Outdoor Games for Kids

This may be played by any number of boys: one being selected as the Leader, and the others are the Followers.

This is an old English sport, mentioned by Gower and Chaucer, and was at one period common to women as well as men. In the northern parts of England, particularly in Yorkshire, it is practised in the following manner:

6 to 30 or more players.
Indoors; out of doors.

This is a brisk game, and may be played by any number of boys. One of the players being chosen as Touch, it is his business to run about in all directions after the other players, till he can touch one, who immediately becomes Touch in his turn.

6 to 60 players or more.
Indoors; out of doors.

Two bases having been made, one at each end of the playground, all the players take up their position in one of them,

Trundling the hoop is a pastime of uncertain origin, but it has long contributed to the health and amusement of the youth of Great Britain.

10 to 100 players.
Parlor; schoolroom; out of doors.

This is perhaps the very best game that can be introduced into a school. The principle of it is very simple, that one boy represents the Hare and runs away, while the others represent the Hounds and pursue him.

Flying Kites.The form of the kite and manner of flying it must be familiar to all our readers. This favourite toy probably received its denomination from having originally been made in the shape of the bird called the kite.

10 to 60 players.
Playground; gymnasium; parlor.

This game may be played by any number of players. A large stone is selected, and placed on a particular spot,

Marble Games for Kids - Vintage Marble Games. - In ancient times, when we were boys, and indulged in the luxury of marbles, they were very different from their present form. They were made of stone, nicely polished, and some of them, called “alleys,” of the purest marble.

4 to 30 or more players.
Indoors; out of doors.

This is a very good game, and to play it properly there must be in the centre of the playground a small hill or hillock.

Tops. The peg-top appears to be a modern invention, but the whip-top is of great antiquity, it having been used in remote times by the Grecian boys; it was well known at Rome in the days of Virgil, and in England as early at least as the fourteenth century, when its form was the same as it is now.

This, if well managed, is a very comical game. The players are arranged as in Fugleman, the player who enacts Simon standing in front.

The Apple Mill is made by boring a hole in a nut, just large enough to pass a thin skewer through; the kernel should then be extracted, and another hole bored in the side of the nut, as A in the annexed figure.

Make a mark on the ground at a place called the “starting point.” At ten yards’ distance from this make another, called the “spring.”