After dark outside games

Teenagers can show off their knowledge of constellations. If you see one of them coming towards you, you are allowed to stop flashing your. This is a great, fun game for leading into topics like spiritual warfare, reaching the lost, etc.

Get some different colors of yard paint and paint a giant twister board out on the grass. You will be forced to choose your own adventure if you wish to make it to the end. Move closer or further away from the flashlight to see how the shadow figures change size. This is probably the most played outdoor night game for kids and teens in our neck of the woods.

Played outside in darkness, firefly requires three or four flashlights for the people who are going to be fireflies. We have played these fun games at dusk, after dark with some light, and with no light.

Try these games and activities to play in the dark, and see what new ones your kids come up with armed with their imaginations, flashlights and glow sticks! A mad scientist has poisoned you, locked you in his dungeon, and you only have 10 minutes to figure out how to escape. Come press play with us. Go grab some friends and have fun in the dark with these games, and check out 6 more bonus games at the bottom of the article.

Hide and seek in the dark. If you have very young children, i would suggest playing at dusk or with some ambient light so no one gets hurt, or scared. And hiding in the dark means you can find even more great hiding places. The seeker uses their flashlight to find those who are hiding. The object is to grab some kind of treasure she has at her side usually some kind of glow-in-the-dark toy and get back to the start with it without being caught. Fill plastic Easter eggs with mini-glow sticks.

Hide them around the yard then have your kids go on a treasure hunt to see how many they can find in the dark. The one who finds the most eggs wins a prize. Add glow-in-the-dark paint to the water in your water table. You can also drop in a variety of glow-in-the-dark toys and containers.

Let your kids paint on black paper with glow-in-the-dark paint — you could attach a large sheet to the fence or mix the paint with corn-starch and a little water and paint directly on the ground. It will easily wash away in the rain. You can paint hopscotch on the driveway and use glow-in-the-dark balls as markers.

I love all of them, especially the bowling and the scavenger hunt. Such creative ideas! Thank you so much for linking up to whatevertheweather xx. We love playing in the dark too, I remember many games of hide and seek with my dad and brother when we were little kids, so much fun!

Thanks so much for linking up to Whatevertheweather : x. We love playing hide and seek just before bed, it ensures we go to sleep with giggles and jumpy frights : a great of games there!

Thanks for sharing whatevertheweather x. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Love the flashlight scavenger hunt! We played flashlight tag and hide and seek this last week.

Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. What Parents Have to Say… There's always something new for us to discover, as well as old favorites. I am so grateful to have activities handed to us Fun and easy ones that can be put together in a moment's notice!

You're awesome Jamie and I appreciate you sharing your activities and ideas!! It is so easy to just put up the calendar, and glance at it for inspiration when we are in a funk.

This is exactly what I have been searching for! Thanks for making something so organized and easy to use. This takes down the need to scour the internet for ideas. It's like looking for a recipe on the internet, so many options that often times it is less overwhelming to look in a book on the shelf than stress about too many options. They have proven to me that I CAN be that mom that does cool and creative things with her kids! And those cool and creative things can actually be quite simple!