The best free games for children to play encourage their imagination and creativity. Those pastimes which encourage the use of motor skills in conjunction with imagination are the best free games.
When I was growing up, back before video games we kids had to come up with our own best free games and we had so much fun. Very few of us were over weight, we had deep natural tans from being outside from sun up until sun down. We swam, played baseball, climbed trees, and chased the cows until we would be caught then we would be put on restriction for a while but we sure enjoyed the best free games out imaginations could conjure up.
Swimming was one of the best free games for us kids of the hill, it kept us cool on the long hot summer days. The swimming hole in the creek we spent countless hours swimming in could be seen from our house, so mom never worried about us.
She did watch us closely though, so much so that one day we girls though we would sneak in some swimming after mom told us to not get our clothes wet. Our clothes were tossed up on the bank so we would not get them wet, and we thought we were following her rules but that was not to be. We all got restricted to the house and could not go near the creek for 3 days, three very long days indeed without the best free games we loved.
You see the creek was in a field and many of the best free games we could think of were played down there. All off them were off limits to us as much as the creek was for those three days our favorite, the best free games were not to be played. We could not go fishing, or hunting for the crabs, which were two of the best games that kept us so entertained. We often would build dams to trap the little fish in the creek, to keep them alive when the hot summer sun would dry up the creek bed.
Over the creek laid huge trees with low hung branches that we used to ride upon, I am not sure the name of these trees, but the branches would swing but not break and we loved them. It was one of the best free games to play down by the creek, as when we closed our eyes we could be riding a horse or flying on an air plane.on the banks of the creek in the field.
We would play some of the best free games like tag where we would run and chase each other all over. We just did not play any form of tag, we would play freeze tag everyone would run and when the person who was it tagged a person; you had to freeze in your position. Some of the positions we were froze into were silly or uncomfortable but we loved it.
We would also play TV tag in which you could yell out the name of a television show before you were tagged and you were free. We played music tag and just about every kind of tag we could think on the banks of that creek. These were some of the best free games to play on a hot summer day down by the creek and when we got restricted from the creek we also got restricted from playing all these other things.
We played baseball, football, and Frisbee these were the best free games for our activity filled days, good for our bodies and good for moral. We learned about helping each other by being on teams, we played hard sometimes too hard like when my nose got broken in a rough game of touch football with the boys in the neighborhood.
Our imaginations soared and we learned all about creativity and problem solving skills, but most of all we had so much fun while playing the best free games we could think of.
The only cost of all these best free games we played was the bumps, bruises and occasionally broken bones or twisted ankles but the knowledge we learned and the fun we had were priceless.
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