Summer Picnic Games for Kids

Enjoying a picnic is a marvelous way to spend a warm Summer afternoon. While preparing hamburgers and pasta salad for dinner, make game suggestions to your kids. Summer picnic games can bring family and friends togetherwhile keeping kids active before and after the meal.

Water Balloon Toss

Pick up a few packs of balloons and fill them with water. Place the balloons in a cooler so if they pop, it won't make a mess. While you set up the picnic, allow your children to begin a water balloon toss. To play, two kids must stand close and pass a water balloon to each other. With each successful toss, they take a step back. The winner is the last person to catch the balloon. This is exciting if you have more than one team. Not only will it cool your kids off on a hot day, it'll keep them occupied while you grill or prepare picnic food. Don't forget to bring some towels to dry off the balloon-tossers.

Family Sports

Nothing is easier than packing sports equipment from home and making use of it at your picnic. Baseball, football, kickball, badminton or even fishing will keep you and your kids active. Each game can be tailored to how many people are participating.

On Target

To play On Target, you'll need at least four cups of sanddirt is fine if you don't have sandfour plastic bags, Duct Tape, rope and scissors. Using scissors and twisty ties make the plastic bags into darts. You should make four plastic bag dartstwo for each player. To make the darts, fill the bag with 1/2 cup of sand, then tie off the bag and seal it with a twisty tie. Shake the bag so that the sand falls into a pointy corner. Cut off some of the end of the bag, but leave enough plastic so you can cut some frills onto the top of the dart.

Make two separate medium-sized circles out of the rope and place them approximately 35 feet apart, or closer for smaller children. These are the targets. The goal of the game is to get your dart to land in the circle. You get three points if it lands in the circle, and one point if you land no more than 1-foot away from the circle. The person or team with the most points wins.