The players should create a strategy that will keep them from getting tagged by running around or hiding behind obstacles. This game will not only allow the kids to exercise, but they can practice strategic thinking and team building. Each player stands in a square that is numbered from one to four, with one being the highest and four being the lowest. Each player must serve the ball to the opposite square and the ball must bounce once before the player can catch it. The person who stands in square one gets to make up additional rules and anyone who violates the rules must be eliminated from the game.
This is another game to practice strategic thinking along with following instructions and eye-hand coordination. This game will only work when played on a sunny day. This is the perfect game for exercise. The frozen player will then be allowed back into the game and the game will continue until everyone has had a turn or there are no more tv shows left to name.
Each tv show can only be used once per game. This is a great game to assure plenty of exercise and following directions. Hand-clap games are ones you learn to do with rhyme early on in life. By clapping their hands together and then slapping them on their legs they will keep their rhythm going, but when one person messes up, another will cut right in. This is a good way for them to develop hand-eye coordination, sharpen their memory skills, and learn to develop their love of music and rhyme.
This game is played much like a scavenger hunt and can be structured to any age group. One person will hide all the items ahead of time for the other players to find. You can write clues on strips of paper for older kids or write down each item that has been hidden for the younger kids to find.
When you are playing with children of various ages, consider pairing up the players so the older kids can help the younger kids when you are using clues.
The player or players who find the most items or finds them all first wins the game. This is a great game to exercise critical thinking.
This is a simple game for children of all ages and can be played indoors or out. After the bone is stolen and hidden out of sight, the doggy must then turn around and guess who stole the bone. Younger children will enjoy guessing until they guess the right person, but older children should have a limit to their number of guesses.
The game should continue until each person had a chance to be the doggy or until the allowed time is up. This is another game that is perfect for critical thinking.
This is a great game for exercise and can be played by kids of all age groups. Much like Mother May I but with a twist. In this game, one person will be appointed as the mother or father. If you want it to be even fairer, you can prepare a list of questions ahead of time and the mother or father can draw them from a hat. This game will help with attention skills, especially in smaller children. Basketball is fun, but why not put a fun twist on the game? Each player will take turns making a shot in the basket.
When a shot is made the next person must make the same shot from the same spot as the previous player. When a shot is missed, the player gets a letter. For a shorter version of the game, you could use a three- or four-letter word instead. This game will not only give the kids plenty of exercise, but they can practice their spelling words and how to follow directions.
We have more basketball shooting games too! A classic game of hopscotch can be played and even loved by children of all ages.
Each player will take a turn by first tossing the marker onto the number one square. The player must then start out with one foot skipping over the number one and hopping all the way through to the number ten. When the player gets to the number ten, they must then pivot their foot and hop all the way back down to the number two square and then while balancing on one foot, they must bend over, pick up the marker from the one square, and then hop onto number one and to the end.
The player must get the marker inside the square without it touching the sides, if the marker does not land inside the square then the player must forfeit their turn and hand the marker over to the next player. The player must also forfeit a turn when they lose their balance and other parts of their body touch the ground. If they successfully make it all the way to the top and back, the player will then proceed to toss the marker to the number two square and so on until they lose their balance or the marker lands outside of the square.
When a player is out, they will continue on their next turn with the number they left off with on their previous turn. This is a great game to test their balance skills and to exercise their arms and legs. Marbles are one of the most popular playground games from the past and should be taught to more children today, so the tradition will continue.
You will first need to draw a circle three-feet wide onto the pavement. Next, you will want to place five to ten smaller marbles in the center of the circle. Using the larger marbles as shooters, each player should take a turn kneeling and shooting as many of the smaller marbles as they can to the outside of the circle.
When the shot is over, the player should keep all the marbles from the outside of the circle and then take another shot. When the player can no longer shoot marbles to the outside of the circle the turn is passed on to the next player.
The game continues until there are no more marbles left inside the square and the person who collects the most marbles wins the game.
Back in the day of this popular game, kids would collect marbles with their allowance or they would simply gain more for their collection by keeping the ones they collected throughout the game.
Sometimes, they would use their marbles for trading tools with other kids. This is a great game for hand-eye coordination. This classic playground game from the past is also known as piggy in the middle and is simple enough for anyone to play.
One person should be at the opposite end of the playing field as the other player with the third person in the middle of them both. Be careful not to drop the ball because if you do it will become fair gain and the monkey in the middle will have a chance to grab it before you do. Play should continue until the player in the middle catches the ball. When the player in the middle gets the ball, that player should trade places with the one who threw it. The game can be played freely or timed.
This is a great game for exercise and team building. I have observed that, with some training and resources, teachers, teaching assistants and lunchtime staff can quickly feel confident and empowered enough to initiate and organise traditional and new playground games. Children, however, need to know the games really well before they can enjoy them by themselves, and there are a variety of ways to help introduce new games and for children to become familiar with how to play them.
Here are some ideas:. Some lunchtime supervisors are reluctant to start to play lunchtime games. When we organise playgrounds well, we have a few lunchtime supervisors on play duty and one or two on patrol duty as well with their first aid kit bag and high visibility jacket on. So the supervisors on play duty know to point any child in difficulty in the direction of the supervisor on patrol duty to ask for help.
And for headteachers — the biggest tip that I can give you is to go and play with the children. Taking precise and definite steps to making playtimes happy for both children and staff can help boost morale, wellbeing and fundamental social, emotional and academic accomplishments. This material is protected by MA Education Limited copyright. See Terms and Conditions. Please view our Terms and Conditions before leaving a comment.
Toggle navigation. Home Best Practice Article. Written by: Jenny Mosley Published: 07 September Image: Adobe Stock Comment on this article. She offers some ideas and advice For some children, playtime can be a huge problem and can have a significant impact on their learning. Playing good playground games I have observed that, with some training and resources, teachers, teaching assistants and lunchtime staff can quickly feel confident and empowered enough to initiate and organise traditional and new playground games.
Here are some ideas: All teachers need to agree on six playground games that they will all teach in PE during the term. One should be a designated circle game, e. As they will then already know them from PE, any child can just run into the game when they want to. It becomes a magnet for lonely children — a safe haven where they will feel part of the group. Many children want to help and be recognised for their efforts — so you can recruit teams of them to become play leaders.
They love applying to become play leaders and setting up differently zoned areas. Decide what zones you would be happy to set up with the children. Some schools choose weather-proof games posters that can be screwed into the playground walls. It involves four players passing a tennis ball while standing in a large square divided into four smaller squares.
Another idea is a make believe zone, which can house a box full of outdoor dressing up clothes and pieces of old material which can provide hours of imaginative role play.
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