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Home Fun & Games Kid Games 30 Best Field Day Activities for Kids

30 Best Field Day Activities for Kids

By: Britni Vigil
4/29/2022Updated: 4/29/2022
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Take the stress out of planning an incredible field day and searching for all the best field day activities for kids of all ages with these epic field day ideas. Now you can be as excited as the students are as you plan the best field day yet!

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Next week is field day at my son’s elementary school and I can’t begin to tell you how excited he is about it. And understandably, I remember field day being one of the highlights of every year when I was in school what feels like a million years ago!

When everyone can’t wait to get to the end of the school year, it’s definitely a highlight!

As someone who plans a lot of games and parties, I understand how much work goes into planning field day for an entire school. That’s why I’ve put together the ultimate collection of field day activities – these work for any age from preschool to elementary school!

And these are unique activities like ball games, water games, and outdoor games , not just the traditional activities like a sack race, camping games, or wheelbarrow race for your next field day. The kids will be talking about this one until next field day!

Messy Field Day Activities

Let’s start with the ones that get kids the most excited – games that get them messy, wet, or something similar. These are often times the most popular games because they’re ones that they don’t typically get to do during the school year!

Water games just to get wet
Water Games
This post has 20 different water games that are perfect for kids of any age! There are so many hilarious ideas (the water game with plastic cups for example), I just couldn't pick one! Plus everyone's favorite water balloon toss! You could find your entire set of field day activities just in this one post!
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Tipsy Waiter
Watch out you might get wet! This is a hilarious event where kids will spin circles around a baseball bat and then try to walk in a straight line and carry a tray filled with cups of water.
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adults launching wet sponges
Sponge Launcher
This is a super simple activity, see how far you can slingshot a wet large sponge. You could also play this one kind of like human battleship where you're trying to hit players on the opposing team with your shots!
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Family trying to get each other shaving cream
Shaving cream fight
Here's a great activity for older kids, but the younger ones will love it too. Have a teacher hand out cans of shaving cream and let the game begin- shaving cream fight. Make sure there's a safe area for kids who need a break from participating and a time limit!
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Squirt gun painting
This one is something the art teacher will appreciate. Fill squirt guns with water and a bit of paint and then have kids squit the squirt guns at a canvas or large paper to create a new design.
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Water balloon pinata
Hang water balloons from a clothesline and watch the kids take a whack at them. Make sure to have an extra bucket of water handy to keep making balloons. This is perfect for a hot day!
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Relay Races for Field Day

If there’s one thing I know about field day, it’s that relay races are a must! There’s just something about working with a team of your friends or classmates to compete against each other that is so fun!

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Spell It
Just because it's field day doesn't mean learning can't be involved! In this fun game, kids have to run across the field, find letters to spell a word, then return to tag the next player to go! We did this with my son, and he had so much fun he forgot it was even educational!
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Pizza box relay race
Relay races are always a hit and this one will be too. Each relay participant will start behind the start line, carry a stack of pizza boxes back and forth and pass it off to the next player. The first team to get all boxes and students across the finish line wins!
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Chicken Sticks
Start by breaking students into small groups.  Each team has a pool noodle that’s been cut in half that will be used as the sticks. The first student will use the noodles to pick up a rubber chicken and run to a spot a few yards away then return with the chicken to pass off to the next student. The event continues until the entire team has had every student participate.
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Pool Noodle Obstacle Course
We're on a roll with pool noodles! Use pool noodles with connectors to make a course for the kids to go thru, jump over, crawl under, etc. Easy way to have so much fun and great to do in a relay!
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Sporty Activity Stations

While field day is about having fun, it doesn’t mean you can’t get a little exercise too! These are some of my boys’ favorite field day activities because they incorporate sports into silly games!

