Showing posts with label summerkidsactivities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summerkidsactivities. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2009

Miniature Golf Kids Activity

Miniature Golf is fun for kids and adults of all ages. It helps with hand eye coordination too. This miniature golf idea is for young children. It's simple and uses many things you may have in your home.

You may not have all the items listed below, but use our ideas and add some of your own as well. You may use these ideas to play either inside or outside.

You may use a golf ball or any little rubber bouncy ball you may have. If you have a golf putter let the kids use that or even a small bat or a stick will do.

Miniature Golf Kids Ideas

Pinwheel Lane
You can either buy or make some pinwheels. Here is a link on how to make a
PINWHEEL. Line your pinwheels up in a zigzag line, and have the kids putt their ball zigzagging around through the pinwheels.
Teddy Bear Mountain
Make a blanket look like a small mountain, and pile your teddy bears on top of the mountain. Then have the children, hit their balls around the mountain.

Doll Parade
Line your dolls (or stuffed animals) up in two lines, like their marching down a parade. Have the kids hit their ball down through the middle of the two lines of dolls.

Popcorn Junction
Either buy a box of popcorn, or pop some popcorn and put it into a bowl or two. Have the children hit their way around popcorn junction.

Train Circle
If you have a train. set it up so that the children can hit the ball under the train. If there is a bridge or two, that would be best. If you cannot use a train set, you could draw one on some cardboard and make a tunnel with some poster board or card stock.

Flag Memorial
Have some flags that you can poke into the ground to have the children zigzag their way through. If you do not have flags you can make some by coloring on some white paper towels and taping them to a stick.
If you are doing this inside, use an empty cereal box to poke the flags into, and hit your ball through the box. Lemonade Pass
Have two pitchers of Lemonade that they must hit their balls through. After the activity they can have a nice glass of lemonade to drink.

Banana Monkey Junction
If you have a stuffed monkey have him sitting there with a bowl of bananas that the kids can eat after their activity. Have them hit their balls around banana monkey junction.


Rabbit Hole or Log

To end your adventure use an empty cleaned out soup can. It's best to use the kind of can opener that just releases the seal of the lid, and doesn't cut the lid, that way nobody will get cut. If you have a place you can stick the can in the ground for the rabbit hole, that would be fun for the kids to hit their ball into the rabbit hole.
If you cannot put it into the ground, make your can look like a log. You may cover it with brown colored paper and put lines on it to look like a log. Then have them hit their ball into the rabbit hole in the log.

I have some signs that you can cut out and tape to a popsicle stick and put in the ground next to the obstacle. Download Signs. You may cover them in contact paper if you wish.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Water Softball Kids Activity

Water softball is a great and fun activity to get everyone together to have a good time. Kids will love playing this game and getting wet while doing so too.

For this Game and Summer time activity you need to split your group into two teams.

Have bucket full of water for each base and either a slip and slide or a kiddie pool for home plate.


The pitcher has a bucket of water and a sponge ball. Before each throw the pitcher dunks the ball

in water.

The batter has a plastic bat, and the infielders don't need a mitt.

Just use softball rules except the runners stick their foot in the buckets of water. A slip and slide is

fun for home plate because you can slide into home.
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Water Sponge Dodgeball Kids Game

For this fun Game and Summer time water sponge dodgeball activity you need to split your group into two teams.

- Have a few buckets full of water for each team.

- Have three or four large sponge balls.

- Dip the balls in water and line them up in a line down the middle between the two teams.

- Have the two teams line up facing each other, and blow a whistle or say GO to start the game.

- The teams run for the balls and throw them at each other having each team stay on their own side.
- Team members may dip the balls in the buckets of water to keep them wet.

- Once a person is hit by a ball they are out.

- The team with players left without being hit is the winner.