Bomb

Name: Bomb

Ages: All

Players: 3+

Description:
First, you need a ball any ball. Then everyone counts down from 10 to 0 you must start throwing the ball around 10. The last person with the ball, or to touch the ball has to lose a arm or leg which means you cannot use that arm or leg to catch and throw the ball.

Info: You cannot hit the ball hard.

Top Secret Adventures game

Name: Top Secret Adventures game

Ages: All

Players: 4+

Description:
There are four players and they all get a mission card. All the mission
cards say different things for example: 5 suspects, 3 stolen items, 4 countries. You get these things by answering questions from the geography quiz cards the're easy for kids because the board is bascilly a map and they look at the map and find the answers.(This game is based on a board game).

Shadows

Name: Shadows

Ages: All

Players: 2+

Description:

This game needs to be played outside on a nice SUNNY day. This is a
non-contact game. Mark out the playing area.

Can you manage to stand on somebody's shadow while he/she tries to stop you?

To stop someone from standing on your shadow you have to run and twist and turn so your shadow moves away from him or her. At a given signal all 'freeze' and anyone on a shadow gets a point/counter/spill.

Spiders and Flies

Name: Spiders and Flies

Ages: All

Players: 6+

Description:
You need to have two Safe areas either side of the playing area. You choose one player to be the Spider; they stand in the Middle of the playing area and are allowed to move anywhere within this area. All the other players are the Flies and stand in the Safe area on one side of the room, or marked area if outside. The Spider shouts as loudly as he/she can "I am the Spider" to which the Flies shout back "We are the Flies" Spider then says, "I'm going to get you" To which the Flies reply, "You can try". The Spider then shouts "GO" the Flies then have to run all the way across to the other side without the spider catching them. Any players caught become extra Spiders and the Words are then in Plural. This continues until only one player is left and they become the new Spider. If playing with a lot of people then you can have more Spiders to start.(British Bulldog Variant)

Variation:
Create a Giant Web on the Ground either painted or with masking tape. The spiders can only move along the lines of the tape and cannot jump across from one line to another, but must follow until they get to a connecting line. The Web needs to be big enough to not bump into other people.

Arch Tag

Name: Arch Tag

Ages: 7+

Players: 8+

Description:
Players find a partner and stand beside them holding hands.One couple is chosen to be "it". They must chase and try to tig the others. The others, in pairs, hold hands and run about (male/female if possible). If they are tigged, that couple must stand still and raise their arms to form an arch. Others couples can free them by another linked pair running underneath the arch. If any couple breaks hands, they also have to form an arch. But should the couple who are "it" break hands; all the players they have caught are automatically freed.

Info: Change the chasing couple frequently.

Knockout

Name: Knockout

Ages: 7+

Players: 3+

Description:
This is played with a tennis ball, everyone gets into a large circle and
the ball is thrown continuously back and forth until someone drops the ball. When the ball is dropped they go 'Down on one knee' if the same person drops it a second time, then they go 'Down on two knees' if the same person drops it again then 'Put one arm behind back' If they miss it again 'Put both arms behind back' this leaves them with only their 'Chin' and on missing again they are 'Out.' They must stay in the position they are in to catch the ball. The winner is the one still left in with the ball caught. You can choose to throw the ball to whomever you wish.

Queenie

Name: Queenie

Ages: All

Players: 3+

Description: One player with a ball stands facing the wall, all the others stand a
little distance behind him/her and call out, 'Queenie, Queenie, throw up the ball', whereupon Queenie throws the ball as hard as he/she can into the air so it lands a long way behind him/her. The other player's scramble for it and the one who gets it holds it behind his/her back.

All the other players then put their hands behind their backs and stand in a row with the catcher so 'Queenie' does not then know who has the ball. Then they all shout 'Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball'; this is the signal for Queenie to turn round and guess which of the players has the ball.

Queenie can name a person and ask them to turn around. Queenie can also ask them to jump up in the air and to stretch out their arms at the same time. You will then need to move the ball in front of your body without it being seen if you are the player holding it or you need to put the ball between your legs at the back or tuck it into your waistband. Otherwise you must pretend that you have the ball and do these same actions.

'Queenie' may be able to spot the ball by asking the players to do this. He/she is then allowed one guess. If Queenie guesses right then he/she throws the ball again if wrong then the player with the ball becomes the new Queenie.

What's the time Mr. Wolf?

Name: What's the time Mr. Wolf?

