10 best ideas for kids to play outdoors

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In summer, more often than usual, we arrange family outings in nature. To avoid boredom, childish disobedience and irritation of adults, you need to prepare for a picnic in advance.

However, delicious food prepared in nature is not all that children need. After a hearty lunch, the little ones need active games. To help you, we have prepared 10 ideas for kids to play outdoors.

1. Forest house

Offer the little "Robinsons" to build a real forest hut. First, adults, of course, will need to participate in the construction site and create a supporting structure. And after you are convinced of its stability, the children will be able to independently collect branches, line the bottom of the hut with them and bring comfort there. Just imagine how much joy the games in such a house will cause!

Alternatively, you can use a children's folding tent for such games. There is a door in it, a mosquito net too, all that remains is to equip your forest dwelling … Invite the children to bring various gifts of nature to the tent and make "repairs" there.

2. Toy dishes

Young children love to repeat everything after adults. Therefore, take toy dishes from home, and kids 2-5 years old, watching your food preparation, will do the same with pleasure.

Using children's dishes and natural materials, you can set a simply gorgeous table. Tell the little "owners" and "hostesses" about this, and they will happily prepare a dinner for their favorite toys from flowers, grass, leaves, cones, sand and water. And if they decide to treat you too, do not forget to praise the culinary masterpiece!

3. Ball games

If there is a spacious clearing near you without hemp and bumps, then you can organize many ball games on it. For example:

• Football
• Volleyball
• All kinds of relay races (for example, who will throw the ball next)
• The game of "knockout"
• Ball games with round Velcro rackets
• Games with noodles (they can be used as a target for a ball, roll the ball under them, hit balloons, etc.)

For such outdoor games, large and small balls, as well as balloons, are useful.

4. Badminton

Another favorite outdoor game by many is badminton. You can stretch the net between the trees and play by all the rules, or you can simplify your task and just throw the shuttlecock to each other with a racket. The task is to prevent him from falling to the ground for as long as possible. In case of failure, the loser passes the racket to the next player.

By the way, it is advisable for parents to join the children: during the game, you can not only warm up well after a feast, but also lose extra pounds.

5. Frisbee

The essence of the game with a flying disc is as follows: you need to throw the saucer so that it does not touch the ground. You can play this active game in different ways, as a team or in pairs, standing opposite each other. One player deftly throws the disc to another, and he catches it. Or you can hone your frisbee throwing skills on your own.

6. Little builder's set

If you are going to relax near a pond, then take a set with shovels, a rake, a bucket and a watering can. All this will come in handy for small builders to create sand castles, roads, tunnels and even entire towns on the banks of a lake or river.

And you can also teach kids to make little "secrets". To do this, you need to dig a hole and place various treasures there - beautiful pebbles, beads, flowers, wrappers from sweets. And then cover it all with glass and bury it so that there is a viewing window through which you can admire this good. For greater safety, the glass can be replaced with a fragment of a plastic bottle.

7. Land art

There are so many things in nature that can be useful for creating different paintings, sculptures and compositions! So why don't you and your kids do land-art on vacation?

For your works of art, use flowers, cones, colorful leaves, branches, needles, seeds, pebbles, etc. Such creations are short-lived, but they perfectly develop the imagination, teach to fantasize and notice something unusual in every little thing. It will be a great outdoor activity!

8. Theatrical performance

This fun team game will leave no one indifferent! Divide into two teams, and have each of them guess a scene from their favorite fairy tale or cartoon.

Then take turns trying to portray the plot using facial expressions and gestures. And the opposing team must guess as quickly as possible what was conceived. The winners receive a prize or make a wish.

9. Broken phone

Probably everyone remembers and loves this fun children's game. The more participants, the more fun the process. This game perfectly develops memory, attention and children's speech.

So, all the players line up, the first one thinks out a word and very quickly whispers in the second player's ear. And he gives the word to the third in the form in which he heard. Usually, when it comes to the last player, it’s not at all the word that was originally conceived, but some kind of gibberish! If the word has come unchanged, then try to complicate the task and send the whole phrase "by phone".

10. Music

The presence of music in nature guarantees a good mood for the whole honest company. You can arrange an incendiary disco or collective singing with your favorite performer.

But children will be especially delighted by the sound of their favorite children's songs. Therefore, record a CD with children's compositions and do not forget to film the forest dances!

And in nature, you can make photo reports, fish, observe forest dwellers, conduct experiments … but you never know what! The main thing is that the rest is fun, useful and active, then it will be remembered for a long time by both children and adults!