at least 3 paper plates of different sizes for each player (any soft disc shaped material may be used like lids from margarine bowls )
crayons or markers
a yard or a park
markers like stones, blocks or baskets -9 in all
score paper
Each player personalizes their own plates or discs with the crayons or markers. While the players are doing that, the parent places the markers in strategic places around the yard, with at least 15 feet between each. Try to make the distance between containers as varied as possible.
Start the game 15 feet from the first container and let the youngest player go first. That player throws one of their plates Frisbee style towards the targeted container. Each player gets a turn. Then the youngest starts where their disc landed and tries again to get his or her disc as close to the container as they can. Everyone takes as many turns as they need to land one of their discs on or in the marker. Different sized discs are used for their own traits of flying straight or curved, or flying long distances or short ones.
Keep a tally on how many turns it took for each player to land on the marker. After they have landed on all nine markers, the one with the lowest tally wins.
Ribbon Tag
This is a good game to play at a child's party.
5 different colored ribbons at least 3ft long for each child playing the game
3 or more children
a whistle
a yard to run in
Each player tucks the end of five different colored ribbons in the back waist of their pants or shorts. When every player has them ready, a parent blows the whistle to start the game. The players then have to chase each other and grab ribbons from other children and tuck them with their own ribbons. The player with ten ribbons wins the game. An alternate way of winning is to get five ribbons of the same color.