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FUN WITH BACKYARD GAMES
Do you wish you could get the kids or grandkids to set aside their video games and iPods and have some good, old-fashioned fun outdoors? Here are some fun backyard game ideas.
Sack races! Get some large burlap sacks and have the kids hop their way to the finish line.
Kick the can. Take a large, empty aluminum can and place it on the ground. This is the "base." The person who is "it" covers his eyes and counts to 100 while the other kids run and hide. Then the "it" child searches for the others. When he finds one of the others, both race back to the base and whoever kicks the can first wins. The loser is the new "it."
Red rover! This one's great for a large number of kids. Form two teams and stand in lines facing each other. Flip a coin to see who goes first. Members of the team whose turn it is hold hands and call for someone from the other team to run over and try to break through their line. The calling team shouts together, "Red rover, red rover, send [name of child from other team] right over!" The child who is called runs toward what he thinks is the weakest link in the chain. If he breaks through, he gets to pick someone from the line to go back with him and join his team. If he bounces off or ends up dangling on two players' arms, he has to join the calling team. The game continues until everyone ends up on one team!
Freeze tag. A variation of tag. When you're "it," the players you tag have to freeze wherever you tagged them. If other players tag them, though, it "unfreezes" them until you tag them again. The game ends when everyone except "it" is frozen or when any one player has been frozen three times (or five or whatever you decide in advance).
For more backyard game ideas, check this out. And have fun!
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I saw, on M*A*S*H last night, they were playing checkers using shots of booze instead of checkers, and when you jump each other's checkers you down the shots.
Do you wish you could get the kids or grandkids to set aside their video games and iPods and have some good, old-fashioned fun outdoors? Here are some fun backyard game ideas.
Sack races! Get some large burlap sacks and have the kids hop their way to the finish line.
The towns around here still do that at their summer celebrations.
Kick the can. Take a large, empty aluminum can and place it on the ground. This is the "base." The person who is "it" covers his eyes and counts to 100 while the other kids run and hide. Then the "it" child searches for the others. When he finds one of the others, both race back to the base and whoever kicks the can first wins. The loser is the new "it."
We did that one without the can. We called it "Hide and Seek" and once found, you raced the person back to "home base". If you got there first, after being found, you won.
Red rover! This one's great for a large number of kids. Form two teams and stand in lines facing each other. Flip a coin to see who goes first. Members of the team whose turn it is hold hands and call for someone from the other team to run over and try to break through their line. The calling team shouts together, "Red rover, red rover, send [name of child from other team] right over!" The child who is called runs toward what he thinks is the weakest link in the chain. If he breaks through, he gets to pick someone from the line to go back with him and join his team. If he bounces off or ends up dangling on two players' arms, he has to join the calling team. The game continues until everyone ends up on one team!
My elementary school banned this one after a child got hurt trying to break through the line.
Freeze tag. A variation of tag. When you're "it," the players you tag have to freeze wherever you tagged them. If other players tag them, though, it "unfreezes" them until you tag them again. The game ends when everyone except "it" is frozen or when any one player has been frozen three times (or five or whatever you decide in advance).
Never played this one.
For more backyard game ideas, check this out. And have fun!
We used to play "tangle up" where two people held hands and tangled themselves up without releasing their hold on each other. A third person had to UNtangle them back to the original, face-to-face position.
We used to play all these games as kids, there were 14 children in my neighborhood, all of us within a year of being the same age. When we all turned 10 we had a block birthday party! What a blast!
Kids will greatly benefit from all those games. I would enjoy seeing kids playing like this instead of sitting still and gazing at something held in their hands.
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