Shaving Foam Painting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  This week we did a little shaving foam painting in the chilly sunshine.  A little messy, but a fun sensory way to paint.

Worm Hunting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  Slightly later than usual due to pregnancy brain and chickenpox (the boys not me!).  But, we've been outside!

In an attempt to collect some of the leaves covering our garden Dude and I ventured outside the other day, but instead of helping me with the leaves he got way too distracted by a worm!!

Treasure Hunt in the Dark! (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outside with kids this week then why not link up what you've been up to?  Our Winter so far has been very mild, but very wet and it gets dark by about 4.30pm, so its not my ideal outdoor play environment to say the least!  But, today I was determined to get outside rain or shine and enjoy the darker evenings.

Leaf Collection and Collage (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outdoors playing with kids then please do link up.  This week we did a bit of leaf collecting in the garden, plenty of leaves to choose from as you can't actually see the grass for leaves at the moment!  But, Little Dude who had been ill early in the week seemed to enjoy the opportunity to be outdoors.

What to do outdoors in the rain? (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to the Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outdoors playing with kids then please do link up, we'd love to share your ideas.  It's done nothing but rain here recently and I've been a bit stumped for ideas for outdoor play in the rain, so I've had a dig through the archives and come up with some great activities that we've done before that we are going to do again!  Read on to find out more....

Treasure Hunting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've played outside with kids this week then please do link up.  This week we've been treasure hunting, we walk a lot and this activity is guaranteed to keep our Pre-schooler walking!

Potion Making (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  The weather here has been rubbish, we've been outside lots, but I haven't set any play stuff up for the boys for ages.  So in a rare ray of sunshine we had some potion making fun.

Our Favorite Fall Activities (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party, if you've played outside with kids this week, why not link up below.  We love Autumn (Fall) and it's a brilliant time of year to get outside, not too hot, not too cold and loads of natural stuff (leaves, conkers, acorns etc) to play with.  So here's a round up of some of our favourite ways to play outside this fall.

Leaf Play (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been playing outdoors with kids this week then don't forget to link up your ideas below.  This week we've been playing with leaves!

Blackberry Splat Painting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back!  It's another exciting Outdoor Play Party, if you've been outside with kids then please do link up your activity ideas below.  This week we've been taking advantage of the last few wild blackberries around and have done some berry splat painting!

Kids Outside (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party.  If you've been outdoors this week then please do link up your post below.  We've been outside loads this summer, but I've not been so great at posting about it, so here are a few of the things the boys got up to during a recent trip to the park, all their own ideas.....

5 fun ways to play outdoors (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  We've been doing heaps of Outdoor Play, but as there were so many great ideas from last link up I thought I'd share a few of my favourites!

Marble Chutes (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  I hope you've had the opportunity to play outdoors this week, if you have then I'd love to see you link up below.  Looking for more outdoor ideas?  Then you've come to the right place, check out all our ideas here.

Last Outdoor Play Party the boys played with marbles and mud this time we made some super simple marble chutes.  Here's how we got on...

Summer Love Books Exchange - Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers

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We love books so have been really excited to take part in The Educator's Spin On It Love Books Exchange.  Basically bloggers are paired up and you each send one another a kids book and related crafts.  We were matched with The Gingerbread House who we sent Aliens Love Underpants (a household favourite) and we received Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers plus no less than FIVE crafts.  Here's how we got on...

Sprinkler Fun (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  I've finally got internet up and running after our house move just in time for the latest Party, phew!  If you've been playing outdoors with your kids this week then why not link below?  In one of the rare outbreaks of sunshine this week we broke out the sprinkler for some water fun.  This is how we got on......

Dragon Hunting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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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.....

Gardening with young kids (& Outdoor Play Party)

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It's Outdoor Play Party again and we've been gardening.  If you've been outside with kids then link up below.

Last year Champ really enjoyed growing tomatoes, then at Preschool he began to enjoy digging up potatoes and declared that he loved gardening so to encourage his new found 3yr old passion I decided that perhaps this year I too should learn to garden.  

It's been fun, we've made lots of mistakes, but I've also learnt lots too namely how to garden with kids.  Here are my top tips for gardening with young kids.

10 Super Simple Ways to Play Outdoors (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Another great Outdoor Play Party today, if you've been outdoors with kids then please link up below or read on to find out my 10 ten simple things to do with kids outside.

We try to get outside everyday, but sometimes I get stuck for things to do.  On those days its always worth remembering that kids love the simple stuff so here's my top ten super, unbelievably, incredibly simple things to do with kids outside!

5 ways to play with tires (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party, if you've played outside this week then please do link up below.   

Recently we had to replace several tyres (tires) on our car, Hubby was not impressed, but having seen lots of exciting play ideas from Learning for Life and Let the Children Play and knew the boys would have great fun playing with the tyres.  This is what they came up with...

Planting with kids - milk jug herbs

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This year we've been enjoying doing a bit of gardening with the boys, mostly fruit and vegetables so I'm delighted to be sharing our milk jug herbs with the Planting with Kids Blog Hop (join up below if you've been planting with kids).

We recycled our milk jugs into plant containers for growing some herbs, here's what we did...