Having children is definitely a full time job. As if this was not enough, your kids will always want to bring home friends to play games so your worries will be considerably higher. It looks like you need some ideas of outdoor games to keep them busy while you are taking care for noone to get hurt…
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Split and Slide
We all know how easily can children get dirty during playtime. Almost as if they are intentionally doing it. Maybe they are. But this is exactly why they will really enjoy the next idea of outdoor activity. You should buy a plastic tarp of no more than 50 feet and some ingredients that are generally used for making banana splits – fruit syrup, ice cream, chocolate and caramel syrup and even some mushy fruits. Gather them all in a big pile at one end of the tarp. To be sure that they will slide well, you can also add some oil cooking. Then line up the kids and let them roll down into that heavenly mixture. If you do not want to have headaches when you will be washing their clothes, you can let them only wear a bathing suit. Now let the fun begin.

Blind walk
The blind walk game is… nothing else but a blind walk. Only that the path was previously analyzed by all the contestants. You, as the responsible adult, will have to prepare the route with all its obstacles. Let them fix it in their mind and then make them go from the start line until the finish line blindfold. If they do not make too well, you can animate the competition by allowing the others to offer verbal indications. Someone will have to keep the records of the finish times. As usual, make the winner feel proud with a some sort of recompense.

British bulldog
Here is an idea to make kids release their energy. Make two teams put side by side, in a line, allowing them to hold their hands. The purpose is getting to a single team after the opposite one was left with no members. By taking turns, every participant will have to run towards a child from the other side and try lift him into the air, yelling “British bulldog!”. If he succeeds, he will get back into the camp with a new member. Otherwise, he will stay caught in there.The main risk would be for the one that is lifted up to fall and suffer an injury, so pay attention. However, in the end, they will all sleep for quite a while after finishing this exhausting activity.

Blind snakes
If it’s summer and hot outside, take all the children in your backyard and prepare them for a funny game that involves sprinklers… Establish a starting and a finish line and bring in between these two several sprinklers. The task would be for every child to make this route without getting wet at all or staying dry as much as possible. For the little ones to find it even funnier, make them turn places at the faucet for controlling it by turning the sprinklers randomly. The prizes should be figurative – candies, ribbons or what else you think they might enjoy. And make sure that after this innocent amusement they will change into dry clothes.

Advice
If you have run out of ideas, just ask the kids. Seeing you are really interested into helping them, they will feel free to come with the craziest ideas. Just take care to see all the dangers and keep them safe.

Christmas is that moment of the year when all the family comes together. A reason of joy and happiness, forgiveness and many other things to remember us all what family means. Playing games is one way to make the best of the Christmas’ eve, no matter who are your guests and no matter what age they have. New ideas in this direction should be more than welcome.
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The ugliest sweater
This game will sure give a theme to your party. You will just need to ask everyone bring the ugliest sweaters they have and then make a vote. The price should be at your choice, but you can consider offering something to suit with the sweater – I mean something ugly. Making pictures with the contestants will be a way of making fun of this moment for a long time from now on.

Santa’s stocking
Everyone must have a special Christmas stocking. So use it to hide inside various objects, with Christmas use, one at a time. Your friends will try guessing what you have hidden. You can try giving them clues if they cannot make the right assumption. The one who guessed the most of the objects will be the winner. It’s up to you choosing the recompense.

Word games
A word game might take a wile, but it’s all about control. Since it will be played on Christmas, pick some specific words of this holiday, like “Santa”, “Christmas tree”, “presents” or anything else and let all your guests know about them. The rule is for everyone to refrain as much as possible from naming them, all night long. Every person will receive, when arriving, a specific number of chocolates that will be a penalty mean. When someone will make the mistake of saying one of the forbidden words, the other person that noticed will take a chocolate from the guilty one. Obviously, who will get through the night gathering the most chocolates will win and will get to keep them…

Eye witness
The finest observer will have no problem into winning this game. Ever person should have a paper and a pen to write down observations. Two by two, pairs will go out from the room and exchange clothes, jewelry, shoes or anything else, no matter how insignificant. Coming back, the others will have to identify the changed items. As I said, who refers most of the changes will win the round.

There are special songs to be listened on Christmas. Who doesn’t know them, doesn’t deserve winning the game. Divide your friends in two teams. However, no one will escape from picking a card on which you have previously written a song name. The person in cause will have to hum the melody while his team members will make guesses on what it could be. If his or her team has no success, the opponents are allowed to try. For every right answer, you will accord one point. In the end, do the math and make sure the winning team gets a price, no matter how symbolic it would be.

Family tree
Since there is no such thing like a winter holiday without a Christmas tree, you can come up with new ideas on this chapter. Ideal for a family celebration, this game is about decorating not the tree, but the father. However, give your kids only crepe paper, masking tape or aluminum foil – nothing dangerous like globes or a tree plant. It should be a reason to laugh, not for visiting the hospital. Have mercy and keep the decorations on the specific theme, not a clown party.

Children have always been interested in cartoons and over the years watching cartoons has become a primary activity. Typically, children begin watching cartoons on television at an early age of six months and by two or three years, children become enthusiastic viewers. However, there are some cartoons that have gone down to history, one of these are Sailor Moon serial that created a real obsession for little girls. Of course, the other industries could not stay away from speculating the cartoon area and created lots of products cartoon related. This phenomenon happened in the games industry as well.
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The cartoons that influenced the game industry are the Sailor Moon related. In short time this type of games became the most best rated ever. Here are some Sailor Moon games that may impress your daughter. The dress-up games are the most played ones and adding to them the Sailor Moon characters, it becomes even more attractive. Such dress-up game you can find online. Try hundreds outfits for your sailor dolls and dress them up in casual clothes or in fairy related ones.

The nest type of game that used the Sailor Moon characters is the fighting one. The providers maintained the main idea of the cartoon: girls should fight against the evil parts. Little girls might enjoy this game because they can identify their selves with one of the cartoon characters. These games. The sailor character may have to beat up bad characters or defend a town from the malefic Queen Beryl. However, a good point in playing such games is the fact that your kid can interact with other while playing. Your daughter competitive spirit can also increase, due to the fact that many games offered by the above mentioned site are for two players. Maybe you are not so into fighting games, then go ahead and choose a puzzle game for your child. The non-violent game gives your child the opportunity of developing some useful skills such as: attention and sense of observation. It also provokes the kid to deal with time limits. At the begging it may be frustrating but in time he could develop his speed of thinking.

If you want that your girl learn some RPG techniques, you could give her a Sailor Moon related game called: “Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon”. Do not expect for an astonishing graphic design, as the game is pretty old. Your little girl may love coloring pages games, so you can find a really impressive collection of sailor Moon coloring pages online. There are almost one hundred pages with all the characters, named after our solar system planets: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn. It is true that these coloring pages usually do not reflect the real story, so your girl can find Usaghi the main cartoon character a little bit weird. Meanwhile if your little girl has always wanted to change Sailor Moon’s appearance, now she can do that using virtual colored pencils.