It’s time to enjoy no prep games – Fun Park Games to pair up with other kids
It is summer and of course, parents head to parks in UAE atleast twice a week with their children. Kids don’t like to sit still and they want to get off your hands and fly free. Kid’s running around can be tiring for parents but healthy for kids. Kids naturally enjoy doing what is healthiest for them – being as active as possible. It is by research that kids aged 36 months to 5 years need atleast 30 minutes of structured play activity every day and atleast 60 minutes of unstructured play activity. Kids should never be inactive for more than 1 hour at a time except for their sleep time.
Here are few Park game ideas to pair up with other kids.
Tagging Game: This game is good with a group of 5 kids or more. Players should decide one person to be ‘Tag’. The ‘Tag’ person must run around and jump on another’s player’s shadow, making them the new ‘Tag’. This continues when the players tagging one after another.
Spud: Players each get a number depending on how many are playing. Players form a circle around the ‘Spud’ person. The ‘Spud’ person throws a ball in the air and calls out one of the player’s numbers. That player must run and grab the ball and in the meantime, everyone spreads out. Once the player grabs the ball, everyone including them must freeze and they must then throw the ball and try to hit someone. If they miss, they’re now ‘Spud’. If they hit someone, that person is ‘Spud’. Once you are ‘Spud’ you gain the letter ’S’. If you already have an S you get the letter P, and so on. Once you reach SPUD, you are out of the game. To spice up the game, try calling two numbers at once.
Bubble Tag: In a group of players, one person is ‘bubble’ and must run around and tag someone. Once tagged, they join hands and try to tag someone else. Everyone tagged has to join hands in the bubble until all players are tagged and everyone becomes a part of the bubble.
Nature Play: This is the most fun game of all. One of the players should be chosen as ‘Nature Mama or Papa’, and then they pick up an item which is found something naturally outside and show it to the group. The group will have a specific time (100 0r 120 sec) to find similar-looking item. The player with the most similar item becomes ‘Nature Mama or Papa’ on the next game.
There are also more fun games like water balloons and a scavenger hunt which can be more fun and it also helps kids to build their friend’s circle in a healthy way. On the other hand, it reduces the screen time and making and hanging out with friends in person rather than being social over the phone.
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