- I thought that it would be fun to have people share what they have been doing outside with water play to help us come up with new and exciting ways to play. There are several other blogs that share child-related activities that have joined me in co-hosting this event, but it is open to everyone.
- My amazing co-hosts are Rainy Day Mum, Inspiration Laboratories, Train Up a Child, and Mama Pea Pod.
- I hope you will enjoy the trip Old MacDonald and his animals had to the beach in my post below and that you will visit the posts of my co-hosts.
Oh! I do hope that if you have a post related to outdoor play you will link it up below and add this badge you see below to your post.
It has been so hot on the farm that Old MacDonald decided to take some of his animals on a road trip to the beach!
Several animals that like to live on the wild side decided to travel on the front of the tractor while others arrived in a white plastic basket.
Old MacDonald must be confident that all his animals can swim. He seems to be looking away from the water instead of toward it.
Eventually, everyone jumped in and took a swim. Even a tree seems to have made a trip from the farm and has started to float.
The water slide into the ocean had gotten very crowded.
It looks like a wonderful time at the beach was had by all.
How to Prevent Internal Drowning
JDaniel’s farm animals have holes in the bottom. We had to make sure they were carefully drained of water when we were done.
You may decide to place a drop of hot glue from a glue gun over the holes on your farm creatures to prevent water from getting into them.
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If your children love this activity, I bet they will love the slime activities in this Ultimate Slime Book. It is filled with pretend play activities.
Great imagination!
How fun, and I love the tip about the glue gun. Is it sad that I am missing the terribly hot SC summers? It is absolutely freezing here.
We had those same plastic animals – they went to the John Deere tractor ride on toy. Is that where yours are from? Smart to use the glue gun! Looks like they had a fun time on their beach trip.
Looks like someone had a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing.
What a fun idea! My son has these animals, too. He would love to take them to the beach, I bet. 🙂
I love your glue gun tip to keep water from getting inside toys like this!
What great ideas!! Water play is so much fun and the farm theme- very creative.
Jen
When my girls were little they never wanted me to add anything but water to the sand and water table. They didn’t like the water to get messy. My husband thought it was hysterical because I love everything about the beach but the sand. 😉
We love our water table!
I never thought of putting hot glue over the toys’ holes… Great idea to keep the water out!
I love the story that goes doing with the play!
How fun I love that table!
I want that water table!!
I love this idea! We have a water table and the same animals. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the tip!
Here is my hot weather fun post: http://www.thesouthernspark.com/2012/redneck-waterbed/
Love the water table with sand idea.
I would love to get one of plastic pools to play in outside. it’s hot here too!
Love it! We have a similar table that is not getting a lot of action – perhaps Anna could get into this kind of small world play.
I wish I had your glue gun trip years ago. So many moldy rubber duckies!! Sounds like it was a good day at the beach for all the animals (and the tree) 🙂
How fun! My kids use to have something similiar.
Great idea to use oatmeal as sand, also loving the glue gun tip (I really want to get one!)
I love the swimming piggy. great link up too
Such fun! Great story and props for open ended play.
I have to tell you this..
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your stories that you put with pictures..
You for sure need to make a book…
What a great idea to share water play ideas!
Looks like you had so much fun at the water farm 🙂
Unfortunately we haven’t had any rain for such a long time that we are currently on a water ban. My kids are missing going outside to play with water.
How fun! We will be getting our water fun this week as we take off for vacation! Hoping to have lots of pool time!
What a great idea!! We have some farm animals like this – my kids would love it!
So cute! Hayley does something very similar!! Love your posts!
I love your theme’s you are so creative!
You just can’t beat water play…it’s always a blast!
All children love water play and sand. Great fun:)
This is a great idea for the water table. We have done corn in the sand part but not added the water at the same time. Thanks for the great idea.
Wonderful! Nothing quite like playing with water!
How creative! I love it
I love the sandy ocean!
What a clever idea!
This post is so cute. I love all the different ways that you played with the play figures.
This is gorgeous!
We’ve been considering a water table. And I love the tip about the hot glue!
Hot glue tip is great!
What a fun idea! My daughter would love the idea of taking her little toy animals to the “beach”. So clever. And love this link up, lots of great ideas to check out.
Old McDonald had a farm….So cute!
I love this – so much fun 🙂 – we must take our animals out to ours once the weather improves as at the moment it’s rain rain rain 🙁
What a creative activity! I love how you incorporated storytelling to imaginative play! I never thought to use oatmeal as sand, but I love the idea!
I love this! We love using our water table for other creative playtimes … we have the same one 🙂
It’s great isn’t it. I’ve had 2x 5 year olds, an 8, 4 and 3 yr old all playing together today with water outside