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Showing posts with label outdoor toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoor toys. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

Our outdoor play area (updated)

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Fun noodles and duct tape, curve a beam balance beam  and stepping domes

trampoline, basketball hoop, and play house



please excuse the mud puddle on our roller coaster

tarzan swing, trampo-swing, disc swing

swings and old ride ons


science lab set up

toy kitchen, food coloring, mint and lemon extract, and loose tea for kitchen and science play

outdoor "cooking" set up



coffee grounds, and sand


the mats are 4 years old and have been outdoors so they are not beautiful but work well!

see saw, rocking area

art area

clubhouse climber, picnic tables, sand and coffee ground "pit"


art area

water play "cove"

other side of water play "cove"Add caption

another view of water play "cove"

water table with 2 watering cans and pipe builders water ways from Lakeshore (disassembled right now)

water table with many types of bottles filled with colored water
A few things have been changed around, we no longer have the outdoor fish pond or sand box pool.  The tarp was ripped by hard winds and rain and it really messed up the sand. So right now we have a little sand area on the ground over top of the dirt until next week when I get something else set up for sand with a nice cover. If we had not been hit with such mega rain for days and days... the sand pit would have been fine. We were hot with an entire month of rain and bad storms in the past week. It is tough to have a great place to play outdoors when living in Florida. We get high winds, lots of rain, and storms for days sometimes in the year. We do our best to keep everything all maintained. To fix up the yard and bleach all of the toys it took me 5 full hours of work today. I work hard every week to keep the outdoor play area in tip top shape. Its a lot of hard work but well worth it. My kids learn, grow, play, and enjoy themselves as do their friends!!  That's what counts!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Paint, Bounce, & Explore

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 Graham and Parker have been inventing their own games lately. Here are two from yesterday!
Body Bounce Painting & Sink or Float Submarine

Being super cute


Parker's own invention....  Body Bounce Painting.  He got out the bottles of tempera paint, squired different colors on to the trampoline, then began bouncing, bouncing on his but, rolling, and running through the paint!

Fun and good creativity!!

Feeding the fish

pouring colored water

twisting the lid on

teamwork

Graham decided to test out the action figures to see if they would sink or float

The green man floats, the little man at the bottom sunk



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

a splash of this, a dab of that

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blue paint and water, jars, squirt bottles, colander

sensory balloons, water, tongs, squirt bottle, translucent color circles, and foil leaves

playing with the scrubby brushes

inside the pump bottle is just water and blue paint

mixing, pouring, etc


paint brush







































If it's gonna be THAT kind of party....

back to the bucket of fun

there she is

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