43 Fun Outdoor Games For Children and Adults Alike

This is a very challenging balancing competition. It’s a perfect outdoor game for adults, older kids, or teenagers. Play it in the garden or in a park.

Place the knife and fork, glass, and plate on the tray. The players must balance the tray using only one flat hand placed under the tray. Curling fingers around the edge of the tray to hold it steady is not allowed while moving.

The goal of the game is to traverse a course as fast as possible.

The course can be as simple as just rounding a tree in the backyard and running back. You can also put up obstacles along the way as a table to crawl under or something to step over.

If the contestants drop anything off of the tray, they must stop and pick it up. They are allowed to continue only once everything is placed back on the tray. Still with just the one flat hand under the tray while moving. They can put the tray down and use both hands to pick things up and reset the tray, though.

The fastest to reach the goal wins!

Team Relay

The game can easily be made into a relay race!

Divide the players up into teams. When a player finishes the course, they hand the tray over to the next team member.

The fastest team wins!

This activity is super easy for kids or adults alike to join in. It plays equally well outdoors and indoors.

The game is simply to cut a piece of string as close to 3 feet as possible. Then, help small kids with the scissors!

Measure each string when everyone’s done. The closest to 3 feet wins! This game is also a lot of fun to play in teams!

Team Competition

Have the players team up when playing! Let each member cut a length of string and measure each piece of string separately.

Sum up the length of all strings per team. The team whose summed-up length is closest to their number of players multiplied by 3 wins.

One team of 4 people might cut strings that are 11 feet when summed up. Another team of 3 people might have cut 9.5 feet of string in total.

The first team’s result is 11 feet. They were aiming for 4 people * 3 = 12 feet. They missed by 1 foot.

The second team’s result is 9.5 feet. Their target was 3 people * 3 = 9 feet. They missed by just half a foot.

The second team wins!

Disc golf is a fun sport to challenge your family and friends. Since you need some area, this is a perfect outdoor game to play on your lawn, garden, or field.

The game can easily be adjusted to suit the level of the players. Points can be given, for example, if a goal is hit, or give the highest point to the one getting closest and then decrease the points by one in order of how the other players managed to throw the disc.

The goal can be anything you like. For example, land in a swimming pool, get stuck in a particular bush, hit a swing, tree, or land in a specified area.

Here are two suggestions of how to play the game.

Version 1 - One Goal at a Time

In this version of disc golf, the participants move between different targets, just like in real golf. When everyone has made their throws, you count their points and then move on to the next course.

If the game is used as an event in a pentathlon, it is enough just to have one goal.

Version 2 - The Lowest Number of Throws

Here, you have a long course that needs at least three throws before reaching the goal. The player with the lowest number of throws wins the game.

Dizzy Bat is a very fun game to play and even more fun to watch. Holding this activity on the soft grass in the backyard is not bad since some people get very dizzy from the spinning and might fall.

Play this lawn game individually or in teams as a relay.

Prepare the game by making a starting line and then placing a stick/bat at a 50 feet’s distance from the start. Place one stick for each participant and make sure to have a lot of space between the sticks.

The goal is to run to a stick and pick it up. The players must now hold one end of the stick against their forehead and the other against the ground. Then they have to run seven laps around the spot where the stick meets the ground. The stick should be kept in place in the same spot on the ground while running.

When players have spun around seven times, they have to run back to the starting line. The first one to get back wins!

Team Relay Dizzy Bat Competition

This can turn into a relay team competition where the whole team competes.

One team player starts and runs to the stick, spins around, and runs back. Then the next player of the team does the same thing and so on.

The first team to have all members finish and back at the starting line wins the game.

This is a fun and delicious candy game!

Give each player a shoestring licorice lace. Tell them to put the very tip of it in their mouths and their hands on their backs.

When the competition starts, they must try to eat the licorice lace as fast as possible using only their mouths. No hands! They have to keep them at their backs during the whole game.

The first to swallow the whole string candy wins.

