When frozen, have them stand with their legs apart so that other players can swim in between them and get them back in the game. How to play: An oldie, but a goodie! All the other swimmers will start scattering around the pool during the count. The rest of the players will line up at the end of the pool. How to play: Use a rope to section off a portion of the pool. Each player will get a beach ball they can use to knock their opponents into the rope. Materials Needed: This swimming pool game requires a few different materials.
How to play: Divide the kids into two teams and give them each an hour to create the strongest, fastest, and most wildly decorated boat possible using the materials listed above. When the time is up, each team must place their boats in the water; whichever one stays above water longest wins! How to play: Prepare your inflatables and toss them into the pool. How to play: Get the adults to collect a few plastic bottles.
Then, have them fill the bottles with water and place them around the bottom of the pool. After that, the kids are free to start their search. See who comes up for air with the most bottles in hand! Gather a bunch of different items that will both sink and float when placed in water. Think of things like coins, diving sticks, ping pong balls, and more.
Make sure you have at least two of everything. Toss the objects into the water and have one person from each team dive into the pool.
The first one to collect each item wins. How to play: This pool game only requires two players. Put them on a pool float or raft and send them off into the middle of the pool. Give the players pool noodles to use and let the jousting begin! See who knocks the other into the water first. How to play: This is a great one for little kids just learning how to swim! Ask the kids to join hands and form a circle in the shallow end of the pool.
On the final line, everyone should dunk down. This is a great way to get them comfortable holding their breath and swimming underwater. This pool game is best played with a large group of kids because you will want three or more people per team. This game is perfect for pool parties, family get-togethers or times when the entire baseball team is swimming together!
To play: All teams start at one side of the pool and have to get to the other side and back in different ways. Swimming underwater, swimming only with your left arm, swimming the backstroke, etc. The first team to complete the relay wins.
If your group is up for a challenge, this pool game is for you! Next, teach some diving basics. You can learn the basics of diving here. To play: After some practice dives, choose judges. Go fancy and have individually laminated pieces of paper with numbers 1 on them for the judges to hold up. All credit for this pool game goes to my Uncle Don. I still do this when I go to his pool! This game requires strong legs and strong lungs.
My uncle would usually offer a prize to anyone who could make it all the way across, so a little something for anyone who could make it all the way across might be fun. To play: The point is to make it all the way across the pool with one push off the side and one breath. In the pool, extend your arms and take a deep breath.
Put your face in the water and push off the side of the pool with all your might! Hold your breath until you touch the opposite side or until you have to come up for air. Did you ever play this game when you were a kid? It was played a lot at school and was a pool party game staple.
It works best with a large group. To play: Start with one person, the shark, in the middle of the pool. Give the shark boundaries that they cannot cross to get the minnows. The rest of the swimmers, the minnows, line up along one side of the pool. Anyone who is tagged becomes a shark. The last minnow standing becomes the shark for the next game.
This classic never gets old! Even the littlest of hands can get into pool games. Little kids love playing this pool fishing game, but the older kids enjoy it as well. Your kids will be building their hand-eye coordination without even knowing it. To play: Line all the racers up at one end of the pool and choose one person to be the referee. You can have them already on their floats or all in the pool and they have to mount when the whistle blows.
Either way, the objective is to see who can get from the starting line to the other end of the pool riding their float first! Anyone that falls off is disqualified. If you have a bunch of kids, you can do this as a relay with teams!
This game can be a little intense, so reserve it for your more rough-and-tumble kids. Or, check out this log raft game with canes. To play: Each player rides their raft like a horse in the middle of the pool. They each have a pool noodle and on the count of 3, they joust to see who can knock the other player off their raft first.
If you want to add a little math practice to your summer fun, this is the perfect game. It takes a little bit of prep work but can be used all summer long in a variety of ways for kids of all math abilities.
Start by using a permanent marker and numbering 25 or more! Then head to the pool! To play: Start by dividing the kids into 2 teams and place them with a bucket on opposite sides of the pool. Throw all the balls in the pool. Ready, set, go! Everyone jumps in and collects balls to put in their bucket.
However, you can only collect one ball at a time. When all the balls are collected, each side adds up their total older kids can help the younger kids with math and the highest-scoring team wins! The team with the highest score wins.
To play: The whole point is to try and stand on your pool noodle without falling off. Whoever can stay on the noodle the longest wins! This game is fun for kids and adults of all ages.
To play: All you need is some kind of ball to throw and enough room to jump into the pool. The first catcher stands at the edge of the pool and the pitcher throws the ball into the air in front of the catcher, who has to jump in and catch it before plunging into the water.
You can get creative with this game by having the catcher do a leap or a trick before catching. The catches can get more difficult, which ups the ante! This can also be done off a diving board, which makes it really fun as you can jump higher and farther!
While rubber ducks make this game super adorable, it can also be done with any number of other items that float like balls. To play: The players line up and each swimmer starts at one end of the pool with a rubber duck.
