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Go Outside

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This week, I decided to kick-start our creativity a bit when it comes to outside play.This is nothing mind-blowing, but it did add an element of surprise and fun to our day.

I grabbed an envelope, five index cards and our big box of crayons (only because I love drawing with crayons)! I added an outdoor activity to each index card.

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I added: blow bubbles, make mud pies, play hopscotch, go for a walk, and play in the sprinklers.They are all simple, but fun activities for us to do outside.

I put them all in the envelope until it was time to choose. I turned all the cards upside down and had Lizzie choose one for the day.

Today’s activity was “go for a walk.” She loved the surprise and looked forward to it all morning!

Our “Go Outside” cards definitely did the trick in getting us outside and playing.The possibilities are endless and I’m sure I’ll try this again if I feel we need a push to do something a little different.

Here are some other fun card ideas:

Go to the park
Have outdoor story time
Draw with sidewalk chalk
Have a water balloon fight
Go on a picnic
Go rock collecting
Throw Frisbees
Go for a bike ride
Jump rope
Play tag

Go outside and have fun!

Our Sunflower Playhouse

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One of our ongoing projects this summer has been a sunflower playhouse.

We dug up one corner of our fenced-in backyard and planted both sunflower and bean plants. We then defined the area with a border of river rocks. The end goal is to have a fun and natural outdoor playhouse for the girls.

It’s not much to look at… yet. But, the sunflowers are getting bigger and bigger and now we’re starting to see flower buds.

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Most of the flowers are AJ’s height. But, at least one is almost Lizzie’s height!

If the sunflowers are exciting enough yet, we always have rocks to play with!

The walls of our playhouse are getting taller and taller everyday. I think I’m about as eager as the girls are to see the sunflowers start blooming. But, until then, we have plenty to play with and explore in that corner of our yard.