Creative Movement Games
Bug Hunt
123 Where Are You? (1-3)
Animal Forms
Coyote Says
Spider web obstacle course
– yarn & bells
Scavenger Hunt
Nature Nastics
Frozen Fish
5…4…3…2…1…Frozen Fish
Running Games
Run Rabbit
Tree Tag
Going on a Bear Hunt
Robbers Game
Sleeping Bunnies
What time is it Mr. Wolf?
Cougar Stalks Deer
Stick Tracking
Deer Bound
Please Otter may we cross the river?
Rabbits to Deer
Squirrel Tails
Spider and Fly’s tag variation
Red Light Green Light
Birds Fly
Hibernate/Migrate/Adapt
Duck, Duck, Goose (bird, bird, worm, squirrel, squirrel, fox)
North, South, East or West
Sparrowhawk
I Spy – Running variation
Fine Motor Games for Warm Weather
//Simple Blanket Games
I spy
Yes Let’s
//Advanced Skills Games
Predator Prey
Fire in the Forest
Otter Steals Fish
Finding Games
Feely Bag
Sorting Sticks
Wooly Worms & Hungry Birds
Shades of the woodland/Color match
Matchbox Hunt
Talbot’s Game
The great circle (mandala)
Tree Hunt – matching cards to trees
Non-Woodland Trail
Giant Birds Nest
Listening Games
Drummer in the woods
Woodland Sounds
Noah’s Ark – animal cards/sounds partners
Mirror Walk
Circle Games
- Sticky Elbows
- Counting Friends
- Apple World (Forest School Games)
- “Swap places if…”
- “Head honcho”
- “I found a pine cone on the ground and put it in my pocket, on the way to forest school I think I might’ve dropped it” (duck duck goose style game to tune of Yankee Doodle)
- Pass the smile/squeeze
- https://campsongs.wordpress.com/songs/actions-song-list
Waiting Games
- When in a waiting room with magazines, turn the magazine into a scavenger hunt.
Instruct your child to find something purple, something that starts with C etc. - Take out a penny and try to drop it so it lands on your shoe without falling off.
- Drop a small scrap of paper. Kids try to catch it with two fingers before it hits the ground.
- Choose 3 items from your purse and challenge kids to invent a story with them.
- Play ‘I spy’
6. Name a category and your child has 10 seconds to name as many things in that category as possible.
Source: http://www.whatwedoallday.com/2016/03/waiting-games-for-kids.html