On hot hot summer days, there are two options in our backyard that Sophie uses to cool down. The sandbox, with good sand-digging toys and the cool touch of shady sand, and the pool, a nice 4-foot inflatable job that gives her lots of room to wade. We have set up a canopy-type thing so the sun doesn't deter the hot-day activities, and Sophie loves both. We received our sandbox as a gift from our next-door neighbors who don't need it anymore, since their kids have grown out of the whole sandbox thing. Personally, I'm not sure how somebody could "grow out of" playing in a sandbox, although it is a little small for a full grown angsty teenager, I suppose. The sandbox is about two-and-a-half feet across, so pretty small, but Sophia manages quite well. It has a lid, which keeps the nasty neighbourhood cats from using it to their amusement and as a bathroom. Not that we have seen a lot of neighbourhood cats roaming free recently...
Sophia has a few favorite games that involve the sandbox and the pool, and the crushed rock that her playhouse is sitting on. Most of the games involve moving rocks into the pool, moving rocks into the sandbox, moving sand into the pool, picking up rocks from the bottom of the pool and throwing them in the water, picking up rocks from the bottom of the pool and piling them on top of a little pool toy table she has, and picking up rocks from the little pool toy table and throwing them into the water. She is also very fond of re-purposing sand tools for water and vice-versa. Also bowls and flowerpots.
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