Backyard play ideas: Easy ways to have fun with kids! How to make use of your garden

home vegetable garden

I want you to try growing various vegetables using milk cartons! / Let’s grow vegetables with cartons.

When Chinese cabbage starts appearing in stores, it feels like winter, and when you see cucumbers and tomatoes, it feels like summer.

Many of us sense the seasons by the vegetables lined up at the greengrocer.

How about enjoying a home garden as part of your child’s emotional education? With just one short row, you can grow two or three kinds of vegetables.

Even without a large yard, you can grow vegetables in plastic bags or milk cartons.

Green onions are the easiest, so start by trying to grow those! Vegetables you grow yourself taste better, and it might even help your child overcome a dislike of veggies.

barbecue

Spend comfortable home time with your kids: use a tarp as a sunshade and enjoy pleasant backyard fun with a round charcoal grill.

There’s something irresistibly charming about enjoying a meal while feeling the outdoor air, isn’t there? If you have a barbecue in the backyard, you can combine the special experience of dining outside with the casual comfort of being at home.

It’s also great for getting children involved in the cooking, which can be a chance for them to learn both the challenges and the fun of making food.

There are all kinds of tools that make barbecuing easy, so it might be best to choose equipment that matches what your children can do and have them participate.

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Treasure Hunt

[For Kids] Let's go on a treasure hunt! A treasure hunt in your home garden! There are all kinds of living creatures in the soil!

It’s a game where treasures are hidden in the garden and participants search for them.

You can hide them in the shadows of placed objects, or make it a dig-from-the-soil activity, which sounds fun too.

If digging is involved, participants can also experience using tools and the sensation of touching the soil.

The most important thing is to get people excited when they find the treasure, so choosing the treasures themselves sounds enjoyable as well.

If you put the treasures in capsules or something similar to keep them clean, you can add the joy of finding them and the joy of opening them.

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Picnic

[MY CLIP] The happiness of picnicking all day

When you hear the word “picnic,” you probably picture going out somewhere, but with the right setup you can enjoy a picnic vibe right in your own yard.

Simply eating on a picnic blanket is fun, but adding various items will boost the picnic mood even more.

Using gear that creates shade like a tent lets you enjoy the fresh air comfortably, which is highly recommended.

The key point is how well you can stage your home garden to feel like an outing.

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soccer goal

[Playing in the yard] A soccer goal gift for 4- and 3-year-old brothers

It’s a simple, easy-to-understand game where kids can enjoy kicking the ball into a soccer goal.

If the child is interested in soccer, just having a goal at home will probably get them excited.

You could also use it as an opportunity to introduce soccer by explaining that it’s a sport where you control the ball with your feet instead of using your hands.

Without getting too particular, you can focus on the fun of aiming at a target and getting the ball in.

It might also be enjoyable sometimes to let them freely use their hands or other tools.

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jump rope

Jump-rope fun in the yard♪ Jumping lots—jump, jump!! Bunny hops♪ Backward jumps♬ Regular jumps♩

Jump rope is a classic way to have fun while getting your body moving.

As long as you have enough space to swing the rope, you can enjoy it anywhere.

Because it involves rotating your arms while hopping lightly, it’s a great way to train your whole body efficiently.

Another big appeal is the variety of tricks—if simply jumping feels too easy, you can always challenge yourself with something new.

Since you end up using your entire body without thinking about it, it’s easy to get tired when you’re really into it, so knowing when to take a break is important too.

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Color water play with flowers

“Let’s Play with Colored Water Using Flowers!” [Age 3] | Minami Senrioka Yui-en [Daycare/Kindergarten Event]

Apparently, a pond is essential for a so-called English garden.

Bridges and the like, too.

It’s a bit different from the Japanese style of gardening, which focuses on planting and enjoying flowers and grasses.

How about trying “color water play” using flowers blooming in your garden? Put the picked flowers into a plastic bag and add plenty of water.

Then the water will take on a faint tint.

Rapeseed flowers make yellow, morning glories make purple, and so on, creating a color unique to each flower.

The hues feel different from paint, which will surely fascinate children.

It’s probably suitable from around age three, when kids can pick the flowers themselves.