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Traditional games played
in the garden including Aunt Sally, bowling games,
croquet, giant garden chess, lawn darts, quoits
and stoolball
Aunt
Sally are garden games
 All
you have to do is knock the Aunt Sally doll off
a swivel on the top of a post by throwing wooden
sticks at it (usually a set of 6 sticks). Not
really suitable for young children in this enlightened
age.
Bowling
Games - garden bowls is like indoor bowls
with a white jack and sets of colour coded bowls.
There is also Boules or Petanque
a French based game where you place the jack and
then compete to get your Boules as close as possible
by throwing the balls in an underarm motion.
Croquet
are garden games is a very old
game where you simply hit wooden or plastic balls
with a mallet through hoops embedded into the
lawn.
The rules have been modified slightly in different
countries, but you simply follow a pattern around
your lawn, if you get it through the hoop you
get to go again - first one home wins.
Giant
Garden Chess are garden games
big or small - it's still chess
Lawn
Darts is banned in the USA also known
as Jarts
Quoits garden games
 it's
a bit like horseshoe pitching where you throw
a circular ring of rope, metal or rubber over
a stick. How
to play quoits - garden games
Stoolball
are garden games
an early version of cricket - more
on Stoolball garden games
for
further information on garden games
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