{"id":466,"date":"2009-08-07T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T08:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcity.wordpress.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-07-07T23:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:51:37","slug":"vinyl-playhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/vinyl-playhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginations Go Wild With a Vinyl\u00a0Playhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Images\/3L\/vinyl-playhouse-window-rollup.jpg?resize=267%2C323\" alt=\"Vinyl Playhouse Window\" width=\"267\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forgotten toys, broken toys, and toys chewed by the dog are usually what we find at the bottom of the <a title=\"Swing Set Kits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Swing-Set-Kits-Do-It-Yourself.htm\" target=\"_blank\">swing set<\/a> club house in our backyard.\u00a0 The &#8220;toy graveyard,&#8221; we call it, and they end up there when my husband needs to mow the lawn.\u00a0 Any toys that are strewn across the yard get tossed under the swing set to clear the way for the mower.\u00a0 As my son gets older, his powers of imagination grow, and I realize that the\u00a0poorly used space underneath the swing set club house could be better put to use to help encourage that imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, we chucked out all of the old, broken toys and found a proper home for the still usable toys.\u00a0 Then, we created an enclosed <a title=\"Custom Vinyl Playhouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Swing-Set-Accessories\/Custom-Vinyl-Playhouse.htm\" target=\"_blank\">vinyl playhouse<\/a> thanks to some custom-fitted vinyl material.\u00a0 What a difference that made!\u00a0 My son calls this new play area his &#8220;cabin.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He furnished it with some kid-sized chairs and a small table, and so far, he has imagined any number of interesting scenarios.\u00a0 He pretends that his new vinyl playhouse is a store, a storm shelter, a castle, a tree house.\u00a0 The vinyl playhouse has become his magical spot for imagining that anything is possible.\u00a0 Plus, it gets him out of the house and into the fresh air!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-467  aligncenter\" title=\"vinyl-playhouse\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vinyl-playhouse.jpg?resize=399%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Imaginations Go Wild!\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vinyl-playhouse.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vinyl-playhouse.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten toys, broken toys, and toys chewed by the dog are usually what we find at the bottom of the swing set club house in our backyard.\u00a0 The &#8220;toy graveyard,&#8221; we call it, and they end up there when my husband needs to mow the lawn.\u00a0 Any toys that are strewn across the yard get tossed under the swing set to clear the way for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/vinyl-playhouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imaginations Go Wild With a Vinyl\u00a0Playhouse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[272,533,563],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backyard-fun","category-healthy-ideas","tag-kids","tag-swing-sets","tag-vinyl-playhouses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Nnyf-7w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2880,"url":"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/childhood-obesity-prevention\/","url_meta":{"origin":466,"position":0},"title":"Childhood Obesity Prevention","author":"Trey Collier","date":"March 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Entice Outdoor Play With a Vinyl Playhouse Are you surprised to know that one out of three kids are now considered overweight or obese in the United States? 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