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Outdoor Play Party ~ Fun Ways to Play in Your Own Backyard

Welcome to the Outdoor Play Party. We are home from a few days spent visiting friends in Northern Ontario. If you are completely unfamiliar with Ontario - or Canada - then it might be hard to comprehend just how huge the province of Ontario is. We drove north from our home, for 8 hours to a small town named Bruce Mines. It would have taken us another 2 days to drive out of Ontario and into the next province, Manitoba. Ontario is a massive province...it is larger than France and Spain combined! We had a lovely time visiting with friends...but isn't it always lovely to return home? I was so inspired by the the last Outdoor Play Party and all the fabulous activities linked up. There were so many ideas that are perfect for having fun in your own backyard. Here are some of my favourite posts.

play in your own backyard

 Frog, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails' fun swamp water bin.

Child's Play Music's fantastic PVC frame for outdoor music play.

How to make a parachute from Inspiration Laboratories.

Bubble play with Mud, Mud Marvellous Mud.

Teach Through Play gets messy with some sensory play at a mud table.

Create a backyard circus with Lalymom.

Add some marbles into your mud play with Making Boys Men.

Mummy Musings and Mayhem designed and built a kid-friendly veggie garden.

Wow! So many fun ways to play in your own backyard. There is still plenty of summer holidays left, where we live. These activities are going on our outdoor play to-do list. If you were featured this week, go ahead and grab our “Featured at the Outdoor Play Party” button for your site. Feel free to grab our button and place it in your site’s side bar, or add a link back to our party. We will happily share your post on Facebook, Twitter and the Outdoor Play Party Pinterest page. By contributing your post to this linky party you are giving permission for an image and link to your post to be republished if you are featured.

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About Jen

Jen Farr is a mother living in Toronto, Canada. She has been sharing her DIY crafts, recipes, activities and parenting advice for over 15 years on her blog Kitchen Counter Chronicle. Jen is the mom of 2 lovely daughters. She believes in the power of taking small steps that can make big impacts on the world.

Comments

  1. Leila - Mud Mud Marvellous Mud says

    August 03, 2013 at 2:04 am

    Thanks for including me as one of your favourite posts. I'll be along to join in soon and looking forward to reading everyone elses posts. See you soon 🙂

  2. Coombemill says

    August 03, 2013 at 6:06 am

    That sounds like a lot of driving. We will be doing the same in a couple of weeks visiting friends in France. Have joined in with Country Kids.

  3. jaime@FSPDT says

    August 05, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    thanks so much for the feature 🙂

  4. Helen @ Peakle Pie says

    August 05, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    Couldn't agree more - being away is lovely but there is something wonderful about getting back home! Glad you all had a good time!

    This is my first link up here so looking forward to reading some new blogs x

  5. Jode@mummymusingsandmayhem says

    August 06, 2013 at 2:04 am

    I love all these ideas you featured....what a fab linky this is, so much outdoor inspiration! Thanks so much for including our vegie garden and also for hosting 🙂

  6. Hannah @ Making Boys Men says

    August 15, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    Really nice round up and of course thanks for the feature!

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