8 Fun Backyard Ideas Kids Will Enjoy

Helen Rose Wilson Garden Design created this whimsical garden just outside London, England, featuring tall-blooming annuals and perennials

Bee and Butterfly Garden

California's Shades of Green Landscape Architecture transformed an unusable front yard slope into a patio with decomposed granite

Family Gathering Courtyard

Haswell Landscaping in Colorado used local rocks and redstone with lichen to create a vibrant, multi-textured pathway leading to a children's playset

Colorado Redrocks

Falling Waters Landscape designed a sandbox for a family with three young children, incorporating it into a garden with concrete, drainage, rock layers

Garden Sandbox

The Urban Garden Project transformed a lot next to a Richmond, Virginia, rowhouse into a family yard with a pool, playset, red balau hardwood fence

Rowhouse Play Space

Thinkterior designed a custom play yard centered around a 15-foot tree with miniature stump stairs, multiple swing levels, a slide, chalkboard, water toys

Kids' Oasis

Dabah Landscape Designs created a cedar play structure with swings, a zip line ending in a circus net, a swinging bridge with rope railings between two treehouses

Zip Line Double Treehouse

GRG Playscapes designed an intimate natural play space using a topped walnut tree in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, creating a whimsical and imperfect design

Walnut Tree House