| Today, even from a young age, children are | | | | How would you like to wake up your imagination |
| subjected to all the latest crazes, many of which | | | | by letting your children or grandchildren tell you |
| mean they spend more time in doors, how would | | | | about how much fun they had today in their |
| you like it if they wanted to spend more time | | | | playhouse and exactly what it had become. If you |
| outdoors? | | | | tell your children the playhouse is a magic place, |
| Remember when you were young, games | | | | that it can transform into whatever they want it |
| consoles weren't even invented (well they weren't | | | | to be, you will be amazed with the things they |
| when I was a child), children played all sorts of | | | | dream up. |
| games outdoors, they used their imagination to | | | | I know children sometimes get more fun out of |
| conjure up all manner of exciting things to do. | | | | the box that something came in than with |
| A playhouse in one form or another could be | | | | whatever was in the box, so they don't need a |
| anything from a hideaway, somewhere to play | | | | playhouse to be particularly fancy, it just needs to |
| cowboys and Indians, have a tea party for little | | | | be safe. |
| friends, it could become the cockpit of an airplane, | | | | Playhouses don't need to be expensive either, |
| an imaginary car, a truck, a fire engine or | | | | with a few basic tools and some timber and |
| spaceship. Somewhere just to play house and do | | | | fixings from the local hardware store you can |
| all the things they watch you do in your house. | | | | make your own. And you will have as much fun |
| Children love places to crawl in and out of, they | | | | building it as your children will playing in it. |
| love their own space, a playhouse can be so | | | | What's more you can get your children to help |
| many things, things we have forgotten about as | | | | you build it, now wouldn't that be so much fun for |
| our imagination may not be as active as it once | | | | all of you? |
| was. | | | | |