List of Games

It's fun to know lots of games that can be played without lots of pieces and specific object. Here's a comprehensive list of many familiar games.

Outdoor Games

Kick the can

Keep away

Mother may I

Red light, green light

Sharks and minnows

Marco Polo

Tag (freeze, tv, flashlight)

Beckons wanted

Ghost in the graveyard

Crack the whip

Red rover

Leap frog
Follow the Leader
--------a few props needed-------

Jacks

Marbles
balloon volleyball

Jump rope

Horse (basketball)
Hopscotch
Hunts (treasure or something(s) hidden)

Indoor Games

Telephone

Because...story (popcorn telling a story)

Bodies (ear, ear ear, nose...--touching other part--like false Simon says)

Sardines/Hide & Seek/Hot and Cold (whole person or with props)

Waste basket bball
Simon Says
Ha, haha, hahaha Laughing circle game (lay in circle with heads on bellies...build laughter)

--------a few props needed-------
Pass the Package (unwrap each time music stops)

Musical chairs

Button, button, Who's got the button?
Pin the tail on the ________

Piñata

Bobbing for apples

Pass the orange

Tellistrations: Draw, write..repeat

Sock obstacle Bocci ball

Memory tray
Limbo (Candlestick--jump over/opposite)
Fish for...

Circle Games

Where's the ring (on the string)?
Tap, tap-tap circle hand game

Left/right Stories (pass, circle game)

Cup pass rhythm circle

Duck duck goose

Down by the banks

Big booty #...
Jack-in-the-Box (number off: leader claps a #, those stand up, etc.)
Ha! ...Ha! Ha! ...Ha! Ha! Ha! *laugh*

2-Person Competition Games

Thumb Wars
Quick Slap (both hands)
Stick Pull (feet together sitting and tug of war a broom stick)
Leg Wrestling

Group Races/Relays

Three legged

Bucket over head down the line

Spoon on string through the clothes up and down

Egg on spoon

Obstacle relays

Balloon with cardboard to keep afloat
Tug-o-war
Draw a Face Relay (eyes, then nose, then ears, etc.)

Car/Pass-the-Time Games:Alphabet

Make people smile

Out of state license plate

Grandmothers trunk (say everything been said in order)

Hinky pinky (say rhyming words hink, hinky, hinkity; plus clue)

20 questions

I spy

What's their story?