Whether you’re planning field day activities to do at school or at home, these field day games are easy and fun for kids of all ages!
As a former teacher and now a mom, once the weather starts warming up, I start thinking about getting the kids outside as much as possible. Having a field day is something most elementary schools plan but it’s also a great idea for a family day together!
Field day game ideas don’t have to be complicated! Keep it simple and you’ll have a ton of fun with the kids!
FIELD DAY GAMES
I’m excited to share some of our favorite field day game ideas with you because we love spending time out in our backyard together! My kids love field day at school but when they’re bored at home and the weather is gorgeous, there’s nothing like announcing that we’re having a family field day at home!
Outdoor Field Day Games
Field Day is usually all about getting outside and getting active. Whether your kids are participating in school or the whole family is in the backyard, outdoors is the place to be!
Oh, and if you’re planning a summer party, having a field day is the perfect party theme! This list has everything you need to get everyone active and having fun outside!
Some of the field day games that you should definitely consider playing are:
- Football Throw – With a football and a hula hoop, you have another easy game to play. You don’t have to set the hoop up for the kids to throw through unless you want to do that. For younger kids, it works well to just lay the hula hoop on the ground.
- Limbo – This is one of the easiest field day games to set up. All you need is something to use as a limbo stick!
- Parachute Popcorn – A fun game to play if you have a good number of kids is popcorn. You don’t have to have an actual parachute to play either. You can use a flat bed sheet and a ball to pop away! See how many times the kids can pop the ball up without it falling off the parachute!
- Pool Noodle Baseball – For a safe way to play a version of baseball, cut pool noodles in half and have the kids use them as bats. Beach balls make great balls for this silly version of America’s pastime!
- Ice Pop Break – This isn’t a field day game, but it is one of the most important field day activities, especially if it’s a hot day out. Have ice pops for the kids to enjoy. They can take a break, enjoy and treat and drink some water too!
- Hula Hoop Agility – Use hula hoops to create an obstacle course for the kids to go through. You can lay them out like tires and have the kids step in each one, have the kids hula hoop a certain number of times or use it to jump through a certain number of times. You can create so many different obstacles with just a bunch of hula hoops!
- Beach Ball Run or Relay – Have each child place a beach ball between their knees and hop to the finish line or to their teammate and then they take the next turn.
- Ping Pong Ball Spoon Race – The classic version of this game uses a real egg, but you can use a ping pong ball or even a plastic egg. Children race while carrying the ball or egg in a spoon. For older kids, you can have them carry the spoon in their mouths!
- Outdoor Twister – So this idea isn’t the easiest though it is pretty simple. It’s a great field day station and a perfect game to play with your family. Use yard paint to paint a Twister board on a patch of grass. You can create a circle template out of a cardboard box. Cut a circle in the bottom and use it to create the spacing for your game board!
Water Games for Field Day
No field day is complete without a few water games.
If you’re at home, you can even plan an entire day of water activities for kids!
Sponges and water balloons are mostly all you need! Oh, and a willingness to get a little wet!
Some of our favorite water games for field day include:
- Sponge Toss Game – Each team of kids needs two buckets and a large sponge. One bucket is filled with water and the other is empty. The team passes the wet sponge over their heads to the end of the line with the empty bucket to squeeze the water in. The first team to fill the empty bucket wins! (You can also time this event and the team with the most water transferred wins.)
- Water Balloon Toss – This one is pretty easy to do as well, especially if you use the easy to fill, self-sealing water balloons. Have the kids work in partners. They stand across from each other and toss the water balloon back and forth. Each time they successfully catch it, have them take a step back from each other!
- Water Balloon Roll – Each person gets a water balloon for this race. Everyone rolls it across the ground and the person who rolls their balloon the farthest before it pops is the winner!
- Fill the Bucket – You can play this game with sponges or with water balloons. If you use sponges, have a larger container full of water. Kids have to fill their sponge with water and run to the empty bucket. The first person or team to fill their bucket wins. If you use water balloons, the kids get a water balloon and run across to their bucket, popping it to fill the bucket.
Supplies for Field Day Ideas
There are some basic supplies that are used a lot during field day games. With these common items, you can design so many different field day activities for your kids!
- Sidewalk chalk
- Water balloons
- Balls of different sizes
- Cups
- Buckets
- Sponges
- Hula hoops
So, don’t let the idea of planning field day activities scare you! By focusing on simple ideas, you can keep it easy for yourself and the kids will love you!
They love getting outside and playing, so as long as you keep that your focus, you’re going to have an amazing time!
For even more fun in the sun, you can also try some fun kids sprinkler games and activities!
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These are great field day ideas. Allegra would be helpful for my son.
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When I was a teacher the kids really looked forward to field day. The water balloon toss was one of their favorites.
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Some of the kids in the family have allergies and we will give Allegra a try sounds great. These field day activities look so fun.
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My niece loves to play outside but because of her allergies it limits her tremendously. She should try Allegra so that she can ride her bike and play in the sprinkler all summer! She would love the water balloon toss!
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We would like to give Allegra a try, my kids love outdoor activities but suffer from allergies.
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I would like to try this on my son in the spring and summer.
My kids love field day activities and Allegra would help them get outside more.
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My son suffers from seasonal allergies and he uses Allegra with great results.
Allegra works great and helps dealing with allergies
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What great ideas for the summer!
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Our kids school usually has a field at the end of the school year and the kids love it. I love the idea of doing some of these activities with my kids and their friends during the summer.
This has been a really hard spring on my kids with their allergies. I need to pick up allegra for them to try.
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These are great ideas for Field Day. My son has allergies so he could use Children’s Allegra® Allergy Relief.
