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Mom Installs Glass Window On Fence So Her Toddlers Can Play Again With Their Friend Next Door

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4 years ago

May 18, 2020

Young Arlo and Arabella playing with neighbour Leo through their perspex window. See SWNS story SWOCperspex. Watch the adorable moment these baby neighbours finally get to play with each other again thanks to their creative parents making a window in their fence. Siblings Arlo, 3, and Arabella, 2, had been struggling during lockdown with not being able to see anyone whilst stuck inside their home in Wakefield. Mum Amy Vickers, 27, decided to get creative to help her young children to still be able to play with friends without breaking lockdown. Her neighbour Becca also has a son, Leo, 3, and after chatting with her, Amy and her partner Danny, 30, made a hole in their communal fence and fixed a perspex window in place so the children could see each other once again.

Playdates are also canceled during the coronavirus outbreak, leaving two English toddlers missing a friend from next door.
Their mom came up with the idea of cutting a hole out of the wooden fence in between their backyards and installing a transparent window for her two kids to see their friend.
The project was a success — playdates are back in session.

Playdates between the children who live next door from each other in England resume after one of the moms converted a section of their wooden fence into a Perspex window.

Arlo and Arabella Devonport, three and two years old, could not play with Leo Adlington who lives next door to their house in Wakefield, Yorkshire. This is after the community quarantine was implemented in their neighborhood.

Amy Vickers came up with the idea of cutting a hole out of the wooden fence in between their backyards and installing a transparent window for her two kids to see their friend. This prepared an arrangement wherein the kids can again play together while observing social distancing rules.

“Arlo and Arabella have been finding it hard not seeing anyone during lockdown,” Amy said. “It got to the point where they were climbing on top of the rabbit cage that we have next to the fence so they could see over it into the neighbor’s garden—which is clearly dangerous.

She requested permission from the next-door neighbors to cut out sections of the wooden fence, intending to prevent the children from climbing the second time.

“We decided to make them a little window so they would be able to stand there and see their friend next door,” she said.

The moms set to work, measuring the fence for the Perspex panel. The fence panel was cut with a circular saw, before drilling holes in each corner for the screws that would hold the glass panel in place. The project was finished without a hitch and in no time, the kids could play together again!