My kids are home for the summer! I wanted to come up with some fun things to do with them as well as when friends and family come over. With a trip to the Dollar Store, some backyard games were easily made!
Water Toss
Fill 6 buckets with water. You can use more or less if you like.
Place three of your buckets in a pyramid shape on opposite sides of your yard. You can decide how far apart you want to place them by the age of those playing. Add some water balls and it’s up to you how many each player/team gets.
How to play:
Take turns tossing the balls back and forth. If you land in an opponents bucket that bucket is removed. The winner is determined when all of their opponents buckets are removed.
Optional – On a hot summer day, if your ball lands in the opponents bucket you can dump the bucket of water on your opponent.
Flamingo Ring Toss –
You’ll need 2 flamingos and some diving rings.
Put the flamingos together according to the package instructions.
Stake the flamingos into the ground facing each other. The distance depends on the age of those playing.
The goal is to toss the ring around the flamingo’s neck.
Take turns tossing back and forth until all the rings are on the flamingo’s neck.
You might also like my Frisbee Golf tutorial that you can find here – Frisbee Golf
Or my sprinkler/Mister House which you can find here – Sprinkler/Mister House
Click the video below to see me create this
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Great ideas. I giggled when I saw the flamingos…I’ve always thought their long necks would make a good ring toss — fake flamingos of course!
Thanks Snap 🙂 – love the fake flamingos comment that made me giggle. It’s so true, I have thought the same thing and it was finally time I actually made the thought a reality. Sending hugs!
we love these type of games especially the water games on hot days
Thanks Angie, I’m glad you like them. Thanks for stopping by.
These are such great ideas! I really love water games with the kids in my life. I really like the water toss game that you shared. I look forward to trying this game out soon! I’m sure it’ll be great fun and a great way to cool off!
Thank you Natalie, I love that you want to give it a try. Let me know how it goes 🙂
The flamingo game made me think of Alice in Wonderland, though they use them for crochet in that don’t they?! You have such fun ideas.
Thank you Julie, and You are so right! That was funny and another good idea!
I want to play these myself never mind have the kids play. I like the throwing the bucket of water over the opponent part but we live in Northern Ireland and even with the great summer we are having this year it is not warm enough for that.
Thank you Sandra and I love that you want to play them too. I am so flattered you are reading these from Ireland!
What fun ideas! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Pinned.
Thank you so much Joanne, we love being outside and enjoying the nice weather.
These games look like a lot of fun! I should try them out with my nieces this summer. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much Ann – we love spending time outside together
I love these yard games. I’m going to try out some of them this weekend!
Thank you so much Amy, we love playing games together and what great memories you’ll create with those grand kids.
Great idea for busy kids!
Thank you for sharing with Creative Compulsions!
Michelle
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Thank you so much Michelle. We love spending time outside having fun.
Love all these fun ideas! The flamingo toss is so cute! I can’t wait to set it up for my grandkids! Please come and link up to my Linky Party- Centerpiece Wednesday on my blog and share your post with us. The party starts at 7pm tonight! 🙂 Hope to see you over there. karinskottage.com/2020/06/centerpiece-wednesday-linky-party-2.html
Karin
Thank you so much and I’m thrilled you want to give it a try too! I’ll be sure to join the party, thanks for the invite.
Great ideas my daughter will love these!!
Thank you so much Brooke, I love that you’re going to try some of them too 🙂
So much fun, and loving that lawn! My kids only get to experience lawn games on our yearly trip to the USA which, hmmm, may not be happening this year. thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!
Thank you so much Sara, what kind of area do you live in – are there parks near by? I hope that you can travel to see family when it’s safe.
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Thank you so much Marilyn! See you at the next one.
Very nice idea. Good play of kids in backyard.
Thank you so much
Great ideas and a good reminder that with just a little bit of thought and creativity there are a lot of things we could be doing. Thank you #happynow
Thank you so much Jeremy, and I’m so glad you think so to 🙂 Thank you for stopping by
I’m loving all your fun ideas! Thank you for sharing with Charming Homes and Gardens!
Thank you so much Kim, I’m thrilled you are enjoying them.