If you are looking for outdoor play ideas for toddlers and preschoolers then you have found the right place! Outside play lends itself to messy play. With more space available it means activities can be on a larger scale.
The weather doesn’t have to be perfect either. Remember the saying “there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing”.
This post will be updated regularly so be sure to keep checking back.
If you are looking for indoor play activities for toddlers and preschoolers click here.
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- Dinosaur Tuff Spot
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- Harvest Sensory Play
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- Wizard of Oz Small World
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- Guttering Painting
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- Humpty Dumpty Egg Splat Painting
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- Jurassic Water Bead Small World
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- Seaside Car Track Busy Bag
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- Coconut Sensory Play
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- Ice Cream Tuff Spot
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- Incy Wincy Spider Guttering Fun
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- Pipe Pieces Water Wall Tuff Spot
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- International Mud Day Tuff Spot
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- Number Fishing Tuff Spot
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- Old MacDonald Farm Tuff Spot
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- Tea Bag Sensory Tuff Spot
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- DIY Giant Car Track
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- Earth Day Tuff Spot
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- Little Bo Peep Tuff Spot
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- Zig-Zag Tuff Spot
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- Recycled Yacht Tuff Spot
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- X Marks The Spot Tuff Spot
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- Spring Showers Tuff Spot
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- Mary Mary Quite Contrary Number Flower Garden
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- Edible Dinosaur Sensory Bin
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- Broad Bean Colour Sort
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- Pipe insulation pom pom run
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- Easy to make water bombs
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- DIY Outdoor letter line
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- Shredded paper duck hunt
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- Heinz Alphabetti Pasta Messy Play
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- Two fine motor activities with objects found in the garden
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- Meerkat Manor Sensory Bin
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- Number Wall
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- Adam’s Mud Kitchen
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- Car Ramp Painting
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- Giant Spider Threading
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- Garden fence counting string
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- Paint Splat
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- String water play
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- Toddler Water Wall
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- Sheep Shearing
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- Animal Balloon Herding
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- Farm yard party games
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- Transporting water play
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- Wheat Flakes Tuff Spot
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- Chalking the walls
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- Water Wall Painting
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- Rainbow Rice Fishing
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- Plastic Egg Guttering Fun
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- Coiled Pipe Cleaners
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- Spring Cleaning the World
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- Washing line fun
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- Clean Mud
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- Making Gloop
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- DIY Ribbon Sticks
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- Cloud Dough Tuff Spot
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- Chalk mark making
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- Jelly Digging
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- Smash (Instant Potato) Tuff Spot
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- Cornflake Tuff Spot
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- Oats and Chick Pea Building Site
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- Car Tracks in Shaving Foam
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- Musical Tree
So many fantastic outdoor play ideas! We made our own waterfall wall after reading yours last year, it was great.
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