Looking for games kids can play?

This section of the site features fantastic, fun, and practical reader ideas for games kids can play!

Whether your child is a toddling two-year-old, an adventurous three-year-old or an inventive seven-year old, you're sure to have a few tricks up your sleeve when it comes to playing fun games with your child during the day!

The suggestions sent in are all excellent - thanks to everyone for their ideas, and keep 'em coming!

I've grouped them by age, but you can mix and match. My nine year old son would still have a great giggle playing lots of these games :)

So do feel free to use whichever game ideas suit you and your child.

Games for two year olds

A huge range of reader-submitted games, such as What's in the Bag, Bubble Bash, Find Dolly - or how about Imaginative Egg Cartons?

Rhyming fun, Godzilla, Jack be Nimble - or is your child a Little Baker - ahhhh! Wonderful ideas here showing some great creativity.

Lots more fun and games here, with ideas for finding the bunny games, word games around the house, and some cute teddy bear games.

Games for three year olds

• Fun games for kids who are 3 years old
  Pick-Up Poster, Feel and Guess, Fridge Sentence Builder, Row Your Boat or Musical Hula-Hoops - what an imaginative crowd you are!

• Activities for three year olds
  Another superb collection of ideas for 3 year olds - followed by...

• More games for three year olds
  Coloring, collecting, dancing, jumping, singing, flying - your ideas seem to tell me you're all pretty busy with those three year olds :)

Games for four year olds

• Games for 4 year olds
  Includes Balloon Tennis, a Supermarket Alphabet game, Stomach Hockey or just good ol' Diggin' in the Dirt! Check out these imaginative games kids can play all sent in by you!

• More games for four year olds
  Find the Chick, The Funny Fruit, and Silly Choices are three ideas submitted in this next selection of ideas for games our four year olds can play.

Games for five year olds

• Kid games to play with 5 year olds
  Scarecrow Tiggy, Guess the Letter - or how about a Trampoline Memory Game?

• More games for five year olds!
  Matching, guessing, tracing - and even fishing feature here, as well as some group game ideas.

Games for six year olds

• Kid games for 6 year olds
  Go Fish, Patio Chalk, and that very de-e-e-p question... "Who Am I?"

Games for seven year olds

• Games for 7 year olds
  Try I Spy, Card Match, or try an interactive home-style DVD music trivia game!

Games kids can play... what's working for you at the moment?

Maybe you and your child are enjoying a particular game

• when you're playing with toys together
• when your child is having fun in the bathtub
• at mealtimes
• in the car
• out in the yard
• at the store
• or before bedtime

- and these games kids can play could be word or picture games, funny story games, tickling games, race and chase or catching and throwing games, singing or counting or making funny faces - you get the idea!

I hope you find all the ideas on this part of the site useful :)