List of traditional children's games

This is a list of traditional children's games. They 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.

"The children's games" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (detail), circa 1560

A

• Arm wrestling

B

• Bad Egg
• Ball Tag
• Blind Man's Bluff
• British Bulldog
• Bullrush game

C

• Capture the Flag
• Cat's cradle
• Chain tag
• Chinese jump rope
• Chinese whispers
• Chopsticks
• Conkers
• Cops and robbers

D

• Dodge ball
• Duck Duck Goose aka Duck, Duck, Gray Duck
• Flashlight tag

F

• Follow the Leader
• Foot hockey
• Forty forty
• Four square
• Funnel ball
• Football (soccer)
• Fire on the mountain

G

• Ghosts in the Graveyard
• Grounders

H

• Hide-and-seek
• Hopscotch
• Hot Lava
• Huckle buckle beanstalk

I

• I spy

J

• Jacks
• Jinx (children's game)
• Jump rope
• Jumpsies

K

• Keep Away
• Kickball
• Kick-to-kick
• Kick the can
• King's Base
• Kingey
• Kiss chase

L

• Leapfrog

M

• Manhunt
• Mary Mack
• Mother May I?
• Musical chairs
• Musical statues
• Marbles

N

• Ninja

P

• Paddle ball
• Paper football
• Piggly Wiggly
• Pitch and toss, also know as Penny up the wall
• Postman's Knock, also known as knock knock ginger, knock-a-door run.

Q

• Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?

R

• Radio (game)
• Red Hands
• Red light, green light
• Red Rover
• Ringolevio
• Rock paper scissors

S

• Sardines
• Seven Up
• Sharks and Minnows
• Silent ball
• Simon Says
• Skipping stones aka Ducks and Drakes
• Skully (game) aka Tops
• Sleeping lions
• Stapu
• Stickball
• Stoop ball
• Stuck in the Mud

T

• Tag
• Telephone
• Thumb war
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Touch football
• Two balls and a wall

W

• What's the time, Mr Wolf? (Also, Mr. Fox)
• Wall Ball

See also

• Clapping game
• Singing game
• Children's street games
• Children's street culture
• Deadbox

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