SO Many Water Games Including Water Balloon Games for the Kids Summer Vacation

Water balloon games can be a fun activity for the kid's Summer Vacation. You can cool off while playing a game.  Be sure to have plenty of balloons filled and ready to go before you start out on any of the water balloon games below.....because once the balloons are gone.....so is the fun!  I'm pretty sure one game will lead to another and another. A fun-filled summer is in your future! Summer Activities!

Water Balloon Piñata

This water balloon game can be so much fun!  Instead of candy falling down after the object is burst open, it's water!  We suggest filling the balloons very full.....they will burst easier when hit if they are full. If not, it may be frustrating trying to pop it. (Having raised all girls, I didn't have a plastic bat to use, but I suggest you use one or something else, but not a real bat)  To get all the directions Click HERE

Water Balloon Volley

Start with a bucket full of water balloons

1.  Divide the kids into two teams and pair them up.

2.  Each pair gets a beach towel and each child holds two corners of the towel.

3.  One side begins by placing a water balloon in the center of their towel.  The object is to toss the balloon from one pair of kids to another, with the opposing side catching the balloon in their towel,

This can be played with a net or simply pace off a distance between opposing teams.

Water Balloon Squat

Supplies: 

One Bucket per team with at least 30 wall balloons in each

Chalk to mark the start and finish line

This relay race needs at least 2 teams with equal players.  The start and finish lines should be about 20 feet apart.  Place the bucket of balloons at the start line in front of each team.  When you say "go" the first person grabs a balloon and runs to the finish line. When they reach the finish line they must sit on their balloon and pop it.  The player then runs back to the starting line and gives the next person in line a high five and then they go...and so on...until the whole team is done.  Make sure that the group picks up the balloon pieces before moving on.

Water Balloon Dodge Ball

Need: Water Balloons and 2 plastic tubs

Players:  small to large groups

Have at least 5 water balloons for each player (game will last longer if you have more than 5) 

Divide into 2 groups on opposite sides of a line with each side having their balloons in a plastic tub.   If you are hit with a water balloon you are out (like dodge ball)  

Set rules:  No aiming above the waist!  No hitting in the face.

Water Balloon Toss with a Twist

Make a small hole or several small holes in a water balloon and fill with water. Then have the participants form a circle and have them toss the balloon to each other, either across to each other or to the child next to them.  You don't want to be the last one holding the balloon when all the water is gone out of the balloon. It's a fun and quick game that the kids will love.

If you would like to see A LOT more fun Water games, including more Water Balloon games click HERE  (KidActivities.net)  Your kid's summer is about to get a lot more FUN!!!

For a really fun way to Organize your Kids Summer Activities Click HERE

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It's BBQ Time! See Over 90 Barbecue Recipes! Food Men LOVE!

Summer is here and it's time to barbecue!  And who doesn't like to barbecue? Family and friends together, enjoying each other's company, the great outdoors and delicious food....what could be better. Well, it just got better because we've found three fabulous posts featuring food for a barbecue that you'll want to check out.   The barbecue section of your cookbook (or recipe box) is going to get a little bit thicker now!

 Check out these Top 40 BBQ hamburger recipes

 The Cooking Channel

 See the best low-and-slow barbecue recipes here, from regional pulled pork to smoked chicken and brisket flats.  See all 25 recipes 

The Cooking Channel

 Smoky baked beans, creamy slaws and savory greens and much more. These barbecue sides make the perfect accompaniment to your hearty meat meal. There are 26 recipes for sides here. 

 The Cooking Channel

Over 1,900 Cheap and Free Things to Do In Utah During Summer Vacation

Found some fun things for you to do this summer with the kids......and most of them are free.  If you live in Utah you can find some excellent activities that won't break the bank. If you're planning a vacation to Utah you should definitely check out all the links below.

To see a complete calendar of  Free events  throughout the State of Utah Click HERE   It's a really great resource for free activities!

My granddaughter just took the Utah State Capital tour with her school class and she thought it was AMAZING!  It is fun and educational. I'm going to do this one for sure. Get the schedule for the tours HERE

From She Knows City Guide you'll find some some really great things to do that are free  including the following (There's more's fun categories on their site!

                   GILGAL SCULPTURE GARDEN            Sweets Candy Factory Tour

Admission is free to the BYU Museum of Art. Take the kids and have an afternoon they won't soon forget.  Click HERE to see their hours, location and parking information.

