How to Play It: The court is a giant square that has four equal-size squares inside sidewalk chalk is an easy method, and it washes clean.
One person occupies each of the smaller squares. One square is the designated to top square. Then a second place square, third place square, and a fourth place square.
The person in the top square hits the ball into another square. If it is hit to your square, you must hit it into another square before it bounces twice. If you hit it out or let the ball bounce twice, you are out. What Makes It Great: It establishes a hierarchy that is often lacking in games. And kids somehow have an endless amount of ways to skyline a ball with their hands.
How to Play It: Same court as Four-square, except this time, runners stand on each of the four big corners while one person stands in the middle. People on corners try to swap before the person in the middle can get to either corner. If the person in the middle reaches a corner, the person they stole it from becomes the person in the middle.
What Makes It Great: The unsteady alliances. The mad dash to an open corner. How to Play It: Someone has the ball. They are the carrier until they are tackled. Then they have to give up the ball. Whoever gets it next is now the carrier. And so on and so forth until boredom sets in or someone gets hurt.
What Makes It Great: People get tackled a lot. It no longer has a name that rhymes and is very offensive. Pick an inanimate thing a reasonable distance away and see how can be the first to hit thing with rock. If you are tagged, you are a shark. Last minnow wins. What Makes It Great: Brings a fun hunting aspect to the typical schoolyard antics.
Plus at some point, people start betraying each other to survive the shark attacks, fostering a healthy dose of subterfuge that your child will use someday on Survivor. How to Play It: Two groups stand in parallel lines facing each other. Each line must hold hands. Whichever line is down to one person first loses. What Makes It Great: Top notch game for flirting and you know your son or daughter. Also, you get to switch teams a lot, which is underrated. Wrist injuries are minimal.
The winner is the person who exceeds a previously decided jackpot number i. More fun can be added by the thrower yelling one of the following terms: Jackpot automatic win ; Bomb receiver who touches ball loses a designed number of points ; Bankrupt lose all points ; IceBall stay frozen for one throw ; FireBall steal one point from opponent.
So simple, but so satisfying, with plenty of strategy built in. How to Play It: Designate two bases could be real bases, shoes, or pretty much anything you have around and choose two throwers.
Everyone else is a runner. Throwers toss the ball back and forth and the runners try to get safely from base to base without getting tagged. Winging balls at each other is optional. Plus, beating out a throw with your crafty base running never gets old. How to Play It: One person is the traffic cop. All remaining players stand on the starting line and the traffic cop has their back to them. First to pass the finish line wins and becomes the traffic cop.
What Makes It Great: Everyone knows how to play. Plus, one lucky person wields all the power, mercilessly deciding the fate of everyone else, which is a good microcosm of life. Alternative version: If you are tagged, you are out. Keeps going until everyone is tagged. No climbing trees. Want an edge? How to Play It: If you are it, tag people. Need we say more? Hide and seek is another rite of passage for all kids to enjoy 4. All of the kids sit on the ground in a circle.
All of the kids stand in a circle and an adult begins to play or sing music 3 4. While the music is playing, the kids throw a ball or other soft object around the circle, pretending it is a hot potato that they want to throw back to someone else 6. At some point, the adult stops the music, and the child who is holding the ball when the music stops is out of the game. Repeat the steps until only one child is left in the game.
Judy Wilson has writing and editing expertise in health, technology, pets, business and travel. She has contributed to USAToday. More Articles. Child Care. Your children can play ring-around-the rosy, hokey pokey freeze dance, and more around the sprinkler. This game is a lot like an egg toss but the water balloons instead. Start by filling several water balloons. Have the children divide into pairs and give each pair one water balloon. Have the children start close together and throw the water balloon back and forth.
On each successful throw, have both children take another step back. The team that ends up the furthest apart wins! All you need for this water game is a hose. Have an adult hold the hose up high with water streaming out of it. Children can take turns limboing under the stream.
After each round, the adult should lower the hose. Last one limboing wins! The chosen player gets up and chases it around the circle trying to tag them. If It is tagged, they must sit in the center of the circle until someone else is tagged.
