Kopa

Green Light, Red Light

Outdoor games
  • 3–6 years
  • 10 min
  • outdoors

Run while the caller says green, freeze on red — and the funniest part is holding a silly pose without laughing. Ten minutes of this and small legs are properly tired.

What you need

  • An open yard or lawn
  • Two sticks or stones to mark the finish

How to play

  1. Mark a start line and a finish about fifteen steps apart with two stones.
  2. Stand at the finish with your back turned and call out green.
  3. Call red and turn around — everyone must freeze exactly as they are.
  4. Send anyone who is still moving back to the start line.
  5. Let whoever reaches the finish first become the caller.
  6. Play one round where red means freeze like a tree and green means run like a hare.

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