Looking for some fun outdoor activities for you and your family? Be sure to try these simple, imaginative, and fun activities!

Fizzy Foaming Car Wash

Here’s a fun, messy activity kids can enjoy using a water table and a few simple, household items. Fun at Home With Kids walks you, er drives you, through the steps needed to create a foamy, fizzy kiddie car wash that is sure to keep little hands busy for hours.

Squirt Gun Painting

Squirt guns plus paint, need we say more? What kid wouldn’t love an activity that involves these two staples of childhood? Fireflies and Mudpies show you how to set up a summer fun sure thing. They even include tips for how to make your squirt gun painting session go off without a hitch.

Water Balloon Paint Party

Filling water balloons with water is so, yawn! Pump up the fun factor with Growing a Jeweled Rose’s idea to fill balloons with paint. Don’t forget to wear white T-shirts, so you can measure who is the most covered in paint at the end.

Water Table Paint and Print

No Time for Flashcards has another super idea for using your water table this summer: it’s a painting and printing activity little kids will love. Your mini-Picassos get their hands awesomely messy with paint and create prints to display or give as gifts to grandma and grandpa!

Rainbow Bubble Wrap Tree

We dare you to ask your kids this question: “Who wants to paint a tree?” Have the screams died down yet? Twodaloo has a unique idea for combining sensory play, messy art and nature to produce the most awesome experience ever for kids. Ahem, parents, we think you’ll be tempted to join in on the fun.

Mud Painting

Of all the messy outdoor activities featured here, this one takes the cake, or mud pie, actually. Learn, Play, Imagine has the recipe for unforgettable, gloriously yucky fun with mud painting. One expert tip: watch out for worms in the mud!