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Various Outdoor Activities That Kids Would Love

Young girl sitting outdoors blowing dandelion headThere’s that time of the year when you are spending more time outdoors than in. This is the time that you are able to do those things that you consider too messy for anywhere with walls. Kids typically love such activities that involve messy play. However, this is an advantage for you because cleanup is easier outside.

Fizzy Foaming Car Wash

With the use of a water table and a few simple household items, this can be a fun and messy activity that kids would enjoy. This foamy and fizzy kiddie car wash will keep your little children’s hands busy for hours.

Squirt Gun Painting

Squirt guns with paint might be considered staples of childhood for some. You may want to let your kids experience it as well. This could a great bonding time with your kids during summer.

Glow in the Dark Chalk

Almost every kid loves chalk. The fun with such activity starts with creating it. The recipe is easy to make. However, it is messy. Introduce this to your kids and they will have an incredible night under the stars that they won’t soon forget.

Water Balloon Paint Party

Filling balloons with water may not that interesting. But you can pump up its fun factor by filling it with paint. You and your kids may wear white T-shirts in order to spot easily who is the most covered in paint.

Water Table Paint and Print

During summer, there’s an interesting use for your water table. You can utilize it for a painting and printing activity with your little kids. While letting their creativity come out at such a young age, their hands may get awesomely messy with paint. Their creation can be used as a display or something to give as gifts to grandma and grandpa.

Rainbow Bubble Wrap Tree

Ask your kids if they want to paint a tree, and you will see them screaming with excitement. This would be a unique idea that combines sensory play, messy art and nature to produce the most awesome experience for kids.

Mud Painting

This could be the messiest activity your kids will have. Your kids will this but you must watch out for worms in the mud.

 Edible Ooey Gooey Worms

A kid wouldn’t normally want to squish and mush gooey worms in mud until they are actually edible. Try the Measured Mom’s gooey worms that are deliciously yucky. Spend one afternoon with your kids exploring the ickiest of all outdoor activities.

Rainbow Glitter Sidewalk Paint

Aside from easy preparation, this is also awesomely fun to do as well with your kids. Together, you can make rainbow glitter sidewalk paint. This is a good way to pass a summer afternoon outside.

Shaving Cream Slip N Slide

This is another messy activity that you can spend with your kids. Basically, you will have a shaving cream slip n slide. For sure, your kids will be talking about one afternoon that you spent executing this idea all summer.

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5 Outdoor Activities You Must Try

Fun Outdoor Activities

Paragliding
  1. Paragliding

When you think of paragliding, you may automatically think that it is almost similar to skydiving. However, they are very much different with the details. From the moment of its ascent to its descent, here the parachute (paraglider) calls the shots. Compared to skydiving, the advantage of paragliding is that it has a pilot harness where the pilot can sit and enjoy the ride while maneuvering the glider with its advanced gears. With the paraglider’s technology, it encourages many daredevil flying stunts like the thermal flying where thermal air pockets are used by experienced paragliders to spiral up to the cloud base.

Rock Climbing
  2. Rock Climbing

Activities such as zip lining and parasailing are ideal if you want effortless adrenaline rush. Meanwhile, in mountain climbing, you’ll have the breathtaking sceneries, challenging trails, and the thrill of reaching the top. While facing a vertical wall, you go against gravity and sometimes you make do with tiny and seemingly impossible footholds and handholds. You may also slam against the rock if you don’t manage your fall well. However, when you reach the peak, it gives you a rush and a sense of accomplishment like no other. Finishing a route can also be a confidence booster for some. Imagine after scaling that rock face head on, you’ll think you could take on anything. So, if you are looking for an adrenaline rush, with a bit of a challenge and the sweetest taste of success that is worth replaying in your mind over and over, rock climbing is for you.

Scuba Diving
                       3. Scuba Diving

“Scuba” which stands for “Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus” has become the excitement of the recreational marine life showcasing. Each year, lots of tourists are attracted to these so-called peaceful underwater retreats. The sights are not only limited to the marine life and the formations of the corals, but also the mystical shapes and structures conjured on the ocean beds as well. There is also the wreck diving, which is the adventurous package of cave diving stick to natural caverns while exploring the insides of old shipwrecks.

Most coral destinations around the world such as the Great Barrier Reef, Lakshadweep and other Pacific Islands have a wide range of fun activities involving the scuba equipment. As divers admire the marine life deep within the ocean, scuba diving is mostly done for recreation goals. A huge array of marine life and sometimes even shipwrecks are just some of the interesting things underneath. For recreational purposes, divers are limited to 130ft deep only. Beyond that limit are for trained professionals which is bound by the law.

Skydiving
                         4. Skydiving

Since the beginning of the age of reasoning, man justifies its need for wings. Today, flying now is not only a considered a passion but a regular sport too. We may regard Arizona in USA as the “skydive capital of the world.” However, most countries nowadays are also offering great skydiving experience with their latest technology as well as their expertise. There are a lot of things that you can do with this kind of adventure. You can touch the water with your feet while flying in your parachute in ‘Pond Swooping,’ race in skydiving challenges like ‘Hit and Rock,’ draw the skylines with inventive arrangement in formation skydiving, or you may just take a long trip under the parachute canopy with cross-country skydiving. To document your adventure, try to document it at 13,000 feet from the ground.

Surfing
                            5. Surfing

Surfing has been a great way to enjoy the waves. With a surfboard or a canoe, you can have the full splashes of enjoyment. Surfing was originally from the Polynesian culture and found first in the Tahiti Islands. Today, it has been one of the most cherished surface water.