Outdoor nature games for kids

Password Forget Password. Remember me. This post may include affiliate links. If purchases are made using these links, we may receive a small commission, at no additional cost to you! Please see our full Disclosure Policy here. Jacquie Fisher. Spring is coming! It is -- I promise : So today we have an awesome list of outdoor activities, nature crafts and games -- 50 ways to enjoy the outdoors. Fun Ways to Play Outside Roll down a hill! I understand and agree Direct Link. This game demands rapt attention and slowness.

It is super fun for kids who can really go there, and is a great game to motivate kids to develop their stealth and awareness. Often times players have intimate encounters with wildlife when playing this game because of how quiet and aware they are being, much like the native scouts of old. This quality makes this one of the most special outdoor games for kids we play at Twin Eagles Wilderness School youth programs and summer camps.

How to Play: Create a circle of people with one in the center as coyote. Coyote guard's her cache, a tied up bandana in the center.

All the other players are trying to steal coyote's cache by grabbing the bandana without being tagged. Players get three "lives", losing a "life" each time they are tagged by coyote. After that they are out. Coyote wins if he successfully defends his cache, otherwise the player who successfully grabs her cache wins, and becomes the next coyote. Of all the great outdoor games for kids that we play at Twin Eagles Wilderness School , this one is a very high paced game that requires good reflexes and awareness.

Teamwork is often the key to getting coyote's cache. How to Play: Choose one person to be a leopard for every four people who are humans. Each leopard gets some "meat", a bandana, to guard. The leopard's meat should be placed where everyone can reach it in a low tree branch or shrub. All the humans try to steal the leopard's meat.

They start the game at a starting point a good distance away from the leopards, say 75 feet or so. They try to run in and grab the meat without being tagged by the leopards. If someone is tagged by a leopard they must return to the starting point before continuing to run back into the game.

The game ends when all the leopard's meat has been stolen and taken back to the starting point. It may help to have a rule keeping the leopards at least five feet away from the bandanas until they are stolen. Each person places their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them.

The person in front is the head of the western skink and the person at the end holds the tail. The tail is a bandana, slipped down into a pocket or the waist line of the person's pants behind them, with most of the bandana hanging down. The goal is for the head to grab the tail!

Setup this game and watch in amazement as it plays out. Lots of activities qualify as fun outdoor games, but this one will really get your group laughing! How to Play: Everyone gets in a circle.

Someone comes up with a category example: types of trees. Each person has ten seconds to come up with an answer that fits into that category.

Going around the circle each person says their answer when it's their turn. Each answer may only be called out once. The group counts down for each player. If they can't come up with an answer then they are out of the game. The last player remaining wins. This is a great activity to test everyone's naturalist knowledge. It also helps kids deepen their naturalist knowledge, just by playing.

This is a real asset in playing fun outdoor games for kids. Summer campers and students at youth programs love this one here at Twin Eagles Wilderness School. How to Play: In this game players form a circle, with one person being the samurai. The samurai is blindfolded and stands with the noodle in hand in the center of the circle.

The samurai tries to hit people with the noodle while everyone else tries to tag the samurai and get back to the circle without getting hit by the noodle.