Top 5 Kid Games

Now kick ball is a game everyone can play. All you need is four bases and a big rubber ball. You can use anything as a base. We used to use anything we could find from a Frisbee to a tree as long as you had something to stand on or touch anything goes. All you have to do is use the same basic concept as baseball with a couple of twists, you have to kick the ball, and you can be hit with the ball to be tagged out.

Just like Cops & Robber this game is an excellent way to keep your kids active and a good way for them to socialize with the neighborhood kids. Cowboys and Indians was one of my favorite game to play when I was growing up. My friends and I would put on our kids cowboy boots and kids cowboy hats and these others would run around blaring "woo woo woo woo woo" until the sun went down.

Red Light - Green Light is a very simple game to play. All you need to play this game is a few kids and very little time. The rules to Red Light - Green Light are very simple. One person who is chosen randomly will stand 100 or so feet in front of the rest of the kids with his/her back towards the rest. The "traffic controller" will call out green light, at which point the kids will start running toward them. Then the traffic controller will yell red light to stop the kids from running. The first kid to reach the traffic controller will take over the traffic controllers position for the next round. That's all there is to it. Hours of endless fun.

Hopscotch is a wonderful hopping game that can be played on a bare patch of ground or on a floor indoors. There are hundreds of variations of the diagram that can be drawn. Use your favorite version to have children play.

Use chalk to draw a hopscotch pattern on the ground or use masking tape on a floor. Create a diagram with 8 sections and number them. Each player has a marker such as a stone, beanbag, bottlecap, shell, button, etc.

The first player stands behind the starting line to toss her or his marker in square 1. Hop over square 1 to square 2 and then continue hopping to square 8, turn around, and hop back again. Pause in square 2 to pick up the marker, hop in square 1, and out. Then continue by tossing the stone in square 2. All hopping is done on one foot unless the hopscotch design is such that two squares are side-by-side. Then two feet can be placed down with one in each square. A player must always hop over any square where a maker has been placed. A player is out if the marker fails to land in the proper square, the hopper steps on a line, the hopper looses balance when bending over to pick up the marker and puts a second hand or foot down, the hopper goes into a square where a marker is, or if a player puts two feet down in a single box. The player puts the marker in the square where he or she will resume playing on the next turn, and the next player begins.

Don't forget that little girls love to here the clunking of their Girls Cowboy Boots will playing and walking.

Cops & Robbers is a great game for kids of all ages. I remember playing this game for hours, now kids don't even know what it is. It's time to bring this game back. Not only is Cops & Robbers a great game for your kids it's also a great way to keep your kids active. Check out the link below for rules.