These water toys will make this summer the best one yet

Here's how you get your kids outside having fun on even the hottest days.
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Summer with kids: longer days, hotter weather, and the endless “I’m bored” soundtrack starting around 9 AM. Fun times.
When it’s 90 degrees outside, regular outdoor toys become useless. Sidewalk chalk melts, sports are too sticky to handle, and everyone’s cranky. Including you.
Enter water toys—the real MVPs of summer.
Water toys keep kids cool, busy, and actually happy to be outside instead of asking for snacks every five minutes. We found options that work for splashing babies and big kids who think they’re too cool for “kid stuff” but will absolutely destroy each other in a water balloon fight.
The best part? Everything happens in your backyard. No packing seventeen things just to drive somewhere else with water. Your house becomes the neighborhood hangout spot, which means built-in entertainment without you having to plan anything.
Will your water bill be higher? Sure. Will you care when you’re sitting in the shade with iced coffee while chaos happens peacefully around you? Not even a little. (And while we did include one of our favorite baby pools, we’ve got a much longer list of inflatable pools you can check out as well.)