30 Outdoor Activities for Kids

After the long winter months, your little ones may be feeling cooped up inside the house. Encourage them to get off their screens and venture outside with these kid-friendly outdoor activities. Our list of outdoor games, gardening projects and nature-inspired crafts will keep them entertained all summer long and teach them to appreciate their environment. The adults in the family may even want to join in on the fun!

Camping is a great outdoor activity for the whole clan, and you don’t have to visit a campground to make it happen. Set up a tent in your backyard and let the kids have an outdoor adventure from the comfort of home. Keep them busy with campsite essentials like binoculars, musical instruments and, of course, snacks.

Inexpensive pool noodles can be used for all kinds of kid-friendly activities. Try turning them into an obstacle course by staking pencils or dowels into the ground, then sliding the noodles over them to create various challenges for the little ones to traverse.

Have your children gather flowers, leaves and other flat objects from around the yard, then arrange them on sun-sensitive photographic paper and place in direct sunlight to create one-of-a-kind prints. Buy a sun print paper kit from Amazon.

On hot summer days, the kiddos will love cooling off in this pint-sized car wash made from PVC pipes, pool noodles, sponges and plastic streamers.