List of traditional children's games

Some children's games include:

• Ball tag
• Blind Man's Bluff
• British Bulldog
• Butts Up
• Cat's cradle
• Chain tag
• Cops and robbers
• Doctor
• Dodge ball
• Duck duck goose
• Flashlight tag
• Follow the Leader
• Four square
• Gite (Indian)
• Heads Up, Seven Up
• Hide and seek
• Hopscotch
• Jump rope
• Kiss chase
• Leapfrog
• Mary Mack
• Mother May I?
• Musical chairs
• Musical statues
• Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
• Red Hands
• Red light, green light
• Red rover
• Sardines
• Simon Says
• Sleeping lions
• Smear the queer
• Tag

These are informal games, most often played by children without adult organisation, sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults. They are part of children's street culture.

There is a list of children's party games in the article on party games.

See also

• clapping game
• singing game

External link

• America's Story from America's Library: Singing Games