Fun, Highly Energetic Tag Game Groups Love to Play - Swat Tag
Fun, Highly Energetic Tag Game Groups Love to Play - Swat Tag is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Standing on a rubber spot to mark their spot, ask your group to form a large circle at least 8 metres in diameter.
- Place a hula-hoop in the centre of the circle and put a pool noodle inside it.
- Announce that the person in the middle (you) does not have a spot and will use the noodle to invite someone standing in the circle to vacate their spot.
- Using the noodle, tag a random person standing in the circle below their knee.
- Any time a tag is made, a series of three events will be triggered rapidly:
- - The tagger will place the noodle completely inside the hula-hoop;
- - The tagee will move to the hula-hoop and attempt to pick up the noodle as quickly as possible; and
- - The tagger will attempt to step on a vacant spot before they are tagged by the tagee with the noodle.
- Swat Tag Highly-energetic tag game with rapid chase action.
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Standing on a rubber spot to mark their spot, ask your group to form a large circle at least 8 metres in diameter.
Place a hula-hoop in the centre of the circle and put a pool noodle inside it.
Announce that the person in the middle (you) does not have a spot and will use the noodle to invite someone standing in the circle to vacate their spot.
- The tagger will place the noodle completely inside the hula-hoop;
- The tagee will move to the hula-hoop and attempt to pick up the noodle as quickly as possible; and
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun, Highly Energetic Tag Game Groups Love to Play - Swat Tag. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Standing on a rubber spot to mark their spot, ask your group to form a large circle at least 8 metres in diameter.; Place a hula-hoop in the centre of the circle and put a pool noodle inside it.; Announce that the person in the middle (you) does not have a spot and will use the noodle to invite someone standing in the circle to vacate their spot.; - The tagger will place the noodle completely inside the hula-hoop;. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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