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Screen-Free Summer Activities for Kids
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items Simple screen-free activities for busy moms who want their kids to play, imagine, and make memories without needing a tablet or a massive setup 🛝 These ideas are made for real families, especially the overstimulated ones, who need more connection, m...
Grab a bucket, a little soap, sponges, old towels, and anything with wheels. Let the kids wash bikes, scooters, ride-on toys, or toy cars in the driveway or backyard. Add a spray bottle or watering can for extra fun. It’s part activity, part sensor...
Screen-Free Kids Activities – Boredom Buster: Backyard Car Wash 🚲🛴🚗
This little pretend pressure washer is perfect for the @BRBMoms backyard car wash activity! Kids get to spray, scrub and rinse bikes, scooters, toy cars, patio furniture, or anything else in the splash zone while you supervise from a safe distance. I...
Kids Car Wash Toy Pressure Washer Playset 3+
Grab a few cardboard boxes and let the kids build their own tiny arcade. They can make a ticket booth, simple games, signs, a prize table and homemade tickets. Think ball toss, cup knockdown, ring toss, or whatever arcade game they invent in the mom...
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Core Memory Maker: Cardboard Box Arcade
These washable dual-tip markers are perfect for turning a pile of cardboard boxes into a full-blown kid-run arcade. Use them for game signs, ticket booths, prize menus, targets, scoreboards, “closed for repairs” signs, and all the dramatic branding a...
Washable Dual Tip Markers for Kids 24 Colors
Set up a simple obstacle course around the sprinkler using pool noodles, cones, towels, and chalk arrows on the dry parts of the driveway or sidewalk. Pool noodles become jump lines or limbo bars. Cones mark the turns. Towels become “freeze spots” wh...
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Play Prompt: Sprinkler Obstacle Course.
This backyard water obstacle course is perfect for the @BRBMoms sprinkler obstacle course activity, especially when the kids need to burn off energy and the regular sprinkler isn’t cutting it. They can jump, race, crawl, splash, and turn the yard int...
Banzai Aqua Blast Obstacle Course
Draw a tiny town on the driveway or sidewalk with roads, houses, shops, parking spots, stop signs, and delivery routes. Add toy cars, scooters, dolls, action figures, or stuffed animals as the people who live there. Kids can open a bakery, deliver ma...
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Boredom Buster: Sidewalk Chalk Town
Grab this non-toxic dust-free chalk set for the @BRBMoms chalk town activity, where kids turn the driveway into a whole tiny world 🚙 They can draw roads, houses, stores, parks, parking spots, and fun neighborhood landmarks like “Mom’s Coffee Shop” ...
NewFamily Dustless Chalk 12 Colors with Holder
Set out a bowl or bucket, a little water, dirt, an old muffin tin, and a few paper plates. Add sticks, flowers, pebbles, pinecones, and bottle caps for decorating. Kids can make mud cupcakes, cookies, birthday cakes, and muffins, then create a bakery...
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Core Memory Maker: Mud Pie Bakery
If you wanna get real serious with the kids mud pie bakery activity, check out this mud kitchen with a real working faucet!
Frogprin Mud Kitchen for Kids with Planter Box
Turn off the lights in the basement, hallway, or one safe room and hide a few simple “treasures” for kids to find with flashlights. Use anything easy: toy coins, blocks, plastic animals, puzzle pieces, glow sticks, folded paper clues, or little drawi...
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Play Prompt: Flashlight Treasure Hunt
These tick the box for the treasure your kids can search for in the @BRBMoms flashlight treasure hunt! Rainy days are about to become pretty magical 💎
100pcs Multicolor Acrylic Pirate Treasure Gems
This activity was inspired by a vivid memory of my kindergarten bestie’s mom making us “1st Place” badges after hours racing our bikes around a huge tree in her front yard. Cut badge shapes from cardstock, paper bags, or an empty cereal box. Write a ...
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Boredom Buster: DIY Summer Camp Badges
Give each of your kids a walkie talkie and suddenly the backyard becomes a full-scale mission. This rechargeable 3-pack is great for summer camp games, flashlight hunts, neighborhood exploring, camping trips, and sibling “secret operations” that soun...
Rechargeable Walkie Talkies for Kids 3 Pack