Cool Off With 20 Water-Based Summer Activities for Kids

With these fun water-based activities for kids {and even adults!} to enjoy all summer long, you’ll stay cool as a cucumber when the temperatures are hot. Take a look and see which ones your family would enjoy most!

1.Learn how to play a fun {and educational!} game of Scrabble in the swimming pool, and even little kids can play because it’s Toddler Approved!

2. It’s easy to set up a DIY slip-and-slide in your own yard. It’ll provide the kids with hours of fun!

3. Kids love to draw with chalk. How about adding a little water for some awesome chalk paint?

4. Fill water bottles with colored water, stack them, and then use bean bags to play a fun carnival game in the backyard.

5. Mamas Like Me shows you a few different games you can play with wet sponges. Looks like fun!

6. Make a DIY water board for hours of splashy fun!

7. Fill ice cube trays with water, then add some watercolors and freeze. Use the rainbow ice cubes to paint with! Perfect on the hottest days.

8. Make water sponges to use instead of water balloons all summer long. {Much better than having little pieces of broken water balloons all over your lawn!}

9. Use a pool noodle to make a sprinkler the kids can play in on the hottest days when you don’t want to fight crowds at the pool.

10. An Ice Age Bin gives the kids hours of fun as they work to excavate the treasures you froze in there. What a fun idea!

11. Use water, food coloring, and all sorts of bottles, droppers, tubes and spray bottles to let the kids conduct their own color lab in the backyard. This is also educational!

12. Instead of a backyard fairy garden, build a deep blue sea bin for the kids to play with.

13. Take running through the sprinklers to another level with this DIY water blaster.

14. You could make one giant water blob, or you could make smaller ones so each of your kids has their own. I wonder which is more fun?

15. With a kiddie pool and a rubber ball, you can play a rousing game of kickball where everyone can get a little wet.

16. Instead of a piñata filled with candy, use water balloons! Why didn’t I ever think of this?

17. This is pretty darn ambitious, but if you’re up for it, try building a pool with bales of hay as the base. Amazing!

18. A good old-fashioned towel and water balloon toss is always a lot of fun!

19. This is a simple game the kids can play with a bin of water and dice. Take turns rolling the dice, and anytime someone rolls a 6, they get to splash everyone in the group.

20. Finally, another idea that is a little more ambitious than the rest, but the results are worth it. Create a water park in your own backyard with stuff you probably have around the house. See how at My Kids’ Adventures.