B is a massive fan of BEAR snacks. His love for their snacks started with their fruit yo-yos & he quickly became a fan of their Claws & Paws!
At one time he was obsessive over collecting the cards from his fruit yoyos, he was fascinated. My draw is still full of the ‘time travel’ cards. Lately I’d been ignoring some of the cards that came with his ‘paws’, I was gutted when I realised that they were amazing ‘BEAR’S Outdoor Alphabet’ cards, I’d chucked away loads before I realised how amazing they were. They were full of fun family activities & I’d kept only three!
I am absolutely awful at dreaming up things to do, I don’t have that mindset. If somethings there & I can make an alternative game out of it, I can SOMETIMES conjure something up. BEAR’S Outdoor Alphabet cards give you the ideas so you don’t have to dream them up! Not all of the cards will be age appropriate for your child so its up to you to decide which ones they can do… Some of them are super mucky too so some of you may want to avoid those ones when they have fresh clothes on!
BEAR’S Outdoor Alphabet cards provide fantastic fun family activities, me & B had an absolute ball with them.
The cards are designed so nicely, super bright & eye catching. I decided to surprise B with some of the activities on the cards on a nice warm day, so we could be sure to have lots of super fun in the garden!
Can you imagine B’s face when I told him we were making REAL mud mudpie cupcakes?! He was baffled but then super excited. Literally bouncing off the walls in excitement.
We headed out to our massive mud mountain in the front garden that is still waiting to be moved (YES STILL) & collected our all important mud! These cards state clearly at the top what ‘bits & bobs you need’, I chose the cards that I had bits for!
YES SCORE, NO TANTRUMS!
We headed into the back garden to start our first activity! I feel like I may have enjoyed this a little more than B as I was never allowed to play with mud when I was little. We really enjoyed this little activity together & could only imagine that with a few of his friends involved we’d love it even more… We would probably get rather mucky though!
The activity, although very simple, was a lot of fun. Our Mud-cakes as I’ll now call them are still sat outside.
B decided that YOGA or YoYo as he calls it, was a brilliant idea & the next activity we were to try.
Let’s just say I’m not a Yoga guru so our poses weren’t entirely ‘Yoga poses’ more… Yoga inspired. B found me doing this absolutely hilarious. My balance is bad on the best of days but I managed a few poses for him. More for a giggle than anything.
I do feel we had a little bond over our exceptionally quick trip to Planet YoYo!
If your little one is slightly older than B, he’s 3 by the way, then I think this would be a brilliant bonding activity. Regardless of age this activity can be hilarious! I dread to think what the neighbours thought we were doing.
As you can see we have a few cards & B was starting to get angry at me because I told him we couldn’t go ‘Star Gazing’ IN THE mid-day sun! Try explaining that to a headstrong 3 year old, lets just say.. he didn’t get it & just thought mummy was being difficult. He got a little frustrated by that he couldn’t do all the activities but I am keeping the extra cards for the future.
Our last activity for the day was sandcastle building. B regularly forces people into building him sandcastles but this time around he actually helped build the castle & had fun while doing it. B was a bit confused when we ‘decorated’ our castle. Lets just say I didn’t have much on hand so we didn’t get to decorate it too much. B usually bashes his sandcastles down as soon as he’s built them so this was a turn up for the books.
I was rather proud of our last minute castle!
We really enjoyed our afternoon out in the garden, the Bear cards certainly gave us lots of fun family activities to do!
I can’t wait to collect more, B loves BEAR snacks too so its a win-win situation!
What are your favourite fun family activities?!
*DISCLAIMER – I contacted BEAR & they sent me a few of the cards for B to use for this post. They didn’t ask for the post it was my idea to do it*
I think my kids would love this activity. They are going to be 4 in a few months. Think it would be a great activity for us.
lol! I love it when he goes “Ohhh Myyy God!'” So funny! This looks like fun activity. My kids would love this. They love getting messy. lol! Great vlong by the way. 🙂 x
We are a big fan of BEAR products also they have a great stand at Geronimo children’s festival. This cards keep the littles one interested and save us grown ups from running out of ideas !
I love the idea of these cards, I struggle sometimes to come up with fun activities for Amelie so it’s good to have a helping hand. I love the mud cake idea and Amelie would definitely enjoy the sand castles. I hadn’t heard of these before so will look into these – the summer holidays mean I need all the inspiration I can get!!!
These look so much fun and are super cute! Perfect for the summer holidays when you need activity ideas!
My two absolutely love the bear snacks too. They especially love the Yo-Yo’s. Aw I bet he loved making the mud cakes! My two would love that too. It is so fun doing little activities with them we have recently got into playing board games as Sophia is now 6 and Archie is 3 and they both really enjoy those activities. What a fab idea with the cards. I didn’t even know they had activities on the back! Looks like you are having loads of fun with them. xx
Brilliant activity – I had no idea what Bear was and didn’t know about bear cards. I will try this with my 3 year old (3 and a half actually). Although I need to find some mud in the garden :)))
Your lawn is so tidy!! We moved recently so still getting to grips with mowing etc.
What a great idea – I love the thought of these!! Such great fun and a fab source of ideas for fun outside!
I don’t know if we have these in the US, but they are just too adorable and I can see my kids enjoying this!
What a lovely post. We are big fans of BEAR in this family but I didn’t realise that these were activity cards. Such a great idea x
These are so cute. I can only imagine how excited he must have been to make mud cupcakes. I remember making mud pies in my play-play oven and getting fed up with my mom’s distaste for my 5 star food. I was very proud of my mud served with a side of dandelion salad. I can’t wait to do these sorts of activities with my son as he gets a bit older. I’m going to go see if the cards are still in the packs.