Lawn games made in the USA are a blast for everyone. They’re the ultimate boredom buster for kids and teenagers, a fun way for family members to enjoy one another’s company, and a means for building camaraderie between friends and other groups. Keep reading to learn more about the best lawn games for outdoor fun!
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When I was a child, my brother and I played a number of fun outdoor games. Most notable were croquet, lawn darts, and Wiffle ball. He was much better than I at all of them, and he got a kick out of sending my croquet ball across the lawn. Today, remembering our time together brings a smile to my face.
My in-laws introduced me to bocce about 20 years ago, and that game, along with croquet and cornhole with locally made bean bags, remains our staple family games, but there are so many more to choose from!
Select from a classic game like horseshoes or the ring toss game, perennial favorites like cornhole, or find a new and exciting family game such as yard dominoes or tower tumble made from wooden blocks.
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10 Reasons for Playing Yard Games
A number of good reasons exist for playing yard games, the most obvious being outdoor enjoyment during the warm weather. As you play, so much more is going on:
- You’re interacting with others.
- Kids of all ages, from 5 to 95, are enjoying a fun activity together.
- Young children are developing hand-eye coordination.
- You’re modeling what healthy, friendly competition looks like.
- You can play just about anywhere, from small spaces to your own backyard or corporate events held in large parks.
- Outdoor play boosts physical fitness, from bending and stretching to throwing and catching.
- It's a great way to learn to work as a team.
- Different games offer different strategy-building techniques.
- Awkward conversations at your corporate event? Playing a lawn game in your company's outdoor space enables better, easier interaction, especially when the game requires a number of players.
- Hosting a neighborhood backyard barbecue or family reunion? Outdoor game sets bring people of all ages together!
You’re making memories.
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Why Buy USA-Made Outdoor Games?
Let’s keep the United States united by supporting USA businesses. The companies are our neighbors who are trying to make a livable wage by making products we can enjoy. You will receive a quality product, but if by chance anything is wrong, you can reach out to a real person who will help remedy your situation. As I reached out to each of the companies, I received quick, efficient responses with helpful, clear information. Great customer assistance is worth spending a little more on an American product!
Let’s challenge the whole family with a new outdoor game from our Ultimate Source List!
Best Lawn Games for Outdoor Fun Made in USA
Arrowcopter
Arrowcopter is a great flying toy for one kid, but you can also create a fun game of friendly competition between several kids or even families. Attach the thick rubber band to the launcher stick, hold onto the rudder, give the stick a flick, and watch the Arrowcopter fly as high as 300 feet into the air! Arrowcopters are outdoor toys made in California for kids ages six years old and up.
Purchase on the Arrowcopter website or on Amazon.
Bocce Games Made in USA
The object of Bocce Ball is to throw your bocce balls closer to the Pallino, than your opponent. The first team to reach 12 points wins the game (must win by 2). A match typically consists of 3 rounds.
Bocce Supplies
Bocce Supplies carries USA-made bocce ball sets, all World Cup regulation size. You’ll receive four balls in two different colors, a red pallina, and a set of rules. Purchase the carrying bag separately.
Murbles
Made in Florida, Murbles is a yard game closely related to bocce with lighter, plastic balls so kids 9 years old and up can play, making this game appropriate for various skill levels. The balls are made from durable solid HD plastic. The game comes housed in a drawstring-closed convenient carrying case.
Boss Toss
Boss Toss, or AHole, is a tossing game using a triangle-shaped stand-up board game and bean bags. The goal is for each person to score as many points as possible by throwing a bean bag into one of four holes on the upright board. Keep score by moving pegs located at the sides of the board. Boss Toss offers eight variations of the basic game. The board comes with an electrical LED board, and you can change the background of the board as well. Boss Toss is a veteran-owned and operated business located in Minnesota.
Purchase on the Boss Toss website or on Amazon.
Cornhole Games Made in the USA
Once simply known as Bean Bag Toss, Cornhole is an international sport touting tournaments worldwide, but we prefer engaging in a friendly backyard game. This game comes with two rectangular cornhole boards, each with a large hole cut out of the top, and eight “bean bags” filled with plastic, resin, beans, or whole kernel corn. Team members stand at opposite boards and try to toss as many as their team’s bags into the opposite board’s hole to acquire points.
NCAA Cornhole Boards
All American Tailgate, located in Central Florida, makes cornhole boards in a wide variety of stains and paints. We’re drawn to the NCAA cornhole boards painted with your favorite team’s logo and school colors showcased on the top. These boards are officially licensed by the NCAA. They come in regulation ACA size, and you can upgrade to all weather. Choose solid color bags or upgrade to your favorite team’s logo.
