Outside Toys for Toddlers

Playing outdoors

Children experience freedom when they play outside. Outdoor play is a natural way for children of all ages to do physical activity. It’s good for children’s health and well-being to be physically active through play. Being active burns energy and can help prevent illnesses in adulthood.

Outdoor Play Benefits

Children are spending increasingly less time playing outdoors. Research has shown that children who play outdoors regularly are happier, healthier, and stronger. Here you’ll learn about a few of the health benefits of outdoor play and get ideas for fun outside toys for toddlers!

Encouraging children to get outside, get moving, and connect with the natural world are all ways to help kids be happier, healthier, and stronger!

According to research, children who play outdoors regularly:

Become fitter and leaner
Develop stronger immune systems
Have more active imaginations
Have lower stress levels
Play more creatively

Outdoor toddler toys

Time spent outdoors is also the best way to get vitamin D. According to the journal of Pediatrics, 70% of American kids are not getting enough vitamin D, which can lead to a host of health issues. Time spent outdoors is also shown to reduce myopia (near sightedness) in children.

Here are terrific outside toys that are sure to make your family outdoor time a lot of fun:

1. Water Sprinklers

Toy water sprinklers are available in various designs and are fun for the whole family on hot days. Running around and playing in a water sprinkler is great fun and exercise for your toddler.

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2. Bubble Toys

This automatic bubble blower will delight kids of all ages as hundreds of exciting bubbles pour out of its mouth in a stream!

Bubble mower: As the mower is pushed, it releases loads of bubbles in to the air.

This adorable toy lawn mower is a fun way to get kids up and moving outside. As the mower is pushed, it plays realistic mowing noises that kids will love. This mower does not use batteries.

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3. Magic Sand Toys

Magic sand is soft and sensory, it feels like soft, wet sand and sticks to itself to maintain its shape making a great tactile experience for kids. It’s a great sensory toy for hours of fun using role play, imagination and hand-eye co-ordination.

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4. Bounce House

Perfect for children to stay fit and active. Perfect for physical exercise and a chance to interact with friends to replace screen time.

5. Rocking Horse

Children will learn balance and coordination while rocking forward and backward all by themselves for lots of fun.

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6. Sand and Water Table

Sand and water tables are great for sensory play. Kids can sail boats and splash in the water, make sand castles in the sand, and race cars across the bridge roadways all under the shade of the included umbrella. The table’s lid can also be used as another play surface with its molded-in roadway design. When playtime fun is done, clean-up is easy with drain plugs in both sides. And, the lid’s elastic tie-downs secure it to the table, keeping out potential critters and providing covered toy storage.

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7. Magic Water Doodle Mat

Fill the marker with pure clear water and draw on the pad. After 3-10 minutes, it magically disappears and the child can doodle on it again and again.
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8. Bean Bag Toss

Easy, colorful beanbag corn hole game . Promotes working on hand-eye coordination, body awareness, concentration and integration of motor skills.
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9. Real Butterfly Garden

Pop up, reusable 12 inch tall mesh habitat perfect for butterfly viewing; includes feeding dropper and instructions. Witness one of nature’s most spectacular transformations up close. Included us a cup of 5 baby caterpillars with all the nutritious food they need to grow into Painted Lady Butterflies

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10. Ball Pit and Balls

Enhances creativity and coordination, perfect for birthday parties, picnics, backyard BBQs, parks, playgrounds, day care, school, carnivals, sleepovers, and nursery.
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Why play is important

Play improves the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and young people. Through play, children learn about the world and themselves. They also learn skills they need for study, work and relationships such as:

confidence
self-esteem
resilience
interaction
social skills
independence
curiosity
coping with challenging situations

Developing physical health through play

Physical play such as running, skipping and riding a bicycle helps children develop:

good physical fitness
agility
stamina
co-ordination
balance

Having fun with your little one is easy with these outside toys for toddlers!

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