Kids love to play the most famous sports as informal games in summer in a relaxed manner, just help them adjust the rules to the number of players and size of pitch (paying area) available including in their back yards. This type of game play can be less than ideal for the horticultural enthusiasts plants, and at times may raise objections from near neighbors (especially if balls land in their yards)! However, remember that children need to play and it is part of their development to do so.
Here are our top 5 summer games - and these are good for kids of any age:
1. Cricket
The archetypal summer game can be enjoyed by kids in the back yard, with a tennis ball and a cheap ‘toy’ bat, once they understand the basics of the game. They can play with as few as three players if they mark the stumps on a wall behind the batting position.
The rules are simple for children’s cricket and essentially the same as for the adult game except that all will agree the position of the boundary for a six, which will be at a fence or a flower border edge.
Adult cricket is played on an oval patch of grass in the center of which is a flat strip of ground called a cricket pitch. A wooden wicket is placed at each end of the pitch, but you can scale this down to suit circumstances at any time for a children’s game.
Cricket is the game of passion, thrill and excitement. Many have said that the game is a brotherhood, with all that fraternity entails, including mutual obligation. Cricket is the most popular sport in India, and one of the most popular sports played over the Australian summer.
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Although cricket is not a contact sport, injuries can and do occur, often due to overuse. Children must never use a hard cricket ball for their games, or spend too long at any one playing role.
2. Rounders
Rounders is more straightforward and sober-minded than baseball. However, it is is a bat and ball game and is not that dis-similar to baseball. Rounders can and is played throughout the summer by all age groups, from school children all the way up to and including senior level. It is, in fact,an English version of baseball and is normally played between two teams of nine, but fewer can play in the kids version of this game. The history of rounders is amazing long and is the sixteenth century British version of a bat and ball game that dates back to “the dawn of time”. In theory, it is a descendant of the bat and ball games played by our “cavemen” ancestors.
Each team takes it in turn to bat and field.
The pitch is laid out with a semicircular ”home” and three ”posts” equidistant from each other and from the home. The object of the striker after hitting the ball is to run round the whole or part of the course.
Playing rounders will give you a feel for what baseball is like. Baseball is an ever forgiving game. Baseball is also a great game, even known as the American pastime. It seems that everyone loves baseball at least sometime in their lives, so give your children a first step into that world by playing rounders with them in the summer.
3. Tennis
Tennis is a sport that is unpopular in the U.S. Its not a sport for the wealthy but its viewed as such. Tennis is a game for all . It is a game for everyone to enjoy. Tennis is the best individual sport in the world. It brings together every aspect of the mind, body, heart and soul of a player.
Tennis is not only fun to play, but a lifetime sport activity that is fun to practice and fun to learn. For individuals with mental retardation, tennis provides the same benefits it affords to individuals without disabilities. Tennis is not an easy sport. But is easily to play by children between two people, both on court and off a proper court as well.
Tennis is nowadays once again an Olympic sport. It has become very popular and is played at all levels of society, by all ages, and in almost all countries worldwide.
4. Pitch and Putt
Pitch and putt is played with just a wedge and putter. The game is played on a 9 or 18 hole course where the maximum distance from tee to green is 70 metres; an 18-hole course cannot exceed 1,000 metres. These courses are ideal for children to play on and get their first taste of a game like golf where the aim is to position the ball precisely, at put it into the hole at the end of each pitch.
The average course also has lakes and rivers around and even through it, which often makes these courses perfect for a nice picnic.
Pitch and Putt is a sport for all ages from seven to seventy, so why not give it a try? You may be pleasantly surprised.
5. Handball
Handball is almost perfectly suited for children’s play, and is great to play outside in summer. With almost no necessary equipment, the game can provide hours of fun and exercise at little or no cost. It is a hugely successful sport in Sweden and is one of the free sport games where you have to shoot and dodge the ball. You can only score if it was your serve.
Handball is a competitive game in which either hand or either fist may be used to serve and return the ball. The objective is to win each rally by serving or returning the ball so the opponent is unable to keep the ball in play.
Amazingly, the game is said to be over 4,000 years old. You simply need a ball and a wall to compete. Handball is a huge, successful sport in Sweden. The public is interested, knowledgeable and fair.
It is the parent sport of Racquetball. If you know Racquetball, handball has much of the same rules. The origin is gaelic, but it is like squash with no raquettes.
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The article above does, of course, only give a hint of the diversity of kids summer games played. Below is a list of some of the main summer games children like to play:-
- quoits
- footie
- kids baseball
- ball throwing
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You are right - children do need to play, and I definitely prefer them to get some time outside. When I was young we would go out in the morning and stay out till it got dark. Apart from our bikes, toys & games were pretty basic back then, mostly sticks and different sized balls. I appreciate parents don’t want to give that kind of freedom to their children anymore and even if they did I suspect that a lot of them would still never venture outside. With games consoles, dvd’s, computers and music videos there is just too much indoor electronic entertainment on offer. Kids today do seem to need more stimulation and I don’t mind what games they play, as long as a good portion of them are outside.
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