Heads or Tails | Playworks

To develop active listening

Equipment Needed: A coin

Demonstrate safe tagging:
- Light touch, like butterfly wings on the shoulder
- Unsafe tags: hard contact that might cause the person being tagged to fall

Set up an area with two far boundaries and a dividing line directly in the middle.

Divide the group so that everyone has a partner.
Line all of the players up on the middle line, so that they are back to back with their partner.
Designate one side as “Heads” and the other as “Tails.”
Flip a coin, and announce to the players what side came up.
If it comes up heads, all of the “Heads” players have to run back to their side before they are tagged by their “Tails” partner. If “Tails” is called, the reverse happens.
After each round, reset with partners back in the middle

The adult can announce “Heads” or “Tails” without a coin flip.
To make the game more difficult, make the players run to the opposite side
Could also play “Giants, Wizards, & Elves” style, where a player has to switch teams if s/he is tagged. This would only work if there were no partners, and anyone could tag someone on the opposite team.