Kids will love pretend play all summer long in this easy-to-create Outdoor Playscape! Come take a peak at the the different ways to play!
Outdoor Playscape
I love creating areas where my kids can dive into a world of their own and let their imaginations soar! I have always created these playscapes inside, but in the spring we created an outdoor playscape. It evolved as we rearranged where our kid’s playhouse would go. And we created it all (with the exception of some extra bags of dirt) from things we had laying our our house/attic anyway!
My kids love helping me plant our gardens. But they are always disappointed they don’t get to plant & replant. So out of scrap boards my husband created their own garden. I laminated some seed pictures for them to use as seed packets or labels. They kids can use their shovel, rakes, hand tools, and gloves to move the dirt around and plant/dig up veggies to their hearts content!
The house itself is seated on 2 scrap boards my husband had leftover from another project. They make a great foundation for the house & porch! You can see in the picture I painted part of the boards with leftover green spray paint to look like grass. Then I painted the other side red and used a black sharpie to make bricks for their front walk & porch. Inside the house we put an old indoor/outdoor rug we had laying around to give them a carpeted house. And we moved some of our play dishes in the house.
Summer Activities for Kids
Around the house we put leftover white picket fence that use to be around a garden bed. Now it gives their house a pretty look and makes it a a home of their own. I used an extra planter box outside their window. There are silk flowers they can plant/replant as they like. Minnie is VERY into flowers right now.
I even added some bugs to our garden. Tinker bell LOVED digging out the bugs!
Here is Minnie relaxing on her porch, enjoying her new garden. It was so simple and fun to put together. My kids are delighted – bring on those lazy summer days!
Preschool Activities
- DIY Foam Paint for Kids
- EASY Science Activities for Preschoolers
- Baking Soda Slime
- Watermelon Slime Activity
- Printable Road Shapes Activity
- Glow in the Dark Fairy Jar
- Color Changing FLowers Experiment
- Painting with Cars
- Easy-to-Make Balloon Hovercraft
- Super Cool Scribble Draw Bot
- Edible Peanut Butter Playdough
- Egg Shell DIY Chia Pet Craft – Silly Spring / Summer Activities for Kids
- Grass Head Craft for Kids
- EASY Stained Glass Pasta Art for Kids
- Race Track Pool Noodle Activity
- Starry Night Project with Tin Foil
- Blow GIANT bubbles with this Homemade Bubble Solution
- DIY Foosball Table
- Lots of fantastic Books for Preschoolers
- 30 Fun June Crafts for Kids
- Must try Lego Zipline
- Fizzy Planets Solar System Project
- Free Printable Doctor Pretend Play
Summer Fun
Looking for more outdoor activities for kids and things to do in the summer? Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids will love these fun ideas to keep them busy all summer long:
- Marshmallow Shooters – go over 30 feet!
- Lemon Volcano is a fun Summer Experiment for kids of all ages
- Silly Bandaid Art Craft for kids
- 2 ingredient Easy Slime Recipe
- Epic Squirt Gun Painting
- Super Simple Sand Slime
- How to Make a Lava Lamp – it’s super EASY!
- Kids will no nuts over this simple Pop Rock Experiment
- Leak Proof Bag – Amazing Science Experiment with Everyday Materials
- Mind-Blowing Magnetic Slime for Kids
- Water Balloon Experiment – exploring densit with an EPIC summer activity for kids
- Amazing Bubble Painting
- Mind Blowing Color Changing Playdough
Free Beach Printables
Looking for more summer beach themed printable worksheets and activities for kids? You will love these free resources:
- Free I Spy Beach Printable
- Sandcastle Math Subraction Craft
- Summer Beach Coloring Pages
- Lots of Beach Worksheets to practice a variety of math and literacy skills
- Sandcastle Activities – Count & Trace Worksheets
- Free Printable Summer preschool math worksheets
- Seashell Summer Letter Maching Printable
- Practice counting and tracing with these cute Sandcastle Number Tracing
- Letter Tracing Sandcastle Printable
- Summer Worksheets for Preschool
Summer Worksheets
These pages will allow you to get in some low-prep practice with a variety of math from telling time, counting, writing numbers, number recognition, and more!
