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Games for the summer camp – article – Corporation Russian textbook (Drofa-Ventana publishing house)
1. Cheerful little train
Children stand in a column one at a time and put their hands on the shoulders of the upcoming person. If the group is large, then you can create several columns. To move in such a “composition” should be at the direction of the Conductor.
The counselor lists the rules of the game:
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can’t talk
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all but the last have their eyes closed,
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a special hero – the Explorer – the last participant becomes it.
Commands-movements from Explorer:
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clap on the right / left shoulder – turn right / left,
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clap on two shoulders – moving forward,
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double clap on two shoulders – backward movement,
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shot on the shoulders – a signal to stop.
The task of the Guide is to lead the “fun little train” along the route that the leader sets.
To start the game again, the last participant stands in front of the column, thereby making the other, penultimate, member of the game the Conductor.
2. Unknown little animal
Players are given the task to portray a specific animal (cat, elephant, giraffe, hare), using any (or specifically specified) materials at hand. As such materials, you can use pencils, felt-tip pens, rulers, branches, leaves, cones, and so on. The task is carried out in absolute silence, thereby allowing the team to show its cohesion in full force.
You can complicate the task by setting a certain time for drawing up a “drawing”.
3. Associations
A leader is selected, whose task is to choose and mentally guess one of the participants in the game.
Tasks for participants: guess the intended player.
In order to guess the conceived participant, the players should ask questions to which the leader will answer with an association. For example, if this member would be music, what would it be? if a body of water, what kind? what animal? what weather? etc. Thus, a number of interesting associations will be collected about the intended participant, according to which the players will have to “calculate” the person.
The next leader is the player who was thought of.
4. Village magicians
The group of participants is divided into sorcerers and ordinary villagers.
Sorcerers are able to enchant (“freeze”, “turn to stone”) villagers with a specific movement (the movement is determined in advance: clapping on the right shoulder, hugging, etc.). After the set movement, the villager stops and freezes, waiting for one of the other participants to “disenchant” him.
Only another inhabitant is capable of disenchanting a frozen person (the movement for this is also determined in advance – it can be a light tap on the other shoulder, a handshake, a kiss, etc.).
The purpose of the sorcerers: to enchant the entire village.
The purpose of the villagers: to prevent the sorcerers.
5. Crocodile
The participants are divided into two teams.
One group guesses a word. In advance, you should choose a form, number of words or topics, for example, only nouns, or only one word, or only the name of the cartoons.
From the second group, a player is selected who is told the hidden word. This participant, without uttering a word, only with the help of facial expressions and gestures, must explain to his team the hidden word.
As soon as the word is guessed, a participant from the other team is selected.
6. Touch…
The counselor acts as a leader or one of the guys is selected.
The facilitator’s task is to name the material (glass, leather, cotton, wood, metal), object (pen, board, chair), person (boy, girl, someone from the group).
The task of the participants: having heard the leader’s command, find and touch the specified object or person as quickly as possible. It is forbidden to touch objects on yourself, you need to look for objects on someone or on something.
7. Fairytale snowball
The game is a variation of the well-known snowball game, that is, it is built on the principle of making up a story with a constant repetition of all the previous elements of the sentence.
The first player pronounces his word, the second participant repeats the same word and adds his own word to what was said, the third player repeats the first two words and also adds his own.
The peculiarity of this game is to compose a coherent story, and not the usual repetition of a set of random words. Also, the “bonus” is the theme that was originally set. Although, you can come up with not a fabulous theme, but any other that the children like.
8. Cheerful numbers
All players receive numbers and cards on which they are invited to write down comic forfeit tasks: guess a riddle, sing a song, etc. All task cards are returned to the leader.
The music turns on, and the players begin to pass numbers from hand to hand to each other. The host, at his own discretion, stops the music at any place and reads out one of the cards, for example, “Number 6 should play patty with number 10.” Due to the fact that the players have already exchanged numbers, at first it is not clear for whom this or that task is intended. It is also quite probable that the participant who wrote the task for another player will have to fulfill his phantom himself.
9. Tamara and I go together…
Participants are divided into teams, each team requires a pair of players. Players become “Siamese twins”: they stand next to each other, hand in hand; touching hands can be tied or agreed that the participants will hug each other with these hands around the waist. With the same hands that remained free, it will be necessary to complete the task. Tasks can be very different, but should be aimed at performing manipulations together, for example, tie shoelaces or a bow, wrap a gift, peel a banana.
