14 Feb Kid-Friendly Summer Activities To Enjoy in Your Garden

The summer months are perfect for kicking off your shoes and soaking up long, sunny days with your family in your picture-perfect outdoor space. However, with the start of summer comes the school holidays, which can leave many parents feeling crazy.

Luckily, with Easigrass™ installed, your garden becomes a safe, mud-free, and low-maintenance playground for the kids to enjoy this summer. All you need are a few of our boredom-busting activities to make the most of your artificial grass.

Create An Outdoor Crafts Corner

Let your kids’ imaginations run wild with a dedicated arts and crafts corner on your artificial lawn. Encourage your little ones to explore the beauty of nature by gathering materials like leaves, flowers and stones to use in their crafts. Some fun ideas include:

• • Leaf Printing: Dip leaves into paint and press them onto paper to create beautiful patterns.
  • Painted Rocks: Let kids paint colourful designs on smooth stones, turning them into garden decorations or gifts – perfect for the festive season.
  • Pressed Flower Art: Use flowers to make pretty bookmarks or framed designs.

The best part? Your Easigrass™ lawn provides an easy cleanup for messy art projects. Simply take the hose pipe and give your lawn a quick rinse, making outdoor crafts stress-free for parents and more enjoyable for your kids.

Water Play Fun

Is it summer if you’re not having a little water fun? Stay cool during hot, sunny days by setting up a sprinkler on your synthetic turf and letting the kids run, jump, and enjoy endless water-filled fun! Our award-winning products are designed with non-slip technology, so you’ll never have to worry about your little ones slipping and hurting themselves when enjoying some water fun this summer.

Creating a DIY slip and slide is another great way to beat the heat this summer! Simply lay down a long, plastic tarp, spray it with water and watch them have fun. With holes every 10 centimetres, you’ll have no mud or mess to deal with once the summer fun heads inside, providing a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone.

A Garden Treasure Hunt

If you’re looking to keep the kids entertained this summer, a garden treasure hunt is the perfect outdoor activity! The first step is to choose a theme—whether it’s superheroes, fairies, or anything your heart desires. Use your garden’s features to create hiding spots, placing clues under pot plants, in shrubs or behind trees.

Create simple clues or maps of your garden, making it easy (or difficult) for them to find their treasures. It’s always extra fun if you’re able to get your kids to interact with your garden, so make sure you include tasks like finding objects with certain colours and spotting birds or specific flowers. Don’t forget the prize for the winning team!

Santa’s Gift Relay

The summer holidays are often filled with festive cheer, and this relay race is the perfect way for everyone to join in on the fun and spread the holiday spirit. Here’s how to play:

• • 1. Divide your little ones into teams. This will help create some friendly competition.
    2. Prepare the gifts. Use lightweight, wrapped empty boxes to serve as “Santa’s gifts.” Add bows or holiday decorations to make them extra festive.
    3. Create sleighs with baskets or even laundry bins to emulate Santa’s Sleigh. You’ll place this at the finish line.

Line up the teams at the starting point with their wrapped gifts. To make things extra challenging, you can get everyone to balance the gifts on their heads. Once a gift is delivered, the player races back to tag their teammate to continue the momentum. The first team to successfully stack all the gifts in the ‘sleigh’ wins the game!

Easigrass™ provides a lush, durable and mud-free design, allowing the kids to run about and enjoy a range of fun summer games to their hearts’ content without you having to worry about dirty clothes or damaged grass.

Enjoy endless laughter, fun and a vibrant lawn this summer.  Get in touch today!