Summer is here, and it’s the best time to encourage your children for the outdoor games. It’s the best option if you have a backyard or a big compound where your kids can play. Make sure the safety of your child and give them best opportunities to learn and explore the world around them.

Outdoor play contributes to the cognitive, social and emotional well-being of children and improves their strength, liveliness, and fitness. Outdoor sports are important for physical growth and development of children. Taking part in outdoor sports help to reduce laziness in children. Encouraging outdoor sports in children will help to prevent disorders like obesity in children.

Exposure to natural environments improves children's cognitive development by improving their awareness, reasoning and observational skills.

There are different types of options that you can give your children for outdoor games in summer like:

• Ball games in the local park
• Walk or cycle ride in a nature reserve
• Using a skate park
• Exploring the beach
• Swimming
• Fossil hunting
• Potato sack races
• Running around with a paper streamer
• Catching games
• Kicking and throwing using a soft ball
• Running and stopping and hitting a soft ball
• Bounce houses and slides at parties and other events
• Inflatable water slides
• Fill up some water balloons and design to have a good, old-fashioned water balloon fight

These exciting summer outdoor games for children will inspire your child to get outside and have fun rather than sitting in front of the television or computer all summer. These are the great way to promote enjoyable and health activity and add great excitement and value to any outdoor event as best outdoor entertainment for kids.