This one is a favorite challenge for younger students. All player will form a circle and hold hands. You will break up one of the sets of players and have them rejoin their hands in the middle of a hula hoop. Next, the players will attempt to pass the hula hoop all the way around the circle without disconnecting any of the joined hands.
Some traditional outdoor games for kids never get old. Like this one! Play this game on a large field with two finish lines, one at either end of a long stretch. Assign one player to be the traffic cop. That player will stand behind one of the starting lines and all the remaining players will line up on the opposite starting line.
Once they do, they can turn around and the other players have to stop. Play continues as the traffic cop calls out green light and red light and the other players get closer and closer to him or her. The first player to pass the finish line wins and becomes the next traffic cop. We spend so much our time in the classroom focusing on work, work, work. Challenge yourself this spring to try as many of these outdoor games for kids as you can! Your email address will not be published.
Notify me of new posts by email. Skip to content. Detective This is one of my favorite outdoor games for kids! Fire on the Roof All players lay on the ground on their back, forming a line as if they are all asleep in one long bed. Sharks and Minnows Play this game in an open field with two marked ends.
The last minnow standing becomes the next shark. Last player standing wins. Nature Scavenger Hunt For this activity, choose an outside area that has clear boundaries. Person to Person Have your students partner up. Stuck in the Mud This game is a fun version of tag. After a set amount of time, choose new taggers and continue. Sidewalk ABC Art This activity is great if your school grounds have a long stretch on concrete sidewalk available. Color Corners Gather students on a large field and set out four bases in the shape of a square- with each base being a different color on each corner of the imaginary square.
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Home About Expand child menu Expand. Curriculum Expand child menu Expand. Split the group into two teams, each team having a flag or other marker at the team's base. The object of the game is to run into the other team's territory, capture their flag and make it safely back to your own territory. You can tag "enemy" players in your territory, sending them to your jail. They can be sprung from jail by a member of their own team running into your territory, tagging them and running back, with one freed person allowed per jail break.
It is sometimes played that all the people in jail could hold hands and make a chain back toward their own territory, making it easier for members of their team to tag them. We also played a similar game called Steal the Sticks. It had almost the same rules, but several sticks were used instead of one flag. Number of Players : A large group.
Equipment : Two flags or other markers. Fun for kids of all ages, this game involves a large round parachute, preferably with handles, with people holding the parachute all around the edges. It helps if someone is in charge telling people what to do. Players can just ruffle the parachute up and down a little bit, they can go all the way up and all the way down, or all the way up and then run underneath, sitting on the edge of the parachute, which can create a bubble of air with everyone inside.
Players can also place light objects such as wiffle balls or beanbags on top of the parachute, and make them jump by ruffling the parachute. Also, one person can sit in the middle of the parachute and everyone ruffles it near the ground. If there is a smooth floor and a light child, the child can sit in the middle on top of the parachute and everyone else can walk partway around still holding the parachute edge.
Then everyone pulls backward, spinning the child. There are countless variations. Number of Players : Depends on the size of the parachute, but usually eight to ten. Equipment : A play parachute. These aren't as hard to find as you would think. Try here and here. This game works best on a street with little to no traffic, or in a large paved area of some kind.
You need bikes, wagons, pedestrians, scooters or whatever is available. One person directs traffic to make sure kids don't run into each other. It is more fun than it sounds, and helps kids learn about waiting to cross the street and about traffic safety.
Number of Players : A small group. Equipment : Bikes, wagons, scooters, anything on wheels. This ball game is played on a square court further divided into four smaller squares, numbered one through four. One player stands in each of the squares, with the highest ranked player in number one, lowest in number four.
You bounce the ball among the players, bouncing once in the other person's square before that person catches it. When I played this as a kid, we had countless additional rules to choose from. The person in square one got to choose the rules. Anyone who violates the rules will have to move down in the ranking, or be eliminated with another player rotating in to square four.
Number of Players : Four, unless you take turns. Equipment : A four square court or sidewalk chalk, a playground ball. Use some sidewalk chalk and make a hopscotch grid. Number the squares from one to nine. Pick a rock that is good for tossing. Small ones can bounce too much, and larger ones are hard to throw. Start by tossing the rock onto Square 1. Hop over the rock and hop with a single foot or both feet to follow the hopscotch pattern all the way to the end.
Turn around and come back, stopping on Square 2. Balancing on one foot, pick up the rock in Square 1 and hop over Square 1 to the start. Continue this pattern with Square 2. And so on. If you toss your rock and miss the correct square, your turn is over.
This game can be played with any number of people, but only one person can go at a time. If it's raining or dark or too cold, you can get indoor hopscotch mats or foam pieces, or just find a pattern on the floor to follow, perhaps using a beanbag instead of a rock.
