7/7/2023 0 Comments Tag games for elementary p e![]() ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Sign up to receive our newsletter, a weekly roundup of our favorite posts and other great finds from around the web delivered right to your inbox! SKILL AREAS ADDRESSED: Gross motor skills, coordination, motor control, balance, endurance, strength, social skills, cognitive skills If the zookeeper touches you - FREEZE! The monkey is the only person that can unfreeze you and set you off on your adventure again! If getting the animals to 4 different cages becomes frustrating, just designate one central area as the cage for all of the animals. Use different animals - try farm animals and a farmer with the goal being for the farmer to return all of the animals to the barn (horses gallop, ducks waddle, pigs crawl, dogs run) You can see how this can quickly become a pretty crazy zoo! The goal is for the zookeeper to get all of the animals back to their cages. The only way they can escape from their cage is if the monkey comes and lets them out!! If the zookeeper tags them, they must return to their cage. Now comes the fun!! The animals will be set free and will move around the playing area using each of the designated movements, trying to stay away from the zookeeper. You could even print out a picture of each of the animals to label the respective areas.Ĭhoose one child to be the Zookeeper (this child is “IT”), one child to be the Monkey (she will cause a little mischief and make the zookeeper’s job harder) and organize remaining the kids into four groups. Mark off 4 corners of your yard, the driveway or the playground as the designated “cages” for each type of animal. 4 objects to mark 4 different areas as “cages” (you can use cones, hula hoops, sidewalk chalk, or even tape!) Kids love tag because of the competitive nature of the game and we therapists love tag because it is full of developmental benefits like motor planning, agility, coordination, balance, and endurance challenges and general gross motor skill practice!Īs part of our animal theme, we came up with this version of tag that will have your kids pretending to be their favorite zoo animals – gazelles, kangaroos, monkeys, cheetahs or zebras! Check out the post below for a fun tag game using foot dribbling skills.Now that spring has almost officially sprung and your kids have LOTS of pent up energy to expend, let’s get them outside and moving with a fun new tag game for kids! Modifying a tag game like Noodle Dance Tag to bring in some specific skill practice can turn a fun game into a more purposeful warmup or instant activity and allow your kids to practice a skill they will be using during the rest of the lesson or unit that you’re teaching.įor example, if you’re in the middle of a Soccer Unit and working on footwork or soccer skills, you can change some of the rules of the game to allow students to get practice with some footwork skills. Modifying the Rules to Create a Skill Specific Tag Game If you like Noodle Dance Tag – make sure to check out FIRE AND ICE TAGit’s a great follow up game once your students understand Noodle Dance Tag. UPDATE: a fellow Phys Ed Teacher Sara Wood came up with an awesome modification to slow your kids down if you want to check it out in her tweet below – just have all your kids balance bean bags on their heads – if they drop the bag – they must start dancing – Thanks Sara! Have fun and download the free Game Sheet for your lesson plans in my Resources Section or below. ![]() It’s a great cardio game that leaves kids breathing heavy and smiling from ear to ear. The kids love this game and request it all the time. If you have a screen – throw up some “Sample Dance Moves” by copying this dance moves slideshow to give students some ideas for what to do when they are frozen (Warning: They might get SUPER excited about this… proceed at your own risk).Hand out more noodles to designate more taggers.Allow students to make up their own dance.Continue play until everyone has had a turn to be a tagger, or until time runs out.After 45 seconds, give a freeze signal and stop the music and have the noodle taggers hand their noodle to a player who has not been a tagger yet, student’s who haven’t had a turn can designate this by raising their hand quietly.Look where you are going, never look behind you while someone is chasing you.Falling down or sliding (stay on your feet).Nobody can be unfrozen, but when you are frozen you must do a designated dance (side step and fist pump) When the music starts they will run around and try to freeze as many people as possible. For every group of 20 you should give 2 half noodles out to designated “taggers”. ![]()
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