In this outdoor game, kids and grown-ups alike can partake. Play it as a fun easter game outside, during birthday parties, or any other gathering. Especially kids will find this game loads of fun to play.

Give each player a spoon and put the handle in their mouths. They must then balance an egg in the spoon and run a course as fast as possible. The fastest runner wins.

During the competition, no one can touch their egg or spoon with their hands. If the egg is dropped but doesn’t crack, the player can pick it up and start over from the beginning. But if it does crack, the player is out of the competition.

The course can be as simple as running to and rounding something, but you can make it as advanced as you like.

Egg and Spoon Relay Version

Make the game a relay by letting the teams pass the spoon and egg over to the next participant once they’ve completed the course.

The team that first finishes win the competition.

Face the Cookie Challenge is a classic, popular and fun game that is much harder than it looks. It’s also easy to prepare and fun for other party guests to watch.

The participants are seated in chairs with their faces turned toward the ceiling/sky. Their hands should be at their backs. Place a cookie on each of the participants' foreheads.

When the start signal sounds, the participants must as fast as they can move the cookie from their forehead to their mouth and take a bite out of it without using their hands or leaving their chair.

The first one to take a bite is the winner.

If someone drops their cookie, they can use their hands to pick it up and place it back on their forehead again to start over.

This game can be played both in teams and individually.

The first step is for everyone to tie their own feet together by the ankles using a string. When the competition starts, the participants must make it through a course as fast as possible. They’re only allowed to two-foot jump (or try to wiggle forward). No hands or crawling is allowed.

The course can, for example, be to round a tree in the garden. You pick if you want everybody to compete simultaneously or if you use a stopwatch and let one participant finish the course at a time.

The fastest contestant wins!

Team Relay Game

If you want a team contest, you can play this game as a relay. The team members go one at a time, still with their feet tied together, of course.

When the first participant crosses the finish line, the next member of the team starts.

The first team to finish wins the relay!

All Together Team Relay (Fun Cooperation Competition)

A hilarious version of this outdoor game is to tie the whole team together. First, everyone ties their feet at the ankles, just as described above. Then the team binds themselves to each other. The whole team must be connected, and each member tied to at least one other team member.

Now let the teams try to finish the course as fast as they can. The team that first crosses the finish line wins.

This is a fun and fast-paced outdoor game that includes water. The game can be played in both teams and individually, and mixed ages in the groups are no problem.

Play it at birthday parties for kids or with family and friends when having an outdoor party.

To prepare the game, you need to fill a bucket with water for each team and place it at the starting line. Then, you put an empty bucket/bowl some distance away from each participant/team. The buckets/bowls must be the same size for all the teams/players. You also provide them with a dry sponge.

When the game begins, the players must dip the sponge into the water and then run away and squeeze as much water as possible into their empty bucket/bowl. Then run back and redo it (or hand the sponge over to the next player if you play in teams).

It is not allowed to touch or move the empty buckets/bowls.

The team/player who first makes the water pour over wins the game.

This is a super tasty eating competition where the contestants use only their mouths to eat sweets hanging from strings. No hands allowed! The player to eat the most sweets in 1 minute wins!

This is a great outdoor game if you’re hosting a children’s party or a Halloween party.

How to Setup the Playing Area

First, you tie the candy or fruit to shorter pieces of string and tie these strings to a longer string. Then, hang up the long string in the playing area, such as between two trees.

You can play this inside too, of course. Just make sure you don’t tie the string to something that’ll tip over when the sharks hit the candy, so to speak.

The Type of Sweets to Hang Up

Try to find a candy size that suits the participants. Smaller kids need smaller candies, and something bigger might fit adults. Eating should be fun, easy, and tasty!

Marshmallows and donuts are popular choices here.

Tip: To make things easy, we suggest you buy candies with holes in them as those are super easy to hang up.

This one is best played outside in the backyard or garden.

The game objective is to kick a soccer ball at targets. For example, hitting a specific tree or stone or having the ball stop in a particular zone.

