The Playground Games That Children Like

By Enid Hinton


Playing in the playground teaches children many lessons about life from learning how to cooperate to learning how to have fun with others. Of course it is the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that he makes the playground games suitable for all the students. For those who are new at this kind of thing, here are some activities that one can try out.

Probably the most common of all the activities that a teacher to facilitate would of course be the famous tag. Tag is the game wherein there is one it who will try to tag another person so that the other person will become the it. This is a great game to tire out the students because it involves a lot of running and it also teaches them cooperation.

Now tug of war is a very popular game in a lot of schools because it is one that would help students gain physical strength and teach them some values. Now the rules are two teams are going to be pulling a rope in opposite directions trying to bring the rope to their side. This game requires a lot of team effort and will not work unless everyone cooperates.

Another popular game that can be played on the playground is of course monkey in the middle. This is a game wherein one person is in between two teams who are going try to hit him with a ball. Once one person hits him, he will then become the monkey in the middle and the one in the middle has to just avoid getting hit by the ball.

A game that requires quite a huge number of people and a lot of energy would capture the flag. Basically, this teacher would split the class into two teams and each team has their own flag that the other team has to get without getting tag by any of the opposing team members. If one gets tagged by an opposing team member, then that person will be sent to a jail.

A less strenuous game but equally as fun one is known as croquet. Now croquet is all about the players being able to hit certain colored balls through colored hoops with a hammer. This will teach kids how to think tactically in order to make them smarter.

Now another game that is a little bit more strenuous and is more for the older kids would be the famous dodgeball. Dodgeball is a game wherein a group of people are split into two teams and there are a number of balls that are put in the middle of them. The objective is to grab as many balls as possible and hit the opposing players until there are none left.

Now if one is a teacher, he can actually try out some of these games. Now it is also extremely important for the teacher to let the students know why these games are being played in the first place. Teaching the life lessons behind the activities is probably the most important part.




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