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My son has allergies so we’re exploring different medications
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Both my boys have upcoming field days. And both suffer with allergies. We need to give Allegra a try.
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Water balloon toss is such a fun one!! We’ve filled up a baby pool and made sandcastles…
I love the field day activity ideas! Thankfully my little one doesn’t have allergies but several of my friends have children with allergies.
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Definitely bookmarking this for when the inevitable, “I’m bored” statement pops up this summer! We haven’t tried Allegra yet for my daughter’s allergies but I may have to check it out too!
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I love that Children’s Allegra® Allergy Relief is good for 12 hours and is a non drowsy formula. Lets my daughter enjoy field day without sneezing or getting filled up.
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these activities look like fun!
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We have never tried Allegra before. Some of these activities look like fun especially for those hot summer days that are coming…wait who am I kidding they are here already! 100+ all week already!
pool noodle baseball sounds fun!
Children’s Allegra® Allergy Relief sounds like a great product!
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Great ideas for fun with the kids and Allegra will def help in my family we all have allergies.
sidewalk chalk is always fun; I have not tried allegra, looks efficacious
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My kids have always loved field day. I’d love to see how Allegra would work for them
We love outdoor field day type of activities outside on beautiful days.
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Fun ideas. Luckily none of the kids in our family have shown signs of allergies (yet) but we will keep this in mind.
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We love to get outside during the warm summer days for hiking or camping. It is nice to have allergy medicine available for flare ups.
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These are fantastic ideas! Plus all my kids have allergies, I’ll have to give allegra a try!
my kids and I love field day
I love all the water games!
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My family has allergies to something including my allergies and this is on the list to try.
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We use allegra, it works great.
I love it when kids step away from their screens and get outdoors for fun. Keeping allergy symptoms away would help!
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Allegra has always been very helpful for our family.
We all have allergies so this would help us to keep doing our outside activities.
I always loved the water balloon games as a kid!
I would love to host a field day summer party next year! My sons birthday is in the winter so we don’t get to do anything like this
Some of us have allergies and Allegro has given us a lot of relief.
Big help no one wants to stay indoors so much of the time.
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My daughter has allergies and this would work great for her. Thank you
What great ideas for the summer!
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Great ideas for kids to stay active and have fun!
I take childrens allergy medicine, tastes better and is non drowsy. Allergies really make for a miserable spring/summer and fall if not controlled.
My kids suffer from seasonal allergies but we haven’t tried Allegra. Sounds like we need to add it to our shopping list. We’ve had a lot of fun with sponges in the backyard over the years!
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I love your games and ideas that you share. It gives me new & exciting things to do and enjoy with my class. I work with very different and growing minds, my kids are between the ages of 3 to 5 and keeping interested in play time is a plus. Thank You
I’d like to try this since my son recently developed issues.
I have noticed already with our five year old grandson that he always wakes up congested when waking up from his nap, a sure sign of allergies. 🙁
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we like to hike and allegera helps with pollen
Field day at the end of the school year is a big deal at my grandchildren’s school.
It’s always on my mind with my granddaughter who has asthma and loves being outdoors.
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Allegra is a great product for my child’s allergies. Those are some awesome field day activities. I love making outdoor physical activities fun and safe for my kids.
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Thank you for all the awesome field day ideas! We all have to take Allegra daily living in a valley filled with pollen. Not sure how we would get by without it! Thank you for the coupon also!
A few of my kids have allergies. We have not tried this yet.
Both of my boys suffer from seasonal allergies. Allegra is a must.
My daughter has allergies. We haven’t tried Allegra yet. These look like fun outdoor activities.
I like the water balloon game the best.
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I like the Ping Pong Ball Spoon Race that can be played indoors. Our 5 year old Samantha has allergies, especially in the Fall.
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so many great ideas.
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I love the idea of having a family field day! I always think of them as something done in school, but I love the thought of organizing and planning one for right at home with my kiddo’s in our own backyard!
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I loved field day growing up. 🙂 Such fun events to join in. Allegra used to help my mother with her asthma quite a bit.
We have been using this for a while and kids are able to do things otherwise.
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That’s a lovely long list of fun outdoor games.
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I’m looking into this!
My daughter suffers from year long allergies
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My granddaughter loves to be outside but has allergies so Allegra would be awesome to use for her.
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We love to play Softball.
My son has allergies and that field day looked fun
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My daughter suffers from seasonal allergies and I love that Children’s Allegra Allergy Relief could help her enjoy the outdoors more. The idea of planning a children’s field day with neighborhood and school friends sounds awesome.
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As a former teacher the kids helped plan activities for field day and the water balloon toss was one of their favorites.
We like to have fun outdoor days too. Sometimes we’ll play some basketball together or just go for a walk or bike ride. On some days, we definitely need Allegra. 🙂
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looks like a fun day
My kids love field day. The elementary school does it everyday. It is always tough for my daughter and I who both have allergies. She still gives it her all. We would love to try Allegra
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Playing with water balloons was always so much fun .
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Both of my kids would love these kinds of activities and I’m sure when they are school aged they will definitely participate.
kids love field day activities
We have kids in our immediate family that suffer from allergies. I would love for them to try this to get some relief.
You can’t go wrong with a sprinkler, especially for young children. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Field Day was always one of the favorite days of the school year. Fortunately, my children didn’t suffer with allergies but many of their friends did. My boys especially enjoyed the races.
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Kids love Field Day, a good way to have fun and stay in shape.
Luckily, my son never had seasonal allergies. He always loved playing outside. We were always at his T Ball games.
It’s so easy to get creative with field days! They’re a blast and don’t have to be a big expense.
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We definitely suffer from seasonal allergies. I might have to try Allegra in the near future.
I have used Allegra and no will use it for my kids