If you have a lot of space, you can play with rules similar to golf where the players get a point per kick, and the fewest points win.

If you play in your backyard, you can challenge your contestants and let them try to hit a target three times. If they hit one time, they get 1 point. If they hit all three times, they get 3 points.

Then you can move on to a new target and let everyone play again.

Some Suggestions on Targets You May Use:

• A flagpole.
• A swimming pool.
• A tree.
• Hit a garage door.
• Get the ball to stay in a particular bush.
• Get the ball through the front door of a kid’s playhouse.
• A soccer goal.

In this fun guessing game, the players must guess beverages by tasting them.

Simply arrange a few glasses in a row. Then, pour various beverages in them that suit the participants. For example, water, milk, beer, wine, cold coffee, tea, or a mix such as milk and beer.

Feel free to use a theme such as lemonades, beer, soft drinks, or energy drinks. You can blindfold the players to make things more challenging.

Let everyone taste each glass and guess. The most correct guesses in the shortest time win.

If you host a party or gathering where you’ll play multiple party mini-games, then this game is perfect! A game about the mini-games, if you will.

Kids, adults, and the elderly can all play this ice breaker game even if they’re not participating in the main event mini-games.

As the party starts, you decide who will play each mini-game and jot down questions of who will win. Then everyone writes down their guesses on their paper.

Example question: Who will win the sack race?  1. Zoe
 X. Mike
 2. Steve

When the mini-games start, everybody will be eager spectators to see if their guesses hold up. The questions decide who plays which mini-game (Zoe, Mike, and Steve will play sack race in the above example).

You’re allowed to guess your own name.

The guest with the best guesses wins this little side game and will have fun even though they might not have participated in any mini-games.

Relays often make perfect outdoor games, and this fun relay game will surely get everyone going.

Hanger relay is a game that works fine to play at kids' birthday parties but also as a fun outdoor party game for adults, students, or teenagers. Since the game needs some space, you can play it in your garden, lawn, or as a field game.

Divide the participants into teams. The first player in each team puts the hanger between their knees (the long way) and squeezes a coin into one eye. Then, they hold the hanger like a bicycle handlebar with both hands.

When the start signal sounds, the participant must try to make it through a course (rounding a tree/bucket) and at the same time try to sound like a motorbike. Then the equipment is handed over to the next team member, who repeats the procedure.

The team that finishes first wins the game.

If you want to play a tricky toss game, you might want to challenge friends and family with this outdoor game.

Prepare the game by filling 5-7 plastic bottles with water to make them heavier. Place them in a row with some space in between. Then put a tennis ball on top of each bottle. Put this on some stable surface like a level lawn or a bench or table.

The game’s goal is to throw balls at the balls on top of the bottles. The player must knock down the balls on top of the bottles without toppling the bottles themselves. Give the player as many balls to throw as there are bottles.

Every ball that falls with its bottle still standing awards 3 points. If a bottle falls over, the player loses 1 point. A miss gives no points.

Kubb is a very popular lawn game, especially in Sweden. With the kubb equipment, you can also play other games - like Kubb relay. This game is a very fun outdoor activity that also suits as an event in a pentathlon.

Play it individually or in teams! Challenge your friends, kids, colleagues, and family and see who will be the most successful.

You need to put five kubbs in line with 3 feet between them to play. Then, place the starting point 10 feet from the first kubb in the row. Farthest away in the line, you put the king. Now, you will have six targets in a row.

If you play in two teams, you need to arrange two different lines and put the king farthest away between these two lines.

Here are some versions of the game you can play.

Version 1 - Individually

The player gets six throw-sticks and must, from the starting point, try to knock down the kubbs. Two points are given for every knocked down kubb, and four points are given for the king.

The player who gathers the most points wins.

Version 2 - Individually with Time Limit

This Kubb version aims to knock down both the kubbs and the king in the shortest time. When all the throw-sticks have been thrown, the player must run and collect them. Then, run back and try again until all kubb + the king has fallen.

The player that manages to knock down all six objects in the shortest time wins the game.