- Crab Preschool Summer Math Worksheets
- Ice Cream Math Worksheets
- Summer Math Puzzle Worksheets
- Garden theme Telling Time Worksheets pdf free
- Kindergarten Summer Math Worksheets
- Free Printable Summer Scavenger Hunt
- Summer Printable Activity Sheets
- Hands-on Summer Skip Counting Puzzles
- Fun Summer Activity Sheets
- Preschool Number Coloring Pages for Summer
- Summer Kindergarten Worksheets to work on math
- Pool Summer Worksheets Preschool
Camping & Smores Printables
- Smore Kindergarten Math Worksheets
- Math Camping Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Free Camping Tracing Worksheets
- Smore Complete Sentence Game
- Pratical Advice and Tips for Camping with Kids
- 10 Campfire Games to play around the fire
- Smore Skip Counting Activities
- Camping Worksheets to work on math and literacy skills with kindergartners
- Camping Theme for a weeks worth of educational activities for kids of all ages
- Smores Rhyming Words Activity
- Counting camping math activities for preschoolers
- Printable Marshmallow Template Ten Frame Activity
- Name Recognition Camping Craft Preschool
Summer worksheets for kindergarten
Looking for more fun, summer theme educational activities for prek and kinders? Check out these free summer printables!
- Summer alphabet picture puzzles
- Pail and Shovel Summer Alphabet Letter Game for Summer
- Summer Handwriting Worksheets
- Hands-on Ice Cream Compound Word Activity
- Summer Playdough Mats
- Water Gun Parts of Speach Game
- Playdough Watermelon Seed Counting Activity
- Summertime Dot Art Printables
- Cute Flip Flip Letter Matching
- Free Printable Bubble Math Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Beach Ball and Pool Writing Numbers 1-20 Kindergarten
Summer Math
- Summer Counting Clip Cards
- Printable Kindergarten Summer Math
- Grill and Count Summer Playdough Mats
- free printable ice cream sundae template to 20 Activity
- Pirate Number Sense Games
- Hands-on Playdough Ice Cream Patter Printable
- I Spy Ice Cream Activity SHeets
- Hot Dogs number words activities for kindergarten
- Count to 20 with these Watermelon Watermelon Seed Counting Activity
- Count to 10 vegetable counting worksheet
- Counting Animals Worksheets
- Fishing Math Craft is a fun Number Craft Activities
- Strawberry Picking Summer Rhyming Activity
- Summer Color by Number Worksheets
Summer Printables
- Free Bubble word family sort printable
- Practice Tracing Letters with this summer themed Ice Cream Alphabet Printable
- Swimming Goggles matching upper and lowercase letters game
- Seeds Find the Letter Worksheets
- Garden Seeds Adding to 10 – Addition Games Printable
- Work on phonics skills with these alphabet popsicles beginning sound activity for summer
- Surfboard opposites game printable
- Zoo Color by Number Animals
- Summer Sun Maze Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheets
Summer Learning
- Grab these Free Printable Summer Bookmarks and a book off our Kindergarten Book List
- Counting Firefly Math Worksheets
- Firefly Math making 10 free printable
- Watermelon Watermelon Rhyming Words
- Practice making letters with this hands-on Watermelon Printables
- Learn about the life cycle of a dreaded summer bug with Mosquito Worksheets
- Discover this helpful insect with the life cycle of a bee worksheets
- Free Plant Life Cycle Worksheets
- Learn about life cycles with these ladybug life cycle worksheet
Summer Theme
- Practice letter tracing on these cheery summer alphabet tracing
- Work on writing with these summer writing prompts ,Build and Write Lego Writing Promtps, or these Pineapple wrting [printables.
- Summer Hat Craft Printable Template
- Bee Ten frame addition worksheets
- June Coloring Pages
- Number Sense Butterfly Math Activities for Preschoolers
Responses
I know this post was from a while ago but was interested in your white picket fence and where you purchased it… If you remember! The design of it fits what I’m looking for, perfectly! Thanks.
We purchased it at Menards….. a looooooong time ago 😉 If they still sell it, it would be in their outdoor fence area.
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