October 6th, 2007OUTDOOR GAMES
CAPTURE THE FLAG 
– A favorite game to play outdoors
There are two teams.
Team 1 has the front yard and Team 2 has the back yard, or a field was split between the two teams. The teams are given a time period, like 5 minutes, to hide their flag in their part of the yard.
[optional] During this period spies were sent out to see were the flag was hidden as well as look-outs to catch the spies.
When the flag is hidden you call out that you are finished. Then you simply try to get the other teams flag. If you get caught and tagged by the opponent on their territory you had to go to jail and could only be freed by a teammate who grabs you when your opponent isn’t looking.
The first team to capture the flag wins. In most versions you had to both get the flag, and bring it back to your side.
DOGGY DOGGY WHERE’S THE BONE? – A common outdoor game
It’s also an inside game. A student played the part of the dog. He or she sat in a chair with their back to the class. An eraser or another object was put under the chair. That was the bone. While the dog was turned around with his or her eyes closed someone would sneak up and steal the bone and hide it somewhere on his person. Then everyone would sing: Doggy, Doggy, where’s your bone? Somebody’s stole it from your home. Guess who it might be you. Then the dog has three chances to guess who took it. Sometimes it was left under his or her chair. If the dog guessed right then he got to do it again. If he guessed wrong than the person who had the bone got a turn as the dog.
HIDE AND SEEK – Most popular Outdoor game
First you pick someone to be it (the person to seek) then he/she turns around and counts with their eyes closed at the “base” while the rest of the people hide. Then “It” says “Ready or Not, Here I Come” and rushes to find everyone. Then the people try to get to base without getting tagged or else they are “It”. If the person who is “It” doesn’t get someone in three tries he gets to pick a man to be it!