The pair that completes the task the fastest wins.
10. Trap
The players are divided into two teams. Some participants take each other’s hands, thereby forming a circle – this will be a game “trap”. Other players have a more mobile role – they depict various birds and insects, in a word, all creatures that are able to fly.
When the host gives a signal (you can turn on the music), the participants in the trap raise their hands up, opening the “entrance” to the “birds” and “insects”. Players can fly in and out of the trap freely. At his discretion, the host again gives the command (or, for example, turns off the music) when the trap should “slam” – the participants in the trap lower their hands.
Those players that were inside the trap now become a trap themselves, the participants change roles.
11. Big family photo
The participants imagine that they are all a big and friendly family. One day the family decides to take a group photo for the family album.
First, a “photographer” is chosen – it is he who will “arrange” the participants in the photo shoot. Next, they choose a “grandfather”, who, by seniority, also helps to arrange “family members”. The rest of the participants are invited to decide for themselves who they will be in the family, and where they want to be located in the photo.
For children, the game is interesting for the process, and for educators, it is an opportunity to identify leaders and determine sympathy in the team.
After all the participants have defined roles for themselves, stood up for posing (with the help of the photographer and grandfather), the photographer counts to three – everyone shouts “cheese” and simultaneously clap their hands.
12. Caterpillar
The participants stand one after another, holding their hands on the waist of the previous player. The host explains that this column is a caterpillar, so such a chain can no longer be broken. The caterpillar is active – it eats, sleeps, washes, walks, goes shopping, dances, etc. All children must move smoothly around the room, without breaking the chain, and following the leader’s commands.
13. True or false?
The participants sit in a circle. Each player receives a piece of paper and a pen. Task: each participant must write three sentences to himself, and two of these statements must be true, and one must be false.
Then, in turn, the players read their phrases, the task of the rest is to try to determine what is true and what is false. All assumptions about the truth or fiction of a particular phrase should be substantiated.
The most useful and interesting thing is that the author of the phrase does not immediately respond to the assumptions of other participants, but listens to them patiently. The players’ reasoning about the “deceitful” phrase will be the best way to give an idea of how other people perceive the author.
14. Quiet-louder
A game similar to the fun “hot-cold”.
Participants sit in a circle. The driver turns his back to the participants, during this time the guys pass the agreed object to one person. When the driver returns to the circle, he does not know who has this object – to determine – this is his task.
When the driver enters the circle, the rest of the participants begin to sing a song (at the choice of the players). The closer the leader is to the person who hides the secret object, the louder the song is sung, and vice versa.
If the item was found, the driver changes. If it was not possible to establish the location of the item, the game continues.
15. Guess what they did
The driver is selected, then he steps aside. The rest of the participants quietly agree on their riddle.
The driver returns to the prepared children and asks his question:
– Hello, friends. Where have you been? What did you do?
Players respond:
– Where we were – we will not say, but what we did – we will show!
And all the participants begin to show the action they have envisioned with facial expressions and gestures. The action can be anything: playing football, walking the dog, eating, watching a movie in the cinema, etc.
If the riddle is guessed, the driver joins the rest of the players, and the new driver is selected (you can choose the driver according to the principle of the one from whose prompt he managed to guess the intended action). If the riddle is not solved, then the participants come up with a new action, and the driver leads again.
16. Digital Fortress
All participants receive cards with a different number of circles. In order to get to the “fortress”, the players must make some calculations.
On the gates of the fortress (you can make a fortress by placing chairs in a row) there should be a sheet of paper with a number that is a “pass” when entering it. You can get this number by adding the numbers on the two cards. The task of the players is to find their number pair.
17. River crossing
A plot of three to five meters in size is drawn on the floor – this is a “river”. The task of the detachment is to cross the river from one bank to another. During the “crossing” process, only five touches can be performed (five for the entire group). If the touch happened with both hands/feet, for example when jumping, it counts as one.
A game of ingenuity and community of the group. The task is not so difficult, but mutual assistance and organization are important in it.
18. Fixing
All participants stand in a circle. Each player silently chooses to pair with any other participant in the circle. Nobody knows who chose whom. The counselor says the rule, which is that each player must take clearly 15 steps in such a way as to approach the hidden person and fix any figure invented with him (for example, draw a heart, stretch out his arms, spread his legs shoulder-width apart, etc. .).