Version 3 - Team Relay

Equip each team with one throwing-stick. The first player makes a throw and then runs away to pick it up and hand it over to the next team member in line. The team that first knocks down all the six kubbs + the king wins.

Version 4 - Move Forward

In this version, the player must start by knocking down the kubb placed closest in line. Then, when successful, the player can move forward to this spot and make the next throw from there.

Feel free to put the kubbs with varying distances between each other in this version. You can even arrange it like a route through your garden. But, of course, you set the king last.

Choose if you want to have a limited number of throw-sticks or a time limit.

Kubb Tower Building is a perfect game to play at a summer party. You can play it in two ways, and it can easily be included as an event in a Pentathlon.

The game is best played outside. Play it on a table or the ground in your backyard or on a lawn in the local park.

You won’t need the King for this game. Not the field markers or the throw-sticks either. Just the kubbs themselves will do.

The goal is to build the highest tower.

Version 1 - One Kubb at a Time

The participants build their towers one at a time. After they place a kubb the tower has to stand for 10 seconds before the new height counts. After 10 seconds, the player can place the next kubb.

If the tower tips over, it’s the height when the tower last stood for 10 seconds that counts.

The player that manages to build the highest tower wins the game.

Version 2 - Time Limit

The contestants must build the highest tower possible in 1 minute. Any strategy is allowed, and it doesn’t matter what the tower looks like.

It’s OK to start from scratch if the tower tips over. The height that counts is whatever is standing after 1 minute that then does not fall for 10 seconds.

If you don’t own a kubb game you might be able to borrow it from someone. Otherwise you can buy a kubb game online.

Limbo is a classic party game that is fun to play at kids' birthday parties, as a student party game, or as an entertaining activity during your garden party. It really works for any kind of party.

The rules are straightforward. Two people will hold the bar (unless you happen to have a suitable frame to hang it on).

The challenge is for all participants to walk under the bar while only bending backward, and no hand must touch the ground. The bar is lowered after each round.

The person who walks under the bar at the lowest height wins the game.

Be sure to have some pleasant music playing in the background during this party game.

Fun Alternatives

• Let everyone compete, with the only rule being jumping on one leg.
• Play in couples, and the only rule is that the team must get under the bar while one player is carrying the other.

In this game, the participant needs to memorize a piece of text. This fun relay version is a perfect game to play outside.

Divide your guests into teams and have each team member spread out in a large area with 50-100 yards distance between them.

Now, a piece of text is read aloud to the first person in every team. 1-2 sentences will be enough. Then, the participants must run to the next team member and repeat the text. This person then runs to next and so on till the last team-mate.

The last person in the team must reproduce the text on a piece of paper (or record it on their phone).

The team that can write down the correct words at the proper places in the text in the shortest time wins the game.

This party game is fun to play for both kids and adults. It’s also a game where all ages can compete simultaneously. Those not participating will have a great time watching the game, and it is easy to prepare.

I’ve mostly played this outdoors, but it’s a game that works fine indoors, too. If you have the space, that is.

Prepare the game by positioning a couple of chairs with at least seven feet between the chairs. Put an empty bowl on one chair and a bowl filled with cotton balls on the other. Before the competition starts, give each contestant some vaseline on the tip of their nose.

The participants must move as many cotton balls as possible from the cotton bowl to the empty bowl. No hands allowed, only use the nose! It is okay to shake and swing the head to drop the cotton balls in the empty bowl during the game, though.

The player who moves the most cotton balls in 2 minutes wins the game.

This game can be played both in teams or individually. However, it is the most fun if several people are playing simultaneously. Here you’ll need two chairs per player or team.

If you are playing in teams, you simply make it a relay and compete for about 5 minutes total.

This game is played in pairs but can easily be made into a relay. First, each team gets a fruit or a tennis ball. The most commonly used is fruit like an orange. The pair will then move the orange through a course or a specific distance.

The competing pairs stand face to face with their hands on their backs. The couple then places an orange between their bellies. The goal is to move as quickly as possible from start to finish without dropping it.

