Playing it Cool

Frozen Paint 

 

Painting with coloured shaving cream or cool whip is not new to Mom in the Know, but frozen paint brings a new twist to summer fun. 

What you need: 

• Shaving Cream or Frozen Dessert Topping like Cool Whip
• Food Colouring

Mix a little food colouring to the cream (shaving or whipped).  Once you have the right colour, put the mixture into the freezer for four hours.  Ready to play,  take the paint out and give each child a cup full and a paint brush.  Kids can paint on paper, Styrofoam plates, or any other smooth surface. 

Fun with Water Balloons

Filling up the Balloons is Fun

• Set a timer and see how many balloons each kid could fill up in a certain time frame
• See who can fill the largest balloon without popping it

Play Catch

• Play catch with a friend
• Toss the balloon into the air and have kids try to catch it themselves
• Play hot potato with a group
• Put soap or shaving cream on their hands and try to play catch

Hide Them

Hide water balloons like an Easter egg hunt. See how many each person can find and place in their buckets without breaking them

Balloon Drop 

Experiment with dropping balloons from different heights. See what kind of splatter patterns they make on the ground.

Play your Favourite Sports

Use water balloons instead of balls to play your favorite sports. Try water balloon basketball, volley ball, or baseball.

Water Balloon Fight

Of course!

Flashlight tag 

Dusk is the best time of day to play flashlight tag.  All you need is a few adventurous kids and a flashlight. 

The flashlight is given to one child who then becomes “it.”

All of the other children head off to hide while “it” counts to 25.

The person who is it, then begins to look for the others.
When “it” finds another child, he must shine the flashlight on the child and call out their name. 

The found child then becomes it and the game begins again.