This week in Saskatchewan we’re enjoying a much needed few days of rain. Many planted their flowers over the weekend (gardens wait until after May long weekend here in SK as a general rule) and now they along with lawns and farmer’s fields are drinking it up. We’re also hopeful that the rain will extend north where forest fire risk still remains and many fires are still burning especially around the Fort McMurray area.
Last summer, Saskatchewan was also taxed with many forest fires, and it really impacted our air quality and time spent outdoors for several weeks (we even missed out on a camping trip!) This year, we’re really hoping for a better summer for all those reasons, and of course, because having the kids outside enjoying the sunshine and fresh air does a lot more for the family’s emotional health.
We received a selection of backyard toys from Mastermind Toys this spring and of them all, Wet Head ($26.99) was definitely our favorite! Known as the water roulette game, it’s a little bit like the popular Pie Face game but with water causing the grief instead.
Best for ages 4+, our 5, 8, and 11 year old have been having a ball playing the game on the deck on sunny afternoons. Simply fill the top of the helmet with water, spin the wheel and see how many times you have to pull a peg out and risk getting a dump of water on your head. Of course, you can control the temperature of the water so it’s not super cold for little ones.
Other fun items we checked out from Mastermind Toys include the hugely popular Bunch O Balloons products including a package with a launcher included for even more water balloon fun ($25.99) and the Max Liquidator Double Drencher ($21.99). All have been put to use already this spring, thanks to unseasonably warm weather, and I’m sure we’ll be using them throughout the summer. If you’re shopping for a new scooter this spring, Mastermind Toys also has an information-packed Scooter Guide here.
You can find all these items at Mastermind Toys in store (where they offer complimentary gift wrapping) or you can shop online with free shipping on orders of $60 or more. Follow them on social here:
We’re sharing the fun – enter to win a $100 Mastermind Toys GC!
right now me and the kids are simply happy playing simple game of baseball with their new gloves but i am sure as spring/summer progresses I’ll need a trip to Mastermind, thanks for the chance to win the gc!
Our favorite outdoor activity is croquet. We can play for hours. Thanks for sponsoring this fun giveaway and for the opportunity to participate.
My kids love a sprinkler underneath the trampoline.
The backyard toy my kids love the best is the good old natural woods. There is a bit of a forest behind our cabin at the lake and the kids play in there for HOURS!
My kids would love the Eezy Peezy Jungle Gym for backyard.
We have a slack line in our backyard. Adults and kids always find ways to challenge each other and themselves. So fun!!
Its all about the sprinkler, or the hose in a pinch
A trampoline is a classic fave that I can never get enough of!
The kids love being under the sprinkler or wading in the pool in the summer.
we love our backyard water slide thing. Lots of fun and great way to cool off in the summer
My boys would go CRAZY for the Bunch O Balloons! They would like all of the featured toys in your blog post, honestly. 😉
My grandchildren enjoy putting the sprinkler under their trampoline and they also love their scooters.
As a child, the neighbourhood kids loved to play together under the sprinkler! We just had the basic lawn watering sprinkler to use . . . there are so many fun ones out there now!
My kids like playing catch-type games, especially when there are more than two participants. Water balloon toss sounds perfect for them when the weather gets hot!
My kids loves the sprinklers. I use to always play with the slip N slide!
the splash bombs paddle set would go over very well with my 3 boys lol
One loves her scooter most, one loves kites most and the other loves his magnifying glass.
My daughter loves the sprinkler!
A sprinkler or a football. Classic and so much fun!
Definitely a water/sand table! Would be great fun for my little guy, without having to trek all the way to the beach!
I think my daughter would love the Cleary Gecko Singlespeed Bike 12”.
My daughter has been eyeing a pink Scooter on Matermind for mths now!! We so have to get it for grading for her!!
I think Sophie and her friends would love the Aerobie SkyLighter Light Up Flying Disk.
Definitely the sprinkler and water balloons, so the Bunch O Balloons! would be a big hit for the summer.
My kids love to shoot plastic golf balls in the backyard.
I would love any toy to play in the sandbox for my nephew
My grandkids love the old sprinkler and being sprayed with the hose!
We love the water and live near the lake so this Aeromax Fire Power Super Soaking Fire Hose with Backpack would be a huge hit!
Nothing beats a trampoline in the backyard. Our neighbours have one and they are always having lots of fun so we have been contemplating getting one.
We would enjoy the Melissa and Doug Sunny Patch Splash Patrol Sprinkler.
Good oldfashioned water guns will never go out of style,,so much fun in the hot summer!
I think my grandson would enjoy playing in the backyard with one of the ride-on Plasma Cars from Mastermind Toys.
My daughter would love the Micro Sprite Scooter.
