Indoor Games For Kids

SkyCamp helps keep kids active in summer months

Kids in Las Vegas don’t get enough physical activity during the summer.

That’s the premise behind SkyCamp, a five-week indoor summer camp where children age 6 to 12 can jump, flip and play games on large trampolines.

“We wanted to offer something for kids to do during the summer so they’re not sitting at home,” camp founder and General Manager Mallory Rueca said. “Kids here can go on the trampolines and they don’t realize they’re getting a workout.”

With school out for the summer, many children find themselves indoors playing video games or watching TV, said Rueca, 24.

They might escape the searing desert heat, but youngsters don’t get the physical activity they usually receive from their physical education classes and recess during the school year, she said.

That might help explain the high rate of childhood obesity in Southern Nevada.

A recent UNLV study of students entering the Clark County School District found that 34 percent of kindergartners were considered either overweight or obese, and state statistics show 38 percent of Nevada children are either overweight or obese, above the national average.

Rueca hopes to change the statistics with SkyCamp, which has served about 100 kids each summer for the past three years.

For $100 a week, SkyCamp attendees can play games such as dodgeball, tag and long jump on three trampoline fields at Sky Zone, 4915 Steptoe St. The day — which also includes snack time and arts and crafts — goes from 8:30 a.m. to noon every weekday, said Christin Shults, the camp’s team leader.

“Parents bring their kids here to get them moving and active,” the 21-year-old said. “They hope they’re nice and tired by the time they pick them up.”

Jumping on a trampoline can burn upward of 1,000 calories an hour because it involves full-body aerobic exercise, Shults said. However, unlike running around a track or on a treadmill, jumping on a trampoline is low impact on the knees, she added.

One recent afternoon, seven campers participated in a foursquare match, a popular playground game usually played on asphalt. Kids jumped around on trampolines as they hit balls across the room.

After a fierce match, Anthony Ikhtiari, 14, sat down with his peers for a brief snack break. With sweat clearly visible on his red T-shirt, Ikhtiari said he has enjoyed coming to SkyCamp for the past two years.

“I think it’s really fun — you can flip, run around and play games with friends,” he said. “It’s a great way to use your energy and it doesn’t feel like you’re exercising. I love this place.

Addicting Games for Kids | gizmogadgetguy.com

If you are a kid, what’s on your mind is to have fun. You will never think about your environment. Pull away the kids from those online addicting games or video games and let them involved to some other games. Let the kids addicted to fun games and let them enjoy. There are several games that do not require any materials in order to start the game. It can be simply organize by yourself without any hassle. Just be creative and let the kids have fun and entertained with these games.

Go for indoor games. Kids will surely love having a theme on the game. Mostly, kids are fond of watching cartoons that have story lines with a great idea. For an instance, the very popular kiddy show “Blues Clues”, where Blue the puppy loves to find clues. By that theme, kids will also find clues by scavenger hunt. From the traditional hunt, turn it into “Blue’s Treasure Hunt.” This will be an addicting game , because kids will love to play this all the time.

If it is all about girls, create a girl party and let all girls become a princess. Let them wear their old clothes, jewelry, hats and begin their princess transformation. Those little girls love to wear their Mom’s, Aunts, and Big sister clothes. Let the little girl dress up by the other girl, and make a contest. The best dressed girl will be title as the little princess of the day. After doing this pretty game, this would become an addicting game since little girls will dress themselves like a little princess.

Kids love to play outdoors playing with the other kids. In order to create an addicting game for kids, get them out of the house and let them play addicting balloon game because kids love to pop up balloons. Buy cheap balloons and blow them up. Insert a question inside the balloon that is written on a strip of paper. Put the balloons in bag A. Try to blow up more balloons and place to bag B doing the same procedure. Those messages in the second group of balloons are the things that they will do if they got the wrong answer. All they have to do is to pop up the balloon and answer the question inside; if they answer it they will stay for the next round but if not they will pop the balloon in bag B and follow the instruction inside. When all the questions are answered, the game is over.

Another addicting game in outdoor is hide and seek. But it is different from the traditional game, since there is a new twist. “Kick the can” will work for at least three kids. One person is “it” and the guard is “can”. When the “it” counts to 100, the players will hide and try to find the players. If caught, the player must go to jail. The player who hasn’t been caught will kick the can, to set all the caught players free. However, if the “it” finds everyone, he wins the game.

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