Mannequin Tag | Playworks

Play this fun group game to help develop cooperation and listening skills.

To develop cooperation and listening to directions.

Demonstrate safe tagging:
- Light touch, like butterfly wings on the shoulder
- Unsafe tags: hard contact that might cause the person being tagged to fall
Review how to give a double high-5
Select two players to be ‘it’

Open area with boundaries.

To begin, the players spread out within the open area, and the leader designates what movement everyone should be using (i.e. running, skipping, hopping, walking, etc.).
If a player gets tagged, s/he immediately becomes a mannequin.
To bring a mannequin back to life, another player must give the mannequin a double high-5.
Neither player may be tagged while bringing a mannequin back to life and taggers cannot stand around waiting for them to finish.
The leader should switch taggers and styles of movement.

Tunnel Tag: When a player gets tagged, s/he freezes with their legs spread shoulder-width apart on the ground. To ‘unfreeze’ a player, another player must crawl through the player’s legs from the front.
To unfreeze a player, another player must shake hands with the frozen player and both must share their favorite cartoon, favorite food, what they want to be when they grow up, etc.