If the orange is dropped, the pair must pick it up and move back three steps before continuing.

You can easily make this a relay where a pair simply passes the orange on to the next couple after finishing their distance.

This children’s party game can easily be themed for the season. For example, use pumpkins for the Halloween party, eggs for the Easter party, etc.

Of course, this fun party game is best played as an outdoor game. Play it with both kids and adults.

The game’s goal is to run to some kind of rounding point (like a stick or a tree) and then run back. During this time, each participant carries a frying pan and has to flip the pancake three times without dropping it.

If a pancake is dropped, the flip does not count. Have some spare pancakes ready if a participant completely breaks theirs.

The game is really fun to play in teams. You, then, play the game as a relay. Once a team member has finished, they keep their pancake but pass on the frying pan to the next person in line, who must now run with and flip their pancake.

The first team to pass the finish line wins.

The game is hilarious to watch for the onlookers.

This is a fun party game that will engage competitors of all ages. The rules are simple.

Give each contestant a paper. In 30 seconds, everyone must fold some kind of a paper plane. When the time has passed, everyone takes turns trying to throw their plane from the same starting point.

The participants have two throws each in which the goal is to make the plane fly the farthest away from the starting point. Any direction is fine. The best throw for each participant is the throw that counts.

The game can be played both indoors and outdoors. It’s certainly more of a challenge outdoors (due to the wind), and more fun since the planes can fly further away.

If you play the game outdoors, it can be a good idea to throw from a high vantage point or let the participants use a chair.

Playing indoors, you can make the game trickier by adding some rules. For example, the plane must pass through a particular doorway, or maybe it must land somewhere on a sofa.

This is a hilarious party game to play both in teams and individually. You can have mixed ages and play both indoors and outdoors. The game is also entertaining to watch for your other guests, making this the perfect party game idea.

Each player ties a string or yarn around a pen and then ties the other end around the waist. Let the pen hang from the back. Place an empty bottle 10 yards from each player/team.

When the start signal sounds, the competitors must run to their bottle and try to get the pen into their bottled without using their hands by squatting.

The first player to drop their pen into the bottle wins the game.

Relay Version

The game can easily be made into a relay game. Do the game as described above. When a player succeeds with their pen, they must run back to their team and hand it over to the next person in line. That person ties the string around their waist (with the pen hanging from the back). Then, the player runs to the bottle and repeats the challenge. The team where every member has managed to get the pen into the bottles wins the game.

Tampon Version

Use a tampon instead of a pen. Fill the bottles (preferably plastic ones) with water halfway. When the tampon enters the bottle, it will swell and get stuck inside it. To win, the players now must run back and cross the start line (no hands), with the bottle hanging behind them.

Pennant banner toss is a game that works fine to play both indoors and outdoors (if it’s not too windy).

Put up a pennant banner and mark each triangle flag with a number. Then, if you want to make the game more exciting, you write some of the numbers with a minus sign.

Then, one player will try to toss the balls at the triangles. If they hit one, they get the points written on it (of course, the player receives minus points if they hit those triangles). Each player gets to make five tosses.

If you have young players, they get to stand closer to the pennant banner. You can use any balls you already own, like tennis balls, for example. Or some fun items like shoes and toilet rolls.

If you want to make the game harder, you let the pennant banner hang free. The easier version is to attach the pennant banner against a wall (suitable for kids' birthday parties).

Holding a pentathlon is great fun for summer parties. The game is simply to compete in five different events, and the one who gathers the most points wins the pentathlon. The events are often simpler games where points are awarded, for example, for hitting targets with a ball.

An important thing to consider when holding a pentathlon is to mind the scoring. Make sure no event awards too many points compared to the others. For example, it is not supposed to be possible to get 50 points for throwing 3 bull’s eye darts in one event and then a maximum of 5 points in another event.

Common events in pentathlon

• Throwing horseshoes - Each participant get a bunch of horseshoes that they are to throw at a stake so that the shoe encircles the stakes.

