Children Play: Traditional Games to Substitute Modern Day Gadgets

Children play is an essential part of their development. It promotes your kids to develop social, physical, and cognitive skills to get them ready for adulthood. While there are lots of online games that show parents how they help your kids learn life skills, nothing beats traditional games. 

Children explore their creativity when they play traditional games. Basic life skills and techniques are best acquired from playing old-school games. Apart from that, most of them also offer physical fitness to your children. 

Read on to reminisce about the games that you used to love when you were younger. Who knows? You might get your child to forget playing with their gadgets for good!

Hide and seek

Finding and hiding is a traditional game that children love playing. A person closes his eyes, then counts numbers. He then turns around to look for the other players when he reaches the last number. 

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Hula hoop 

Using hula hoops, have endless hours of fun games with your friends and even your kids. It could also serve as entertainment since it requires a skill to circle the hoop on your waist. 

Tag

The "it" of the group chases people around by tagging them using his hand. What's good about this game is that it has a simple rule and no limits on the number of players. 

Telephone

Have all the players sit in a circle, then the first person whispers a sentence to the next. The players have to pass the message along until it reaches the end of the line. The last person says what the message he got aloud. This game is usually hilarious as the message gets changed from the passing. 

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Capture the flag

Divide a large group of players into two, with each team having flags as their bases. Players run to get the flag of the opposing team then go back to their base to win. Enemies who tagged you could get you in prison. People in jail could only be released when a teammate tags them. 

Rubber bands

With a minimum of three players, your children (or even you) could enjoy jumping through rubber bands. It helps develop jumping and coordination skills. 

Freeze games

Birthday parties are not complete without freeze games. But you could also enjoy them while at home. Play music and let your children dance or run around, and they have to stop moving once the song is paused. You could also shout "freeze" if you do not have songs to play. 

Ball games

Ball games would surely get your heart racing and get your children running around. You could use any ball, and then make lots of different games that you can let your children play with. 

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