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Cornhole America
Cornhole America is located in Michigan where the company has been making boards and bean bags since 2006. Cornhole America’s capabilities include digital printing, painting, vinyl cutting, decals, cornhole wraps, and more. The company also carries cornhole bean bags for different player levels, from beginner to the Cyclone Cat 5 for the professional.
Cornhole Worldwide
Cornhole Worldwide is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Every cornhole board is regulation size. You can choose from any number of styles, whether stained, painted, custom, or vinyl wrapped. You can also purchase a carrying case or a score tower. The cornhole bags are made from sturdy duck cloth and sealed with tight stitches.
Slick Woody's
Slick Woody’s manufactures premium cornhole boards, accessories, and other tailgate games using Baltic birch plywood. They also sell cornhole bags made to improve your play, such as all-weather, resin-filled, two-sided bags. The cotton twill side is perfect for sliding, and the microfiber side sticks where you throw it. Receive free shipping! Use discount code “FREESHIP” for orders of
$150 or more, ground shipping only. Slick Woody’s is in Canton, Ohio.
West Georgia Cornhole
West Georgia Cornhole boards are made in Villa Rica. The rags-to-riches story begins with founder Brandon Greba beginning in his garage and eventually moving to a 38,000 square foot facility with employees and a retail network around the globe. Today, West Georgia Cornhole hosts tournaments and training at its cornhole venue. Choose from any number of regulation-size cornhole boards and bags, including the Titan Cornhole Bags made for tournament play.
Croquet
Play croquet in your backyard by first arranging the croquet wickets and stakes in a double diamond pattern. Each player takes turns hitting their ball through the wicket and following the pattern set up. Penalties occur when you hit another person’s ball or if you cannot hit the stake at the end of the pattern.
Amish Toy Box
The six and eight-player croquet sets are made in Pennsylvania and come with all wooden mallets, balls, stakes, and metal wickets. Amish Toy Box allows you to choose the length of the mallet handle. The croquet game comes ready to play in a wooden storage rack with a carrying handle.
Purchase the six or eight-player croquet set on the Amish Toy Box website. Purchase the eight-player croquet set on Amazon.
Lehman's
Lehman's is similar to an old-fashion mercantile store, and fortunately, its online presence features many (but not all) made in the USA items. Lehman’s carries an Amish-crafted croquet game made from solid maple wood. You’ll get six mallets and balls, wickets for hitting the ball through, and two stakes. Note: Unfortunately, Lehman’s is out of stock on this product, but we will update this link when it becomes available.
Four-In-A-Row Game
Four-in-a-Row is a giant Connect Four game with a large board game built to be played outside. Whether you’re tailgating or enjoying your backyard, picnic, or family reunion, the kid-friendly game challenges you to try to get four discs in a row before your opponent does.
All American Tailgate
All American Tailgate makes its Four-in-a-Row games from wood, including the discs. Choose from several stains for your wooden structure, then choose your disc colors. All American Tailgate makes these games in Central Florida.
Giant Four in a Row
West Georgia Cornhole, known for its regulation-size cornhole games, also makes a hearty Four-in-a-Row game. Made from cabinet-grade plywood, the game comes with 42 discs. You can also opt to buy leg extensions to make the game boards stand taller.
Horseshoes
Horseshoes aren’t just for the oldies. When the whole family plays, kids really enjoy scoring points when they “almost” get a ringer. They also learn to create a strategy as they throw their horseshoes underhanded. The aim of the game is to pitch your horseshoe as close to the stake as you can. To score a point, land your horseshoe closer to the stake than your opponent. If your horseshoe lands around the stake, you score a ringer. Who wouldn’t enjoy this yard game?!
St. Pierre
We’re happy to report Dick’s Sporting Goods carries the American-made St. Pierre American Professional Horseshoe Set with Case. The game includes all the necessary items for 2 to 4-person play including four American horseshoes with hammertone finish, two 24-inch long solid steel stakes, and an official rulebook with court layout instructions. The contents come in a black plastic tote for easy carrying.
Buy St. Pierre Horseshoes on the Dick’s Sporting Goods website or on Amazon.
Thoroughbred Horseshoes
Thoroughbred Horseshoes, located in Pennsylvania, makes some of the best horseshoes and game sets on the market. Choose from two weights, and you’ll get four horseshoes in two colors along with the stakes made from iron alloy. The company only deals in the game of horseshoes, so they’re very knowledgeable.
Buy the game on the Thoroughbred Horseshoes website or on Amazon.
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Kan Jam
Kan Jam is a made-in-the-USA game that has gained quick popularity since its 2006 inception. You can play it anywhere, but it’s especially fun to play at the beach. It comes with two goals and one flying disc. Score points by throwing your disc toward the goal. If your partner deflects it into the goal, score one point. If you throw it into the goal without your partner’s help, you instantly win! The sets and accessories are made in Getzville, New York.
