12 Great Outdoor Toys for Kids

Encourage a healthy lifestyle by giving gifts and toys to your kids that get them moving, laughing and out in the fresh air.  Here are 12 of my favourites - click images for more details and to buy. 

Butterflies, box kites, sharks and schooners - Sky dogs has the most amazing kites. Click for more details.

Spooner boards teach kids the movements of skate/snow boarding and all the tricks in relative safety. Click for details including a video.

Hyperdash is the electronic tagging game that can be played on an area as small as a tabletop or as large as a football field.

Use you personal gravity to send rockets soaring with Stomp Rocket.

These Uniden branded walkie-talkies are brilliant with a range of up to 3km.  The cheap ones are full of static.  These are crystal clear.

Amazing replica sailing boat designed by Andrew Fagan.  Designed for speed, no batteries are required! Perfectly balanced and weighted - it's like a kite on water. Click for details & video.

Robust, tough, traditional and terrific.  Tuff Trikes look just like the traditional sturdy ones we grew up with with.  You can even get a wagon as an accessory.

These are definitely the coolest helmets for bikes, scooters, skateboarding.  Huge range of designs - check out the water-mellon & 8-ball ones!!

This inflatable jousting set is a lot of fun in the pool.  Balance and then bash with harmless inflatable jousting poles.

Never, never buy one Nerf gun.  Buy two!  Dad and son, brothers or firends can engage in friendly outdoor warfare where no one gets hurt.

A bit like poi with ribbons Kiwido is fantastic and creative outdoor fun.

Bilibo is an toy that can becomes what your child wants it to be: a sled, a spinner, a tote, a rocker, a bucket and more ...