Friday, 7 June 2013

Dragon Hunting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men


Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outside playing with your kids this week then please do link up below.

This week we've been Dragon Hunting!  This activity was all Hubby's idea and involved catapults and colouring, this is what we got up to.....



Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

First of all Hubby drew some pretty awesome dragon pictures.

Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

Then the boys coloured them in, they had a dragon each.  I then hole punched the top two corners and threaded them with string, these were our dragon targets.

Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

Later that day we went to a nearby wooded area with a group of friends.  We found some suitable trees and hung up our dragon targets.

Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

Before getting to the trees we collected lots of pine cones from the ground, so that we had some ammunition.  We got out the catapults (similar to these ones from Amazon - affiliate link)

Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

This was a great activity and everyone had a go, from youngest (Our Little Dude at 20mths) to oldest, yes of course all the adults had a go!

Dragon hunting, colouring, catapulting and enjoying the outdoors from Making Boys Men

Then when the targets came down, someone suggested a new target!

And so, to the Outdoor Play Party.  Last time we had LOADS of great outdoor play ideas.  If you've been playing outside with kids this week then do link up below, doing so gives me and my co-hosts to share one photo with an appropriate link to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.

My favourite link from last time had to be ABC Does' Outstanding Outdoor Spaces.  We are soon to move house and have a small garden that's a completely blank canvas so I'm on the look out for ideas and this post is full of them!







5 comments:

  1. This looks like so much fun, Hannah! Love the photo of the little one with the catapult.

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  2. Love this idea! Once now and once again in a couple years when our youngest is old enough to enjoy such a fun activity!

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  3. Hannha- Your dragon hunting is such a great idea! Please come link it up to Eco-Kids Tuesday! http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2013/06/eco-kids-tuesday_11.html

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  4. I love the idea of a dragon hunt with pictures of dragons, and the catapult is genius _ think we'll be doing this one.

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  5. Oh how cute. It is nice to see that the kids are enjoying this unique game. It also enhance their creativeness and their physical movements. It is also good that there are adults to supervise them when they use the catapults. Dragon hunt is such a wonderful idea to try. Your husband can create good pictures of dragons.

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