Inclusive Yard Games

Fun, inclusive, schoolyard games as a resource for teachers and parents.

In this short book, we’ve set out the rules of around 30 popular schoolyard games and suggested adaptions to make them inclusive for visually impaired children. They have been tried and tested by Maya and her friends.

Our hope is that teachers, parents and kids will find this helpful and our suggestions, based on Maya’s experience, will lead to a lot of fun and laughter in other schoolyards.

As a novelist, Conor is a White Ravens and IBBY Honours List winner. He was shortlisted for the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults awards and has won the Reading Association of Ireland's Special Merit award.

Maya Kostick is a school student in Dublin, Ireland.

List of games:

• Coconut Crack
• Sprouts (or Mushrooms)
• Jack Frost and the Sunshine Pizza
• Crocodile, Crocodile
• What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
• Hopscotch
• Frog in the Pond
• Blind Man's Bluff
• Marco Polo
• Bulldogs
• Red Rover
• Skipping Games - Long Rope
• Skipping Games - Short Rope
• Tip the Can (Icky 1,2,3)
• Snake Game
• The Stone Game
• Stuck in the Mud
• Rounders
• Leapfrog
• Soccer
• Keepy-Uppy
• Corners
• Wriggle
• Flush the Toilet
• Snatch the Bacon
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Cops and Robbers
• Seven Up/Heads Down, Thumbs Up
• The Floor Is Lava
• Beanbag Toss