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PLAYGROUND GAMES

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  • Two turners swing two ropes simultaneously in a crisscross way for the person jumping - DOUBLE DUTCH OR DOUBLE GREEK
    Double Dutch
  • Sit in circle. The picker or fox walks around calling them DUCK until the fox calls one GOOSE. This goose rises and runs in the opposite direction attempting to return to the seat before the picker. DUCK,DUCK,GOOSE OR GOOSE, GOOSE, DUCK
    Duck, duck, goose
  • Played with small, small round glass balls - MARBLES OR GLASSERS
    Marbles
  • Jumping between squares which are drawn on the ground - HOPPING ON THE GROUND OR HOPSCOTCH
    Hopscotch
  • Players hide themselves and one player tries to find and tag them. HUNTING AND HIDING OR MANHUNT
    Manhunt
  • Each person who is caught joins hands with IT and the chain forms must chase the others. CHAIN TAG OR CHAIN IT
    Chain Tag
  • One player covers their eyes until the others have hidden themselves. This person tries to find them - HIDE-AND-SEEK OR SEEK-AND-HIDE
    HIDE-AND-SEEK
  • Two players are selected to be bulldogs, the others run from one end of the field to the other without being caught. When one is caught they becomes a bulldog themselves. RED ROVER OR RED BULLDOG
    Red Rover or British Bulldog.
  • When you touch another person, that person is IT - TAG IT OR CATCH IT
    TAG IT
  • Jumping over a rope held and swung either by the person jumping or by two others - TAGGING OR SKIPPING
    Skipping
  • One player is blindfolded and attempts to tag the other players, while they try to avoid IT. BLIND MAN'S TAG OR BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
    Blind man's bluff
  • Hand game usually played between two people, where each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS OR PAPER, SCISSORS, ROCK
    Rock, paper, scissors