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Basebowl
This hilarious game is played as a team and incorporates both baseball and bowling into one funny game! We played it with my nieces and nephews and everyoned loved it!
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Football Toss
This is kind of like bean bag toss except you have board with holes to throw a football through. This is a fun game for those jocks who love a little friendly competition.
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Goal Kick
This game is simple. Use sidewalk chalk to draw a goal on the side of the school wall and see how many points can be scored by each student or break groups of students into teams.
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Human Foosball
If yout have kids who enjoy competitive games, they'll love Human Foosball. Take the classic game of tabletop foosball and turn it into a live game. This activity is a great way to practice good sportsmanship and teamwork getting the ball to the other end of the field.
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Pool Noodle Soccer
Soccer Ball March
This is so much fun and so easy! Use pool noodles to make arches all around the field then kids can kick soccer balls around and make it through all the goals, kind of like an obstacle course. Or you can turn it into croquet using the instructions in this ball games post!
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Fly Swatter Golf
The perfect activity for younger students! It's basically a relay race using a fly swatter to make it down the course and back to your teammates before swapping off to the next person.
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a family hitting a beach ball with their feet
Circle Footie Game
This one looks absolutely hilarious and all you need is a beach ball! Everyone sits in a circle and tries to keep the beach ball in the air with just their feet. It's kind of like Keepy Uppey (any Bluey fans!?!) but with your feet and a beach ball!
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ring toss made out of pool noodles
Pool Noodle Ball Toss Game
Use the pool noodles to make different stations for the kids to throw a ball through.
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Backyard slingshot
One of the best rated fun field day games when the kids went virtual but it can be played at school too. Create a large slingshot to sling soccer balls at upside down 5 gallon buckets!
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Other Field Day Activities for Kids

And if that’s not enough ideas for you, check out these other great field day games and activities! I went through this list with my oldest son, and he vouched for all of these activities!

Ring Toss Game
This classic carnival game is a great thing for hand eye coordination. Simply have a bunch of bottles all lined up and have the kids aim and and try to land a ring around a bottle neck. You could do any of these carnival games too!
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Hula Hoop Blocker
The object of the game is to try to toss your bean bags into the opposing teams hula hoop. Then when it's their turn you use your hands, feet, anything you can to block their bean bags from entering your hula hoop.
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Bean Bag Toss at Cans
This takes the classic toss across bean bag game and has the kids aiming at cans. if you have to plan a virtual field day, this would be a super easy virtual event.
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kids standing with pool noodles
Standing Pool Noodle Game
This is like musical chairs, but with pool noodles. Lots of laughter and physical activity.
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In Between Field Day Activity Ideas

Sometimes you have downtime between the fun activities but still need to keep kids entertained. These are a fun ideas that you can have setup that kids can play in those in between time periods!

Or these could also just be used when you’re looking for a little slower field day event

giant matching cards on a lawn
Giant Matching Game
This one is pretty self explanatory, you make giant cards and have matching pair items on them. Kids can even help make these cards in art class! it's a great way to combine art and physical education.
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Sidewalk Chalk Obstacle Course
Pretty self explanatory, use chalk to create the ultimate obstacle course. You can even incorporate the playground equipment or hula hoops. Feel free to increase the difficulty for the older kids and decrease it for younger kids.
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painted rocks on a burlap sack
Rock tic tac toe
Decorate rocks different ways and let the kids play tic tac toe with the rocks. It's an easy activity when kids need a chance to wind down a bit.
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kids playing floor square
Floor Square
Take your classic four square game and take it to the floor! This one may not work as well for young children, but elementary students and above would love it!
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More Fun Activities for Kids

If you still need even more ideas, make sure to check out these kids activities too!

  • Swimming pool games – the best games to play at, in, and near the swimming pool! Some of these would also work if you had a kiddie pool at field day!
  • Outdoor games – the best outdoor games ever including tons of yard games, family reunion games, and more!
  • Minute to win it games – tons of super easy games including ones that definitely could work as field day activities!
  • Math games for kids – tons of fun math games that are educational but also really fun!
  • Board games for kids – if you need some downtime for field day or something fun to do in classrooms after, these board games are the best we’ve ever tried!
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