Outdoor Play & Entertaining

Kids’ Playhouse Ideas – simple ways to give your backyard playhouse a makeover and take it from “so-so” to the coolest hang-out on the block.  When I was a kid, my backyard playhouse was the favourite hide-out for me and all the kids on my street.  My dad built it. […]

Ghost mud was the perfect thing to make today, on this last day of October, to celebrate Hallowe’en.  I first read about ghost mud over at Teacher Tom’s. Grate a bar of Ivory soap and add it to about 1 cup of hot water.  Stir it around a few times […]

It’s been absolutely gorgeous here this week!  Hot and summer-like and it’s only March!  We’ve been spending our days outside, and these temps have been perfect for getting messy and playing with water, so we set up a shaving cream car wash yesterday. I covered the lid of a storage […]

An Ocean Sensory Bin was the perfect thing for the kids to play with today. It’s been super-hot here this week, so I’ve been setting up lots of creative water play activities for the hooligans. I’ve had  an Ocean sensory bin in mind for a long time.  In fact, it was […]

A homemade water wall is a fantastic addition to a backyard play space!  With a few scraps and some recyclables, you can provide hours of learning, entertainment and water play for your toddler or preschooler! A couple of years ago, I was so inspired by all of the water walls featured […]

8 simple outdoor activities for toddlers and preschoolers to play in your own backyard! If you’re looking for simple outdoor activities for young children, you are going to love it here!  I have so many ideas for simple outdoor play on my site! Much of our time is spent outdoors […]

More sidewalk chalk activities: three of our favourite ways to have fun with sidewalk chalk! Playing with sidewalk chalk is one of our favourite ways to have fun outdoors.  Here are three of the hooligans’ very favourite sidewalk chalk activities.  These are old photos, and the chalk in these photos […]

Playing with shaving cream and food colouring:  an easy and affordable way to have some awesome messy fun! We’re all about shaving cream activities this week!  It’s such an amazing sensory substance, and you can do so much with it!  So far we’ve had a shaving cream car-and-truck-wash, and mixed […]

Shaving cream sensory play with glitter and small toys – a wonderful messy play experience! We were playing with shaving cream and food colouring last week, and it was a big hit (even though it was dollar store shaving cream, and absolutely horrible, drippy,sloppy stuff). Well, this week we were playing […]

A fall leaf labyrinth is a wonderful way for your kids to explore and play in the leaves in Autumn. Not only is a  fall leaf labyrinth a lot of fun to make, your kids will have a great time playing in it!  It’s a great excuse to get outside for […]