Outdoor Games for Kids

This is very simple play. The ball is thrown into the air by one player, the others standing round him. He calls out the name of the player, for whom the ball is thrown.

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

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

This is a most excellent game, and very popular in some counties. It is played with a moderate-sized ball and a hand-bat, i. e. a bat that can be held in one hand, and which is about two feet in length, smooth, and round.

Throwing Sticks - This very popular game among the Greeks was by them called Kyndalismos.

This game is played by two boys, each of whom takes a smooth round pebble.

Quoits game. The game of Quoits is very excellent. It seems to have derived its name from the ancient discus, and with us in the present day is a circular plate of iron perforated in the middle, not always of one size, but larger or smaller to suit the strength or convenience of the several candidates.

Various games are in vogue among boys, in which hopping on one foot is the principal object.

This game, which takes its title from the names assumed by the players, is played by seven boys, each of whom calls himself after one of the days of the week.

This is a capital game when well played, and the antics and grimaces of boys who are mimics cause great merriment.

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

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.

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

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

10 to 60 players.
Indoors; out of doors; schoolroom.

This is a capital game for the summer months. The players divide themselves into two parties, one party remaining at a spot called “Bounds,” and concealing their faces, while the other party goes out and hides. After waiting for a few minutes, the home party shouts, “Coming, coming, coming.”

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

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.

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

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.