have asked lately for some photos of how the new handpump, the dry creek bed and the new sandpit all fit together.This is how it looks from the old sandpit.
And down to the path and gate.
You can see down the front of this photo some paving – that was the edge of the “made” landscape in this area previously – it was the edge of the existing sandpit with sparse grass growing beyond to the fence and down to the left to the path in from the gate. This area was fairly underused previously.
The handpump (and new rainwater tanks) came first. They begged for a creek bed to sometimes benefit from the water that we could pump from them or to just link with it anyway.
We also put in a bridge. Very simple (and cheap)- but it still works as a bridge in their play!
We are still waiting for sandpit storage cupboards alongside the wall of our building to be able to store some of our loose parts – in the meantime, milk crates are useful.
The children’s play has extended in so many ways, and all in an area that had been pretty much unused before…
but not any more!