Outdoor toys for the win…

[fruitfly3]

The sun is shining, Spring is springing and the children are ready for 6 months of me saying ‘it’s lovely outside, why don’t you…..?’ every time they go near the TV.

We have a little tradition of gifting outdoor toys as an Easter gift. What are your absolute summer-long winners? My children are 9 & 6 and we’ve tried quite a lot of stuff shared below.

Our winners;
trampoline
huge beach ball
bikes / scooters
football / goals
bouncy balls
Bubbles
reusable water bombs
skipping ropes and hoops
frisbee

also tried;
pump rocket (loved for 5 mins and then broken / lost etc)
rounders bat

I got a foam plane launcher from Amazon which is great fun.

Also ‘sticky dodgeball’ - although can easily turn a bit violent.

@MidnightPatrol thank you. Will look up stick dodgeball (warning notes 😆). We’ve had the foam rocket launcher but they get so quickly lost or the blue tube wanders off etc. I thought they’d be solid for us but lasted 2 days 🤷‍♀️

Spikeball?
Otherwise mine have enjoyed an elaborate pulley system - homemade but good fun. The move stuff all around the garden on it like a series of cable cars.

Swing ball

Will look spikeball up. Swingball is a definite possibility - is there a particularly robust sort (many look a bit plastic these days). @Muckypig that sounds amazing - did you
make it? X

@fruitfly3 yep, our garden is on a slight slope so we have a couple of pulley wheels at the top and bottom for a cable car type thing and then a hoist system as well. All sorts gets sent up and down 😂

Mud kitchen has kept my two busy for years. They’re 6 and 10 and play with it all the time

Pogo stick
Wobble board
Netball hoop
Swingball
Pedal Go (harder than it looks)
Pindaloo
Diabolo

The canal water tray

Brilliant thank you all - looking everything up

Skippit
badminton net
netball hoop

Mud kitchen, chalk and homemade chalk board painted on plywood, hula hoops, summer house.