The chosen player becomes the next It. Resoak the sponge and start again! Grab a ping pong ball, a sharpie, and several plastic cups. Label the cups numbers Fill the cups halfway with water and set the cups up so the ones labelled 1 are closer and the ones labelled higher numbers are further away. Give a child five ping pong balls and let them throw them into the cups for points. You could also let the children throw as many ping pong balls as they can in thirty seconds. Then let the next child take a turn.
The child with the most points wins. You may want to put down a cheap plastic throw away tarp for these games. Egg Roulette : Fill a bowl with several boiled eggs and one raw egg hidden in the mix. One at a time the child should crack an egg on their head until one breaks. Egg Toss : Divide the children into pairs and give each pair one raw egg. They must toss the egg back and forth, taking a step back after each successful toss.
The winners get the most distance between them without dropping the egg. Egg and Spoon Race : Give each child one raw egg and one spoon. The first child to get to the finish line and back without dropping their egg wins. If the egg drops, the child must start over from the start line. This fun face paint game mixes tag, with capture the flag. You will need five tongue depressors, each marked with a color of the rainbow.
You will also need matching face paint colors. Hide the tongue depressor and matching face paint in a variety of places around the yard. All of the other players run off in search of the sticks. When they find a stick, they should put a stripe of the matching face paint on their cheek and then continue searching without letting anyone else know where the stick is.
In the meantime, the It tries to tag the other players. If It tags a player, It can wipe off one stripe of color from their face. Squirt Gun Painting : Set up easels with paper or tack paper to a tree. Fill each squirt gun with a different color.
Then give each child a squirt gun and let them spray the paper to paint it. Your children can switch guns to mix different colors. Squirt Gun Tag : Make sure everyone is wearing a white shirt that can get dirty.
Fill the squirt guns with two different liquid watercolors and divide everyone into teams. Continue until only one player remains standing that team wins! To extend the game, play the color wars version. The child with the most white remaining on their shirt at the end of a designated time wins!
Mushroom, Popcorn, Cat and Mouse, and so much more. There are plenty of games to play with a parachute! Get started with Popcorn. Divide all of the children into two teams and have each child grab a handle on the parachute. Get balls of two colors and place them on the parachute. The team with their ball color left on the parachute at the end wins!
Find more parachute games to play here! Bean Bag Ladder : Set up a ladder and label each step to be worth a certain number of points. Let kids take turns throwing bean bags onto the ladder rungs for points. The player with the most points after everyone has taken a turn wins. Hula Blockers : Grab a hula hoop for each player and set them in the grass. Have each child stand in a hula hoop and divide the bean bags evenly between them.
For an added challenge, play with more than 2 kids. Set up a cheap ball pit using a kiddie pool and ball pit balls. Choose small toys or stuffed animals to hide in the balls. Then let your child search for the toys within the ball pit. You could turn it into a competition by seeing who can find the most toys the fastest. Hide the toys again and replay. Twister : Play a giant game of twister on the yard.
Then use four spray paint cans to create a board on the grass and play regular Twister. Tic-Tac-Toe : You can use the same spray paint to create a giant tic-tac-toe board. Choose items like hula hoops or other items to play tic-tac-toe! Memory : Create giant matching cards using poster board.
Get your child involved by having them help create the cards by drawing pictures using markers. Then set up the board with the cards facing down and play a giant version of memory!
Have you ever played the electronic Simon game? Make it interactive and physical with this sidewalk chalk game. Create a Simon game board out of chalk. Form a circle with sections of color. Have your child stand in the middle of the board.
Call out a color and have your child jump into the section, repeat it, and then jump into the center again. Next, say the first color and a new color and have your child repeat the jumping sequence. Continue adding colors until your child can no longer remember the sequence. Switch it up by using numbers, letters, or other pictures in the sections instead.
Get green and brown strings and cut them into several pieces. Hide the pieces of yarn around the yard. Divide the children into two groups and choose one captain. The children will run around the yard looking for yarn.
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