Children Games You Know

Children games that you forgot that you know!

• Red Rover
• Musical Chairs
• Charades
• Farmer in the Dell
• Scavenger Hunt
• Bowling (plastic soda bottles)
• Dodgeball
• Arm wrestling
• Thumb wrestling
• Spelling bee
• Potato sack races
• Hangman
• Tic-tac-toe
• Obstacle course
• Human knot
• London Bridges
• Frog races
• Water balloon fight
• Silly relay races
• Guessing games
• Red Light/Green Light
• Mother May I?
• Kick the Can
• 3 Truths and a Lie
• Memory Games
• Bingo
• Staring Contest
• Not-Laughing Contest
• Piggy Back Rides
• Jump rope contest
• Wheel-barrel races
• Over and Under
• Shadow Tag
• Tug-of-War
• I Spy
• Miss Mary Mack
• Cats in the Cradle
• Leap Frog
• Rock/Scissor/Paper
• Flash Card Challenge
• Guess name of a famous person pinned on your back
• Flashlight Tag
• Freeze Tag
• Statues
• Little Sally Saucer
• Marco Polo (swimming)
• Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
• Parachute
• Hot/Cold (find hidden items)
• Hide and Seek
• Monkey in the Middle
• Simon Says
• Crazy Eights (cards)
• Concentration
• Chinese jump rope
• Four Square
• Beachball volleyball
• Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves
• Buzz (7’s)
• Capture the Flag
• Easter egg hunt
• Lip sync
• Crab walk soccer
• Wacky Walks
• Heads Up 7-Up
• Crack the Whip
• Steal the Bacon
• Button, Button, Who Has the Button?
• Telephone- Tongue Twisters
• Pin the Tail on the Donkey
• Follow the Leader
• Penny pitching
• Duck Duck Goose
• Drop the Handkerchief
• A Tisket A Tasket
• Hot Potato
• Doggie, Doggie Where’s Your Bone?
• Beanbag toss
• Fruit Basket Upset
• Guess Who
• Name That Tune
• Keep the Ball up
• Shoe Scramble
• Goin on a camping trip
• Treasure Hunt
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Hopscotch
• Port and Starboard
• Sardines
• Spud
• In & Out the Windows
• Tag
• Grandma is Crazy (figure out differences in 2 similar things)
• Trust fall
• Frisbee Tag
• Wink
• Yankee Doodle Cracker (whistle after eating cracker)
• Jacks
• Pickle
• Limbo
• Hokey Pokey
• Two-Square

Copyright 2005 ~Cathy Abraham