Ride and Play Scooter Activity
When M and M were younger I loved creating pretend play areas for them. Taking the pretend play outside was always a special treat! I’ll admit that stretching my creative muscle in that way is something I miss about having preschool age kids.
Teaming up with Radio Flyer to celebrate 100 days of Summer gave me the perfect reason to invite over a friend and her 4 year old for some pretend play fun! Radio Flyer is the world’s leading builder of wagons, tricycles, pre-school scooters and other ride-ons. For this activity we used a Radio Flyer Build-a-Scooter.
Radio Flyer has been inspiring imagination for 100 years! Check out this adorable Radio Flyer’s Travel Agency. It totally made me want to play!
Ride and Play Scooter Activity
What you need: Chalk, stickers, paper, toys, a little imagination and a scooter. Radio Flyer gave us a Build-a-Scooter to use. Awesome!
Our scooter activity had four play areas surrounded by a scooter track.
- Pet Picnic. In this area I added a few stuffed animals, a blanket and some pretend food.
- Letter Hop. For the letter hop I wrote all the letters of the alphabet for the kids to use for hopping.
- Chalk Art. In this area the kids could draw anything they wanted.
- Mini Tracks. Our little visitor loves anything with wheels so of course we needed an area for cars! I drew a few mini tracks and added some little vehicles.
Ride and Play Passport
The pretend play fun is in the details. And boy do I love the details.
I made a little Ride and Play Passport by cutting up a piece of paper and stapling the side to form a book. We rounded up stickers that matched our scooter areas (or at least came close to matching). Every time our scooter champion finished playing in an area he earned another sticker.
I’ll call this ride and play activity a huge success!
Radio Flyer’s founder Antonio Pasin started Radio Flyer in 1917 and his dream was to “bring joy to every boy and every girl”. After 100 years Radio Flyer is still committed to great design and innovation. Radio Flyer is proud to be a timeless symbol of childhood imagination and has become the most loved brand for kids’ wheels in the world
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Summer of 2013 we played hookie from work and got in the car and drove 10 hours from the Midwest to Hilton head island, Sc. Best road trip ever.
I hope this summer is as adventurous as our last summer! We spent a lot of time outdoors last year, exploring the mountains surrounding las Vegas. Beautiful red rocks for hiking and climbing, and going out to Valley of Fire and seeing the incredible nature and history intertwined there. Great opportunity interact with lizards!
We love to go hiking my daughter loves going up into the mountains to walk around and explore but she is content just walking around the “Hacky-Sack” (cul de sac) in the evenings.
We spent a summer of adventure bird watching and keeping a journal of our finds including sketches. Great exercise on our nature walks and a great learning experience that is exciting and fun.
The first Summer Adventure that I remember was going to a theme park in the Ozarks near our home called Dogpatch USA. My little brother threw up in mom’s lap on the way there.
we had an adventure at Drop Zone when all our family was there and we took pics and Videos of all the lil ones in the water playin great memories and a COOL water place
Celebrate my birthday at Central Park.
We had an amazing summer when we went to space camp!!
As kids, we would ride our bike or motorcycles and jump hills and ramps! Sometimes we would tie a rope between the bike and wagon and pull people along with us!
I love your ideas for ride and play areas. My grandniece loves drawing all over the driveway with chalk, but this would be a much better activity for her when she comes to visit. We had lots of fun a couple weeks ago when she visited. We dragged out all the stuffed animals & dolls for a tea party. She had a blast filling the teapot with soda (she tells her mother we have MILK) and cupcakes. We’ll have to get with her Dad and see about the Build A Scooter, it looks like fun!