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Stay Active With Your Kids This Summer! 50 Outdoor Activities To Do With Your Children

Stay Active With Your Kids This Summer! 50 Outdoor Activities To Do With Your Children

May 21, 2014 |

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Does it get much better than summertime? 

I love when the weather gets warmer, the days get longer, and you can spend more and more time outside! As a parent I totally understand that summer vacation can be somewhat of a two-edge sword: so nice that everyone is finally out of school, but now what the heck do we do with our time to fill up our days? To answer this question, I’ve come up with this list of 50 of my favorite activities to do outdoors with the little monkeys!! As a bonus the majority of these activities you do right alongside with your kiddos – a fantastic way to boost your activity level throughout the summer months as well!

Hope you find these ideas useful, and bring on summertime!



1. Go for a bike ride (Bonus – set up a bike obstacle course!)


2. Climb a tree

3. Slip and slide in the backyard

4. Start a rock collection – compare what you find with what your kids find!

5. Backyard baseball

6. Splash pad

7. Go on a photo safari – Let them take your old digital camera on your next walk and see what pictures they capture.

8. Rollerskating

9. Hopscotch

10. Jump rope

11. Play basketball (Horse, Around-The-World, just shoot hoops, etc)

12. Kickball

13. Throw a frisbee

14. Go for a hike

15. Go for a walk

16. Blow bubbles

17. Ultimate frisbee

18. Tag / Freeze tag

19. Backyard bowling

20. Play night games (capture the flag, kick the can, hide and seek were among my favorites)

21. Run through the sprinkler

22. Play at the park

23. Go to a children’s museum

24. Play hide and go seek

25. Throw rocks in the lake. You’d be really surprised at how long your kids (especially those of us with sons!) can do this and be entertained!

26. Do sidewalk masterpieces with chalk

27. Play soccer

28. Jump on the trampoline

29. Have a water balloon fight

30. Play football

31. Squirt guns

32. Go on a nature treasure hunt (find rocks, sticks, bugs, etc.) One of my kids’ favorites!

33. Let them wash your car (Warning – you’ll probably have to re-wash it!)


34. Go to a waterpark


35. Go on a picnic lunch and feed the ducks

36. Hula hoop

37. Fly a kite

38. Explore a stream


39. Build your own zucchini boat and have races down stream (flashback to my childhood). Hollow out zucchini and build sales/masts out or toothpicks and popsicle sticks.


40. Go to the zoo

41. Go to an amusement park


42. One word – golf! The driving range and putting green are fun places to start


43. Let them help with yardwork (pulling weeds, picking rocks out of flowerbeds, etc.)


44. Paint the sidewalk with water

45. Go camping in the backyard. There’s something about kids and tents – they LOVE them!

46. Play in the sandbox

47. Paint rocks with watercolors

48. Make a nature collage. Tape whatever your kids find (flowers, grass, small rocks, etc) onto a piece or paper.

49. Flashlight tag at night

50. Go mini golfing


Don’t get hit by the summertime blues! Put a stop to “I’m bored” and “there’s nothing to do” with some of these amazing outdoor activities. Get out and get active and make some memories that your kids will cherish forever!


What did I leave off the list? What’s your favorite way to stay active outdoors with your family? Leave a comment below!!



Make it happen,


Jared


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By Jared Beckstrand

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Jared

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