Educational Profit of an Kids Wooden Playhouse

Installing a wooden playhouse or kids playhouse in your garden or backyard will not only delight your children, but will also benefit their education.  Your kids will love doing their homework outside in their wooden playhouse or kids outdoor playhouse, and there are ways to teach them the rewards that study can bring, both materially and in terms of their education.

 

Among the many benefits of an outdoor kids playhouse, that which many parents fail to appreciate is connected to their education. In fact, the educational benefits of an outdoor kids playhouse are possibly more important than the social benefits and those connected with their physical development.

Most children would rather play than do schoolwork, particularly the younger children. To take that further, even more would rather play in an outdoor playhouse than do their homework, and you might even hesitate installing an outdoor wooden playhouse for your child just for that reason. However, are you sure you know your kids well enough to make that assumption?

Outdoor Playhouse Educational Atmosphere

In fact, if you did build or purchase a kids playhouse or wooden playhouse in your backyard, and furnished it with some chairs and table, you might be pleasantly surprised. Your children love being outdoors, and paradoxically probably love even more being inside their own outdoor playhouse. Even though they are inside a wooden playhouse they still look upon it as being outside, if you get the drift, and so how do you think they would react to doing their homework in an environment they love without the stress of being inside when their friends are outside playing?

Statistics show that they will love it. Your kids will love doing their homework in their own kids school playhouse, and might even play at one being the teacher and the others the pupils while do their homework. Once the schoolwork is over, the wooden playhouse turns into a castle, a dolls house or a witchs house. However, the important factor is that for the time needed, it was their own schoolroom and their homework got done. Not rushed, but completed properly.

The school has been taken out of their schooling, so it is a unique way of them doing their homework. They can do it at their own table and chair, they can use the playhouse loft area or even lie on a beanbag by an open window. They can use their imagination as they do in their play, because in a certain way, doing homework in their outdoor playhouse is a form of play.

A Satisfying Familiarity

You can design a form of rewarding your son or daughter, such as each homework hour could be rewarded with an extra hour playing in the kids playhouse. Or perhaps two hours of play for each hour of homework? Maybe they can save up the hours earned for a whole day in their outdoor playhouse some weekend. That is one way of teaching your child time management and responsibility.

Nevertheless, even if you dont apply any reward scheme, your children will love using a kid’s playhouse for their homework. It appears so adult to them, doing their own work in their own small house just like mummy and daddy do, and a kids playhouse or, wooden playhouse can provide you with many benefits connected with your childrens development.

Apart from the social benefits in learning how to get along with other children and share tasks, there are the educational benefits. These are not just connected with the fact that the homework actually gets done properly, and not rushed just before teatime or bedtime.

An appreciation of how to use their time properly is a definite benefit, and so is the concept of work bringing rewards. These concepts will help throughout their entire time in education, from junior school, through high school to university or college. If your children can develop from an early age the concepts of the importance of focusing their study during quiet time and of the rewards that such study bring, then they will be a good foundation for their future, and you will have done well as a parent.

It is amazing how varied the benefits of outdoor playhouses or a kids playhouse can be, and by installing a wooden playhouse in your backyard you will not only make your kids love you for it, but will also be laying the foundation for a sound academic future.

Building Permit Required For A Kids Outdoor Playhouse

We as consumers of Wooden Outdoor Playhouses should always be informed to what our by-laws are in our area, and what the parameters are for your kid’s playhouse. Otherwise we could be faced with more expenses then expected. This article touches on playhouse permit topic and talks about the author briefly.

 

Permit Required For A  Wooden Playhouse?

Most jurisdictions don’t require you to have a building permit for a kid’s playhouse as long as the building is around 110sqft or less. I would still recommend you contact your local office and check to see what the legal limits are for your area (zoning / permits). In Canada check your local municipality office, they will guide you through everything, just remember all information about your proposed playhouse. This is why in the earlier article; I said that it is important to plan where you want to put the outside playhouse. Never listen to anyone that says it doesn’t matter where you put it because months down the road you will be wishing I should have put here!  You can move after but why the headache. In most cases obtaining a permit is very simple.

Squaring Your Kids Playhouse For The Do-It-Yourself-er

Use The 3-4-5 Triangulation Method

Now measure along the line 3 feet from the first stake A, and mark the string at this point. From stake A, run a second line perpendicular to the first. Measure out 4 feet to locate point C. If this second line is exactly at a right angle to the first, the diagonal line between A & C will be 5 feet. If not, move point C left or right until the diagonal measures 5 feet and stake that point.

And lots of fun and luck with your kid’s playhouse project please email us!

Authors Brief

My name is Gary Whipple I have about 16 years in residential carpentry experience, with about 4 years in home renovations. I had a forest accident a few years ago in which my knee was badly damaged and limited my physical work to part-time. After this I pursued a post secondary education in Structural drafting and design (Auto Cad) this enhanced my experiences as a carpenter and design experience. I free lance draft and design now. I draw or build anything from a houses, barns to a playhouses. I also write articles as a hobby.

I am familiar with some of the software out there, and there is a lot of it. I like to use this software to design my own projects with my family, which there is nothing in the world more gratifying, You don’t have to be good at using computers. If you have the right software it makes it very easy for everybody to use, so don’t get hung up on that please don’t! Just worry about making it a family project.

I hope you  build a wooden  playhouse because I enjoyed building a one with my children very much. With a small job like this you will see the rewards quickly.

To sum up the true importance is to make a “kids outdoor playhouse” a family project, because the kid(s) will take personal pride in it; especially if they know they contributed to the construction of it. They will learn a thing or two from the kids playhouse project as well, and its good quality time spent with the kid(s). They will remember it for the rest of their lives and take refuge every time life throws them a curve ball.