Suggested by Peter Provost Children pair up with each other, link arms and scatter in their pairs around a playing field/area. One or two are picked to be…
This game works best with larger groups. It can be played with small groups (eg minimum 5), but definitely works better the more players there are and great…
AKA Night Tag Sent in by Marie Prichie “…the dark game. It was invented by me and a few froends (sic) from church.” – Marie Play at night,…
Fun game that’s also educational as a useful model of a chain reaction. Pick a large area for players to be able to run around in. Players pair…
Traditional A very traditional game, best played in a relatively enclosed space like a large room or small hall and ideally free of obstacles, at least ones that…
Sent in by Andrew Watkins Works like stuck-in-the-mud but backwards. In ‘stuck-in-the-mud’ players have to stand still once tagged/caught with their legs apart and/or arms out waiting hopefully…
AKA: ‘Manhunt’ (Cited by Andrew Armitage) Starts of with only one chaser, but the chaser always remains and chaser for that game or round and each person tagged…
AKA: ‘It’, ‘Tick’, ‘Catch’, Come-on you must have played this at sometime… If there’s a culture where the children have never played this, it would be interesting to…