When the movement begins, the counselor loudly begins to count each step.
The game allows you to select leaders, groups, set the level of cohesion in the squad.
After the game, it is worth discussing all the actions, how the participants should have acted, so that everyone gets a pair, and everyone can reach their pair.
19. Broken telephone
All participants sit in a row. The driver says in a whisper in the ear any conceived word to the first player. The first player also transmits in the ear the word that he heard to the second. So the word is whispered to the last player. When the word is passed, all players take turns calling the word they heard. The participant who was the first to incorrectly convey the hidden word of the leader is transferred to the end of the chain, and the game continues with a new word.
20. I was born a gardener…
They choose the driver – he will be the “gardener”. The rest of the participants choose for themselves the name of any flower, without repeating themselves, and during the game they respond only to it.
The driver begins the game with the words: “I was born a gardener, I was seriously angry, I was tired of all the flowers except . ..”. Next, the word of any of the “present” colors is inserted, for example, gladiolus.
Gladiolus should exclaim: “Oh!”.
Gardener: “What’s wrong with you?”
Gladiolus: “I’m in love”
Gardener: “To whom?”
Gladiolus: “Into the chrysanthemum!”
Chrysanthemum: “Oh!”
Further, the dialogue already begins between Gladiolus and Chrysanthemum, finding a continuation with other colors. Moreover, the Gardener can also be called, the more it is easier to remember him than all the flower participants.
If one of the participants responded not to his name, or forgot to respond to his own, or thought too much, such a player leaves, and the game starts again with the same colors. Thus, there is a “screening out” of those who have forgotten their names or are not very quick guys. Instead of leaving the game, you can arrange a “retribution” phantom.
21. Fanta
A fantasy game in which all participants give the host one of their personal items (hair band, bracelet, toy, pen, etc. ), and then one of the players takes out a fanta, and the other, without looking, assigns a task to the owner of the fanta ( read a verse, sing a song, meow, dance, etc.), which must be completed in order to return your item back.
22. Myrshim
All participants are distributed on the sides of the room. They choose a driver who is asked to leave the room for a while. At this moment, one of the players is given a piece of cheese or caramel, which he must put in his mouth by the cheek.
When the driver returns to the room, all participants continuously pronounce the same word: “Myrshim”. The task of the driver is to guess the player with a treat in his mouth. The driver can move around the perimeter and listen to the participants.
If the driver guesses correctly, then he joins the players in the circle, and the “owner” of the cheese becomes the driver.
23. Addams Family
The “Family” can be played only with those players who do not know its essence.
So, participants who are unfamiliar with the game leave the room. Then, one by one, the guys return to the room. The host or several hosts (in fact, all those who have already passed the “test” or are familiar with the game) can be the hosts: “Hello, we are the Addams family. Do you want to join our family? Then have us clap for you.” Without adding anything, the host falls silent and watches the participant. As soon as the participant begins to perform any actions, the whole “family” immediately repeats them. The participant may think that he needs to do something unusual and funny in order to earn applause, but the hosts continue to repeat his manipulations. The game continues until the participant understands that he needs to clap his hands himself.
24. Poetry
A game of imagination and improvisation.
The first participant comes up with some line – this will be the first line of the poem. The second player comes up with the second line, the third – the third, etc. The main task is to pick up a rhyme, the meaning is not so important.
The resulting poem is best written down immediately.
25. Titanic
The leader is selected. All other participants climb onto chairs or benches – this will be the sinking Titanic. The ship is sinking slowly, so that drowning people have a little time. The task of the players is to save as many people as possible.
Every twenty to thirty seconds, the leader takes one chair or shortens (with an imaginary line, objects) the length of the bench.
26. Ball
A long rope is tied into a ring. The driver turns his back to the players, the rest of the participants, holding the rope with both hands, get entangled so that a “tangle” is obtained. The task of the driver is to unravel this tangle and re-create the original ring.
27. Line up according to sign
A simple game to determine the similarity of each other.
The facilitator instructs the participants to line up according to the following signs:
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by gender;
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by height;
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by hair color;
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by eye color;
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by the first letter of the name, surname;
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by the color of the clothes, etc.
28. Sausage, ketchup, Coca-Cola
Participants line up one after another with a train, holding the previous person by the waist.
The task of the game is to pronounce words and perform certain movements at the same time for everyone:
“Sausage!” – the players take a step with their right foot;
“Ketchup!” – step with the left foot;
“Coca Cola!” – movements similar to the lambada dance.