Ages: 4-6

Players: 4+

Description: One child is Mr.Wolf. He/she faces away from the other children, who walk behind him/her chanting, "What's the time Mr.Wolf?". Mr.Wolf then turns and answers any time he/she likes, but suddenly says "dinner time". He then turns and catches one of the children, who then becomes the new Mr.Wolf.

Gigglebelly

Name: Gigglebelly

Ages: 7+

Players: 4+

Description: The first player lays down belly up, the second has to rest their head
on the other players belly,in the end you will have a long loop of friends. The first player then says "Ha" the second says "ha ha" until everyone has added one ha!

Chase the Squirrel

Name: Chase the Squirrel

Ages: 4-10

Players: 8+

Description: Two children form an arch (like london bridge)to be the "tree." The
rest hold hands in a circle and walk through the arch, singing or chanting, "Let us chase the squirrel, Up the hickory, down the hickory, Let us chase the squirrel, Up the hickory TREE." On "TREE," the two children forming the arch bring their hands down and "capture" any "sqirrels" inside the arch. Captured children become part of the tree and the game is repeated. Game ends when all the squirrels have been captured or there are so few left that they are impossible to catch. If played with a very large group you could start with two trees.

Math Fun

Name: Math Fun

Ages: 7-10

Players: 2+

Description:Use a 12x12 large number grid & have a Starting line about 5 feet from the grid. The Leader calls a times table question & the first child to reach the correct numbered square in the grid wins a point. The first child to reach a nominated amount of points i.e 5/10 wins a house point.

Info: Encourages kids to learn their tables with an added bonus at the end.

Pokeski

Name: Pokeski

Ages: All

Players: 2+

Description: One person at the beggining of the game is named the poke and they have to chase all the other players in the game around and when you catch them you have to prod them with your finger and quote the saying "pokeski" and then the person that you prodded is now the poke.

Info: You have to say Pokeski in a really high pitched voice!

Ready Steady Rabbits

Name: Ready Steady Rabbits

Ages: 7+

Players: 5+

Description: There is a rabbit and the other players run round with tails, the rabbit
has to chase the other players and take their tails, if the rabbit manages to get a tail off someone, that person is out and the person who is left with a tail at the end of the game becomes the new rabbit for the next game.

Grumpy Frog, Grumpy Frog

Name: Grumpy Frog, Grumpy Frog

Ages: 4-10

Players: 5+

Description: A leader(Grumpy frog) stands with their back to the other children.
The other children stand about 6 metres behind. The children chant 'Grumpy frog, Grumpy frog, can we sit on your log?' The grumpy frog (leader) replies 'only if you are wearing black shoes' for example. If the children are wearing black shoes they move one step towards the leader.The idea is to be the first to reach the leader and touch them on the shoulder.

Peggy Leggy

Name: Peggy Leggy

Ages: 7-10

Players: 4+

Description: One child is 'on'.The others choose an item/colour/whatever, and then
chant "Peggy leggy lost her leggy on her way to school. what by?". A speaker lists the choices (as decided before).The child who is on chooses one, and that person goes 'head to head' with the child who is on - both fold their arms and hop on one leg to knock the other off balance. The one knocked off balance is then on for next round.

Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon

Name: Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon

Ages: 4-6

Players: 10+

Description: Make a circle and holding hands go round singing (tune to 'here we go
Looby Lou') (Chorus)Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon, Sally go round the chimney tops on a Saturday afternoon. You put your right arm in, you put your right arm out, you shake it a little a little and turn yourself about. Change direction and repeat chorus Then 'you put your left arm in......' Change direction and repeat chorus 'You put your right leg in....' Change direction and repeat chorus 'You put your left leg in....' Change direction and repeat chorus 'You put your whole self in.......' Change direction and repeat chorus- finish

Info:This also works well using parachute and holding parachute in opposite hand to that being 'put in' and also helps to get correct side of body used as that is the free hand.

Miscellaneous Games (Childrens Efforts)

Name: Trow 'n' Catch

Ages: All

Players: 4+

Description: "trow catch" no droping ball, use hands, use tennis ball, use a netball court

Info: need steady hands, consentrate, be carful and dont heart yourself.

Crust and Crumbs

Name: Crust and Crumbs

Ages: All

Players: 10+

Description: Two lines of people are made,facing each other with one foot out.This foot should be touching the child's foot opposite you . Pick two dens or "safe places" ie ( wall - cones) Name one row crust, name the other one crumbs. When you shout crust , all the crust runs to their den , with the crumbs chasing them .If a child is caught they go on to the other side . The fun is when the child forgets if they are crust or crumbs . You can do false starts by calling bread ! or toast !

