Materials

• Playground, park, driveway, or lawn
• Bright, sunny day

Directions

The idea of this game is to try to tag someone by stepping on their shadow. First, have your child find his or her shadow. By changing directions and moving around, see what happens to the shadow. Try to chase the shadow-and lose the shadow. To play tag, whoever is "it" must try to step on another's shadow. When this happens, that child or person becomes "it."

Source: Excerpted from 365 Days of Creative Play by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray (Sourcebooks, 1995)