I think my kids would love to get a trampoline, but since a good one is expensive, that’s probably not going to happen, so my next choice would be something like this:
http://www.mastermindtoys.com/Eezy-Peezy-Monkey-Bar-Standard-with-Top.aspx
Riding bikes & playing soccer.
My kids love the sandbox, the swings and water guns 🙂
My granddaughters loves the trampoline and the sprinkler.
A trampoline for most of the year and the Slip n Slide when it’s hot in the summer
My kids would love the Hydro Swirl Spinning Sprinkler I saw at Mastermind Toys last week!
The trampoline is always the fave in our yard.
The sandbox was always a favourite.
For my girls (both under 3.5) I love the B. Ready Beach Bag. They would have tons of fun playing with all those beachy toys
My kiddos love water guns, the bigger ones! Totally need to get a hold of the Bunch O Balloons!
We all like playing badminton and lawn darts!! but water games are fun too on a hot day!!
My daughter loves her Frozen tent!
TOSS the bean bag…. remember that. Horse shoes are so much fun and so is backyard bowling.
My son’s favorite backyard toy is his big bouncy ball, he can’t stop laughing trying to get it as high as possible. So he’d love the Neon Rainbow Playground Ball from Mastermind. Plus I want to get my kids the Mookie Swingball Tetherball game so they can play together.
my kids love their sandbox
My kids can’t get enough of the trampoline
We love to play croquet with the kids and it would be awesome to get them some squirt guns!
my kids love the water table & sandbox in the backyard!
We love bocce!
The slip’n’slide was our favourite last summer… We need to replace it for this summer though because we wore it out! (that was it’s 4th summer). This year the kids have been enjoying playing soccer in the yard and climbing the tree.
I’d love to try the water balloons this summer with the girls!
we would love some side walk chalk and http://www.mastermindtoys.com/OgoSport-OgoDisk-Mezo-Disk-Pack.aspx this also looks really neat
My daughter loves her water table but the bunch o balloons looks like fun
Our pool, our kids lived in the pool all summer long when they were growing up, you’ll still find the girls sitting by the pool
We’re definitely frisbee obsessed around here!
We use my son’s radio flyer trike everyday. It’s perfect for brining him to the park
Right now they are in badminton
My daughter’s favorite thing for outdoors is the Holla hoop
My kids enjoy playing with our soccer ball….or really anything they can kick or throw at each other.
She likes her trampoline
We love chasing each other with water guns in the backyard on those hot summer days!
our favorite back yard game is croquet and water gun fights
We love playing in the sprinkler.
My kids love splashing in the wading pool or running under the hose/sprinkler.
The trampoline is a favourite at our house.
My girls love running through the sprinkler!
The outside play and climb set is the most popular toy in the backyard.
We do a lot of sidewalk chalk drawings, because we have a huge slab of cement in my back yard.
congrats to the winner
My kids love SuperSoakers when it comes to outdoor play
We all love the sprinkler!!!
in hotter weather they love the sprinkler, most times the swings and slides get used the most
We love badminton the most.
My kids would get such a kick out of Bunch O Balloons. They’ve been asking to toss water balloons back and forth but it hasn’t been warm enough yet.
Our favorite is the big ball when playing outside.
I would definitely say any and all swimming pool toys, especially animal floats.
The Paw Patrol Air Patroller Plane with Lights and Sound would be popular here
A slip and slide would be lots of fun around here!
Favorite backyard toy would be the water slide.
In summer the kids love the sprinkler and balloon water games
The sprinkler and a good old fashioned plastic wading pool are our backyard favourites.
My little granddaughters and grandsons love anything to do with water like water guns, the
sprinkler and water balloons. The Bunch O Balloons would be so perfect for them.I could see
them really enjoying this!!We have so many summer birthday parties coming up this and this
would bring laughter and joy to them to play with it.
My kids keep seeing commercials for bunch o balloons and they are so excited they would love that!
My kids would love a trampoline in our backyard
Supersoakers were always a favourite with our family, that and just running through the sprinkler.
We kept meaning to buy those water balloon things last year and waited too long because they sold out fast. I’ve got to get some this year!
I know my boys would love the Bunch O Balloons!! FUN! Thanks!
The children always go back to water sprayers and bubble makers.
I know my grandson would love & have so many hours of fun with the Kidoozie Pirate Ship Sand and Water Table! Also my granddaughter would love to rock on the Kiddieland My Rocking Animal Friends – Blue Elephant!
We have a soccer set that comes out every year for the backyard.
love that Bunch O Balloons. It’s great for cooling off on a really hot day.
The kids love being under the sprinkler
Buncho Balloons looks like fun!!
i think the Eezy Peezy Jungle Gym would be a good backyard toy to keep active
Cant wait to try the bunch o balloons!
The sprinkler is a family fav:)
My kids would enjoy an outdoor darts game to play with in the backyard.
