List of traditional children's games

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This is a list of traditional children's games. They are informal games, most often played by children without adult organisation, sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults. They are part of children's street culture. There is a list of children's party games in the article on party games.

Contents
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Apple core

[edit] B

• Bad Egg
• Ball Tag
• Blind Man's Bluff
• British Bulldog
• Bullrush game
• Butts Up

[edit] C

• Capture the Flag
• Cat's cradle
• Chain tag
• Chinese jump rope
• Chinese whispers
• Chopsticks
• Cocky Olly
• Conkers
• Cops and robbers

[edit] D

• Dodge ball
• Duck Duck Goose aka Duck, Duck, Gray Duck
• Flashlight tag

[edit] F

• Follow the Leader
• Foot hockey
• Forty forty
• Four square
• Funnel ball
• Foot ball

[edit] H

• Heads Up, Seven Up
• Hide and seek
• Hopscotch
• Hot Lava
• House

[edit] I

• I spy

[edit] J

• Jump rope
• Jumpsies

[edit] K

• Keep Away
• Kickball
• Kick-to-kick
• Kick the can
• Kingey
• Kiss chase

[edit] L

• Leapfrog

[edit] M

• Mary Mack
• Mother May I?
• Musical chairs
• Musical statues

[edit] O

• Oonch Neech

[edit] P

• Paper football
• Postman's Knock

[edit] Q

• Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?

[edit] R

• Radio (game)
• Red Hands
• Red light, green light
• Red Rover
• Ringolevio
• Rock paper scissors

[edit] S

• Sardines
• Silent ball
• Simon Says
• Skipping stones aka Ducks and Drakes
• Sleeping lions
• Stapu

[edit] T

• Tag
• Telephone
• Thumb war
• Two balls and a wall

[edit] W

• What's the time, Mr Wolf?

[edit] Z

• Zip and bong

[edit] See also

• Clapping game
• Singing game
• Children's street games
• Children's street culture
• Deadbox

[edit] External links

• GameSecretary.Com A large database of games for youth.
• PlaygroundGames.org A project to record playground games with the culture/history/language that is intertwined in them.
• [1] Scavenger hunts for youth including indoor and outdoor scavenger hunt lists.

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