Pac Tag | Playworks

To develop evasion skills and strategy.

Demonstrate safe tagging:
- Light touch, like a butterfly wings, on back or shoulder
- Unsafe tags: hard contact that might cause the person being tagged to fall
Review the lines on the ground
Explain the signal when the game will start and end
Designate a start place for tagger(s)

Designate a safe playing area large enough to run in with connected lines on the ground (use gym if available)

Select one or two player(s) depending on the group and area size to be the tagger or “pac person/people”
The object is to avoid being tagged by a pac person by walking/running ONLY along the lines on the ground.
A pac person can also only move along the lines on the ground
A runner may not jump from line to line (i.e. on a basketball court, players may not jump from top of the key to the free throw line, etc.)
If a someone is tagged, they sit down on the line where they were tagged and become a barrier. No runners may pass a sitting person, but a pac person can pass.
The game continues until there is only one or two players left or until all others have been tagged.

Modify how they can move along the lines, such as tip toeing.
Allow players sitting to be additional sitting taggers and switch places with a running player if they tag them while sitting.
Have tagged people become taggers and play until everyone is a pac person.
Add additional pac people to make the game more difficult.