Outdoor Games for Preschool & Kindergarten
1. Doggy, Doggy, Where’s Your Bone?
In this game, the child who is the Doggy turns around while someone steals his “bone”. The bone can be any object, but with smaller kids using a toy bone (like a dog’s chew toy) might make it easier to understand. When the Doggy turns around, all the children attempt to look guilty while Doggy guesses who stole the bone. With little ones, let them guess until they pick the right person, then it’s the next child’s turn to be doggy. If you are playing with older kids, you can add a limit to guesses.
2. Mother, May I?
In Mother May I, the Mother stands with her back turned and grants or denies requests to move forward. This game works best with kids too young to realize the inherent unfairness of this game. Mother may have her back turned, but she probably knows everyone by voice. Therefore, she really decides who is going to win. If Mother is an adult and the kids are little, it can be a fun game to practice counting. Another option is to purchase the “Mother May I” Ball to add an element of chance to the game.
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3. Sidewalk Picasso
Get some Sidewalk Chalk and let your inner artist take over. Start this activity on your own and pretty soon every kid around will be drawing and you can sneak off to get some housework done. You can find directions for making homemade sidewalk chalk online, but I question if this is actually cheaper than just hitting the dollar store. Besides making art, sidewalk chalk is great for playing games like tic tac toe or hangman outdoors.
4. Digging for Dinosaurs
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Bury Toy Dinosaur Bones (or any other small toy) and let your kids dig them out. My kids did this with little cars at a touch-a-truck event once; it was their favorite part of the experience.
5. Scavenger Hunts
Whether you want to do a nature scavenger hunt, a neighborhood landmarks hunt or make DIY clues and treasures, this a great game for a single child or a large group of kids. You can find all sorts of backyard scavenger hunt checklists online. However, making your own has several benefits. 1) You can customize it to your yard; 2) You can get bigger kids involved in the creation; 3) You can customize it to your audience, whether they are preschoolers or high school kids; and 4) You are teaching your kids to create their own outdoor games by example. Gianna shows you how to create your own treasure hunt here.
6. Water Play
Water play is a blast for kids in the summer. You can facilitate this two ways:
- Go elaborate with a permanent play table; or
- Go cheap with a plastic tub you already own.
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Either way, let them benefit from water play without the mess on the bathroom floor! Water games can be modified for all ages – especially if you get some inexpensive balloons or squirt bottles.
7. Gardening
Like with water play, it can be fun to buy a cute Gardening Tool Set so your kids can feel like a grown up gardener.
However, a package of beans and a plot or pot of dirt is all they really need.
Don’t worry if nothing grows in the toddler years; there will be future years for that.
Source: https://gardencourte.com
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