More Water Activities for Grandchildren

Grandchildren love to play in water — whether in the tub, in the swimming pool, or in outdoor games.

I know that I’ve recently shared water ideas.

But, you need a few more, don’t you?

It’s still summer.  It’s still hot.

And I still have some ideas . . .

Suds Stand

Want a wet twist on the ol’ lemonade stand on the corner?  Try a scaled down car wash theme and do a ‘bike ‘n toy’ wash.  On a large poster board, design and color a bike wash sign.  Tape it to the handlebars of a bike. Get a huge bucket of sudsy water, plunk it down on the sidewalk outside grandma’s house, put the bike/sign nearby, and offer to wash bikes and toys.  You could wash them for a small fee — or for free.

If you don’t have any takers, have your grandchildren wash some toys from grandma’s toy closet or her sandbox.  They’ll have lots of wet, sudsy fun and keep occupied (and cool) on a hot summer day.

Water Tag

Gather up your grandchildren for an old fashioned game of tag — with a twist.  Give the person who is ‘it’ a cup of water.  When ‘it’ splashes water on another player, that player is now ‘it.’  You might want to have a bucket of water nearby for handy cup refills.

Water Balloon Catch

Cut away a section from a plastic milk jug leaving the handle and the lower part of the jug (as a catch receptacle).  Fill lots of water balloons.

Then, play catch seeing how many times you can catch a water balloon with your milk jug mitt before the balloon breaks.  (You’ll want to make sure that the edges of your milk jug doesn’t have any rough sticky-outy points that could pop the balloon.)  You could also see how far apart you can stand and catch the water balloon before it breaks.

Super Soaker Squirt Ball

You will need a super soaker squirt gun for each person and one small inflatable ball.  Determine goal lines for each person/team.  The object is to move the ball across the goal line using only water squirted from the super soaker.  (No kicking or hitting the ball . . .)