The object of the game is to get your rubber duck to the other side, without using your hands. Your kids may try blowing on them, pushing them with their forehead or nose, carrying them on their back or head. Let them get creative. The first one to the end of the pool wins! Take this fun basketball game to the pool! You can play this game with a pool basketball hoop , a bucket, or a round innertube.
To play: The first player has to try to make a basket from anywhere in the pool and if they make it, the next player has to repeat the shot exactly how the first person did. Bring a healthy dose of imagination for this game, but you could also use this as an educational activity to research some marine life. Sometimes my kids use gear like a snorkel, mask, or fins, but those are not necessary. To play: First, imagine a scuba diving scenario.
It could be searching for a sunken ship, looking for manta rays, or scouting out the Great Barrier Reef. Then gather any pool floats you have. My son prefers an inner tube. Next, sit on the edge of the floatie and fall backward into the water. Make sure to be far away from the edge of the pool.
If you have goggles or a mask, try to communicate with each other using just your eyes or hand signals, like real scuba divers. Be sure to share all of the interesting specimens you found on your dive. Talk about a fun find! Invisible bottle is one of the best swimming pool games for kids.
To play: Find a clear plastic 2-liter bottle with a clear or white cap. Fill it with pool water. Have everyone playing stand on the pool deck, turn their backs to the pool, and close their eyes. Throw the bottle into the water. The clear bottle will blend in and become almost invisible at the bottom of the pool. The first person to find it wins! Airball is lots of fun and a great game to play with a large group of people or the whole family.
We use a beach ball when we play this in the pool. No, thanks I'm already a PureWow fan. No, thanks I hate pretty things. Create a custom obstacle course for swimmers of any skill level with these swimming rings, which boast adjustable air chambers that allow them to stay in place at varying depths. Air Ball You know how your kids can spend hours playing with a sad helium balloon a week after the birthday party?
Well, this is the pool party version of that frantic form of entertainment—and no matter what, the beach ball cannot hit the water. The rules are simple just keep the ball up in the air and kids of all ages can dive and splash like professional athletes while you sit back and listen to the shrieks of joy i.
This pool party staple boasts an element of surprise that provides big thrills to little people. One child, stationed in the middle of the pool, plays the role of sneaky Mr. Fox while the innocents in the shallow end ask what time it is.
Whatever the Fox claims to be the hour on the clock is the number of paces the other players must take towards him. When, on a whim, Mr. Fox declares lunchtime then the intensity breaks Floatie Race Those pool toys look ideal for lounging and bobbing around, right?
But kids will have none of that laziness at their pool party. Instead, score a few of these sets-of-two inflatable sharks and have the young guests put those floaties to use for fast-paced fun. In that case, you have a riotously funny and fast-paced aquatic take on a classic. Plus, the pool affords a range of movement that could make anyone into a master of charades. Enter: Pool basketball. This fun game is a great way for children—and adults—to cool off in the heat while providing hours of entertainment.
Squirt Gun Stand-off The rules of engagement are flexible in this water war except for the one about not spraying poolside loungers but if you hand squirt-guns or water blasters to a bunch of kids, the fun is guaranteed. But kids must move fast, because any player that gets sprayed must surrender their weapon until the next round. The last one standing or swimming is the winner. Entertaining a group of kids is no easy task.
This one works just like regular old volleyball, except the swimming pool setting makes the game much more challenging—and way more fun. This top-rated set comes with an inflatable volleyball and a floating net that stays in place with anchor weights, plus a repair kit. Popsicle Freeze Tag Any kind of tag provides endless entertainment for little people, but the novelty and challenge of playing in water only adds to the fun. If you ever find yourself wishing those sibling clashes would feel more playful than stressful, the swimming pool is the solution.
Grab another grown-up and give both big kids a shoulder-height boost for a round of chicken fighting. This water version of the fast-paced sport, featuring padded foam sticks and a floating ball, is especially well-suited for kids. The game can be played with a group for a true team experience, or with only two players for some sibling fun—either way, it will provide hours of high-energy entertainment for kids of all ages.
But once your beloved is bigger, the game gets more fun. Swim school graduates can get their rocks off by diving for sunken treasure in the depths of a swimming pool, and this mission is just as entertaining solo as it is with a team effort involved. Try tossing a couple of these Squigz to the bottom of the ocean and see how fast kids can collect all the toys in the same color.
The prey and predator theme of this pool game packs plenty of kid-friendly thrills—just be prepared for your child to reveal her true, diabolical nature when she takes a turn as the shark. Then the minnows scatter and try to avoid the pretend jaws of their playmate. Of course, only the strongest swimmer will survive this action-packed pool game—but all parties will be ready for a sun-drenched snooze after. Fortunately, this take on the common theme is less Lord of the Flies and more pool party fun.
Small savages will delight in this aquatic activity—and all you have to do is toss a bunch of ping pong balls into a pool and challenge the children to collect them all as quickly as possible. Bonus: The kids do the cleanup for you. STEM learning in the pool? You betcha.
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