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Home › Articles › Play Time › Just Go Outside and Play!

Just Go Outside and Play!

Fun Ways to Stay Active with
Your Kids

By Gwen Morrison

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  • Have a hula-hoop contest.
  • Play a game of hot-potato Frisbee.
  • Set up a badminton net in the backyard.
  • Hit the tennis courts.
  • Swim together at the local pool.
  • Initiate a game of hide-and-seek (gets the adrenalin pumping!).
  • Hop on a Pogo stick and count the bounces.
  • Try out those new Rollerblades (or dig out the old four-wheelers!).
  • Have a race with some scooters (in a safe place free from traffic).
  • Remember hopscotch? It's sure to get the heart pumping!
  • Try basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer or tetherball.
  • Go to the park and climb, swing, slide, teeter-totter and just RUN!
  • Play ice or road hockey.
  • Climb a tree or two.
  • Play a round of dodgeball.
  • Set up a scavenger hunt.

    • The best thing about all of these activities is that they will inevitably end up with someone having a great time. When you were a child, did you ever have a bad time playing outside? Children have a way of always having their bodies in movement. As adults we could learn a thing or two by watching how our children play both young and old.

    "It's fun when my mom and I go outside and play basketball," says Robyn Davis of Lawrenceville, Ga. "She gets all goofy, like a kid. It seems like she forgets for a little while all the stuff she has to do as a mom and just has fun."

    Remaining active into our adulthood has many added benefits. It creates a bond with our children when we interact with them, and it keeps us young at heart (it also keeps our heart young!).

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