Toddlers who live next door to each other can finally play together after a mother transformed a section of her garden fence into a perspex window
- Siblings Arlo and Arabella Devonport, from Yorkshire, can now play with friend
- Mother Amy Vickers decided to make a hole on their communal fence in garden
- She had hole fitted with a protective perspex window so the children can play
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A mother has transformed a section of her garden fence into a perspex window in order to allow her toddlers to play with their friend who lives next door amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Siblings Arlo and Arabella Devonport, three and two, from Wakefield, Yorkshire, had been missing their friend and next-door neighbour Leo Adlington, three, during the Covid-19 lockdown when their mother Amy Vickers, 27, came up with a solution.
Ms Vickers decided to make a hole on their communal fence, between their gardens, in order for the children to play with one another and after Leo’s mother Becca agreed, they set to work in order to carry out the construction.
The creation has allowed the three children to safely play together without touching.
Siblings Arlo (right with friend Leo Adlington) and Arabella Devonport, three and two, from Wakefield, Yorkshire, have had a Perspex window fitted in their garden fence
The toddlers (pictured together) had been missing their friend who lives next door when their mother decided to find a solution to the problem
Mother Amy Vickers (left with Arlo and right with Arabella), 27, decided to make a hole on their communal fence
They can even draw pictures for each other and play noughts and crosses using wipeable markers.
Ms Vickers, a support worker, who lives with partner Danny, 30, said: ‘Arlo and Arabella have been finding it hard not seeing anyone during lockdown.
‘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 neighbour’s garden which is clearly dangerous.
‘Instead of them climbing up, we decided to make them a little window so they would be able to stand there and see their friend next door.
‘We measured the fence and then ordered a perspex panel on eBay, cut into the fence panel with a circular saw and drilled some holes in each corner so we could screw some screws into it to hold it in place.
‘At least now the children can see each other and chat through the window.
The creation now allows the toddler friends to see and play with one another amid the coronavirus lockdown. Pictured: Arlo playing with neighbour Leo
The perspex window, which is placed between both garden, allows the friends to play together
Mother Amy Vickers (pictured with partner Danny, Arlo and Arabella) said she measured the fence and then ordered a perspex panel on eBay
‘We also bought wipe board markers so they now draw pictures on it and we’ve been teaching them to play naughts and crosses on it as well.
‘The kids are at the window all day every day when we are at home so I guess they love it!’
The touching scenes come as the UK looks to ease out of the coronavirus lockdown.
On Sunday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the country to go back to work and set out his tentative three-stage ‘exit plan’.
In a TV address to the nation from Downing Street, the PM paid tribute to the ‘sacrifice’ of Britons in reining in the killer disease and asked those who could not work from home to return to their jobs.
He added that people will be able to exercise as often as they like and sunbathe in parks as long as they abide by social distancing rules.