• Throwing darts - The participants throw darts at a board or water balloons and get points for each hit.

• Buckets - Place buckets on the ground or hang them in different heights and let the participants throw tennis balls at them. Different buckets can award different points depending on the difficulty.

• Fill cans with sand or gravel and place them in a tower with three in the bottom layer, two in the middle and one at the top. Let the participants throw tennis balls and try to topple as many cans as possible.

If you don’t want to use traditional games for your pentathlon events but instead try something different you can follow these links for our collections of more modern games. There are games that go well with individual competitions and team competitions.

This is a very fun outdoor party game that the onlooker will love to watch. Play it with kids, friends, and family in your garden or a park. It also works really well as a student party game.

First, you need to buy a pet walker balloon for each team. It’s most fun if the balloons come in the shapes of different animals.

Then, you prepare an agility-like course where the team will be competing with their animals. You can, for example, arrange some obstacles for the players to jump over. Maybe put plastic bottles in a row so the animal will have to pull off a move similar to slalom or tables to move beneath.

You don’t need many obstacles. Two jumps will absolutely do.

When the participants are ready to play, you divide them into teams and hand out a balloon to each team. You also inform the groups that they must name their pet. Do not tell any other rules before the balloons have a name since this will make the game more fun. Many teams tend to give their balloons fun and silly names.

Then you inform that the teams' goal will be to guide their animals around the agility course, one team member at a time. When one member finishes, the balloon is passed on to the next member as a relay. The team that manages to finish the course in the shortest time will win the game.

You also inform that when passing an obstacle in the course, they must loudly praise their animal by using its name. So if a team chose the name “Goofy” the participant guiding the animal must say something like “Very well done Goofy!” when their balloon is, for example, jumping over an obstacle.

During the walk, the animals must have some contact with the ground. Therefore, it must look like the pets are out and walking. It’s not allowed to just run away with the balloon floating behind the player.

If you want to make it more exciting, you can arrange courses next to each other so every team can compete simultaneously.

No preparation at all is needed in this party game. All you have to do is to divide your guests into teams. You need at least two groups.

Start the game by informing everyone to remove their shoes. All shoes are then mixed and put into a pile.

When the start signal sounds, the teams must run to the pile, find their pair of shoes, and put them on. It is not allowed to throw away any shoes while searching. The first team to put on their shoes will be the winners.

You can play the game both indoors and outside. I’ve played it at kid’s birthday parties and with adults only as a fun team party game. It has always been an appreciated party game that doesn’t take up to much time.

In this game, the players compete individually. It’s a fun game to play with both kids and adults.

The contestants stand behind a line. Each one holds the end of a long string and an object tied to the other end. It can be whatever you want (a banana, a doll, or something more prominent). Try to make it fun, though! Depending on the strength, if you have adults participating, you can have hilarious items like chairs, carpets, a tent, or a sleeping bag.

When the game begins, the participants must pull the object towards them without moving their feet. The one who first gets their object past the line will be the winner.

You probably are familiar with this game since it is such a popular game and has been so for many decades.

Sack race if often a favored activity at kid’s parties, but it is also an entertaining game for adults. The onlookers will sure enjoy it too. Challenge the guests at your garden party or arrange it at as a student party game. The game works well both as an individual and a relay team competition.

Each participant gets a sack and stands in it with both legs, with the sack reaching the waist. When the start signal sounds, the goal is to hop from start to finish.

The participants might have to round something and hop back to the start again or just hop forward to a finish line from the starting point. The first one to reach the finish wins.

The sack is just handed over to the next team member if you play in teams.

Put together a scavenger hunt and set your guests on a mission of collecting stuff.

Divide your guests into teams and hand out a list of objects to be found. Then, play it in your garden, neighborhood, or out in the woods.

Prepare the game by making a list with suitable objects of different difficulty to find. The more difficult to find, the more points the objects are worth. Then, decide a time limit for the teams to gather their things. For example, 10-15 minutes is often enough.

