This kid-favorite is an excellent game for teaching strategic thinking. Participants sit in a circle, and one child walks around the outside tapping each head in turn and saying “duck.” Eventually they pick one child to be the “goose” and run around the circle to try to take that child’s place before the “goose” catches them. If they reach the end without getting tagged, the “goose” returns to their own seat and the original player continues around the circle.

As kids play this game more, they start thinking about how to pick a “goose” (such as someone who isn’t paying attention) who will give them a better chance of getting back to their seats without getting tagged. Duck, Duck, Goose teaches children to plan ahead and gives them immediate feedback on the quality of their decisions.

It’s important for kids to learn how to stay focused despite distractions. Sleeping Lions is a fun way for kids to learn this important life skill. During this preschool game, all the children lie down and pretend to be asleep. Then one person walks among the group (without touching anyone, trying to convince kids into reacting and opening their eyes. The last kid to still look like they’re “sleeping” is the winner.

Sleeping lions encourages kids to be silly as they try to wake up their peers. To stay “asleep,” kids have to keep themselves focused on not moving a muscle—no matter how their peers try to distract them. That’s extremely hard for young children to do, and the focusing they practice during Sleeping Lions will help a child later on when they’re trying to learn in boisterous environments.

This game helps children refine their listening skills and learn the idea of opposites.

Choose a Hunter: choose one player to be the Hunter, and have them leave the room or move away from the group. Hide a small object or prize somewhere in the space where you are playing.

Bring the Hunter back, and have them look for the object
 Bring the Hunter back into the playing space, and have them look for the hidden object by moving around the area.

Say "cold" when the Hunter is far from the object
 Indicate to the Hunter that they are moving away from the hidden object by saying "cold." If they keep moving in the wrong direction, words that indicate degrees of cold, such as "freezing" or "icy."But we just use cold

Say "hot" when the Hunter is close to the object
 Tell the Hunter that they are getting closer to the hidden object by saying "hot." As they move closer, say "burning" or "scorching." But we just use hot

End the game when the Hunter finds the object
 Continue giving clues until the Hunter finds the hidden object. Keep playing the game until all of the players get a chance to hunt.

Ideal for primary and kindergarten kids, the crazy train is a choo-choo train with added fun.

You will need ten or more players and space to play

How to play: Line up the kids to form a human choo-choo train.

Then shout-out commands such as ‘slow’, ‘fast’, ‘slow-motion’, ‘turn right’, ‘move backward’, and ‘stop’ randomly to make the train go ‘crazy’!

Players sit at their cusions and the teacher chooses one child to blindfold his/her eyes then blindfold kid turns around and teacher chooses another kid to leave classroom.

 Then players change seats. As soon as they have mixed themselves up, the teacher opens blindfold kid’s eyes and ask “Who is missing?”

The kid attempts to find the missing person. If kid doesnt find the game repeats. If kid finds the game continues different kids.

This game helps teach kids to resolve arguments peacefully, deal with disappointment and practice patience. Set chairs in a circle, one fewer than the number of children in the game, and then play music as kids walk around the circle. Every time the music stops, children must try to sit on a chair. Kids who don’t get a chair are out. Then remove a chair and begin again.

As a game of Musical Chairs progresses, children must learn to deal with the frustration of being out of the game, therefore practicing patience and waiting graciously. They must also learn to use their words to work out arguments about whose chair is whose or who got there “first." Be sure to have an adult on hand specifically to ensure conflicts are settled peacefully and to help kids who are no longer in the game stay cheerful.

Equipments is music or a percussion instrument may be substituted for clapping hands.

Formation is a pathway in the classroom around which the players may walk, tiptoe or skip. Mark four magic carpets equal distance apart.

The teacher claps his/her hands (or uses the music or percussion instrument).

The children walk around the classroom in time with the clapping.

When the teacher calls “stop” and stops clapping all players freeze in place.

Anyone standing on a magic carpet is eliminated and takes a seat in the center.

The procedure is then repeated until there are only a few students remaining.

Variation: Vary the speed of the clapping so children are either moving quickly or slowly. Allow students to not just walk, but tiptoe and skip.

To play, all you have to do is put on some music and tell them to let loose. When the music stops they must freeze. Anyone who doesn’t freeze is out of the game. The last one left standing wins!

Equipments are 6 – 10 hoops.

Create several “islands” using hoops scattered on the ground.

Students must jog around the islands without touching them.

The teacher calls the signal ‘Islands’, the students must get onto an island before the teacher counts to 5.

Students need to share their island with others.

Students who do not fit into one of the hoops are out of the game.

Remove one hoop after each count of 5 until 1 island of survivors remain.

Variation: Instead of getting students to run get them to hop, skip, jump or crawl.

We need a thick handkerchief or small towel

Lots of easily recognizable objects

Blindfold the kids one-by-one and tell them to touch the objects with their hands and guess them.

It should be plastic objects, such as plastic animals, ball, and other toys that children can easily recognize just with a touch.

All students have to do is walk to a corner and hope their number is not called. Here’s a simple explanation of the rules.

Number the four corners in your room.

Choose one student to stand in the middle of the classroom and be “It.” They must close their eyes and count down from ten loudly.

The person in the middle then chooses a number from 1-4, and whoever is the corner of the room that they called must sit down in their seats.