List of traditional children's games
Some children's games include:
- Apple core
- Aki 123
- Bad Egg
- Ball Tag
- Blind Man's Bluff
- British Bulldog
- Bullrush game
- Butts Up
- Capture the Flag
- Cat's cradle
- Chain tag
- Chinese jump rope
- Chinese whispers
- Chopsticks
- Cocky Olly
- Conkers
- Cops and robbers
- Dodge ball
- Duck Duck Goose aka Duck, Duck, Gray Duck
- Flashlight tag
- Follow the Leader
- Foot hockey
- Four square
- Forty Forty
- Forty-Four Home
- Funnel ball
- Gite (Indian)
- Heads Up, Seven Up
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch
- Hot Lava
- House
- I spy
- Jackpot
- Jump rope
- Jumpsies
- Kickball
- Keep Away
- Kick the Can
- Kingey
- Kiss chase
- Leapfrog
- Liptoss (Leap the horse)
- Mary Mack
- Mother May I?
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Paper football
- Postman's Knock
- Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
- Red Hands
- Red light, green light
- Red Rover
- Ringolevio
- Rock paper scissors
- Sardines
- Silent ball
- Simon Says
- Skipping stones aka Ducks and Drakes
- Sleeping lions
- Stuck in the Mud
- Tag
- Telephone
- Thumb war
- Two balls and a wall
- What's the time, Mr Wolf?
- Witch's Casket
- Witch's Pies
These are informal games, most often played by children without adult organisation, sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults. They are part of children's street culture. There is a list of children's party games in the article on party games.
See also
External links
- America's Story from America's Library: Singing Games
- GameSecretary.Com A large database of games for youth.
- PlaygroundGames.org A project to record playground games with the culture/history/language that is intertwined in them.
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