Hide and seek

First you pick someone to be it (the person to seek) then he/she turns around and counts with their eyes closed at the ""base"" while the rest of the people hide.
Then ""It"" says ""Ready or Not, Here I Come"" and rushes to find everyone. Then the people try to get to base without getting tagged or else they are ""It"". If the person who is ""It"" doesn't get someone in three tries he gets to pick a man to be it!
---Tag
The basic rules to Tag are quite simple. All you need is a group of kids and a decent sized backyard. One person is designated as ""it"", and that person runs around and tries to touch someone else.
If they succeed, the person they touch is now ""it"" and tries to chase everyone else. The game continues until everyone is exhausted or until Mom finishes that batch of chocolate chip cookies!
---Up and down
The game is based on the traditional tag games: one person is it and runs to catch the other players on the field.
But rather than having one home base to run to for safety, base is anything that you can climb up on top of. So, for instance, if you are playing this game out in the yard, you can jump up on a chair, a tree branch, the porch, and you will be safe.
---Come a little closer
Best played at night when it is dark or where there are a lot of hiding places.
One person is 'it' the person that is it finds a base not too big or too small, set boundaries but don't make the boundaries too big, the person that is it should be able see comfortably all four corners of the boundaries.
The person that is 'it' shuts his eyes and counts to 20 while the other people hide. When 'it' is done counting he opens his eyes and says, for example ""Jim behind the shed"" or ""Sally at the side of the white fence."" Or wherever he thinks the people are. If he can't find anybody 'it' says ""come a little closer 1,2,3,4,5,"" with his eyes closed.
While he dose that the other people that are hiding come a little closer, or if you think you can make it to the base before 'it' counts to 5 you can try to make a mad dash for the base. You just keep doing that over and over until everybody's caught. Oh I almost forgot the 'it' has to have one part of his body on the base he cannot let go of it.