Tag Outdoor games for kids

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

In this game four or five stones or marks must be placed on the ground, as in the annexed figure, A, B, C, D, E, about twelve or fifteen yards asunder; these marks are called bases, and one of them, as A, is styled “home.”

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.

Dig near a wall nine holes, of about six inches in diameter, and three deep. Let each player have one of these, according to his number, which must be determined by lot.

This game is played with a trap and ball, which is struck with a bat or bludgeon at the pleasure of the players; but the latter is most commonly used.

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.

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:

This game is so called from the trap used to elevate the ball when it is to be struck by the batsman. It is one of the earliest games played with the trap and ball, and we can trace it to the commencement of the fourteenth century.

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.

AUNT SALLY is an amusing game of a very simple character, consisting essentially in throwing at a small object.

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.

Cat and Mouse Game. This sport, which is of French origin, is for two players only.

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

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

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

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

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

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.