If the game mostly has adult or teenage participants, you can come up with some artful objects on the list.

The winners are the team that manages to get the most points during the game.

Alternative Version of the Game

Play the game in different rounds. Announce one object at a time to the teams. The team that finds the object first and returns it to you wins that round and gets 1 point. Then you announce a new thing for every team to collect.

The team that, in the end, ends up with the most points wins the game.

Some Examples of Objects To Be Found

• A leaf - 1 point
• A yellow flower - 2 points
• Something you can eat - 3 points
• A white stone - 4 points
• A feather - 5 points

Play this game outdoors on a lawn or as a field day game. It’s an excellent activity for a kid’s birthday party too.

Place the water-filled plastic bottles at a suitable distance from the players. Arrange the bottles however you like, but keep in mind the game is the most fun when it’s possible to topple all bottles in one kick.

Let the players play one at a time and give each player three attempts at kicking the soccer ball at the bottles. The goal is to topple as many as possible. Don’t reset the bottles between kicks, only between players. A player gets one point per overturned bottle.

The player to gather the most points wins the game.

This is a fun party game to play with friends and people you may not know too well. The game has no restrictions on the number of participants, so it works well to play at large birthday parties or student parties.

First, divide the players into teams of 7-10 people. Then, have every team standing in a line.

Now, read out an instruction that has something to do with the order people stand in the line. When instructions are given, the teams must try to arrange themselves in the correct order as fast as possible. The fastest team gets 1 point.

Some Suggestions of Instructions

• Sort yourself in order of length with the shortest person first.
• Sort yourself in the order of the alphabet. The person with a name starting at A will be placed first in line etc.
• Sort yourself in order of age, with the youngest first in line.
• Sort yourself with the length of time you have known the birthday person with the longest relationship first in line.
• Sort yourself of whom is living closest to the point you are having the party with the nearest person first in line.
• Sort yourself in order of how long you have been in your current relationship. All singles will stand first in line.

The players will be up for a candy hunt in this fast-paced, outdoor game. It is the most fun to play in a garden with lots of trees or bushes. Play both adults and kids at the same time! The kids will surely enjoy it.

Prepare the game by placing spaghetti string candy all around your garden. Hang them from tree branches, in the bushes, or at other objects found in your garden. The most important thing is that there are MANY candies. They should also be easy to grab when in a hurry.

When the game begins, all players must run and collect as much candy as possible. The game ends when all candy is taken.

The player who managed to grab the most spaghetti string candies wins the game. But, of course, everyone gets to keep the candy they have collected.

Games that involve candy are always appreciated! This is a fun candy outdoor game that both kids and adults will enjoy. I tested it on my grandparents, who are over 80, and they found it hilarious.

The game is perfect as an activity at a summer party, children’s party, student party, or really any outdoor party.

It’s much more fun than it sounds!

Prepare the game by putting the candy in water for at least an hour before the competition. This will make the jelly sweets/gummies slimy, and a bit swelled, which makes spitting them that much easier.

Give each contestant a prepared jelly candy. Their task? Stand at a marked spot and spit the candy as far as they can! The longest spit wins.

Team Version of the Game

This is great fun as a team competition too. Simply add up the spitting distance of the team. The team that gets the farthest wins the game.

Here is a friendly summer-themed game that is easy to play. All you need to do is to divide participants into teams.

Then, inform the player that they will get 3 minutes to write down as many songs as possible containing the word “Summer”. “Summer” can be in the song’s title or the lyrics.

The team that manages to write down the most songs wins the game. Maybe the songs can be put into a playlist and played in the background if you host a summer garden party?

This is an entertaining balloon race game for both children and adults. The participants will feel a bit goofy, and the spectators sure will be entertained.

The game works well both as an individual and a team competition.

Each player receives a blown-up balloon to place between their knees. (Give kids smaller balloons than grown-ups.)

When you start the game, the contestants must waddle or jump to try and move forward and round a predetermined point and then hurry back without dropping or popping the balloon.

