Arena/Flag Tag
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Before You Start:
Skills Practiced: Evasion, running and spatial awareness
- Each player should have their own flag and jersey
- Provide an example of where and how to place flags (in a pocket or waist band at least ¾ of the flag showing)
- Express the need for safe and fair play including no flag guarding, rolling on the ground, taking flags off the ground or calling out “cheater”.
- Give students a safe way to express their need to review the quality of the game, i.e. approaching Coach or rock-paper-scissors.
- Review boundaries and rules, ask for questions.
Set Up:
A basketball court sized space, Evenly space cones on the outside of the boundaries.
How To Play:
- Everyone moves within the boundaries trying to avoid each other.
- If a player grabs a flag, they must place it on the ground.
- Once a flag is on the ground, it is considered off limits.
- When a player loses her or his flag, s/he must get down on the ground (sitting or kneeling).
- In order to get back off the ground, a player who is kneeling may grab a runner’s flag and place the flag in her or his pocket.
Variations:
- Allow students to crawl on their knees while trying to regain a flag.
- Double Flag Tag which uses two flags per player.
- Both flags must be pulled before the player goes down to the ground.
