Games that kids should know how to play...
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Games that kids should know how to play...
What are some games that kids should know how to play? By that, I mean games like Cat's Cradle (the string game) and those clapping games that little girls like to play (Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum in a dish, How many pieces do you wish...)
We are off to Barnes and Noble to get the Klutz book of Cat's Cradle and it made me wonder what other games there are out there that my DD doesn't know yet! Thanks!!
Hopscotch, Four-Square, Jacks (I used to LOVE jacks! ), jump rope games like "school," double dutch, and "Cinderella dressed in yellow went upstairs to kiss her fellow..."
Hmmm.....some more. What about card games like Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Slap Jack?
Marbles
Hey, my DD isn't as bad off as I thought. She knows all of those listed so far except Four-Square.
Is Four-Sqaure the paper game where you start with a bunch of dots and each person draws a line until it makes a square and then you put your initial in the square if you drew the final line?? If it is, then she knows them all so far. If not, what is it??
She is getting very frustrated with the Cat's Cradle string games in the Klutz book. Heck, I am too!! It's fun to try together though!!!
Keep the games comin'!!!
Yatzee, uno, skipbo, mancala are a few of our favorites.
Livvy, Four square is a game played outside with a ball. I think you are talking about 'connect the dots'.
I loved jacks! I can still remember playing with my mom at the age of 13! Neither of my kids showed any interest. 
Red Rover
Red light green light
What time is it mr. fox?
Simon Says
Tag
Freeze Tag
"Miss Suzy Had a baby"
Mother May I? (I remember the name of this, but don't have a clue how you play it)
How old is your dd?
GoGo Stop
Muscial Chairs
Checkers
Snakes and Laddlers
Pick-up Sticks
Monkeys in a Barrel
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Brown, please let me down
WOW! I have an 8, 6 and 4 year old and I don't know a lot of these games. What are skipbo, What time is it, Mr. Fox, Miss Suzy had a baby, Snakes and Ladders or Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Brown, please let me down? I've never heard of them.
The girls here do a lot of the clapping and stomping chants, chinese jump rope, regular jump rope with chants (they even have a demonstration team) and ball games like soccer, kickball, four square, and Monkey in the Middle.
Wow!! That's a lot of games!! Thanks so much!!!My DD is 7. We do play a lot of the games mentioned so I am feeling better that I never taught her cat's cradle!!
CAn anyone explain Four Square to me? I'd love to try that one!!
Ditto Tink!! The ones she mentioned I have never heard of either!!
Snakes and Laddlers is a board game, good for young children, easy.
Mrs. Brown is a see saw or teeter totter game. The person on the top says "Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Brown, please let me down".
The person on the bottom says "Not until you guess my favourite ___________" fill in the blank. Like "Colour". If the person guess right they are let down and the tables are turned. If the person does not guess right they try again "Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Brown, please let me down" and so on.
Four Square
Snakes and Ladders is the same as Chutes and Ladders---a board game. Skip Bo is a card game like Uno. I don't know about the others either. I would guess that some of these games are very regionally based.
Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly, Chinese Checkers, Bingo, dodge ball.....
Four Square
This was the best description and set of rules I can find for the game. I remember it being the most popular game to play when I was in elementary school. It can also be played against a wall with two players.
What Time is it Mr. Wolf (Fox I guess in other places)
- one child is the wolf and faces the wall, and the other kids yell out "What time is it Mr. wolf?" The wolf yells a time, and the kids all try to run as close to the wall as they can. When he yells "DINNER TIME!!" he turns and runs to catch them. If caught, they are out. The first one to the wall is the next wolf, I think.
I'm guessing "go go stop" might be the same as "red light, green light". As above, one child faces the wall, but he yells out "green light". When he turns around he yells "red light", and the kids have to freeze. If he catches someone moving, that child is out. I think the first one to reach the wall is the next one up.
Musical chairs - chairs are set up in 2 lines, back to back. There is one less chair than the amount of kids. The kids walk around the chairs in a line. When the music stops, they race to sit down. The one without a chair is out. One more chair is removed, and it continues until 2 kids are left. The winner is the one who gets the last chair.
Thanks so much everyone!!!
Looks like we will have a more fun summer than I had planned!!
Mr Fox is different than marcia explained a little bit. The fox oes face the wall and everyone else palying is in a row at the opposite end of the yard facing the back of Mr. Fox when the line of people yell Mr Fox what tiem is it Mr fox can give a time (by the hour) like 4 o'clock and the kids have to take 4 steps and the fox can keep giving times or whenever he feels like it yell dinner time turn and run and try to touch someone before they all get back to the start line. The steps everyone takes can be little or big or whatever they like but you want to stay as far away from the fox as possible.
Miss Suzy had a baby is one of those clap games, like Pat-a-cake. I guess some say Miss Lucy, I was taught it was Miss Suzy.
Miss Lucy had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn't fit
Down his throat.
Miss Lucy called the doctor
The Doctor call the nurse
The Nurse called the lady
With the alligator purse.
In walked the doctor.
In walked the nurse
In walked the lady
With the alligator purse.
"Measles," said the doctor.
"Mumps," said the nurse.
"Nothing," said the lady
With the alligator purse.
Medicine said the Doctor.
Castor Oil said the nurse
Pizza! Said the lady with the Alligator purse.
Hmm....apparently we have not been playing "What time is it Mr. fox correctly. I sort of made it up because i couldn't remember the right way.
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