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List of traditional children's games
Some children's games include:
- Ball tag
- Blind Man's Bluff
- British Bulldog
- Butts Up
- Cat's cradle
- Chain tag
- Cops and robbers
- Doctor
- Dodge ball
- Duck duck goose
- Flashlight tag
- Follow the Leader
- Four square
- Gite (Indian)
- Heads Up, Seven Up
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch
- Jump rope
- Kiss chase
- Leapfrog
- Mary Mack
- Mother May I?
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
- Red Hands
- Red light, green light
- Red rover
- Sardines
- Simon Says
- Sleeping lions
- Smear the queer
- Tag
These are informal games, most often played by children without adult organisation, sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults. They are part of children's street culture.
There is a list of children's party games in the article on party games.
See also
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Last updated: 06-02-2005 12:39:23
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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