Sports competitions for children on the street in summer

Warm season is best suited for sports, as they can be held outdoors. This allows you to develop strength, speed of reaction, dexterity and strengthen immunity. Therefore, sports competitions for children in the street in summer can be organized both in the camp and on the appropriate site near the house. Due to their dynamism and fascination, they will be interested in both kids and schoolchildren, allowing to spend leisure time with profit.

Interesting sports competitions on the street in summer

To enthrall children with sports competitions and stimulate their physical activity, you can offer them the following games:

  1. Relay "Notes". Draw a chalk on the asphalt line of the start and divide the participants into two teams with the same number of people. Then put in two opaque paper bags on a set of notes with tasks, previously printed in a double copy. Examples of tasks can be: "Dobegi to the tree, jump up, touch the trunk and run back" or "Squatting, jump to the leader, shake his hand and in the same way go back again." All team members take turns pulling out notes from their package and gradually performing tasks. The team, the children of whom coped with this before, is considered the winner. This is one of the most popular sports competitions for school children on the street.
  2. "Race with potatoes." Mark chalk lines of start and finish, it is also desirable to draw and treadmills. As in other children's sports competitions on the street, children are divided into two teams. The first player of each of them is given a potato and a tablespoon. He must, holding a tuber in a spoon, run to the finish line and go back without dropping the potatoes. If the vegetable still falls, it is picked up only with a spoon, not with a hand. The team whose participants will cope with the task faster wins.
  3. "The blind pedestrian." On a certain stretch of the street, obstacles such as small logs or posts are set. Participants are given time to look around, after which they blindfold. The winner is the one who quickly passed all the obstacles without encountering them. Such sports competitions for young people on the street perfectly develop coordination of movements.