Water Fun
Indoors Water Fun
Water Charades
Print the picture cards of different activities and things you can do in or with water. Sitting in a group, have one child draw a card and without showing it to anyone, act out the water activity on the card. First child who guesss' the activity draws the next card.
Print water charade game cards.
Water charade cards 1-9
Water charade cards 10-20
Note: If printing shows through the back of your copy paper. After printing glue the copy paper onto construction paper before cutting the cards apart.
Wave Machine
Need: empty plastic pop bottles (16 oz.), vegetable oil, water, food coloring, masking tape.
Fill the bottle 2/3 full with water. Add a couple of drops of food coloring and mix. If the children mix the food coloring to create colors you may need to pour out some of the colored water and add clear water to lighten the color.
Fill up the rest of the bottle with vegetable oil. Secure the lid tightly. Tape masking tape around the lid. Warn children not to take off the lid as oil is extremely hard to clean up!
Have the children hold the bottle sideways and gently tip it, creating delightful wave actions.
Outdoors Water Fun
Bucket Brigade
Children remove shoes and socks then form two teams. Each team forms a line. Two buckets for each team. Place a empty bucket at one end of the line and a full bucket of water at the other end of the line.
Each child has a empty cup. The children pass the water from the full bucket to the empty bucket by passing the water down the line from cup to cup When all the water has been transferred the team with the most water in its bucket wins!
Bucket Toss
Line up 5 buckets with water in them (first bucket close and the fifth bucket would be farthest). Mark a baseline.
Child stands at the baseline and tosses a small ball into the buckets of water. The ball must land in the buckets in numerical order (first bucket, second bucket etc.).
If a ball lands in a bucket out of numerical order then the child's turn is over. The child who tosses the ball into the buckets in order wins!
Water Balloon Toss
Need: Water balloons
Pair off children and have them face their partner. Everytime the balloon is caught the child that caught the balloon takes a step back. When they miss they usually get splattered with cool water.
Bubble Snake Video
