It’s been hot outside — or so I’ve been told. (I have icebergs floating in my veins from the deliciously body-numbing air conditioning at work. This morning I turned on my space heater so I could thaw. How pathetic.)
If the heat is heatin’ up and you want to have some cool-down fun with your grandchildren, grab some squirt guns and some sidewalk chalk.
Fill your squirt guns and head out to your driveway or sidewalk for some summertime squirt gun fun!
With the chalk, draw a bull’s eye on your sidewalk. Give each ring in the bull’s eye a point value. Have your grandchild stand five steps away from it and see if she can squirt the center of the bull’s eye. Give her five chances to hit it and add up her points according to the ring in the bull’s eye that she hit.
Have her take three more steps away from the bull’s eye. Give her five chances to hit the bull’s eye. Add up her points. Have one or two ‘prizes’ for her to choose from according to the points that she got. (The larger the prize the more points she needs to have made.)
You could do a couple of variations to this activity. With the chalk, write the numbers from one through ten. Give your grandchild simple addition or subtraction problems. After she figured out the answer in her head, she is to squirt the ‘answer’ number with her squirt gun.
Write out the alphabet. Give her words to spell. She spells them by squirting the letters on the sidewalk.
Have her draw a simple picture (like the outline of a flower). Time her to see how long it takes to wash the picture off the sidewalk by squirting it. Have her do this two or three times to see if she can beat her time.
Grandma needs to have a squirt gun for this next activity. Set two containers (plastic bowl or cup) a few feet away from you. See which of you can fill your container with water by squirting the water from your squirt gun into it.
End your activity with a good old fashioned squirt gun water fight. Then, sit on your porch and eat a popsicle.
Photo credit: Boy with Squirt Gun via photopin (license)
10 thoughts on “Sidewalk Squirt Gun Fun For Grandchildren”
Anything water related goes over well in our house! Thank you for sharing at Waiting on…Wednesday!
Holly @ http://www.iwillservewhileiwait.blogspot.com
My grand kids love playing with squirt guns. I always gift them a few fun items for the 4th. No squirt guns this year, but sure have in the past. Love the bulls eye idea! Thanks for sharing with SYC. And yes! It’s been hot!
hugs,
Jann
Great post, playing with water when we are young is always fun, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop.
There is nothing as fun as a water squirter as long I am not the victim of course. No better way to cool off. Thanks for reminding us of this great fun on the #HomeMattersParty
Kathleen
Kathleen,
Yes, It’s always nice to observe a water fight from a distance! Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Nina
Nothing thrills a kid more than a water gun, but watch out if you have dry clothes on ;)! Thanks for joining the #funsummerfinds linkup!
Shellie
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Those are all great ideas 🙂 So far, we’ve just been skipping to the last part 😛
Stopping by from Favorite Things Thusday, have a great day!
Hey, good old water fights are just fine! Hope you have a great summer.
Nina
Your post brought up a fun memory for me. When I was a girl I would love the days when my grandma would come over to have my mom give her a hair perm. Once the little perm application bottle was empty my mom would wash it out good and send me out to play. I loved writing with it’s fine tip with water on the hot sidewalk.
Shelley, what a fun memory! I’ll have to see if I can find plastic bottles with a fine tip to add to my arsenal of water activities. Thanks so much for sharing.