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What to do in the garden with your child in summer?

2022-05-25T14:05:56.956Z


Mercury is at its highest and the sun has set for the season. Ideal for your offspring to have fun in your outdoor space. Here is a series of ideas so that he doesn't get bored.


The

holidays

!

After a school year, it's time for a long recess.

So that your

child

has fun while also learning to take care of the

garden

, let's go for a round of ideas to entertain him.

To discover

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The vegetable patch and the garden as a

land of adventure and learning

The art of gardening can be learned like a game. By involving it, he will feel concerned and involved.

Sowing, watering, mulching, observing their evolution and being closer to nature.

In the vegetable garden and the orchard, it can also be harvest time before returning with a basket full of food to the kitchen to cook and taste your dish like a chef.

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It is also possible to teach him the name of the flowers that decorate the garden while he picks them to make a bouquet.

Adventure games

But the garden remains above all a vast space for inventing and having fun.

Like a little squirrel, he can climb up to pick a fruit if the branch is not too high or help to install a light garland.

Sleep under the stars

Basket filled with chocolate bars, garden fruits and bottles of water for a dinner under the stars, before rushing into a tent, sleeping bag and listening to the sounds of the night, like the owl when it hoots .

A moment on the swing

Installed and secured, it can be carried on the platform suspended between two ropes or toboggan as some models also offer.

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pretend to be an astronomer

If you have a telescope, you can teach him to recognize the stars, the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, how the constellation works.

With binoculars, he can also follow the path of small insects and passing animals in the garden.

Read alsoKnow how to recognize the small animals useful to the gardener

Play like Tony Parker

A basket hung high up on a tree, a ball and it's up to him to aim to score baskets like a real football professional.

With a tarp that you no longer use, wedge it between two trees and install targets on it so that the children can hit them with a small foam ball.

Create your cabin

If a space under a tree can be arranged, he can make a fake campfire with pieces of wood, welcome his friends there for a snack and give free rein to his imagination to invent stories in this “

house

”.

Like an adventurer from

Koh-Lanta

, he can have a route to follow: run between studs, jump over a log of wood, walk on a wire…

Water sports

Summer is the time for the joy of water games.

Play while cooling off.

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Let him play or role-play telling him he's a great swimmer and you're coaching him for the Olympics to give him little challenges like doing ten lengths in under 5 minutes, doing handstands, jumping retrieve a pebble from the bottom of the water.

Read alsoRegulations on outdoor swimming pools: 4 things to remember

There's nothing like the lawn spray that turns 360 degrees to keep it cool. It will go back and forth.

In fisherman mode

In a basin or a small inflatable pool, you can put water and small ducks or fish that your child will have to catch with a fishing rod (a stick with a piece of metal at the end to be able to recover the floating animal with a metal circle on its back, for example).

A way to concentrate and better control your agility.

Read alsoWhen and how to sow grass?

Make a vegetable garden

If your child is rather manual and likes to create objects, there is no shortage of ideas.

He can start planting by laying down seedlings, picking ripe fruits and vegetables or using a crate to lay down soil and plant the seeds of his choice and take care of them all summer until the coming of harvest.

Create a chime

For the wind to make the musical instrument tinkle, all you need is a few elements: a branch of wood, strings at the end of which you can hang seashells which will gently clash with the breeze of the wind and emit a relaxing noise.

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indoor games outdoors

The temperature allows some games to be moved outside.

You can arrange a slate board or a table with sheets, markers and colored pencils to let his creativity unfold or an easel with a canvas and water paint.

A game of mini bowling

With bowling pins or plastic bottles that he will have painted before, positioned a few meters away, on a smooth surface, it is up to him to throw a foam ball to make… a strike!

Play musical chairs

Set up a few chairs, one less than the number of participants, start the music and whoever can't sit loses.

Repeat until there is only one left.

Part of Mölkky

This Finnish game consists of knocking down with a stick (called the tikku), several skittles, placed about 3.5 meters further.

Each of them that is touched is counted according to the number it carries (from one to twelve).

The first player to reach 50 points wins the game.

And also: play football, run a race, play a two three sun, sack race, hide and seek, card games...

Source: lefigaro

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