Children Games You Know


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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