Line tag or pac man tag

Summary: Fun gym game for kids- everyone has to run on the lines to play.

Goal: To be the last person in the game (left untagged).

How to Play the Line Tag Game:

1. Pick two volunteers. These volunteers will be “it” for the game.

2. Everyone else needs to be spaced out on the court lines. The purpose of the game is to not be tagged by people who are “it”. Everyone, including those who are “it”, can only run on the court lines- if someone runs off the line or jumps to another line, then they have to sit down and become a “block” (you’ll have to watch for this) .

3. The people who are “it” try to tag everyone. Once a person is tagged, he/she must sit down at that exact spot and become a block. The people running on the lines cannot run past the blocks (the blocks are barriers) - only the people who are “it” can run past the blocks and tag everyone else. Whoever is the last person standing wins the game

Hospital tag

Summary: Active, fun game for kids. If you're tagged three times, you're out of the game!

Goal: Avoid being tagged OR tag the entire team.

**Note: Before playing, let everyone know the boundaries of the playing/running area. If anyone exceeds those boundaries, they will automatically be out of the game.**

How to Play Hospital Tag:

1. Ask for two volunteers*. These two people will be “it”.

2. When you say “go”, the people who are “it” will try to tag as many people as possible. If one of volunteers tags another person, the tagged person needs to grab the place where he/she was tagged- as if injured- and run around (for example, if someone tags another person on the knee, the person needs to run while grabbing his/her knee). After a person is 

tagged three times, the person is out of the game.

3. The last person remaining in the game is the winner.

*You can have more volunteers, depending upon the size of your group. You can also add more people who are "it" as the game progresses.

Name circle

Name Circle

• This PE game combines exercise with learning names of the students. The students stand in a circle, and the first person says her name and then does an exercise. The second person repeats the first person's name and her exercise. Then he states his own name and does his own exercise. This continues around the circle with each person saying all the names and performing all the exercises of the past students before adding her own.

  
  

  Extension: Have a student say his/her name and then preform their favourite dance move. continue as above or have all the students repeat the names and dance moves together. 

Tangled web

A Tangled Web
 Gather students in a circle sitting around you on the floor. Hold a large ball of yarn. Start by telling the students something about yourself. Then roll the ball of yarn to a student without letting go of the end of the yarn. The student who gets the ball of yarn tells his or her name and something good about himself or herself. Then the student rolls the yarn to somebody else, holding on to the strand of yarn. Soon students have created a giant web. After everyone has spoken, you and all the students stand up, continuing to hold the yarn. Start a discussion of how this activity relates to the idea of teamwork -- for example, the students need to work together and not let others down. To drive home your point about teamwork, have one student drop his or her strand of yarn; that will demonstrate to students how the web weakens if the class isn't working together.