Night Games
Here are some fun summertime night games, dictated to me by Nathan, my game-loving son. These games are all the more wonderful because it’s dark outside and it’s normally past everyone’s bedtime. So the kids think they’re getting away with something, which they probably are.
The first game is called Catch the Wave. The person who is “it” counts to 30 while the others hide around the neighborhood (set some reasonable parameters). The person who’s it can only move right, left, forward, and backward. The catch is you have to look the direction you’re facing the whole time. When the it person finds someone, they say, for example, “John behind the car,” and then John has to come out from hiding and follow the it person. If John sees a hand of another hiding player wave to him then he can go hide again. The person who is caught three times is then it.
Ghost in the Graveyard is another winner. Set a home base. One person is the ghost, the others count while the ghost hides. All players try to find the ghost. If they spot the ghost they yell, “ghost in the graveyard!” The ghost comes out and tries to catch the others who are running back to base. Whoever is first tags the ghost and you start all over agian.
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