Number of Players : One at a time. Equipment : Hopscotch grid, rock or beanbag. One of the biggest ways I spent my recess time as a young girl was jumping rope. I got quite good at it for my age, both in speed and in skill. It was fun to jump by myself, but it was even more fun to have a long rope and jump with a couple of friends. That's where jump-rope rhymes come in.
They turn a simple exercise into a fun game, to compete against yourself and others. Then there's double dutch. I was always in awe of the older girls who could do double dutch. The first time I tried it, I got tripped up almost immediately. However, once you understand how to do it, it isn't as hard as it looks.
Number of Players : One for single jumping, three with a longer rope or for double dutch. Equipment : One or two jump-ropes.
This game requires three people, or just one or two people with really good chairs. It is easily done inside, assuming a sturdy floor. This game resembles regular jump rope in that you jump. A lot. But you jump in a pattern. Two people or chairs put their feet inside the rope and stretch them out, standing far enough apart for the third person to jump between them.
The third person, or jumper, faces one of the people holding the rope and jumps in a pattern of left, right, inside, outside and on the ropes. What pattern you use is up to you, but all the players should use the same one. The game is started with the rope around the ankles. Once the jumper does the jump correctly, the rope is moved up to the calves. Then to the knees, then the thighs. Usually it doesn't get any farther than that. Once you miss, it is someone else's turn. Number of Players : Preferably three, but it can be done with one or two.
Equipment : A stretchy-type rope or 5 to 6 meters of rubber bands tied together in a circle. This game can be played on any flat surface, indoors or out.
The player scatters the jacks on the playing surface, often by just tossing them out of one hand, as if rolling dice. The ball is then tossed up, is allowed to bounce once, and is caught before the second bounce.
The player tries to scoop up jacks and catch the ball with one hand before the ball's second bounce. The number of jacks to be picked up goes in order. First you pick up one "onesies" , then two "twosies" , then three and so on. There are many variations to the rules of this game including things like "pigs in the pen" and "double bounces. Number of Players : Any, taking turns. To play kick the can , place a coffee can in a large open area to be home base.
They both race to the can, and try to kick it first. Scatter out several hula hoop s around the play area. Assign taggers to freeze the other players. Students inside a hula hoop can not get frozen, but can only stay long enough to count to Only one child per hula hoop is allowed. Draw the layout with the chalk — From bottom to top— 3 single squares, 1 double square, 2 single squares, 1 double square, 1 single square. Number the squares.
The two basic rules of hopscotch are: 1 One foot in each square only 2 Hop over the square with the rock in it. Use a rock to throw into the first square. Hop on one foot over the square with the rock in it. Land with two feet on the double squares. On the second turn, throw the rock into the second square, and so forth.
The tricky part is staying on one foot when the rock is in one of the side-by-side squares. You will need some flags or a strip of cloth to be used as a tail. Players with the most tails collected at a specified time are the winners. Game is good in the gym or outside. Divide the children into teams. They each select one child from each team to be the prisoner of the other team and the two prisoners are placed in jail. This can be a designated area or a chalk box if playing outside.
The teams each line-up and the object of the game is to free the prisoner from the other team. If tagged, that child then becomes a prisoner too and must go to jail. If a child makes it to jail, however, he or she is safe as long as he is inside the prison. Have children pretend to be gold miners. Paint very small rocks, gold. Hide them in the sand. Give your children small sifters to sift through the sand looking for gold. You can call this game anything you want.
An idea is to use brown and green yarn and call it snakes and worms…. Form two teams with one or two kids on each side as captains. They will tie each yarn piece that is brought to them, to the next yarn piece. The team with the longest finished yarn string wins! Idea: This game would also be good for a party —and adapted to the inside.
All the children line up side by side except the player who is the caller. The caller stands at a distance from the lined up players. He calls on each player in turn to take a number of steps toward him. The steps allowed are: baby steps, giant steps, and scissor steps like forward jumping jacks. If the player forgets to ask permission after they get directions— and takes steps toward the caller— they are sent back to the starting line.
The first player to reach the caller is the winner and new caller. Idea: Change the name to the season: Teacher May I? Santa, Snowman, Cupid, Leprechaun, Bunny, etc. A nature scavenger hunt card game. Great for getting kids involved in the outdoors. Pass out an equal number of cards to each player and the first one to collect all their cards items win! Tic-tac-toe can be scratched in the dirt and is more enticing than on paper—Hangman, too.
Or just spread a blanket on the grass for Monopoly or Candyland played in a whole new venue…. The game could be considered a reverse form of dodgeball—instead of trying to hit people in the middle with the ball, players attempt to keep the ball away from them. The basic game is played by drawing a circle on the ground about ten feet in diameter.
One person stands in the center the monkey, the piggy or the pickle and the rest stand outside the circle. This continues until the person who is it catches the ball or gains possession due to a failed catch, etc. Whoever threw the ball last then becomes it, and replaces the person in the middle. Adapted from: wikipedia. Another great idea is to make paddles simply taping tongue depressor sticks to the back of paper plates.
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