I'm not gonna lie, I'm feeling pretty smug right now. Finally a cool repurposing idea that's NOT "Pinterest-inspired", that I came up with all by myself! My brilliant idea was to turn a kids pup tent (pup tent? pop tent?) into a sandbox. You see, we have a fenced-in pool and lots of concrete in our back yard, so I wanted to spruce things up for baby #3 - a water table, a basketball hoop, maybe a slide or a playhouse, and now a sandbox.
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Sandboxes are ridiculously expensive, in my opinion. Even the cheapies at WalMart are around $30, not to mention the cost of the sand. I was looking for an old school hard plastic kiddie pool, or a small inflatable one would have done fine, but then I realized that this tent that my daughter used to use as a clubhouse was just the thing!
And it's actually better than a sandbox because you can zip it closed to keep cat doody out...
And it provides a shady spot to play!
Our tent is roughly 4x5 feet, and we bought 5 bags of sand at WalMart for $3.88 each. And of course we needed a pail and some new shovels to celebrate.
Great idea does it keep the rain out?And doesn't it get Hot?
ReplyDeleteI didn't notice that it got hot but the sand did get a little icky since I had the tent closed up all the time, and it wasn't really exposed to the sun which would have dried it up a bit. I kept it closed to keep neighborhood cats out but now I'm thinking I should have let it breathe. Also after being in the sun for a long time it did start to tear. I just hauled it out to the trash, but it was fun for a summer!
DeleteI didn't notice that it got hot but the sand did get a little icky since I had the tent closed up all the time, and it wasn't really exposed to the sun which would have dried it up a bit. I kept it closed to keep neighborhood cats out but now I'm thinking I should have let it breathe. Also after being in the sun for a long time it did start to tear. I just hauled it out to the trash, but it was fun for a summer!
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