Group Size: 10-30
Age Group: K-5th grades
Length of Activity: 10 minutes
Developmental Goal: To develop evasion skills and strategy.
Skills Practiced: Evasion, safe tagging, boundary awareness
Equipment Needed: None (or tape, chalk, or cones if no lines are available)
Set Up: Designate a safe playing area large enough to run in with connected lines on the ground (use gym if available)
Before You Start: Demonstrate safe tagging (light touch - like a butterfly landing on back or shoulder, "butterfly wings"). Remind students not to use unsafe tags, such as hard contact that might cause the person being tagged to fall. Also, review the lines on the ground and explain the signal when the game will start and end and designate a start place for tagger(s).
Select one or two student(s) depending on the group and area size to be the tagger or “pacperson/people”
The object is to avoid being tagged by a pac person by running ONLY along the lines on the ground.
A pac person can also only run along the lines on the ground
A runner may not jump from line to line (i.e. on a basketball court, students may not jump from top of the key to the free throw line, etc.)
If a student is tagged, they sit down on the line where they were tagged and become a barrier. No runners may pass by a sitting student, but a pac person can pass.
The game continues until there is only one or two students left or until all students have been tagged.
Variation(s):
Allow students sitting to be additional sitting taggers and switch places with a running student if they tag them while sitting.
Add additional pac people to make the game more difficult for older students.