Before they're lost - Is it time to reintroduce traditional kids’ games? Top 20!

Good old fashioned games that get kids involved

Researchers polled the nation’s parents and revealed a list of long-standing games and activities that modern kids are clueless about, with more than a third (36 per cent) having never played the classic game of tag.

Other traditional games that have fallen by the wayside include Grandmother’s Footsteps (91 per cent), Leapfrog (81 per cent), British Bulldogs (79 per cent), games of conkers (66 per cent) and Piggy in the Middle (56 per cent).

The poll, which was commissioned by Persil as part of it’s Dirt Is Good campaign, also found that three quarters (76 per cent) of modern kids have never made a rope swing and 72 per cent have never played stuck in the mud, while 72 per cent don’t know what pooh sticks is.

Meanwhile seven in ten kids (71 per cent) have never enjoyed a traditional summer game of rounders and 69 per cent have never been on a scavenger hunt.

The research of 1,000 parents of five to 12 year-olds reveals that it’s been three months since the average UK child got muddy while playing outside.

And almost four in ten (37 per cent) parents say their kids find gaming far more exciting than the outdoors.While over half (54 per cent) of parents say they find it hard to balance their children’s love of online gaming with time spent being outside.

In fact 57 per cent of the parents polled confess their kids have no real connection to nature or the great outdoors.

And a fifth of parents (22 per cent) admit they worry that their child’s lack of connection to nature means they will struggle to understand how important it is to protect the environment.

In response to this Persil created an elaborate hoax with gaming influencers in a bid to harness the power of this virtual community and show kids that playing traditional games can be just as interesting as the virtual counterparts.

A team of six influential gamers were led to believe they were getting an exclusive look at the latest game release, a sports simulation game called TAG.