Activity Round-Up: Five Projects to Cool You Down

Hot summer days call for water-based activities and cold foods. Even if you don’t live near a pool or a lake or a beach, you can still cool off!Here are five fun ways to cool down this summer.

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Watermelon Slushies

With only three ingredients (and one of those is optional, even!), these watermelon slushies are an easy-to-make, naturally sweet cure for the heat induced grumpies. You can make them with either a regular blender or a stick blender and the recipe is easily adjustable if you have more or less watermelon.

Learn how to make these homemade slushies here!

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Pool Noodle Sprinkler

This pool noodle sprinkler is a great way to cool off without much water use. You control the amount of water that comes out and the duration. Plus, running through spraying water is just so fun!

Find the tutorial HERE.

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Soap Boat Races

These soap boat races are super fun! The kiddos create their own boats and flags and they’re off!

Find the tutorial HERE.

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Cherry Icicles

In the Junkyard Tales story “The Cool House”, the animals are worried about Mr. Flinch, the old possum. It’s really hot out, so they devise a plan to create a cool house for him under the Junkyard Warden’s air conditioned office. Another way to keep cool in the intense heat of summer is to eat cold foods! Enter the fresh fruit “icicle”.

Learn how to make your very own Cherry Icicle’s here.

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Ice Boats

This is a great activity for the dog days of summer where even the sprinkler isn’t enough. Making the ice boats is easy. You can use any shape of container to change the shape of the boat. They will certainly keep little hands extra cool.

Find the Tutorial HERE

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