We love getting out in the garden in all weathers, but we especially love to be out when the weather is as gorgeous as it has been recently. Apparently we have another week yet before we see any more rain up here. So I have put together our 5 favourite fun garden activities for kids.
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5 Garden Activities For Kids
Create a Water Wall.
This can be as creative or simple as you like. We chose to make a frame from cheap wood to attach it to our fence, but you can just tie the pieces onto a board which you can lean against the wall. This is a pic of our wall, but check out Pinterest for other water wall ideas!
Chalk Tracks For Trains Or Cars.
This has been a regular occurrence throughout the years with my oldest, he now loves to add lots of extra decoration to his tracks, including canals, bike tracks and boats. We have also used timber pieces from old pallets to arrange tracks around the garden, I love watching his imagination at work.
Water Play
Water play can be as simple as a bowl of water and some stones to drop in, or a stick to stir items in the water. We had fun creating our own DIY water sprinkler with just a plastic bottle taped onto the end of the hose with 4 small holes (the smaller and fewer holes the higher the pressure and the better the water sprinkles)
Get The Tuff Spot Out.
We love our Tuff spot and have had a lot of fun playing with different ideas outside in the garden. From piles of soil to dig for treasure to coloured spaghetti and frog ponds, it’s really a fantastic place to play on. Check out some of our Tuff spot ideas here and here.
Water Balloon Painting
This was one of the boys favourite activities and we will be doing it again this year! Filling water balloons with paint and splatting them on the pavement was so much fun, read more about it here.
What are your children’s favourite garden activities?
Georgina says
Oh this is such a fab post, I was just thinking we need to get more creative and boom you deliver 😉 some great ideas and I need a tuff tray, where can I order one? Thanks for sharing and the chalk track lines are going to go down a treat 🙂 #WhateverTheWeather
Hannah G, The 'Ordinary' Mum says
Oh I love all of these!! Our toddler would have the best time with the water balloon painting, I hadn’t heard of a Tuff spot before but it looks like a fab idea, definitely going to look into that now. Thanks for hosting lovely #whatevertheweather x
Sarah says
Great ideas here. I have not heard of tuff spot but it looks very cool. The bottle sprinkler is genious!! I’m always trying to find ways to re-use things and this is great.
Sarah #WhateverTheWeather
The Reading Residence says
I love the water wall! Mine like water play, the tuff spot and chalking, as well as mudpie kitchen, bikes and balls, and I just know they’d have fun with that wall!
Sarah - Craft Invaders says
All these ideas are fab Jenny – the spaghetti colours are unreal! Although my kids are older, I think they’d still love to play with all these things lol
Nadia - ScandiMummy says
Such great ideas. Will try out some of these with my little boy! Thank you for sharing #whatevertheweather
Nadia – ScandiMummy x
Sophie says
I’m really inspired now, could do with some kids garden activities and I particularly like the idea of the water wall!
Sophie x
Katy - Hot Pink Wellingtons says
Thanks for this – I’m so glad I read this today! My little boy is just the right age now to start doing more of these kinds of activities and I am somewhat lacking in the creativity department – these ideas are fab! #Whatevertheweather
Kaye says
Great ideas, my A would absolutely love the water wall! #whatevertheweather
Michelle says
SO many great ideas! I have been wanting to create a water wall for my girls. Water balloon painting also looks like a lot of fun.
Lace says
Seriously, these garden ideas make my attempts at working on phonics with sidewalk chalk look like…(I have to pun it) mere child’s play. Haha, can you tell it’s past our bedtime, here? Thank you so much for these ideas to add to our backyard fun-time this summer! The painted balloons will be a new fave, surely! And thank you for such a rad link-up! #whatevertheweather X, Lace
Emma says
ohh there are some ideas here I hadn’t thought of 🙂 thanks for sharing! I want to do a water wall in our new house – well new garden! and a mud kitchen! #Whatevertheweather
Merlinda Little (Glimmer of Hope) says
We always habe chalks! I think its so awesome that you can create art and then when itrains itll be gone and you can create another one again and again! #whatevertheweather
Lauren (The Helpful Hiker) says
Love these ideas! I’ve been trying to think of ways of spending more time in our garden. I was planning on getting Finn to help me grow some herbs and tomatoes but think he’s find messy play more fun! I’m going to get us a Tuff spot-what a fantastic idea and so simple. Thanks for the inspiration #whatevertheweather
Erin @Nourishing My Scholar says
I love these ideas, especially the water wall! #whatevertheweather
Alice Project: Wanderlust says
Our friends have just build a rather wall and mud kitchen – my girls are begging for one too now!
Helena says
I am loving the sunshine and these activities look perfect for the kids. #whatevertheweather
Clare's Little Tots says
That water balloon painting looks so much FUN! and I love the addition of plastic bottles on your water wall 🙂
Plutonium Sox says
Oh some gorgeous ideas there, I particularly love the water balloon painting, I think we might have to give that a go!
Nat.x
Cornish Kids says
Love the exploding paint idea! We also have a tuff spot and love it, somehow having a space like that sparks lots of activity ideas. #whatevertheweather
Claire at Tin Box Traveller says
Tin Box Tot loves anything to do with water. Where did you get your tough spot from? I’d love to do more messy play for my girls but can’t abide the thought of the mess spreading 🙂 #whatevertheweather
lizzie ( firstooth ) says
Really great ideas. I don’t feel good about my toddlers let loose with paint water balloons, they’d probably eat them or throw it at a window but maybe if I skipped the paint they’d love it! The coloured spaghetti looks fun too I’ve never heard of a Tuff before. I love playing outside with the kids they seem far happier. Thanks for hosting #whatevertheweather
Cindy says
Great list! I’ve been looking for new water play ideas and the water wall and DIY sprinkler are fantastic! #WhatevertheWeather
Chloe says
This is such a great list!!! Some really perfect ideas here. I really want to get a tuff spot. They look amazing and you can use them for so many things. The water wall sounds really fab too!!!! X