Category Outdoor Games for Kids

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

10 to 60 players.
Playground; gymnasium; parlor.

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

HARE AND HOUNDS GAME - This is perhaps the very best game that can be introduced into a school. The principle of it is very simple, that...

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

This is a game played by hopping on one foot and kicking an oyster-shell or piece of tile from one compartment to the other, without halting the lifted foot, except in one case, to the ground, and without suffering the shell or tile to rest on any of the lines.

This is an old Greek game, and, like very many simple boys’ games, has retained its popularity to the present day.

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.”

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

This is a very simple sport, but necessarily restricted to those spots where there is a river, or a pond of some magnitude.

This is a most delightful game, and is a very great favourite among boys of all classes. It is commenced by choosing Captains, which is either done by lot or by the “sweet voices” of the youths.

Chalk or make a line, or, as it is usually termed, “a garter,” on the ground; on this line one of the players must place himself and bend down as in leap-frog, while the other players in rotation leap over him, the last one as he flies over calling out “Foot it.”

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 game can be played by any number of boys, who must all join hands; the game is begun by the outside players at each end of the line holding the following dialogue: