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How to Play: Capture the Flag

by Sally Worsham, Posted May 12th 2011 7:00AM

Run and get your flag before the other team! Credit: Getty Images What you need: Two equally-numbered teams, a large playing field divided into three sections (each team's home base and one neutral space) and a flag (also can be a ...Get your flag first to win the game.
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How to Play: Hide and Seek

by Sally Worsham, Posted May 4th 2011 7:00AM

Close your eyes and count to 10! Credit: Getty Images
What you need: All you need is a group of children. This game can be played indoors or outdoors.
How to play: One player is chosen to be "it," or the "seeker." The rest of the ...Don't get found!
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How to Play: One Potato

by Sally Worsham, Posted Apr 7th 2011 7:00AM

Play One Potato to count off for another game. Credit: Getty Images
What you need: All you need is a group of children. How to play: This is a counting-off game designed to select someone as "it" for games like ..."One potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato, more."
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How to Play: Sponge Tag

by Sally Worsham, Posted Jun 7th 2010 7:00AM

Splat goes the tag! Credit: Getty Images
What you need: You need a large, soft sponge, like the one you use to wash a car. How to play: This game is a variation of Tag, using a wet sponge to tag a player. The rules: Once children have ...
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How to Play: Ball Tag

by Sally Worsham, Posted May 12th 2010 7:00AM

Tag! You're it! Credit: Corbis
What you need: A group of children and an 8 1/2-inch playground ball. An adult supervisor is recommended, as this game, like dodgeball, can get rough. How to play: One person is designated as "it" and, instead of ...
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How to Play: Dodgeball

by Sally Worsham, Posted May 6th 2010 7:00AM

Don't get hit by the ball to stay alive. Credit: Getty Images
What you need: Two equally numbered teams of at least four people and an 8 1/2-inch or 14-inch diameter playground ball. You also need a court with a circle painted or drawn to ...
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How to Play: Rock, Paper, Scissors

by Sally Worsham, Posted Apr 29th 2010 7:00AM

Rock beats scissors! Credit: Getty Images
What you need: All you need is two players. How to play: Players count aloud to three, each time raising one hand in a fist and bringing it down on the count. On three, the players change their hands ...
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How to Play: Tag

by Sally Worsham, Posted Apr 16th 2010 7:00AM

Don't get tagged! Credit: Getty Images
What you need: A group of children and a large, open space.
How to play: One person is designated as "it" and counts to a predetermined number while everyone else gets a running head start. After ...
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Hopscotch Voted Best Playground Game Ever

by Sandy Maple, Posted Feb 12th 2009 1:00PM

While too many schools today are nixing recess for more hours in the classroom, most of us grownups have oh-so fond memories of those 20 minutes each day on the playground. It was a time to let loose and have some fun, fun, fun. I remember anxiously ...
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Adventure - An essential ingredient of childhood

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 6th 2008 10:01AM

Schools have banned tag and other chase games. Playground equipment is safe and non-threatening. Swings are short so they can't swing too high. Climbing a tree is a lost art. Keeping kids safe is important, but are we protecting our children too ...
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Keeping tabs on schoolkids

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 25th 2008 4:03PM

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been used for years to track inventory; now, one school district in Rhode Island is planning to use the technology to track students. RFID chips will be put into the kids' schoolbags and read by ...
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Playing tag is no longer a benign sport

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Apr 18th 2008 10:00AM

There have been frequent reports in the media of schools banning the game of "tag" at recess, and now there's yet another elementary school who has blown the whistle on the classic schoolyard game. Kent Gardens Elementary school in Virginia has ...
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I know why they ban tag

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 23rd 2008 5:09PM

Since I began writing for ParentDish, there have been a number of reports of schools that have banned the game of tag in the schoolyard. In fact, Jared's school does not allow any chase-type games. A lot of people don't get this -- after all, kids ...
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Elementary school bans tag on the playground

by Sandy Maple, Posted Aug 30th 2007 12:34PM

Ellie didn't have such a great day at school yesterday. Some kids laughed at her when she spilled water on herself, the cafeteria lunch offering was inedible and a boy got a little rough on the playground and 'sort of' punched her. The playground ...
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Games much worse than tag

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Oct 31st 2006 7:30AM

When I read that tag had been outlawed at an American elementary school earlier this month, I thought back to my childhood. We played games far worse than tag. In fact, I distinctively remember burnt-orange shag carpet, a dark closet, and being 7 ...
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