Lolly sticks

I found some heart and flower shaped lolly sticks for a few pounds in Dunelm, not sure if I'm allowed to say that, but I just did. Next time I will use recycled ones from ice lollys if they survive.
 Even my youngest daughter enjoyed colouring and putting stickers on these, I let my eldest have some glue and sequins. Great fun had by all .

Obstacle race / assault course

To make playing outside more interesting , we started an obstacle race using the see saw, trampoline and slide. This ended up being more of an assault course as the girls added various items from around the garden to it. Also included were some chairs to crawl under, the ladder to climb up and some balls to run up to and throw.

sticklebricks momentos.

We've got the sticklebricks out this morning. The little one (20 months) is enjoying tipping them in and out of the box. The oldest is busy making all sorts of exciting things. so far we have made a car, camera ,binoculars and a theatre. She now wants to make a birthday cake for her Aunty's birthday but there aren't enough sticklebricks. The idea of breaking up the models hasn't gone down very well so we are going to take photos of them and then take them apart and then we have enough to make the cake .

The theatre (with stage curtains)

Photo album

Let the kids loose with the camera and then create an album for them to look at .
 If your kids are old enough you could write the names of the items or people in the pictures underneath as an early start to reading

Ladder fun

I decided to make use of the ladder that is littering the garden! I put some number bean bags out too. Printed numbers or the letters in your child's name might be fun . I 'm going to  put some teddies out later and see what the children choose to do with them.

Playdough play mats

Another typical British summers day :(
 I printed off and laminated some playdough play mats from sparklebox.co.uk to get some creative ideas. You don't need to print them all off but they're are some great activities on here. We made dinosaur horns,eggs and put the leaves on the trees- all before morning snacktime!

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/misc/playdough/topics.html

Pat a cake

Pat a cake , Pat a cake baker man,

 bake me a roll as fast as you can,

 knead it and knead it and mark it with E and put in the oven for Em and me !