When someone drops their balloon, they have to pick it up again and run back to restart from the starting point. The rounding point works as a checkpoint. If a player drops their balloon after passing this checkpoint, they only have to run back there, not start all over from the start.

If the balloon pops, the person must run back to the start and blow up a new one. Then return to the place where it popped and continue.

Balloon Race Relay Version

The game can easily be turned into a team relay. The team member that just finished then passes on the balloon to the next member in the team. Each team has its own course and object they must round.

One at a time, the participants will put a marshmallow in their mouth and try to say “Marshmallow!” or “Chubby Bunny.”

Swallowing marshmallows is not allowed. The player to complete the most rounds wins.

Beware of choking. Only let kids play under adult supervision.

This is a very fun game containing toilet paper rolls. The kids will really enjoy it but don’t be afraid to challenge teenagers and adults too.

Prepare the game by making a pair of glasses of the two toilet paper rolls. Please don’t cut them shorter since this will ruin the game. Use rubber bands or something else you already have at home to keep them together. Also, attach some kind of yarn at the back that can easily be adjusted to fit different head sizes.

Then, put some objects in a row. It can, for example, be plastic bottles containing water. The goal is to make it like a slalom course.

Now, the players will, one at a time, put on the toilet roll glasses. Then they are given a soccer ball and placed at a starting point.

They must now try to get the ball through the slalom course, only using their feet. Every tipped bottle gives an extra 15 seconds as a punishment. The game ends when they have crossed the finish line.

The player that manages to finish the course the fastest wins the game.

Unroll the toilet paper is a short game that, for example, works well to play as a birthday party game for kids or as a student party game.

Provide each participant with a roll of paper. When the game starts, the goal is to unroll all the toilet paper and then yell “I am done!” through the roll.

The first player to yell the sentence wins.

Walk Competition is an outdoor game that requires almost no preparations. All you need to do is choose a route the players will walk during the game. It can, for example, be around the house, rounding a tree, or something else that suits you.

You then inform the players of the route of your choice.

When the game starts, all participants must walk the chosen course. The goal is to try and walk the route in precisely 3 minutes. They are not allowed to stop walking during the competition.

The one arriving at the finish closest to 3 minutes after the start wins.

To make it easy for yourself, you can record the competition with your video camera on your phone to easily decide the winner.

In this game, you let the participants compete in couples. The rules are simple and easy to follow.

First off, give each team a water balloon.

One player begins by tossing the balloon to their partner. Next, the partner tries to catch the balloon without breaking it. If the balloon breaks, the team is out of the game. If the toss and catch are successful, they get to take two steps backward each. Now, it’s time for the second team member to toss the balloon.

The team capable of tossing and catching the balloon, without it breaking, the longest distance wins the game.

A Friendly Version for Kids

If the catching team member touched the balloon but didn’t catch it and the balloon does not break, that team gets another try at the failed distance.

This game has many names like Welly Throwing, Welly Hoying, and Boot Throwing.

The game can be played as an independent game or as an event of a pentathlon. You need to play outside since you need a lot of space. Play it with your family and friends on your lawn, garden, or as a field game.

All you need is a boot. The game’s goal is for the participants to try to throw the boot as long a distance as possible.

Version 1 - Easy

The participants are allowed to throw the boot in the way they prefer. You can even allow them to run before releasing the boot if you want. They, however, must throw it from the same starting point.

Version 2 - Challengeing

In this challenging version, the participants must stand still with their backs towards the throwing direction. They must then swing the boot over their head to throw the boot as far as possible.

Version 2 - Very Challengeing

In this very challenging version, the participants must stand still facing the throwing direction. They then must swing the boot back between their legs and over their head and release it at the right time to get the boot as far as possible in the right direction.

If you want to make it a bit silly, you can offer a helmet since this version sometimes ends with the participant getting the boot in their head.

In this party game, all you need is crackers (or similar).

Provide each player with three crackers each. When the game begins, the players must eat their crackers.

The quickest player in eating the crackers and then whistling loud wins the game.