Having done everything two or three times, the participants move on to the next “level” – now they need to grab the waist not of the previous neighbor, but of the previous previous neighbor (that is, forward through one). The movements are repeated. Then you should hug the player standing on 2, 3, etc. person in front.
29. Who is missing?
A simple game for quick reaction and memorization.
All players close their eyes. The facilitator quietly touches one of the participants so that he leaves the room for a while.
The players open their eyes and try to determine who is missing in the room. The participant who correctly guessed who is missing becomes the leader himself.
30. Zoo
All participants stand in a circle and put their hands on each other’s shoulders.
The facilitator approaches each player and calls the animal in a whisper.
The task of the game is to, having heard your animal, tighten your legs. At the same time, the neighbors must quickly orient themselves and keep the participant.
The host begins to tell the story “How we were at the zoo”, where each of the animals named by him is mentioned.
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Outdoor Games – 60 outdoor games for kids
“Once we collected tadpoles from my sister’s pond and raised them into tree frogs. They all fled to our basement, and we never saw them again,” said one of the mothers who compiled this list. Summer with kids can be really fun and happy. And playing outdoors improves health, reduces stress, and even improves eyesight.
Contents of the article
- Games for toddlers
- Outdoor games for children’s company
- Games that can be played alone
- Outdoor games for children with a rope
- Outdoor games with a ball
- Outdoor games
Here are 60 games you can play outdoors together or teach your child to have a great time with friends or siblings while you’re doing household chores.
Games for toddlers
1. “Dog, dog, where is your bone”
In this game, a child pretending to be a dog turns away while someone steals his “bone”. Any object can be a bone, but with young children it is better to use a toy bone for better visualization.
When the “dog” turns around, all the children try to look guilty, and the dog tries to guess which one of them actually stole the bone. Let small children guess until they guess, older children can be limited in the number of attempts.
2. “Mom, can I…”
Mom stands with her back to the children, who take turns asking questions, and allows or does not allow them to take a step forward. Whoever reaches mom first wins.
This game is best played with children who are too young to realize its injustice. Although mom is standing with her back, she perfectly recognizes everyone by voice. Therefore, in general, it is she who decides who wins. This is a good game to practice counting.
3. Asphalt Picasso
Grab some asphalt chalk and unleash your inner artist. Start painting yourself, and soon there will be a bunch of kids around, and you can sneak out and do household chores.
You can find instructions for making homemade chalk online, but I doubt it will be much cheaper than buying chalk from a store.
4. Digging for Dinosaurs
Bury toy dinosaur bones (or any other toy) and let your kids dig them up. My kids did it once with little cars.
5. Scavenger hunt
The game consists in the fact that participants must find and collect items from a pre-compiled list within a certain time. You can find ready-made lists online, but creating your own has several advantages.
First, you can customize the list to fit your yard. Secondly, to involve in the creation of a list of older children. Thirdly, you teach children to create their own games.
6. Water games
Use a cheap plastic tub. Let them play outside and take care of your bathroom!
7. Gardening
You can buy a special garden kit, but really all the kids need is a bag of seeds, a patch of soil or a pot of soil.
8. Hoop
Surprisingly, my 2-year-old daughter loves the hula hoop and is good at it. The hula hoop game grows with your children. Both my youngest and my oldest are equally interested.
9. Bubbles
What can I say, everything has already been said – bubbles! Buy bubbles, make bubbles yourself, blow bubbles!
10. Hatching
Surely you yourself were once fond of this. Get out an old pencil, then take a sheet of paper, lay it on a surface with an interesting texture, and shade the paper. Using different colors and shapes, kids can create their own unique designs.
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Outdoor games for children’s company
11. Octopus
Octopus and fish participate in the game. The fish must get from one end of the yard to the other so that it is not tagged. If it is tagged, the fish should remain in place and try to taunt others running past.
It is better to play when there are many children. The game is suitable for both young children and older children.
12. “Simon said”
Simon tells the other players what to do using “Simon said”. If he doesn’t use this phrase and the player did what he said, the player is out. The last remaining player is the next Simon.
This game can be played at any age by increasing the speed and complexity of commands, but it is a great game for preschoolers to teach them how to follow commands.
13. Capture the Flag
This classic outdoor game is best for a large group of kids. Children are divided into two teams and try to capture the flag of the other team without being caught in someone else’s territory.
