One of the many games most people remember playing as a child is tag. And this week's game is a variation often played with many different themes and slightly different rules. The Game of the Week is Freeze Tag!
Group Size: Large group (10 or more)
Age Group: Grades 1-5
Length of Activity: 10 minutes or more
Developmental Goal: To develop cooperation and listening to directions
Equipment: None
Before You Start:
- 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’
Set Up:
Open area with boundaries
How To Play:
- 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 freezes
- To ‘unfreeze’ a player, another player must give the frozen person a double high-5.
- Neither player may be tagged while unfreezing someone and taggers cannot stand around waiting for them to finish.
- The leader should switch taggers and styles of movement.
Variations:
- 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.
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What variation of Freeze Tag do you remember playing?
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