They are really into the sprinkler and our swing set
My daughter and her friends love the Slip and Slide. I appreciate how much time we spend outdoors in the spring and summer months.
We love the “splash bombs paddle set”.
My kids loves the sprinklers and the slip N slide!
Slip and Slide is a fun addition to the backyard at our place!
Our backyard toy would have to be our water sprinklers. My grandchildren just love running through them and sometimes they will make a water slide out of plastic sheeting and have fun sliding down it….
My kids like kites and I see mastermind has some really cute ones.
My grandkids would love the Slackers Slide and Surf Screamin’ 20’ Water Slide.
We’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment out of our trampoline.
My three girls love just about any toy they can play with outside, just because they love being outside! I do think, however, that the Bunch O Balloons water balloons products would be their favourite thing ever and I would love it just because it would save me so much time!
Water guns or water balloons are my kids favorite! But they also favor sports items as well!
My boys love our water table and our trampoline. We plan on buying the bunch o’ balloons set for our summer fun!
The trampoline is always a fave even though I worry so much about it.
We love the washable chalk, it keeps the kids busy for hours but I also love using it too
we love to play badminton in the back yard.
Mastermind Toys has wonderful gardening kits and How To books for kids to learn all about gardening! We are due for a new set of tools for my 3 grandchildren! 🙂
The badminton set, but they want a swing set.
sprinklers hands down always the winner
Water balloons are always a hit with my kids! Mastermind carries them! 🙂
Wet banana
I love a classic sprinkler and slip and slide! Good times 🙂
Nothing fancy here. We run through the sprinkler and have water fights with water balloons.
My kids would love the Eezy Peezy Jungle Gym for backyard
The kids love the sprinkler!
A ball is a favourite around here!
lots of classics, pool, sprinklers, supersoakers
The kids just love the sprinkler’s always fun outside playing in them
The kids love any kind of water fight.
Playing in the Lakeside park
Our favorite outdoor toy I think has always been the Cozy Coupe. It has been around forever and kids always have a ton of fun using it. Definitely a family fav when the kids are little.
The Wet Head would be so refreshing on a hot day. Lets hope we get some warmer days.
The kids absolutely love the sprinkler, ours and the neighbours when we go for a walk.
I’ve always wanted the Radio Flyer All Terrain Cargo Wagon!
My kids love the slip n slide
The kids love to have water fights.
Slip and Slide is a favorite of my kids! Also bubbles.
We love a good water fight ..so the bunch of balloons is what I love.
My kids would love a Plasma car.
The swing set is still the favorite – for now 😉
We love to play with the sprinkler in the back yard!
wee still like the frisbee
We love slip n slide
We would love to play with a 3D Flying Dinosaur Kite in our backyard.
We love our plasma cars.
They love the slip and slide
A swing set has always been a favourite.
Up until last summer my backyard was empty with the exception of a dying rose bush and a sad little cherry tree. Fast forward 2 young boys and now it over runneth with toys of all types, sizes and colours! My son and I are really enjoying our swing set. Thank you for a wonderful post and giveaway. We love browsing and shopping at Mastermind Toys. They have a really neat Thomas the Train table set up there that my boy enjoys! Good luck all!
Trampolines are the best!
The kids love their trampoline and slide! I would love to get the easy peasy jungle gym
Wet head looks like so much fun!!! Something we would all love to play
We love Slip n Slide. Mastermind toys has a really great version of this classic that I’m hoping to get for the kids this year.
My kids love their trampoline
We love to play bocci ball.
My son loved his sand and water table during the summer
We love water gun fights in the summer time! Great way to cool off on a hot day. 🙂
my kids always loved the slip and slide for hot summer days during the summer
Water balloons! My son asks to play them EVERY DAY!! He is currently planning an obstacle/relay race for the weekend. We got the Bunch O Balloons a couple of weeks ago. They were SOOOO much fun!
My kids love the water guns and they enjoy playing ‘washers’ at the trailer. A game where they have to put a plastic washer into a cup.
Our kids spend the most time outside on their bicycles or the trampoline. As soon as we open our pool (which does not have a heater!) we will be swimming ( I hope). We have the basic toys, soccer balls, baseball bats and balls, but I have to say their bicycles are toy #1.
slip ‘n slide!
It’s the sprinkler for my kids
The kids love the sprinkler 🙂
A good old fashioned sprinkler! The best!
my son loves playmobil vehicles.
water sprinkler 🙂 fun for all
We would have so much fun with a trampoline in the back yard!!
Our backyard kiddie pool is a favorite amongst our kids!
Swimming Pool hands down. The kiddie pool that has a fountain , slide and play area built in
My kids are into bubble blowing and sidewalk chalk right now.
Definitely the trampoline