14. Ghosts in the Graveyard
There are many variations of rules in this game. The ghost hides while the rest of the children count to 12. The children then join hands and walk around the house chanting “starlight, bright light, ghost, come into the light” until the ghost pops up. From this moment begins the game of tag. The ghost must try to taunt someone before the children return to safety. The first or last singed is the next ghost.
15. Hide and seek in the dark
Most of all this game is suitable for schoolchildren. However, we used to play this game every weekend in college, so it’s suitable for all ages.
The one who drives thinks others are hiding. The one who was found last leads the next. Flashlights are a great addition if you play in the dark.
16. Kick the tin can
The driver must guard the can and look for those who are hiding. And those who hid should try to run out and kick the can before the driver. If the driver kicks the jar first, the one who was hiding goes to jail. The last player to go to jail is the next driver.
17. Michelangelo
Michelangelo takes each player by the hand, spins with them, and then lets go. Players must freeze in the position in which they landed. Children can “fall” and freeze in any position they want, this does not affect the outcome of the game. After all the statues are in place, Michelangelo walks through his house, trying to make the players laugh without touching them. The first to laugh (or the last) is the next Michelangelo.
18. “Mom says”
This game is a bit like the game “Mom, can I have it”. But here the players are not asking permission to take a step, but the mother says something like: “Mom says that every child dressed in red can take two steps in my direction. ” Or, “Mom says every brown-haired kid can take two steps back.”
19. Race Run
You can run from one side of the yard to the other in a hundred different ways: on one leg, on three legs, backwards, crab gait, the fastest gait, the slowest, the most average. Have the children take turns naming the running style.
20. Red light, green light
In this game, the children can only move when the driver has their back turned to them. If the driver turns around, the children should freeze. If he catches someone in motion, he must return to the beginning of the path. The first person to touch the driver wins and becomes water himself.
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Games you can play alone
21. Backyard Ninja
Set up a backyard playground with a real obstacle course.
22. Dog training
Probably not every child will want to do this, and it may need a little supervision, but you know your children and your dog better.
23. Reading in nature
Reading outside the home is one of the most simple and solitary pleasures. Summer is a great time to start a new book series or take part in a summer reading program.
24. Bird watching or city safari
It’s great to have binoculars, but an observant child can do without them. Lie on the lawn and watch the birds and squirrels.
25. Sports exercises
It all depends on the interests of your child. We found baseball practice videos. Exercise is a great way to improve athletic skills.
26. Science Experiment
After a few “experiments” with random ingredients from my buffet and a lot of cleaning, I decided to turn to the book “52 Experiments”. The first experiment that caught my children’s attention was with Mentos and Coca-Cola. Great outdoor game!
27. Learning to juggle
A child can learn the basics and then practice all summer long. Find tutorial videos on YouTube and use old tennis balls or buy a special juggling kit.
28. Tennis
Our park’s tennis courts have a practice wall. The garage door will work too. In any case, you can play alone against the wall. We buy used rackets and tennis balls from a thrift store.
29. Hopscotch
This game can be played with friends or alone. You won’t have to wait in line, you can practice as long as you like.
30. Housework
I know it’s not a game, but it’s a way out when a child tells you he’s bored. Housework doesn’t have to be hard. Organize a potato peeling contest or promise a trip to the zoo if the kids help you finish all the chores on the list. If you succeed, please share your experience.
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Outdoor games for children with a skipping rope
live book, such as “Anna Banana : 101 Jump Rope Rhymes. Jump rope games can also appeal to adults. Spend half a day teaching kids how to play and maybe they’ll be hooked for a long time.
32. Snake Bite or Helicopter
My 7 year old son calls this game Snake Bite and my 11 year old daughter calls it Helicopter. One person stands in the center and spins the rope on the ground. Players must jump over it. If the rope touches the jumper, he is out of the game.
33. Water jumping
This game is a bit similar to the previous one, but here the driver spins the rope, and the players jump five times with a cup of water. Whoever has more water left in the cup after five jumps wins.
34. Chinese Rope
Another game you can learn on YouTube. With more difficult jumps. You may want to purchase a special Chinese jump rope. It stretches better.
35. Make a chain hoist
My kids love this game. They tie one end of the rope to a basket or bucket, and throw the other end over a branch. Then they pull things up and down. This game has little meaning, but a lot of scope for the imagination. They can play like this for hours. You can buy a real chain hoist system and hang it over the sandbox; but I prefer the jump rope system.
