I am really excited to be sharing this post today as a part of Keri's new eBook launch! Be sure to check out the other awesome summer activity posts at the end of this post!
We love our water table! It is great for if you don't want to fill up an entire pool (although sometimes my kids climb in the water table as if its a pool...), or when it isn't quite warm enough to run through those sprinklers. It is a lot more portable and so versatile! The best thing is that you don't need to have an actual water table. You can really do these activities with any kind of bucket or basin! When the girls were little, I would just find the biggest mixing bowl I had and fill it up with water for them to splash in and they had a blast with it.
This spring and summer, I know we will spend a lot of time with the water table. We do every year, and we actually already have spent quite a few days playing in it the last month or two. Here are some of our favorite things to do with the water table:
- Squirt in some dish soap and fill it up for lots of bubbles and soapy water!
- Car/toy wash! This works especially well when its soapy. Kids think it is hilarious to wash their cars and trucks and trains and balls and whatever plastic toys you want them to wash. Cheap entertainment, folks!
- Put food coloring in the water and watch it change. Experiment with how many drops it takes to get the color you want or mixing 2 colors together to make a new one.
- Fill up your water table with sand and make a temporary sand box. Get the kiddos some scoops and cups and rakes to dig and create. Hide toy bugs or dinosaurs or anything else for them to find as they dig!
- Make your water table into a seasonal sensory box. In the summer, put different varieties of flowers in the table, or make an under the sea sensory bin in the table--put sand on the upper portion and fill the rest with shells, sea weed, plastic sea animals, etc.
- Let them make a garden in it! Put down potting soil and let them plant flowers or vegetables and tend to it. Real or fake!
Be sure to check out these other awesome summer ideas!
Water Play from BYBMG
And don't forget to check out Keri's e-book featuring great ideas for a thriving summer with your kids!

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