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How to Play: Dizzy Basketball

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I'm seeing double! Credit: paolo.demarchi, FlickrWhat you need: You need a basketball hoop, basketballs, and baseball bats. How to play: Divide the players into equally numbered teams. Give each team a basketball and a baseball bat. The rules: One player at a time from each team will go to his baseball bat, bend over, put his head on the bat end, and circle it for five times while remaining bent over. Then he will pick up his basketball, dribble to the hoop, shoot a basket, and rebound the ball to bring back to his team. He tags the next player…

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How to Play: Poison Pool Toss

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Flying noodle! Credit: Marcus Q, FlickrWhat you need: You need a swimming pool, a rope or net, and two baskets of lots of pool toys, such as noodles and soft-sided balls.How to play: Divide the pool in half with a rope or net. Divide the children into two teams and have each team get in the pool -- one team on one side of the rope and the other team on the other side. Make sure each basket has the same number of pool toys. Dump the baskets of toys into the pool (one basket for one side and the…

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How to Play: What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?

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Is it dinnertime yet, Mr. Wolf? Credit: Getty ImagesWhat you need: You need at least four players and something to serve as home base (a tree, a porch or a patio).How to play: Choose one player to be "Mr. Wolf." All other players stand at a designated home base. Mr. Wolf stands about 20 feet away from the other players with his back to them. The rules: The players shout out, "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?" Mr. Wolf turns around to face them and says a time. The players take the same number of steps forward towards Mr. Wolf as…

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Parents Find Playing With Kids 'Boring,' And Kids Know It

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Does family game night bore you to tears? Credit: .A.A., Flickr If you fear your head may explode if you have to play one more board game or build yet another village out of blocks, you're not alone. A new survey commissioned by Disneyland Paris found that more than 20 percent of British parents have forgotten how to play with their kids, and 30 percent of moms and dads find any kind of play boring, UK's The Independent reports. And if you think your kids can't read your poker face, think again: The survey also reveals that 16 percent of…

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How to Play: Dead Box

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Enter the dead box and you're out! Credit: Leo Reynolds, flickrWhat you need: You need a concrete surface outdoors, chalk, and bottle caps.How to play: Draw a large box with the chalk on the concrete surface. In the middle of the box, draw a small box with a skull and cross bones inside it. This is the dead box. Then you will draw and number 13 small boxes around the deadbox. You will use the bottle caps as playing pieces.The rules: The object of the game is to flick the bottle caps into each of the 13 numbered boxes. If…

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How to Play: Hole in the Bucket

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Holes in the coffee cans ensure that extra bit of fun! Credit: vfowler, FlickrWhat you need: You need two large coffee cans, three large trash cans or 30-gallon tubs, and a water source.How to play: To prep the coffee cans for the game, you will punch several holes in the sides and bottoms of the cans using a hammer and nails. Be sure to hammer from the outside of the cans to prevent sharp edges on the outside of the cans. To make sure there are no sharp edges around the top of the cans, hammer around the inside edge…

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