36. Tug of war
You will need two or more children to play the tug of war. Teams stand at an equal distance from the center line and try to pull the other team across the line. This game can be dangerous, play under adult supervision.
37. Limbo
If there are three players, you can play with a stretched rope or mop – two hold, one crawls under the line. With each round, the rope drops a little lower until the player falls over while trying to climb. An option for older children is to play ice skating.
38. Rope racing
If you have plenty of space, jumpers can line up and race at the same time. If not, use a stopwatch.
39. Double Dutch
Double Dutch is a variation of rope jumping where one or two people simultaneously jump over two rotating ropes. If played correctly, it is a team sport, as everyone must work together to be successful. Training can take all summer.
40. Cat and mouse
Four children play this game. The mouse starts the game by jumping into the spinning rope and making a certain number of jumps. The cat must follow it, making the same number of jumps, while the mouse runs around the players, spinning the rope to jump back again. The cat is chasing the mouse. A cat can taunt a mouse when the mouse is not jumping or if the mouse makes a mistake in jumping.
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Outdoor ball games
41. Dodgeball
I never liked this game as a child, but I love playing it with my kids. The goal is to throw the ball at your opponents while dodging a blow from their side. If you catch the ball thrown at you, whoever threw the ball is out.
42. Kickball
Children’s version of baseball – kickball. Instead of hitting the ball with a bat, the player kicks it. The rest of the rules are very similar to baseball.
43. Horse
This is a basketball game in which the players take turns throwing the ball into the basket from different places. If someone hits, everyone else must try to throw the ball into the ring from the same place. Who missed, he adds a letter to the word “horse”. Whoever spells the word first is out of the game.
44. Four squares
We need four children and a square consisting of four small squares. However, if there are two players, it is possible to play “two squares” on half the court.
45. Piglet in the middle
The players throw the ball to each other while the player in the middle tries to catch it. As soon as he catches the ball, the thrower is in the middle. With small children, you can take turns throwing.
46. Eider-ball
We learned about this game in the camp. It is similar to Dodgeball, but the ball rolls on the ground.
47. Bowling
Although bowling sets are quite cheap, you can play with a regular ball and 10 plastic bottles. The garden path will replace the bowling alley and the grass will replace the gutter.
48. Football
Football or a smaller version of it can be played with a children’s ball. Work out shots on goal, dribble and tackle.
49. Angry Birds
My children (and I’m sure countless other children) created this game based on a computer game. They build a tower of stones and hide a toy pig in it. The other child should try to knock down the tower with the ball. Don’t forget to get out of the way when you build the tower, especially if it’s made of rocks.
50. Don’t drop the ball
Remember that episode on Friends when they kept the ball in the air for hours? Wouldn’t it be great if your kids played it for hours? Worth a try.
A frame from Friends TV series
Outdoor games
I know it’s hard to organize in the city, but you can wait until dark and go to the park.
52. Sprinkler Run
Probably one of the most fun games ever played. What kid doesn’t love running through the sprinkler on a summer day? Don’t have a sprinkler? Make it yourself by gluing a bottle with holes to the hose.
53. Explore the ecosystem under the rocks
It’s very simple. Turn over a stone, log, or object that has been sitting in one place long enough and see who lives under it. We found centipedes, centipedes, worms, slugs, woodlice and spiders.
54. Raise butterflies from caterpillars
After a terrible experience with parasitic larvae, I would recommend buying a special kit or collecting eggs instead of caterpillars.
55. Turn tadpoles into frogs or toads
Once we collected tadpoles from my sister’s pond and raised them into tree frogs. They all fled to our basement and we never saw them again. I recommend doing this outside.
56. Tree climbing
As a child, I considered this activity to be completely ordinary. We had a big tree in our yard, and children from all over the area climbed on it. My kids are always on the lookout for good climbing trees. Every child needs to climb a tree sometimes.
57. Cloud Watching
This should be on every child’s and every adult’s summer outdoor playlist. Add some science by keeping a cloud patch journal.
58. Sausage down the hill
Roll down the hill, feel dizzy, run back and do it again. If you get bored, roll something else down, like a ball.
59. Splashing in puddles
I remember very well how my children went outside and played in the mud after a rainstorm. They were turning into swamp monsters, my kitchen and bath were turning into a barn, but it was a great time.