Inclusive Yard Games: With Rule Changes for Visually Impaired Players

Fun, inclusive, school yard games as a resource for teachers and parents, especially those looking for outdoor game ideas while school is closed.

"I loved this book! It is going to make yard time a lot more fun for many boys and girls." Visiting Teacher

Maya Kostick is a visually impaired school student in Dublin, Ireland.

Conor Kostick is on the advisory board of National Braille Production and the Executive of Féach, the Irish organisation for parents of visually impaired children.

In this short book we’ve set out the rules of around thirty popular schoolyard games and suggested adaptions to make them inclusive for VI children. They have been tried and tested by Maya and her friends.

Our hope is that teachers, parents and kids will find this helpful and our suggestions, based on Maya’s experience, will lead to a lot of fun and laughter in other schoolyards and at home.

Games include: Pizza; Crocodile, Crocodile; What's the Time Mr Wolf?; Hopscotch; Frog in the Pond; Blind Man's Bluff; Marco Polo; Bulldogs; Red Rover; The Stone Game; Stuck in the Mud; Rounders; Leapfrog ; Soccer; Keepy-Uppy; Corners; Wriggle; Flush the Toilet; Snatch the Bacon; Duck, Duck, Goose; Cops and Robbers; Seven Up

As a novelist, Conor is a White Ravens and IBBY Honours List winner. He was shortlisted for the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults awards and has won the Reading Association of Ireland's Special Merit award.