Partner Tag

  1. Recess Games
  2. Rotational Games
  3. Tag Games

  • 11+ Players

  • All Ages

  • Other

  • 5-10 Minutes

This is a quick paced, cooperative tag game!

Goal

Keep yourself and your partner in the game.

Before You Start

  • Demonstrate safe tagging:
    • Light touch, like a butterfly wings, on the shoulder, upper arm or upper back.
    • Unsafe tags: hard contact that might cause the person being tagged to fall.
  • Review the play space boundaries, and how to move safely through the space.

Set Up

  • Designate a large play area that players can move throughout freely. 
  • Divide players into pairs, and make sure everyone knows who their partner is.
  • Have all players spread out in the playing space.

How to Play

  • Everyone is a tagger.
  • When a player gets tagged by someone, they take a knee.
  • To get back into the game:
    • If one partner has been tagged: the player’s partner must come and unfreeze them by giving them a high-5.
    • If both partners have been tagged: both players exit  the playing area and meet up to complete a double high-5.  After the double high-5 players can return to the play space and begin tagging others again.

Variations

  • Instead of partners, have groups of three or four on a team.