Giants, Wizards and goblins.

Name: Giants, Wizards and goblins

Ages: All

Players: 9+

Description: Splitthe group into two equal teams, each team decides whether they want to be Giants, Wizards or Goblins without letting the other team know what they have chosen, they march together facing the other team and sing the words "one two three four i've come knocking on your door". They then do an action of the Giant, Wizard or Goblin which ever their team decided to be, the rules are: the Giants beat the Wizards, the Wizards beat the Goblins and the Goblins beat the Giants. The team that beats the other, chases them across their boundary line. You are safe as soon as you cross the line. If you are tagged you join the other team.

Info: This is a large scale version of rock, paper, scissors

Jelly Bean

Name: Jelly Bean

Ages: 4-10

Players: 2+

Description: Teacher encourages discussion about the different types of beans eg.
jelly/runner/green/baked...Children and teacher compose an action for each type of bean.The children run around school yard as teacher calls out each type of bean the children must then do the decided action.

One Elephant

Name: One Elephant

Ages: 4-10

Players: 2+

Description:
One person moves around the others while all sing "one elephant went out one day, upon a spiders web to play, she found it such tremendous fun that she called for another elephant to come". The person nearest the 'elephant' holds hands with the elephant and move round together, everyone singing again.

Info: Very Versatile

Bandana Fun

Name: Bandana Fun

Ages: All

Players: 2+

Description:
We do all kinds of games using a bandana. There are many ways that a bandana can be used on the playground re: First Aid, wiping your nose, during tag, capture the flag. We just have fun coming up with new games and new uses all the time. And it is a safe (soft)piece of equipment to make into a ball and throw around or hide some where and have others try to find it.

Info: The more creative, use your imagination, the better!

Zoomy Zoomy

Name: Zoomy Zoomy

Ages: All

Players: 8+

Description: There is one person who is named ZOOMY.All the other students who are playing are given numbers ie 1,2,3,4,5,etc.The game starts out by the children hitting their hands on the desk twice then clapping twice. All students say "AAHHHH!!!! ZOOMY ZOOMY........ZOOMY ZOOMY." Then the person who was named Zoomy says "ZOOMY ZOMMY, then a number of any of the students, like 1" So it would go "ZOOMY ZOOMY 1 1" then the student who had the number 1 given to him would say "ZOOMY ZOOMY, then a different number, like 7" so it would go "1 1, 7 7" This continues like this until someone says a number and that person messes up by not remembering their number when it is called, or by taking too long to start saying the verse they were supposed too. After this happens that person that messed up must leave the circle.

Info: Once the game gets down to only four left, the game is sped up, you must hit the desk faster and clap your hands faster, and say your verses faster until there are only two people left. Then the winner is determined by playing rock, paper, scissors. The person who wins best out of three, wins the game.

Cat and Mouse

Name: Cat and Mouse

Ages: All

Players: 8+

Description: Children spread out.One child is the mouse and is chased by another nominated child who is the cat. All other children in the game remain standing still. At any time,the mouse can tap another child on the shoulder who then becomes the new mouse. The cat may also do the same should they feel tired.If the mouse is caught, the children swap roles and the new cat is not allowed to catch the new mouse within 3 seconds.The children who are standing still are acting as obstacles for the cat.They may not however hold the cat or the mouse back.

Follow Me!!

Name: Follow Me!!

Ages: 7+

Players: 8+

Description: Choose who is on.Take them to another place were s/he can't see the rest of you. Then the rest of you sit in a circle. Choose another person. Then you can call the person on, back again. The person you choose before the person on came back has to do different actions eg. clapping their hands and the rest of you have to follow them. The person who is on has to guess the person who is starting the actions. If they guess the person who started the actions,that person is on.

Info: Don't do the same actions, vary it!

Skipping

Name: Skipping

Ages: 4-10

Players: 3+

Description: Two people have to hold each end of the rope and they have to spin it round and round.Someone has to jump over the rope and say this "strawberry apple my jamtart tell me the name of my sweetheart A B C D E F G ......". Whichever letter you land on is the letter your sweetheart's name begins with!!

Info : Skipping Rope Is Needed

Tails

Name: Tails

Ages: All

Players: 2+

Description: Each child is given a bib, the bib is tucked into the back of the childs trousers as a tail. The children then must catch as many tails as they can without taking bibs from others hands,if a childs tail is grabbed the child still continues to try and catch as many other tails as they can.The person with the most bibs wins, if a child had retained his her tail it is considered to be worth two bibs.

