These days it is more difficult to get children to play outside as all the video games are inside and games that do not involve electricity in some form are fewer. However, playing outside has huge impact on kid’s emotional and physical well-being. What is more, as many parents became more concerned about their offspring fitness level, outdoor play in, e.g. a sand pit now has been recommended. Here is one idea, how to spend some time outdoor and have a lot of fun.

The game I Spy is very common one and is played by children quite often. Initially started by parents to occupy bored children during a car journey.

• I spy is one of the first games that a lot of children learn to play when they know colors or letters. This game is ideal whenever a kid has to wait for example for a meal in a restaurant or to see a GP in a hospital, however, it is also a good game when a child is outdoors.

• A child or a parent has to choose something from the place where everyone is and that thing has to be easily visible in order to be guessed. The person gives it color: example “I spy with my little eye something yellow”. Then the other players have to guess what is it until someone gets it right and then that person does the same.

• Also it is possible to use letters instead of colors. Then a child or a parent has to give the initial letter of the object instead of its color: example “I spy with my little eye something beginning with C

•If the object is difficult to be guessed then few clues about this object should be given. Example a dining table can be described such as “something that is made of wood and is rectangular and has four legs”

• Also it is possible to change this game slightly especially when outdoors and instead of “I spy with my little eye” use “I hear with my little ear something beginning with B”. Then a child or a parent choose something that makes noise that everyone can hear it and tries to describe it.

This game can be played everywhere at home, in the car or in your garden, e.g. in the sandpit.