Best Outdoor Games for Kids 

If you are planning a picnic or gathering in a garden, lawn or open space.   Here I will give you a list of outdoor games. These games are very popular, hilarious and engaging.  You will need  to make preparations  in advance for conducting the games. Make sure you have all the props ready and rules known to your players. Have some music and mic to spice up the entertainment. 

1. Cardboard Race (10 one square foot cardboard)

We need two cardboards for each player. All the players will be lined up behind the starting point. Players will sit on one cardboard and will hold the second cardboard with both hands. The race is to keep both feet on cardboard only.  So they sit on one cardboard and keep the second cardboard in the front, then go over the second cardboard and lift the first cardboard. By doing this, the players have to reach the endpoint and come back.  the one who finishes the rays first wins the game 

2. Glass Pyramid ( 5 sets of 6 plastic glasses)

This game can be played in pairs. 5 pairs at a time can play this game. 5 sets of 6 plastic glasses Are required for this game. The two players of each pair will stand 10 M apart from each other. The player at the start has all the glasses. At the start, The player has to put only one glass on his head at a time and walk up to his partner. One by one he has to carry all the glasses to his partner. His partner will make the pyramid using all the classes. 

3. Load Bearing

In this game you need teams.  Divide all the players into different groups. suppose there are 25 players to play the game so you can make 5 groups consisting of 5 players in each group. In the game, one member from each group will be at the starting point and the remaining players will be standing 10 meters away on the other side. The objective of the game is, that the player on the start side will go running and lift one player on the shoulder and run back to the start point. after keeping the first player on the start point.  He again runs for the second player and so on. The team that completes the task first, wins the game

4. Potato Race ( Carry bags and Potatoes)

For this game, you will need potatoes and 5 pairs of players to play the game.  One will be standing at the start point holding the carry bag and the other player will have to go running and collect the potatoes. The game is very simple. Pairs will be standing one behind the other at the start point, and potatoes will be kept every 5 meters from the start point for each pair. At the start, any player from the pair will go running, pick the first potato,  comes back to the start point, keeps the potato in the carry bag held by his partner, then runs back for the second potato, picks the potato, comes back to his partner and keeps the potato in the carry bag and so on. The pair that completes the task wins the game.  

5. Sack Race (Sacks)

This racing game is hilarious as participants will have to run in the sacks. Players will be standing at the starting point in the sacks. At the start, they will go jumping and come back from the endpoint. The one who comes back first wins the game. 

6. Frog Jump Race 

This game is the same as any race but instead of running, participants will have to run like frogs on four legs.

7. Three-Legged Race

As the name suggests participants will run in pairs whose one leg will be tied up with each other with clothes.