Buy on the Kan Jam website or on Amazon.
Kubb
Tell your kids that the Vikings played this outdoor game over 1,000 years ago, and they’ll be all in! The game of Kubb (pronounced “koob”) comes with 10 wooden blocks, called kubbs, one king, six batons, and six boundary stakes. The goal is to knock over all your opponent’s kubbs, then go after the king, before the opposing team accomplishes the same goal. Sometimes called King Kubb, this game will quickly become a crowd favorite.
Amish Toy Box: Kubb
Kubb from Amish Toy Box is made by skilled Amish woodworkers in Pennsylvania. The protective-finished pieces are made from hard maple wood and come in an eco-friendly burlap tote.
Purchase from the Amish Toy Box website or on Amazon.
Country Kubb
Country Kubb is made in Ohio, also by Amish woodcrafters. This game is made from sturdy poplar and comes in a canvas tote along with a rule sheet. Choose from the smaller classic set for family play or the larger premium set made for tournament play.
WE Games
Wood Expressions (WE) is a family-owned, California-based business established in 1977 and carries several outdoor games, including Kubb. WE makes its Kubb pieces from eco-friendly, sustainable Malaysian oak. The game comes with a zippered bag for easy storage and transport.
Buy the game on the WE website or on Amazon.
Ladder Golf
Whether you call it ladder golf, ladder golf, or some other name, you’ll enjoy a healthy round of competition with this game. The goal is to throw your bola—two balls attached by a nylon rope—and get it to wind around one of the ladder rungs 13 feet (or other various distances) away.
All American Tailgate Ladder Golf
All American Tailgate makes each Ladder Golf set that comes with a nylon carry bag, solid hardwood ladders with weighted bases, and bolas made from real golf balls.
West Georgia Cornhole Ladder Toss
Along with its cornhole and four-in-a-row games (see above), West Georgia Cornhole also makes ladder toss games. Each set comes with two ladders holding three rungs and six bolas. The ladders are all wood.
Ramp Shot
Ramp Shot combines the throwing of cornhole and catching of Wiffle ball into a single game. Players toss the ball in hopes of landing the ball in the slot on the top of the ramp for 3 points. If you miss the rung, don't worry because if it bounces up and your teammate catches it you can still earn 1 point. This game hails from New York and is especially fun to play on the beach or while camping.
Purchase on the Ramp Shot website or on Amazon.
Ring Toss
Wood Expressions (WE) makes everyone's perennial favorite, Ring Toss, in California. Also known as Quoits, the game is popular at carnivals, but you can have your own! Players take turns tossing the rope rings over the scoring pegs. Each player adds up their points for each turn. The game comes with two solid wood long-boards to form the cross, five wooden rods, 10 tossing rope rings a carrying case with a handle, and instructions.
Tumbling Tower
Tumbling Tower, or the Tower Game, is like Giant Jenga, where each player tries to remove a brick of wood from the large stack without making the tower fall. Kids especially enjoy this game.
Wood Expressions (WE) Stacking Tower
Wood Expressions, or WE, makes the Stacking Towers game with 51 wooden rectangular blocks for indoor or outdoor play. The blocks arrive in a black tote for easy storing and transporting. Wood Expressions is located in California. You can also customize it for wedding gifts or for corporate events.
Buy on the Wood Expressions website or on Amazon.
Wiffle Ball & Bat
Wiffle Ball was invented in 1953 in Connecticut. Although played somewhat like a regular game of baseball, it uses a plastic ball that has eight oblong perforations for the perfect pitch AND hit. It’s also played with a plastic bat. There are even Wiffle Ball tournaments! Although many other versions are on the market, why not support the original company? Look for a long yellow plastic bat marked with, “Original WIFFLE Bat Made in the U.S.A.”
Find the original Wiffle Bat and Ball at Dick's Sporting Goods or on Amazon.
Yard Dice
Yard dice brings several dice games to your outdoors. From Snake Eyes to Farkle and even Yahtzee, you’ll receive either five or six giant dice made of wood as your game. Alter the rules to make the games more child friendly, or come up with your own game.
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WE Games Giant Roll 'em Dice
WE, or Wooden Expressions, offers its version of yard dice with a set of five dice, each measuring 3x3x3 inches. The pieces are solid wood and stained for durability. The game comes in a box that includes a drawstring bag.
Purchase on the WE website or on Amazon.
Yard Dominoes
Take the classic game of Dominoes outside with the outdoor Dominoes game featuring oversized dominoes! This game is played exactly as you would the smaller version by matching numbers together. The first person to play all his or her dominoes wins! As soon as kids know their numbers and can count, they can play—usually beginning at age 5.
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