Balloon Baseball!

Best Played: Indoors

Supplies Needed: 

• Balloons
• Paper Plates

Basic Rules:
It’s super complicated. Imagine baseball, but with a balloon in your living room. There is a pitcher and one batter. The pitcher throws the balloon to the hitter, and the hitter swings their hand to hit the balloon.

Want a game that will get your children (and yourself) utterly exhausted? This is your game. Blow up a balloon and start playing. I use paper plates as bases, but you can use anything, even just paper. 

For younger kids, I use all 4 bases (they don’t have to be that far apart from each other). I don’t count it as an out if I catch the balloon, and I let them throw the balloon at me to get me out. I frequently throw the balloon really hard right behind them (so they think I am actually trying). I also only do 1 out, and you have to round all the bases so you are constantly going back and forth between pitching and hitting.

For older kids, I do play that if you catch the balloon it is an out. This encourages them to hit it toward the ground. You can also play with ghost runners. This means if you get to first base and don’t get tagged with the balloon, you can declare a ghost runner on first and re-hit. But on the next hit, if the pitcher is able to get the balloon and tag second before you get to first, the ghost runner is out. For quicker games, only use 1 out instead of 3.