Well, after that nice, long break we are back into real life again - and it's time for the Outdoor Play Party! We've decided that since real life is super busy, we are going to run the Outdoor Play Party every 2 weeks instead of every week, and the linky will be open to accept links for 2 weeks.
Did you get up to lots of fun outdoor play over the holidays?
We enjoyed a couple of nights outdoors in the dark over the holidays (the dark always adds an extra layer of excitement for the little peas) playing with sparklers. This was the first time either of them had tried sparklers before, and I was impressed with how careful they were.
Hungarian Christmas tradition is that instead of Santa coming at midnight on Christmas Eve, Baby Jesus comes in the evening after dinner, and brings presents and a decorated tree. One of the trickier aspects of this tradition is getting the presents (and the tree, for those that do that part - we don't) into the house and set up without the kids noticing - particularly difficult when you live in an apartment! So we found the perfect excuse to get them out - they had to go outside to light sparklers that Baby Jesus could see from afar, to indicate that we had finished dinner and were ready now! The girls had a great time after some initial tears about dropping half the pack of sparklers and losing them in the dark!
We also went out and lit sparklers with all our friends from the building on New Year's Eve at our spontaneous New Year's Eve party. All the kids had a great time waving them around and blowing their noisemakers to welcome in the new year!
How did your kids play outdoors this week?
Share your ideas for outdoor play activities with us every other week! The linky goes live every second Friday at 12:01 GMT+1. Here are just a few guidelines for sharing.
- Any kind of children's outdoor play is welcome. If it happened outside, then please link it up!
- Please do not share any competitions, promotions, or posts that are not related to Outdoor Play.
- Please remember to link back to this post and help us spread the word about the importance (and fun!) of outdoor play! Please grab the Outdoor Play button from the sidebar.
- Each time we will feature an activity from the previous party. By contributing you are giving permission for an image and link to your post to be republished. If you have been featured, please feel free to grab the 'featured' button from the sidebar.
Our holiday linky was rather quiet, so an extra big thank you to those who were able to find time during this busy season to link up! I especially loved this Night Hike from The Family Adventure Project - a super blog that I'm so glad to feature!
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Thanks Mama Pea Pod - the sparkler fun sounds great, we like playing with those too! And always interesting to read about different traditions ;-)
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That looks like a fun time! I love the pictures. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the night time outdoor play! Great post.
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Oh - Just found your great blog - I have two toddler girls, and I blog about their outdoor activities all the time- I love this post about light - it's always hard to find a safe way to do it with kids we tried fake-flames in coloured plastic this year; http://partycraftsecrets.blogspot.com/2011/12/festive-fake-flames.html
ReplyDeleteI've joined, linked, grabbed one of your fun badges, and I'd love you to come across and join my site too for some party-crafty-toddler fun!
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Some gorgeous links this week - so enjoyable to read :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you who have linked up already, and sorry about the broken linky at first. My fault, I messed up the settings when I switched over to text-only links. It's fixed now, and yes, there are some really fun posts so far! Please visit as many as you can and leave comments for your fellow bloggers, we all love to hear comments! x
ReplyDeleteThose photos of the sparklers are just amazing!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I was surprised how well they turned out since it was so dark I couldn't see anything at all through the viewfinder and was just shooting 'blind'.
DeleteHi there - just wanted to wish you a happy 2012, and let you know that I gave you the Versatile Bloggers Award (whether you've received this before or not, please don't feel obliged to do anything other than accept my best wishes!)
ReplyDeleteI didn't provide the link back, but I can do so if you'd like, or I can alter the name of your blog to keep it private - your call. Here's the post;
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stay well and keep blogging! x
Thank you very much, I'm flattered!
DeleteThat looks like a fun time great post..!! Thank you Some gorgeous links this week..!!
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