Water Fun

• Have a water fight
  Use the garden hose, a squeeze bottle, balloons, water guns, or whatever you can find!
  
  
  
• Skip stones
  Find a stone that fits nicely in your hand. A good skipping stone is flat on the bottom and slightly rounded on the top. Try and get the stone to skip along the top of the water in a lake or pond (watch out for other people and animals). If you throw the stone side-arm, it will bounce along the water. See how many times you can get it to skip.
  
  
  
• Look for tadpoles
  In the spring check out your local pond, quiet stream or creek.
  
  
  
• Watch a hole fill with water
  At the beach dig a hole near the waterline (at the edge of the water). Within a few minutes the bottom of the hole should fill with water.
  
  
  
• Race sticks in a river/creek
  Safety First:  Rivers can be dangerous. Stay away from the edge as it is easy to slip in and get swept away. Bring an adult or stand on a bridge above the water.
  Each person drops a stick in the river. See which stick moves the fastest. If you are on a bridge, see whose stick comes out from under the other side of the bridge first.

Really Wet

• Go body surfing
  Safety First: Make sure you have adult supervision. You must be able to swim to body surf. A life jacket is also a good idea, even if you know how to swim. I don't recommend this activity to children under the age of 11.
  To body surf, you need some good waves. So, you need either the beach where you can get some waves about 1 metre high (3 feet high) or a wave pool. Swim out to where the waves start to break (the waves start to roll down on themselves making the top of the wave turn white). Once there, face the beach and wait for a wave to start breaking. Get in front of the breaking wave and start swimming quickly. If you time it right, the wave will push you along. If you get pushed right up onto the beach, watch for sand in your bathing suit!
  NOTE: If you are not a strong swimmer or would prefer to use a flutter board, it works just as well.
  
  
  
• Slip and slide
  Use a ready-made slip and slide or create your own out of a long sheet of plastic and a garden hose. Put on your bathing suit, pick out a smooth piece of lawn, put down the plastic, grab the hose or a bucket of water to wet the plastic and start sliding. You may have to peg the plastic down at the starting point so it doesn’t slide with you. You can also use a little bit of dish detergent to make your slip and slide slippery. Be careful!