Games for Boys' and Girls' Summer Camps

The games in this list are selected with a view to suitableness for the open country, and to a wide range of ages which often are found in summer camps. The so-called "quiet" games are not necessarily noiseless, but are distinguished from active games in which the players move around.

Active Games

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All-up Relay

Animal Blind Man's Buff

Animal Chase

Arrow Chase

Barley Break

Baste the Bear

Bear in the Pit

Bird Catcher, The

Black and White

Black Tom

Blind Bell

Blind Man's Buff

Body Guard

Bull in the Ring

Bunch of Ivy

Bung the Bucket

Buying a Lock

Cat and Rat

Catch and Pull Tug of War

Catch of Fish

Catch the Cane

Centipede

Chickadee-dee

Chicken Market

Chickidy Hand

Chinese Chicken

Chinese Wall

Circle Race

Circle Relay

Club Snatch

Cock Stride

Cross Tag

Drop the Handkerchief

Duck on a Rock

Dumb-bell Tag

Every Man in his Own Den

Exchange

Farmer is Coming, The

Fence Tag

Fire on the Mountains

Flowers and the Wind

Follow Chase

Follow the Leader

Forcing the City Gates

Fortress

Fox and Geese

Fox Trail, Double Rim

Fox Trail, Single Rim

Garden Scamp

Going to Jerusalem

Guess Who

Gypsy

Hang Tag

Have you seen my Sheep?

High Windows

Hill Dill

Hip

Hopping Relay Race

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Huckle, Buckle, Bean Stalk

Hunt, The

Hunt the Fox

Hunt the Slipper

I say, "Stoop!"

I Spy

Jacob and Rachel

Japanese Crab Race

Japanese Tag

Jumping Relay Race

Jumping Rope—I

Jumping Rope—II

Jumping Rope—III

Jumping Rope—IV

Jump the Shot

Kaleidoscope

Lady of the Land

Lame Fox and Chickens

Last Couple Out

Leader and Footer

Leapfrog Race

Letting out the Doves

Lost Child, The

Master of the Ring

Maze Tag

Menagerie

Midnight

Mother, may I go out to Play?

Mother, Mother, the Pot boils Over

My Lady's Toilet

Odd Man's Cap

Old Buzzard

Old Woman from the Wood

Oyster Shell

Partner Tag

Pebble Chase

Pinch-o

Pitch Pebble

Poison

Pom Pom Pullaway

Potato Race

Potato Shuttle Relay

Potato Spoon Race

Prisoner's Base—I-V -

Puss in a Corner

Puss in the Circle

Railroad Train

Red Lion

Ring-a-lievio

Ringmaster

Robbers and Soldiers

Rolling Target

Run, Sheep, Run!

Saddle the Nag

Sardines

Seeking for Gold

Shadow Tag

Shuttle Relay Race

Single Relay Race

Skin the Goat

Skyte the Bob

Slap Catch

Slap Jack

Slipper Slap

Smuggling the Geg

Spin the Platter

Spooning

Stage Coach

Stake Guard

Stealing Sticks

Step

Still Pond, No More Moving!

Stone

Stoop Tag

Sun Dial

Tag -

Ten Steps

Thimble Ring

Third Man

Third Slap

Three Deep

Tommy Tiddler's Ground

Trades

Triple Change

Under the Cuckoo's Nest

Wand Race

Water Sprite

Wee Bologna Man, The

Whip Tag

Who goes round my Stone Wall?

Wolf

Wood Tag

Singing Games

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Did you ever see a Lassie?

Draw a Bucket of Water

Duck Dance, The

Farmer in the Dell

Hunting

Itisket, Itasket

Keep Moving

Kitty White

Leaves are Green

London Bridge

Looby Loo

Muffin Man

Mulberry Bush

Nuts in May

Oats, Peas, Beans

Round and Round the Village

Snail

Quiet Games

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"B" Game, The

Bargain Counter

Beast, Bird, or Fish

Buzz

Cat Party

Crambo

Cross Questions

Dumb Crambo

Find the Ring

Flower Match

Grass Blade

Hen Roost

Horns

Initials

Leaf by Leaf

Literary Lore

London

Minister's Cat, The

Music Box

My Lady's Lap Dog

Naughts and Crosses

Observation

Penny Wise

Planting a Garden

Poor Pussy

Prince of Paris

Scat

Seeking for Gold

Simon Says

Spans

Tip Tap Toe

Up, Jenkins!

What is my Thought Like?

Woodland Lovers

Zoo

Bean Bag Games

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Bag Pile

Bean Bag Board

Bean Bag Box

Bean Bag Circle Toss

Bean Bag Ring Throw

Criss-cross Goal

Target Toss

Teacher and Class

Games for Either Balls or Bean Bags

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All Run

Arch Ball

Call Ball

Center Catch Ball

Circle Ball

Club Bowls

Center Club Bowls

Line Club Bowls (Double)

Line Club Bowls (Single)

Dodgeball

Over and Under Relay

Ring Call Ball

Round Ball

Zigzag Games

Line Zigzag—I

Line Zigzag—II

Line Zigzag—III

Zigzag Overhead Toss

Circle Zigzag

Ball Games

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All Run

Arch Ball

Arch Goal Ball

Ball Chase

Balloon Goal

Ball Puss

Ball Stand

Basket Ball Distance Throw

Battle Ball

Bombardment

Boundary Ball

Bound Ball

Call Ball

Captain Ball—I

Captain Ball—II

Captain Ball—III

(See Emperor Ball, Progressive Captain Ball, and Schoolroom Captain Ball.)

Center Base

Center Catch Ball

Center Club Bowls

Circle Ball

Circle Club Bowls

Corner Ball

Curtain Ball

Dead Ball

Dodgeball

Double Corner Ball

Drive Ball

Emperor Ball

Fist Ball

Football Tag

Hand Ball Drill—I (Elementary)

Hand Ball Drill—II

Hand Football

Line Ball

Line Club Bowls (Double)

Line Club Bowls (Single)

Line Zigzag -

Mount Ball

Nine-court Basket Ball

Over and Under Relay

Pass Ball Relay

Pig in a Hole

Progressive Captain Ball

Ring Call Ball

Roley Poley

Round Ball

Russian Hole Ball

Square Ball

Stool Ball

Stride Ball

Ten Trips

Tether Ball

Three Holes

Toss Ball

Tree Ball

Volley Ball

Wall Ball Drill

War

Zigzag Overhead Toss

(See also Circle Zigzag.)