Easy Summer Games

Here are some easy games for when you’re on a limited budget and your kids are bored.

Green Bowling

Find a volleyball, basket ball or soccer ball and set up a bowling ally in your backyard. For bowling pins, here is where the green comes in. Go the recycling bin and find discarded plastic bottles to use as pins. Have your children keep score. This will reinforce counting and basic math skills during the long summer break from school.

Pick Pocket

Use some old shirts or cut up some cloth and tell each child to tuck it into their back pocket. Have the kids play tag by pulling the cloth out of each others pockets. The child with the most pieces of fabric wins. You can also add to the fun by having the kids dribble soccer balls while playing tag for an additional challenge.

Cold Potato

Here is a tricky spin on the old game hot potato. Instead of a ball or an actual potato, fill up a balloon with water. Have your children get in to a circle and pass the balloon from one to another. On a hot summer day, when the water balloon pops, your children will just love cooling off.

Walk Don’t Run

This is another way to take what’s in the recycling bin and use it for summer fun. Set up a course with old plastic bottles from the recycling bin. Let the children take a long look at the course. Then, blind fold them and let them walk through the course without going outside of the boundaries. Just make sure you follow each child so they don’t fall and get hurt.

Other Options

Flash Light Tag-

Red Lights Green Light

Kick Ball