10 Summer Time Activities for Toddlers

With Summer in full swing, it's hard to think of ideas of what to do with your kids. Coming up with new ideas is hard. So here are 10 things we do to keep busy.

1. Go to the beach or if you don't have a beach, go to the lake or some body of water. It's fun to just take a picnic and enjoy the scenery and people watching.

Doesn't everyone wear a party dress to the beach?

 2. Two Words - Water Table

3. Wash the Car - Cheap labor and...it takes about 45 minutes per car, so if you have more than one car...afternoon complete.

If you don't have a car, have him wash his trucks

4. Baking - Having them help you bake, make their day and they're helping mommy...

Everyone need sprinkles on chocolate chip cookies right?

5.  Trains

I think Baby Fox could play this for hours. The more intricate the track the better...takes time to set this up...take your time with it.

6. Play Doh or I've been seeing that Kinetic Sand (it does come in other colors, I saw it at Michael's)...I tried it out, it's pretty cool and doesn't stick to your hands, I have no idea how it works, but it's pretty awesome, need to get some.

This is Baby Fox playing with Play Doh

7. Park Time

 8. This is more of a once a month thing, but have you been to Home Depot on the first Saturday of the month? They have kid craft day, it could take up to 2 hours to do. They give you an apron and a project, this project we were building a race car. You build it, paint it, put stickers on it...and the best part? It's completely FREE! First Saturday of the month, all Home Depots do it, find yours and see what project is coming up next!

 9. Trampoline Park. It's the best thing EVER. Ours has a toddler time, so we pay $7 for 3 hours of jumping to our hearts content and it's only for Toddlers. No big kids to have to worry about, they're all small. It's totally awesome!

For some reason I can't find our pictures from when we went...to Toddler Time. This is a picture of my cousin's Trampoline Park in Santa Barbara that went went to, it wasn't Toddler Time, but it was super fun.

Yes Mr. is throwing Baby Fox off of the trampoline into the air pit. He Loved it...both Mr. and Baby Fox

10.  Swimming, of course. You knew that had to make the list right? We are pretty much in the pool all the time.

 

If you don't have a pool go to the splash park, those are super fun too.

As always here are my lovely co-hosts for this link up. Go check them out and see what they have to say about what they do in the summer! Here's last weeks topic Keeping Your Marriage Alive with a Toddler.

Like a Morning Cup of Coffee// From Here to Eternity// The Not Quite Military Wife//

A Cowboy's Life// My Delicious Adventure// Sadie Sky Boutique// Meet the Sullivan's//

Love and Life//  Foxy's Domestic Side// Everyday Love// Life of Faith

July 10:  Keeping your marriage alive with a toddler

July 17:  Favorite summer toddler activities

July 24:  Helping Your Toddler to Communicate (Words, emotions, etc.)

July 31:  Dealing with Separation Anxiety

Aug 7:    Car Trip Necessities

Aug 14:  Deciding when the time is right for baby #2 (and/or how to handle these questions)

Aug 21:  Tricks for eating out with your toddler

Aug 28:  Feeling confident as a mom (How to feel this way, Your struggle with, etc.)

An InLinkz Link-up

Baby Fox Immitation

I heart this dress so much, I want to wear it all the time! But alas that whole breastfeeding thing doesn't make it easy to wear this dress in public.

Dress - Target, Shoes - Nordstroms (no longer available), necklace - Groopdealz, Bracelets - Groopdealz

 I love how flowy the skirt is. You can't tell, but the floral part is sheer and has a skirt liner that only goes to mid-thigh, so the rest is just free flowing. So comfortable, yet looks put together.

And there is a little cutout in the back, how cute is that?

I was playing kickball with Baby Fox while taking photos. I just really liked this picture.

So here's my random for the day:

Baby Fox is hilarious. I'm sure you knew that already. Before we took these pictures, I was asking Mr. if he could take my picture. Baby Fox said, I want to take your picture! Pose like this Mommy

I can't find his camera right now, but when I do find it, I'll show you the pictures he took of me on his camera.

Every since this, everytime I do an outfit post, he poses like this...

Yes he actually stood still for this many picture, plus the rapid fire on my camera doesn't hurt either

He just kills me!

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, and Tucker Up

A Frozen Party

I know you came back today for the Frozen party. So I did not have anything to do with this party. I am just posting the pictures of things Cousin #4 did.

I have to admit, I can't wait for Mini Fox to be into Princesses and want princess parties. After hosting a Cars, Construction and Dinosaur/Monster Truck parties, I'm more than ready for some girlie things.

The party was hosted at a scrapbook/creative art place. The grand opening was the night before, so this was the first party/real/paid event that was being held there. I think they did an awesome job!

I always see chalkboards and desparately want one, but have no creativity in the writing department

Don't you just love that mural on the wall? I think it gives the space the perfect creative feel.

The tassel garland and lights are just too cute. While my cousin had nothing to do with that, it's still cute idea for any party, changing up the colors to fit your theme.

We missed this part, but at every place setting there was some tulle and ribbon for each person to make their own tutu, such a great/easy craft for the kids to do.

Other activities:

There was snow! Okay so it was fake, but looks like real snow right? So much fun for the kids to play with and totally safe. You know the stuff inside of diapers? Yep it's that mixed with some water. Or you can buy some sodium polyacrylate, not sure where my cousin bought it from, dong a quick search I found it on Amazon, but you can also find it at your local gardening center as Water Storing Crystals. 

Drawing station, there was some chalk for the kids to just draw and have fun with. Just black construction paper and chalk.

Pin the nose on Olaf, the kids loved this, I tried to take a picture of the carrot nose that Mini Fox got, but she ate it...yea she tried to eat the fake carrot and it literally disintegrated before my eyes. Don't worry I got it all out before she swallowed.

And of course there was Elsa face painting.

The food was just too cute! There were mini Olafs!

Powder sugar donuts, mini chocolate chips and an orange jelly belly (she bought a bunch of bags and picked out the orange ones, but if you go to Whole Foods or somewhere that sells bulk candy, you can buy just orange Jelly Bellies. I know they have them at our local Whole Foods)

The punch, while I didn't try it was probably blue Hawaiian punch but if you mix it with Sprite, I hear it's very good.

Cupcakes, yum! These were store bought.

Cause everyone needs three pictures of just cupcakes.

At the end Elsa and all of the kids sang Let it Go and it was surprising how many 2 and 3 year olds know all of the words to that song. Crazy!

Birthday girl was in absolute heaven and I can honestly say it was probably one of the best days of her life.

And that is the frozen party that we went to. It was worth the drive to see all the kids playing with each other and having so much fun. What are some more fun twists you would have added?