Backyard Ideas to Enjoy with Family and Friends

In the last few years, there has been a tendency for the youngest in the household to be entertained by means of a screen, whether it’s a television screen, a tablet or a phone. There are several reasons for this and one of them is that kids don’t find enough motivation to play outdoors and the fact that families are too busy to join in. However, getting into the right frame of mind, organizing our time and following a few tips and ideas, the outdoors can be fully enjoyed by family and friends and that, in itself, brings on a whole lot of benefits!

At Adventure World Play Sets, we specialize in creating and crafting top-notch vinyl playsets and swing sets that delight young, and even older people, and that has made us a company that also specializes in outdoor play; read on to discover our favorite backyard ideas for families and kids of all ages.

 Fun Time Outdoors:

There is someone in every family that loves sports and in general terms, all kids love to play them; buy or build a play soccer net and get the family involved in a game. If your family or your friends love basketball, get a hoop installed on a flat area and dribble away. Set up a badminton net, which will also work for a game of volley-ball or play a game of flag football in case you don’t have enough space for an actual football to be thrown around. Croquet and cricket sets are also a fun backyard sport idea, try them out with family and friends, you will have tons of fun!

For a peaceful but fun time outdoors, you can select an area of your backyard to create a small vegetable patch or build one yourself with wooden crates. For children and grown-ups alike, gardening can be a source of great pleasure because you are involved in the production process from the start and it’s a wonderful thing to see your seedlings become plants and eventually bear carrots, lettuces, beans, tomatoes and the like. Sitting together for dinner and eating your home-grown vegetables is a great and healthy experience.

Another peaceful but creative idea is to make a butterfly garden in your backyard; this entails getting the family together to plant seedlings of plants that flower and bloom in your climate so that, when they do, they will attract lots of butterflies which are beautiful to look at, as is the patch in itself. Take it a little further for the resident young scientist in the house and classify the different butterflies you see!

Bring out the entrepreneur in your kids by setting up a lemonade stand that caters to the family and even the neighborhood kids. According to their ages, your children can be involved in anything from making the lemonade or iced-tea themselves to registering their sales. They will be learning kitchen skills as well as math in a fun, productive way.

Turn your backyard into a day at the beach with a paddling pool and a sandbox! A sandbox is something that will spark your kids imagination, and with a few accessories like toy buckets and shovels, they can build castles, roads, marble race tracks and lots of other things. Plus, playing with sand promotes practicing their fine and gross motor skills too.

When the sun is strong, we all need a shady area to rest from its glare, especially at midday. A big parasol or even a garden gazebo can give everyone a rest from the hot sun and is also a nice place for grown-ups to sit and relax as they watch the kids.

A playhouse is always a good idea since it gives kids an amazing setting for their imaginations to run wild; it can become a castle for them, or a fort, a spaceship, a reading corner and anything their imaginations can dream up. In some cases, kids can build it themselves with old cardboard boxes, wooden crates and even blankets. They can also be purchased and some playsets include them.

A great classic in a backyard, a swingset or a playset that has swings, slides and other features will always bring fun to family and friends. Nowadays, you can find a large variety of sets that include all kinds of swings, like tire swings, glider swings, trapeze bars and even swings for adults, so they can join in the fun. Slides are also a good bet, kids love them and can entertain them for hours. Swings and slides are always a great way to get kids to play outdoors and get some exercise, too!

With Adventure World Play Sets, Happiest Families!

As you can see, there are many ways to bring family and friends together in your own backyard to play, have fun, get fresh air, sun, and even learn stuff. Let us help you tie it all together with one of our deluxe playsets which offer you amazing designs that can be customized and include features mentioned before, like a playhouse, a sandbox and a lemonade stand among many other accessories that will make your kids day outside a wonderful experience.

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