Outdoor games are not only more fun, they are also healthier and necessary for children. Any activity that allows them to breathe clean air will be really important and valuable for their health. In addition, not using any type of material other than your imagination will be a great way to develop your creativity. Children must learn that any game is possible without having to have many things.
A few decades ago, children were able to play in the street for hours with no other utensils than the materials they could find on the street. Together, working their creativity and empowering all their imagination, they were capable of inventing all kinds of games that have managed to go through the years and reach today. Those are the games today's kids should know.
Outdoor games for children
Outdoor play implies freedom of movement, space where you can run and play games that in a closed space would be difficult to perform. There are countless games already created, but children need very little to invent and create new games. Let them experiment and write down everything that comes to mind, they will surely come up with incredible ideas.
These are some of the traditional outdoor games more fun to enjoy with children.
The handkerchief game
You only need a scarf or a light garment to serve that purpose. A person must place in an intermediate point holding the handkerchief. From where the handkerchief is, an equidistant distance should be created in both directions where the children will be placed in teams. Each team must have the same number of participants and each child will be assigned a number. When everyone is ready, the person holding the handkerchief will say a number and the children who have that number will have to run out to get the handkerchief. The child who picks it up first and the team that picks up the handkerchief first the most times will win.
The four corners
For this game you need 5 players, four who will be the ones who are placed in the corners and one who will be the one who is placed in the middle. The object of the game is that children in the corners should move to the next corner, the one in the middle must try to steal a free corner before the other participants arrive. When the one in the middle manages to steal a corner, the one who runs out of it happens to be in the center and now is the one who must try to get a free corner.
The broken phone
This game is perfect when there are at least 4 children, but the more participants the more fun the game will be. The game starts as follows, a child whispers to the one next to him any phrase in his ear, which is invented. Now, he has to say the phrase in his ear to his side, as quickly as possible. All children have to do the same in turns, you will see that when the phrase reaches the first child who invented it, it will have changed so much that it will not even resemble it.
The English Hideaway
A child is the one who stays at a point and the one who is marking the game. At a medium distance the rest of the children are placed. The one at the head with his back to everyone has to repeat the following phrase "hide and seek in English without moving your hands or feet" and turn around towards the rest of the children at that time. The other children have to move towards the head while the child repeats that phrase, but when he finishes, they have to stay very still in the position they are in at that moment.
The first to reach the finish line wins the game.or if the one at the head repeating the English hide and seek phrase sees one of the other children move, the one who moves will lose. This will have to be placed in the goal and now it will be the one who tries to catch the others moving out of time.