This game is played between trees in small forests or bushes. Players are divided into two teams. Each team needs a goal. The goal can be between two trees or a single tree. Using a ball, each team tries to score a goal on the opposite teams goal. The ball must be thrown between the team members, who can take 4 steps. The team, not controlling the ball, tries to take the ball from the other team. The players can not touch the other teams´ players while trying to catch the ball in the air or gain control of the ball if the opposite team misses a pass. The players decide on the rules, the area to play and how close to get to the goal etc.

Take turns being the leader. The leader decides what everyone else will do. He will do a lot of different moves. The rest will try to do exactly the same moves. Be creative and try to find different ways of moving.

Children playing the game decide on one activity each. If there are 6 children playing the game, there will be six different activities in the “triathlon”.  The activities can be handstand, cartwheel, rolling, swimming, running, juggling, backward crawling, biking etc. If you want, you can use a point system, where the winner gets one point, number two receives two points etc. The idea here is that the children get to pick and share their favorite activities with their friends.

Children take turns to lead the activity. Ideas for what to do: blindfold and lead the other team on a hike. Find rocks that can be used for juggling or make a game where everyone has three rocks to throw as close as possible to a tree or a big rock.  The possibilites are endless for this game.

Players move around (with or without music). When someone yells “stop”, or the music stops, the children have to stand still and hold the position. If they move, they have to sit out the next round.

Each team prepares a dance show for the other team. Then they both dance for each other.

Each player tries to be the only one at the top of a small hill. The one on the top is “the king of the castle.”

A group of children stand in a big circle. One kid skates or runs around the rest. When the child tags another child on the back, that child has to race or skate a full circle trying to get into the open spot first. The child who did not make it to the open spot, gets to tag someone else, and race for the open spot again. Variations include making different versions by defining different ways of running, or play the game in pairs.

Find as many red leaves as possible in one minute… or acorns… or four leaf clovers. The one who has gathered the most wins and gets to decide what the players are going to find next.

Players take turns imitating different animals. 

The rest of the players try to guess what animal is being imitated. 

This game is similar to “Kick the Ball.” The difference is that when a child is found, they can escape if receiving a sign from another child who is still free. The sign can be a small wink or a smile. The children that are found have to go inside a decided boundary. The boundary could be a tree, or inside a circle. The children that escape must do this without being seen by the seeker. 

The object of the game is similar to hide and seek. One seeker counts at a base with a ball. When the ball is kicked, the seeker has to run and fetch the ball, bring it back to the base and then count again, while everyone else run off to hide. The seeker wants to find everyone, so someone else can be the seeker. In this game, the players that have been found can be freed by anyone of the other players. Players are freed if another player is able to reach the ball and kick it away while screaming “free.” The players decide their own rules for this game. They can decide the boundaries – where to hide, how long to count, how many rounds are maximum for each seeker, or how many players must be found before kicking the ball.

Two or more groups of children are needed. One group starts being the seekers by closing their eyes for about 2 minutes, while the other groups hide. The group that is found first, counts the next round. The players decide on other rules like boundaries and how much time hiders get, etc. 

One player starts on one side of an area. This player is the traffic light. The goal of the game is for players to reach the traffic light. They are allowed to move forward when the traffic light is standing with its back facing them. Once the traffic light turns around, all the players have to stop moving. If the players are seen moving by the traffic light, they have to go all the way back to the starting line.