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15 Fun Beach Games For Adults and Kids

Everyone loves to spend time on the beach with their family and friends. Beaches are a great place to enjoy some quality time away from the city noise and close to nature with a pleasant environment. India has many beautiful and safe beaches, where one can spend quality time with their with loved ones and relieve stress. Other than just hanging out at the beach, viewing sunset and sunrise, people also love to enjoy the beach by playing games to free from stress and have fun with their family and friends.

Beach games are a great way to create bond within the family during your vacation. It is also a great way to interact, exercise and have fun at the beach with the others. Here are some Beach games suitable for our Indian beaches.

Beach Games for Kids

Sharks and minnows/ Beach Tag

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This is basically a game for a group of kids, aged from 4 and above. It is a nice time killer for kids who like to run around and play with other kids while enjoying the beach.

Before going into the game; select a kid as a shark and make others minnows. Then make play area boundaries like a big rectangle/circle by drawing over the sand. The instruction is – The minnows will be inside the boundaries and Shark in the middle. Game begins when Shark says fishy, fishy, come and play and starts to chase down the minnows. Minnows have to avoid the shark attack and run around the boundaries. When Shark touches a minnow, it becomes the shark and chases the minnow.

There are many variations in this game like instead of becoming shark, the tagged can become seaweed and should not move until the shark/fish comes and touches. Apart from the name shark, you can use the names like piranhas, octopus and others. And you can also change the rules to make it simple or difficult as you like.

Water Gun Fight

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Kids love water guns and playing with water guns is an absolute pleasure for them. But a simple water guns play can be boring for the kids. So making it as a challenge for them can turn this simple game into an interesting one for them.

This game can be played by any numbers of players. First, prepare the water guns filled with water and also a container/bucket of water for each player/team to refill the gun. Divide the group into two and allot them their space. You can add obstacle or target to enhance the play time. Apart from water gun you can also use water balloon for fun.

Water Bucket Relay

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Water Bucket Relay is a simple game which can be played between two players or a group of people. This game needs a few things like two buckets or container, one to fill the water and another with water. You also need some other items, such as the plastic spoon, cup, large shell, spoon, cloth, etc to carry water.

If you have two players then give each kid a property like spoon or mug to carry water and place an empty container at a distance to fill it with the water. The first one who fills the container to the mark is the winner. If they are many numbers of kids, then you can divide them into teams and make them pass/relay the water from one player to another player without spilling much of the water and fill the bucket. Whichever team fills first is the winner.

And the kids love the challenge of trying to keep the water from spilling out before they fill the bucket. This game is not only fun, but also teaches kids about the teamwork, skill, and patience.

Sand Castle

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This age-old game is still a popular one when we think about beach games for kids. Kids love to play in sand and love to make homes and castle with sand on the beach. Turn this into an interesting one by making it competitive for kids. Ask them to build a nice Sandcastle using tools like molds, bucket, and shovels within a time limit. And then judge and appreciate the team that built the tallest, neat and creative castle. This game to teaches kids about team work and planning.

Build a tunnel town

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Another classic game for all the kids is Sand Digging at the beach. All the kids love to dig sands at the beach and we all have dug the beach sand and had fun. To make it even more interesting and fun, divide the kids into teams of 2 or 3 kids and tell them to build a tunnel like structure on the beach, whoever creates a long and string tunnel is the winner. Or else you can simply ask them to dig a hole as deep as possible and one who digs a large and deep hole is a winner. It will be quite fun for kids with such things and time passes.

 

Scavenger hunt

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Treasure hunt or Scavenger hunt makes the kid play with a purpose. Make a list of the Scavenger hunt basically found on the beach such as different types of shells, rocks, etc and ask every kid to collect all the items in the list to be a winner. If you are concerned about leaving the kids on the beach freely; you can play this game by hiding the items such as toys, shells, stones, etc into the sand and ask them to find. whoever discovers the most number of items is the winner.

Musical Towels

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Musical towels game is similar to  the Musical chairs game, instead of chairs here we use beach towels as the spot and also instead of sitting; they have to lie down on the towel. Whoever plays till the last without losing the spot is the winner.

Beach Games for Adults

Limbo Dance

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Limbo is a fun and challenging game for adults. One can use any item like a Stick, rod, and rope or long beach towel to challenge others to dodge or do the limbo dance below the bar. With bar lowered each time, whoever passes the bar without touching or falling down till the end is the winner. Don’t forget to play some beach theme songs or entertaining numbers in the background for more fun.

Frisbee Golf

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The Beach is a nice place to play the Frisbee as the atmosphere is just perfect. You can turn this simple game into an entertaining one by making it a challenging game as Frisbee Golf. Set the target on the beach by using various items available like a towel, hula loop, and upside down umbrella or a big hole in the sand for throwing the Frisbee into it. Take chances to throw the Frisbee one by one and count it. The player who takes the least number of tosses to reach the target is the winner.

Tug of war

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Which is the best place to play Tug of War? It is definitely the beach.  Playing this classic beach game is great fun with the involvement of all the members of a family from the children’s to adults and friends. Get some rope or a really long towel and mark the center of the towel basically with a piece of cloth and also note center of the sides with pulling limits. The team which successfully pulls off the center limit of the rope to their side has won the game.

Kite flying Challenge

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What will be the best place to fly kites? The beach, the breeze, and atmosphere of the beach is a great place for kite flying. Rather than flying the kite on the beach for the longest hour, make it little interesting  by putting up a challenge like whose kite fly high or who cut the most numbers of rope of the other kites in the game. Not just adults you can join your kids and other members in this game for fun.

Beach Cricket

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Cricket is one of the most celebrated games on Indian beaches. You can see a group of young boys often play at the beach with their friends. If you have a team of members, be it large or small, one can play cricket in the beach until you get tired or win the match. Cricket is kind of a household game in India. Not only with friends, you can play cricket with your family and kids.

Beach Volleyball

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Beach Volley Ball is another most favorite beach games by teenagers and adults. A group of 4 members or more can play this game on the beach. One need not be a professional to play this game on the beach, but it is a great time killer and its fun. But make sure you have the volleyball and net for proper playing.

Bocce Ball beach

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Bocce Ball is a simple yet interesting game to play with the adults and also children. The basic concept of this game is to throw/roll a ball to the target – A Jack; whoever bocce the ball closest to the jack is the winner. This game can be played by two or more members in a pair and team depending upon the size. A target can be anything a water bottle or a small ball, and bocce item can be any ball in different colors or else can use rocks, pebbles and other beach treasures to play the game.

Beach Ball Hot Potato

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This is a great fun and party game, which can be played by all ages. You can play this game with a small group of 4 members to higher numbers. It starts by assembling all the players rather sitting or standing in a circle facing each other. And when the music starts in the background,a ball need to be passed. When the music stops, the person who has the ball will be asked to do some activities like telling a joke.

These are some of the beach games, which you can play with your kids, family and friends to have a memorable vacation.

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