Kids love to play the top most popular games in sport in summer anywhere they can, including in their back yards, which can be less than ideal for the gardener's plants, and at times may raise objections from near neighbors!
Here are 5 summer games which will provide great fun for kids of any age:
1. Cricket
The archetypal summer game can be enjoyed by kids in the back yard, with a tennis ball and a cheap 'toy' bat, once they understand the basics of the game. They can play with as few as three players if they mark the stumps on a wall behind the batting position.
The rules are simple for children's cricket and essentially the same as for the adult game except that all will agree the position of the boundary for a six, which will be at a fence or a flower border edge.
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Watch this Video (see below) about Pitch and Putt!
2. Rounders
Rounders is believed to have been the game from which baseball is derived. Baseball is clearly the most popular in the US, but rounders is also played, and is good for children in largish back yards and on playgrounds. Rounders is now played on all levels from school-level to internationals.
Rounders is more straightforward and sober-minded than baseball. However, it is is a bat and ball game and is not that dis-similar to baseball. Rounders can and is played throughout the summer by all age groups, from school children all the way up to and including senior level. It is, in fact,an English version of baseball and is normally played between two teams of nine, but fewer can play in the kids version of this game. The history of rounders is amazing long and is the sixteenth century British version of a bat and ball game that dates back to "the dawn of time". In theory, it is a descendant of the bat and ball games played by our "cavemen" ancestors.
Each team takes it in turn to bat and field.
3. Tennis
Tennis is a sport that is unpopular in the U.S. Its not a sport for the wealthy but its viewed as such. Tennis is a game for all . It is a game for everyone to enjoy. Tennis is the best individual sport in the world. It brings together every aspect of the mind, body, heart and soul of a player.
Tennis is a racquet sport played between either two players ("singles") or two teams of two players ("doubles"). Player(s) use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered in felt over a net into the opponent's court.
Tennis is a very popular sport in Australia and is played by people of all ages. Tennis can be played by two people (called ‘playing singles’) or four people (‘doubles’). Tennis is a life-long sport that teaches life-skills that can help participants become winners in any aspect of life. Each person entering the sport should be able to experience the joy of a successful game, whether it be a child or an adult, at the beginner or competitive, amateur or professional level.
4. Pitch and Putt
Pitch and putt is played with just a wedge and putter. The game is played on a 9 or 18 hole course where the maximum distance from tee to green is 70 metres; an 18-hole course cannot exceed 1,000 metres. These courses are ideal for children to play on and get their first taste of a game like golf where the aim is to position the ball precisely, at put it into the hole at the end of each pitch.
Pitch and putt is an amateur sport, similar to golf but organized as an independent sport, played and developed mainly in Ireland since the 1940s.
5. Handball
Handball is almost perfectly suited for children's play, and is great to play outside in summer. With almost no necessary equipment, the game can provide hours of fun and exercise at little or no cost. It is a hugely successful sport in Sweden and is one of the free sport games where you have to shoot and dodge the ball. You can only score if it was your serve.
The team with the most goals wins the game,which is played on a court which is 40 m long by 20 wide, with goals at each end. Each team has 6 players and 1 goal keeper on the court.
Handball is a competitive game in which either hand or either fist may be used to serve and return the ball. The objective is to win each rally by serving or returning the ball so the opponent is unable to keep the ball in play.
General game rules and the goal of the game are similar to football. Handball is an enjoyable sporting activity for everyone. Those children who may shy away from traditional team sports or athletics because of a lack of confidence or self-judged lack of skill, often relish the opportunity to play a game such as handball.
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