Head on up to the Gateway Mall to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum.  Tons of fun for the kids. Click HERE to get their hours and parking information. (Admission is not free-Can purchase parking pass for $1 that will cover three hours of parking) 

We flew over the Kennecott Copper Mine a month ago and it was so beautiful that I'm dying to go there and take the tour.  Through May there are days where the tour is free, normally it is $5 per car.  Click HERE to go to their site and check it all out  and Click HERE to see the Calendar to see which days are free. 

Hogle Zoo isn't a free activity but it could be such great fun for the family. Pack a lunch and send the day at the Hogle Zoo.  Click HERE to go to their website to get more information. 

 Found a web site that lists 1,934 Cheap and FUN things to do in Utah. Yes, I did say 1,934!  Get all the info you need to plan a day trip or a vacation.  I can predict a FABULOUS SUMMER for you and your family this year!

 The link to the original web site  for over 1900 cheap things to do in Utah is bad now but here's another link with monthly events for 2013 for Utah. It's a great one too! Lots of activities. Click HERE

Click HERE  for 546 fun things to do in Utah.

Here's a guide to all the National Parks within the United States. Go to the site and click on your state on the map to get all the information you'll need to plan a wonderful trip to one our of the beautiful Parks.
Until the end of May you can get into any Park for free! 

(CLICK ON THE PHOTOS to go to the links for the states below and above) 

Want to be a friend of the National Park Service on Facebook?  Here's the LINK  How about their YouTube Site?  Here's the LINK for that one.

Lots of Fun Car Activities-For Summer Vacation (If the kids are happy, Mom's happy)

A lot of  you are headed out for Summer Vacation in your car.  These kind of vacations can be wonderful. But sometimes they have their "I'm bored" moments for the kids.  But, if you come prepared you might not hear that phrase as much this trip.  Some of my favorite things kids say while traveling in the car:

She touched me

He's breathing my air

You're in my space

Mom, he won't stop touching me

Are we there yet?

He's sitting on me

I'm hungry

I think I'm going to be sick

There's nothing to do!

I'm bored

I'm hot

I'm cold

Can you turn the radio up

Can you turn the radio down

I've got to go to the bathroom, right now!

When are we stopping to eat?

Don't get me wrong,..you will probably still hear some if not all of these things on your car trip but if you've got something up your sleeve, you may hear them less.  We've gathered together some fun ideas for you to take with you on your trip.  Keep your notebook with all your ideas and your "fun bag" with you at all times for this could be the trip that they remember as "one of the really great ones"

They have some really good ideas over at "I am Momma-hear me roar"  10 ways to keep kids happy in the car of a road trip!   I particulary like her idea of Glow Sticks at night-they became light sabers.  Check out all their ideas

Here's a great site that gives you some fun activities that you can download, print, laminate and attach with a binder ring to take with you in the car.  All 17 ideas with little effort on your part.  Head on over to SMALL TYPES to get the free download

Get 40+ Road Trip Activities for your Summer (car trip) Vacation with preschoolers and toddlers!  Kids Activity Blog

These road trip bingo games will keep the kids busy for a while.  Get the link to the free download over at  Oopsey Daisy.

At this travel site you'll find a lot of really great activities to download, 

plus once you get to the site there are other links for more activities

. Check this one out by clicking  HERE  Some of the things you'll find are below.  

Word Searches

Road Trips

Plane Trips

Crossword Puzzles

Road Trips

United States Fun Facts

Classic Travel Activities

Free Coloring Pages for Kids

License Plate Scavenger Hunt

Car Scavenger Hunt

Hangman

Connect the Dots

Tic Tac Toe

Road Trip Bingo

These cute games can be found over at Prepared, Not Scared

Want to see how much it will cost you to get to your destination? Go to this site, put in your address, destination address and make and model of car and it will calculate it for you.  Click HERE to get this info

The shoe bag is a very valuable tool in the car....Really?  Really!   It will keep everything organized, off the floor and off the seats where they can be sat on and broken, and best of all if is right in front of the child where they can reach whatever they want!  A clean car is a happy car!  SOURCE

Get the fun game "I Spy" for your next car trip. It will keep the kids very busy looking in passing cars and at the people on the streets etc. 3 Pages in each color. I love how there is a picture AND a word on one of the sheets. That way the older kids can use the same cards as the younger ones. 
Darling Doodles

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{Summer Survival} Amazing Bubble Party-Get Creative!

Here's a post for our Summer Survival series that will be great fun for the kids--- Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles. So many creative ways to play with bubbles that you're going to want to have a bubble party too.

Find suggestions for Bubble Wands, a Bubble Experimentation Station, a Egg Beater Bubble Race, plus the Hoola Hoop Bubble Wand, Wow! You will also find the bubble solution recipe!    To read all about how to host a Bubble Party Click here!