When the players seem to have the hang of it, introduce another balloon with a different word. Now they must keep two balloons afloat! Every few minutes, introduce a new balloon and a new word. For this activity, choose an outside area that has clear boundaries. For example the west side of the playground from the baseball field to the storage shed. Or use plastic cones to create a boundary. Make sure students understand the boundaries so that no one wanders off.
Divide your class into partners and give each duo a plastic bag to hold their items. Create a home base where you will station yourself with a large poster listing the scavenger hunt items, for example, two sticks, one green leaf, one piece of litter, four rocks, etc.
On your call the teams will head out and search for the items. They may return to base as often as they like to check the list. Once they have collected all the items they will stay at home base with you. Have your students partner up. Ask the teams to spread out so that each team has space to move.
You will be the caller. Begin by calling out an action that involves the partners joining together two body parts. Begin the game again once everyone is settled in their space. Take the students out and divide them into two teams- the Snakes green and the Worms brown. Designate two Captains for each team. The Captains will stay on base, so if there are students who are less mobile, this would be a good position for them.
The rest of the players on each team will be Searchers. When you call go, the Searchers will run out into the designated area and search for their colored yarn segments. This game is a fun version of tag. Set boundaries and call go. The objective is to run or skip, or gallop, etc. If a player does gets tagged, they must stop and stand with their feet planted on the ground in a wide stance like they are stuck in mud. They only way they can get back into the game is to be released by someone who crawls under them, through their legs.
This activity is great if your school grounds have a long stretch on concrete sidewalk available. It takes just a bit of prep work. Before you take your student out, draw a chain of 26 large squares on the concrete, and label each square with a letter of alphabet.
Bring your kids out and supply them with buckets of sidewalk chalk. Continue until only one player remains standing that team wins! To extend the game, play the color wars version. The child with the most white remaining on their shirt at the end of a designated time wins! Mushroom, Popcorn, Cat and Mouse, and so much more. There are plenty of games to play with a parachute! Get started with Popcorn. Divide all of the children into two teams and have each child grab a handle on the parachute.
Get balls of two colors and place them on the parachute. The team with their ball color left on the parachute at the end wins! Find more parachute games to play here! Bean Bag Ladder : Set up a ladder and label each step to be worth a certain number of points. Let kids take turns throwing bean bags onto the ladder rungs for points.
The player with the most points after everyone has taken a turn wins. Hula Blockers : Grab a hula hoop for each player and set them in the grass. Have each child stand in a hula hoop and divide the bean bags evenly between them.
For an added challenge, play with more than 2 kids. Set up a cheap ball pit using a kiddie pool and ball pit balls.
Choose small toys or stuffed animals to hide in the balls. Then let your child search for the toys within the ball pit. You could turn it into a competition by seeing who can find the most toys the fastest.
Hide the toys again and replay. Twister : Play a giant game of twister on the yard. Then use four spray paint cans to create a board on the grass and play regular Twister.
Tic-Tac-Toe : You can use the same spray paint to create a giant tic-tac-toe board. Choose items like hula hoops or other items to play tic-tac-toe!
Memory : Create giant matching cards using poster board. Get your child involved by having them help create the cards by drawing pictures using markers. Then set up the board with the cards facing down and play a giant version of memory! Have you ever played the electronic Simon game?
Make it interactive and physical with this sidewalk chalk game. Create a Simon game board out of chalk. Form a circle with sections of color. Have your child stand in the middle of the board. Call out a color and have your child jump into the section, repeat it, and then jump into the center again. Next, say the first color and a new color and have your child repeat the jumping sequence. Continue adding colors until your child can no longer remember the sequence.
Switch it up by using numbers, letters, or other pictures in the sections instead. Get green and brown strings and cut them into several pieces. Hide the pieces of yarn around the yard. Divide the children into two groups and choose one captain. The children will run around the yard looking for yarn. The team with the longest piece of string wins. All you need for this simple game is a quarter and a bouncy ball. Place the quarter in the sidewalk crack.
Have one child stand on each square and bounce the ball attempting to knock the quarter out. The first child to knock the quarter out of the sidewalk crack wins. This classic game requires sidewalk chalk, small marbles, and large marbles.
Use the chalk to draw a three foot diameter circle with a line through the center. Place marbles in the center of the circle. Shoot your marble by flicking it from the ground. Grab whatever marbles you manage to knock out of the circle.
Continue knocking marbles out until none remain. Whoever has the most marbles at the end wins. If the other player knocks it out on their turn, they win and the game ends. Otherwise you may pick it up again on your next turn. Simon will give commands to the other players. Create a scavenger hunt for your children to do out in the backyard.
You can hide written clues for them to find and follow to a treasure. Or create a list of objects a stick, a leaf, a round stone, etc. The first one to find all of the objects on the list wins and gets a prize. Still looking for more ideas? Teach your child some fun traditional games like:. What are you waiting for? Choose a game from the list, head outside, and start getting active with your kids! Ready for more fun outside or indoors?
Get ready for some firecracker sounds and the giggles with this fun twist on tag! Everybody grab a partner and get moving! Kids will love these fun new ways to play! Subscribe to our newsletter. Everyone sits in a circle with their hands out, and their eyes closed.
Once they finish with the circle, everyone opens their eyes and tries to guess who has the button. Once the group finally guesses who has the button, they get to go around the circle to give it to someone else. This is a great game to help the children interact and learn more about each other. They will also strengthen their social skills. These are great learning games for preschoolers to play and interact with each other.
They also make good group movement activities. Before you take your children outside, prepare a list of things you want them to look for.
You can print off a picture of each item for them to identify outside. You can then let them go together in small groups or all at once, trying to find each item on the list. This will get your children to interact and develop social skills while also having a good time in nature and learning about the outdoors. Every child loves to play Hopscotch. Follow these guidelines to play with a group of preschoolers:. Hopscotch will teach your child many great physical skills.
They will develop their gross motor skills as well as their fine motor skills. They will learn better balance as they hop on each square. Jump rope is another fun outdoor activity to play with your group of preschoolers.
Start by finding a larger jump rope than normal. Have two people swing the rope, each holding one end. You can jump rope however your kids prefer. Jump rope can develop physical skills such as balance, strength and coordination, as kids have to learn to jump at the right time. Tag is a very active outdoor game your kids will love. It is a great chasing game to get them moving.
There are many variations to tag. You can also play freeze tag — once they are tagged, they must freeze in place until a teammate unfreezes them. Tag is a great way to have your children make new friends and develop their social skills.
They will also strengthen their physical skills as well as their speed. Red Rover is another great active outdoor game. Start by dividing your group into two teams.
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