Old Fashioned Children's Games

Award-winning writer Sharon O’Bryan lives in Florence, Kentucky.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Introductory Note     



Outside Games

Angels in the Snow     

Balloon Toss     

Bear and Beasts     

Bird, Beast or Fish     

Birds     

Chain     

Chinese Ball     

Circle Relay     

Circle Tag     

Come and Get It     

Cross Tag     

Do This, Do That     

Dodge Ball     

Dress Up     

Fast Act     

Flower Jewelry     

Follow the Leader     

Fox and Geese     

Gypsy     

Hang Tag     

Heel and Toe Race     

Hide-and-Seek     

Home Tag     

Hopscotch     

Horse     

Hound and Rabbit     

I'll Draw the Frying Pan on Your Back     

Jacks     

Jump Rope     

Kick the Can     

King     

King of the Mountain     

Leapfrog     

Lemonade     

Letting Out the Doves     

Lightning Bug Hunt     

Lion in the Pit     

Marbles     

Marco Polo     

Midnight Sardines     

Minuteman Run     

Mother May I     

Nut Race     

Pass the Ball     

Pitch Pebbles     

Poison     

Pom, Pom, Pullaway     

Red Light     

Red Rover     

Ringolevio     

Rock School     

Run, Sheepie, Run     

Scavenger Hunt     

Serpent     

Shadow Tag     

Snowball Tag     

Spinning Bottle Tag     

Spoon Race     

Statues     

Still Pond     

Stoop Tag     

Three-Legged Sack Race     

Touch-Wood Tag     

Treasure Hunt     

Tug-of-War     

Twenty Steps     

Wolf     

Zigzag Relay Race     



Car Games

Alphabet Game     

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral     

Car Count     

Ghost     

Graveyard     

Hangman     

Minister's Cat     

Odd and Even     

Old Dead Horse     

Paper, Rock, Scissors     

Riddly, Riddly, Riddly D     

Squaring Dots     

State License Plates     

Tic-Tac-Toe     

Twenty Questions     



Card Games

Authors     

Beggar My Neighbor     

Crazy Eights     

Donkey     

Fish     

I Doubt It     

Memory     

My Ship Sails     

Old Maid     

Seven Up     

Slap Jack     

Snap     

War     



Singing Games and Campfire Songs

A-Hunting We Will Go     

Billy Boy     

Bingo     

Blue-Tail Fly     

Clapping Rhythm     

Did You Ever See a Lassie?     

Down in the Valley     

Farmer in the Dell     

Found a Peanut     

Froggie Went A-Courtin'     

Git Along Little Dogies      69 &

Here We Go Looby Loo     

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush     

Home on the Range     

Hush, Little Baby     

I Am a Funny Little Dutch Girl     

I'm a Nut     

In and Out the Windows     

Itsy Bitsy Spider     

John Brown Had a Little Indian     

Little Bo Peep     

London Bridge Is Falling Down     

Mary Had a Little Lamb     

My Mother Told Me     

Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow     

Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?     

Oh My Darling Clementine     

Old MacDonald Had a Farm     

Playmate     

Pop Goes the Weasel     

Ring Around the Rosie     

Row, Row, Row Your Boat     

She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain     

Sing a Song of Sixpence     

Skip to My Lou     

There's a Hole in My Bucket     

This Old Man     

Three Blind Mice     

A Tisket, a Tasket     

Two, Four, Nine     

Where Is Thumbkin?     

Yankee Doodle     

You Are My Sunshine     



Party Games

Air, Water, Fire     

Balloon Ball     

Blind Bell     

Blind Man's Buff     

Blowing Feathers     

Bobbing for Apples     

Button, Button     

Buzz     

Cahoots     

Cat and Mice     

Clothespins in the Jar     

Coffeepot     

Ditto     

Do as I Say     

Drawing in the Dark     

Duck, Duck, Goose     

Ducks Fly     

Eggshell Race     

Farmer Is Coming     

Feelings     

Finger in the Bucket     

Fire in the Mountain     

Fish Race     

Fisherman     

Frog in the Sea     

Fruit Basket     

Geography     

Gossip     

Grandmother's Trunk     

Guess the Beans     

Guess Who?     

Ha! Ha!     

Here's the Church     

Hidden Treasures     

Hide the Thimble     

Hold Fast, Let Go     

Hot Potato     

How Many Words?     

Hunt the Slipper     

I Am Very Tall     

I Love My Love     

I Say     

Jack Be Nimble     

Jerusalem and Jericho     

Kaleidoscope     

Keep Moving     

Lost Child     

Mother Cat     

Musical Chairs     

My Name Is     

Noah's Ark     

Numbered Chairs     

One Potato, Two Potato     

Pass the LifeSaver     

Penny Pastime     

Pickup Sticks     

Pin the Tail on the Donkey     

Puss in the Circle     

Puss in the Corner     

Questions     

Remember     

Simon Says     

Stop, Thief     

Tell the Smell     

This Is My Nose     

Touch It     

Up, Jenkins!     

Where's the Leader?     

Who, Sir, I Sir?     

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