Hill Dill

Name: Hill Dill

Ages: All

Players: 3+

Description: There's one person in the middle, the rest are on one side of a field. Then the person in the middle screams "HILLDILL!" and everybody runs to the other side without being tagged by the middle person or else your in the middle with him\her/.(British Bulldog Variant).

Goober Tree

Name: Goober Tree

Ages: All

Players: 5+

Description: One person is designated as "it". This is "the big Goober". "The big Goober" runs around collecting the other players-"the little goobers" by tagging them and sending them to the Goober Tree. The Tree can be a real tree, or just any spot designated as such. As each goober is tagged, they join hands with the last goober tagged to form a chain. The first person tagged must keep a hand on the Tree. The most recently tagged person controls the dust ball--a soft ball to throw at the big Goober. The chain of little Goobers can move back and forth as long as the first person keeps their hand on the Tree. If hit, the big Goober "sneezes" and all the little Goobers are released. The game is won if the big Goober can catch all the little goobers without getting hit. Or when a designated time is up.

Info: Materials needed: one soft ball, large space

Poison

Name: Poison

Ages: All

Players: 2+

Description: One player is the chaser.This player stands in the middle while the others stand around them touching the chasers hand or finger.The chaser then begins to say, "i went to the shops and i bought.......some paper!" It can be any word beginning with P to tease the others in to thinking they are going to say Poison!When the chaser finally does say poison, everyone must scream and run away from the chaser. The person that gets caught is the next one to be the chaser and so on and so on! Its a very noisy game once it gets going and lots of fun!!!!!!!!!

Buzz Me

Name: Buzz Me

Ages: All

Players: 4+

Description: You choose one or two people to count by the buzzer(which could be a bench, tree, wall, anything) The buzzer counts to forty and everyone hides whilst he/she counts, then when they have finished people come out of their hiding places and try run to the buzzer and say buzz me. The counter has to try to stop this. So they try to run up to people and tap them and then say buzz whatever the persons name is, then they race back to the buzzer, if the counter/buzzer gets there first and says buzz the persons name then the person they buzzed has to count next round. If the person they have tapped gets back to the buzzer first and says buzz me then they are safe and don't have to count next time if it is a draw then everyone playing has a vote to who they think should be the next buzzer. If the buzzer/counter doesn't get anyone then they have to count again.

Info: If there are lots of people playing then there should be two buzzers to make it fair, if there are a small number of people playing just have one buzzer/counter.

Baked Beans

Name: Baked Beans

Ages: 4-10

Players: 12+

Description: Place about twenty bean bags or other objects that are easy to grab(but all of the same)in a hoop in the center of a good sized area(maybe a ball court)Put the children into four equal groups and stand them in four corners.Then say go, the children have to get a bean bag from the center one at a time and the others in the teams can not go until the other child has tagged them.When all the bean bags have gone from the center hoop then the object of the game is to pinch each others bean bags using one player at a time and then again tagging the other player in their team to go next until you say stop.The winner of the game is the one with the most bean bags.

Fishy Fishy

Name: Fishy Fishy

Ages: 7-10

Players: 12+

Description: One child is a shark, the rest of them are fish.The fish all line up on one side of the playground.The shark stands in the middle.The shark chants 'Fishy fishy fishy come and swim in my sea.'The fish reply 'Sharky sharky sharky you can't catch me.' The fish then run to the other side of the playground and the shark tries to catch them.If they are caught (tagged) then they become dancing jellyfish.They now help the shark but they are not allowed to move their feet.Game continues until there is only one fish left.They become the shark.

Ball Chase Tag

Name: Ball Chase Tag

Ages: 7+

Players: 4+

Description: The aim of the game is to tag a selected child. In order to tag you must be holding a ball, but you may not travel with the ball, only tag or pass to another 'tagger'. The ball is passed around a designated area, chasing the child. Children not holding the ball may run around, but must not travel when holding the ball. The person who tags is then to be chased with the ball.

Miscellaneous Games (childrens efforts)

Name: Football

Ages: All Ages

Players: 4+

Description: you have to kik the ball and triye to get the ball in the goll.you cant pik the ball up.

Scatterball

Name: Scatterball

Ages: 7+

Players: 10+

Description: There are two teams fielders and kickers, one person from the kickers side kicks the ball as far away from the opposite team as possible and the fielders get the ball throw it at the last cone. There are five markers that the kicker has to get around to score a run. Fielders and kickers rotate until final score is accumulated.i.e some team wins.

Info: Games can be timed or based on a score and can be on a large scale e.g. twenty people on each team.