Name Touch Tag | Playworks

In this small-space friendly tag game, kids build community and learn names.

Call out another player’s name before you get tagged.

Review everyone’s names. If players are meeting for the first time, consider using name tags.
Demonstrate safe tagging using a light touch, like butterfly wings.
Have players form a close circle, with one player standing in the middle.
Ask everyone in the circle to hold their hands out in front of them, palms facing up.

Choose an open space where the entire group can comfortably stand in a circle.

The player in the middle is the tagger and is the only person who can move during the game. All other players form a circle and must stand still with their hands out in front of them, palms facing up.
To begin a round, the tagger calls out the name of someone standing in the circle, and then tries to tag that player’s hands.
To avoid getting tagged, the named player must quickly call out the name of another player in the circle before the tagger reaches them.
If the player calls out another name in time, the tagger tries to tag the newly named person instead.
If a player is tagged before calling out another name, they switch places with the player in the middle and become the new tagger.
The new tagger calls out the name of someone else standing in the circle and a new round begins.

Have the players standing in the circle close their eyes so they cannot see the person in the middle coming towards them.
Have the circle take a few steps back so the person in the middle has to run towards the players.