Tag Games

7-Up Tag

7-Up Tag

Designate a large play area with clear boundaries with room for students to run. Pick 7 people to be taggers..

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Amoeba Tag

Amoeba Tag

The game begins with one person being ‘it’. When s/he tags someone, they must hold hands and work together to.

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Animal Tag

Animal Tag

The goal is to turn everyone into the same animal as your group. Once the game begins all students should.

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Arena Flag Tag

Arena Flag Tag

Set up a basketball court-sized space. Evenly space cones on the outside of the boundaries. Use flag football flags or.

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Back to Back Tag

Back to Back Tag

Two people hold hands start off as being “it.” They can try to tag any other player but they can.

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Banana Tag

Banana Tag

Choose a set of boundaries. No one may exit these boundaries. Once the game starts, everyone is “it.” Each person.

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Band Aid Tag

Band Aid Tag

Ask for a volunteer to be “it”. If a student is tagged, s/he must take one hand and put it.

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Blind Man’s Bluff

Blind Man’s Bluff

Blindfold one player and spin them around 3 times. The blindfolded player tries to tag one of the other players,.

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Blind Tag

Blind Tag

This game was played in a dark room with no lights on so it seems like the person who was.

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Blob Tag

Blob Tag

Chose someone as “it”. It starts the game as regular tag, but when he catches someone, they must join hands.

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Bronco Tag

Bronco Tag

Have the group get into pairs and lock elbows. There is one person that is it and another to be.

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Bumper Tag

Bumper Tag

Just like regular tag but instead of tagging with your hands, you must tag with your hips. Be sure to.

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Cat and Mice

Cat and Mice

Allow four students to place a foot in each hula hoop. This will be their mouse hole. Call out “Mice.

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Catch One…Catch All

Catch One…Catch All

The game is generally played in a large field with at least 10 participants. One person in the group is.

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Chair Tag

Chair Tag

Everyone begins standing behind his/her chair. A student is chosen to begin, and s/he must quickly tag another student and.

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Chaos

Chaos

This game is a mixture of everyone’s-it-tag, octopus and dodgeball. The kids will love it as it is extremely high.

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Charades Tag

Charades Tag

Make sure the students understand how to play charades. Do a couple of warm-up rounds so they get the idea.

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Charades Tag

Charades Tag

Make sure the students understand how to play charades. Do a couple of warm-up rounds so they get the idea.

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Clothes-Pin Tag

Clothes-Pin Tag

Hand any number of clothes-pins to all the kids (Start with 3-5 pins) and have them pin them to their.

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Color Tag

Color Tag

Practice doing spelling jumping jacks, spelling out the colors you will be using. Choose 1-3 people to start as the.

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Cooperation Tag

Cooperation Tag

One person is it. Be sure to have a designated playing area and a few items scattered around (balls, rubber.

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Cyclops Tag

Cyclops Tag

Everyone has to play with one hand covering an eye.

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Dead Ant

Dead Ant

A tag game that will wear your kids out!! Make really big boundaries. One person is “it.” This person has.

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Don’t Get Caught with the Cookie

Don’t Get Caught with the Cookie

Choose 2 students to be the taggers. Give out balls (cookies) to other students. Taggers are trying to tag all.

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Dr. Octopus

Dr. Octopus

Choose an “It” to be your octopus. Then choose a doctor. When you say, “Go,” the campers run from one.

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Drop the Cookie!

Drop the Cookie!

Show the kids the “cookies” (cones or balls) and tell them how delicious they are. Review boundaries and safe tagging..

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Elbow Tag

Elbow Tag

Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the.

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Everybody’s It

Everybody’s It

Proclaim, “everybody’s it!” in an open space and the participants begin trying to tag others, while avoiding getting tagged. Decide.

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Fainting Goat Tag

Fainting Goat Tag

One person is chosen as the Sheppard. Whoever the Sheppard touches becomes the new Sheppard. The “goats” can fall to.

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Flour Sock Tag

Flour Sock Tag

Like ball tag, but use a sock filled with flour, so when they get hit you know it by the.

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Foot to Foot Tag

Foot to Foot Tag

Just like regular frozen tag but players are safe from being tagged if two people lie on their backs and.

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Freeze Tag

Freeze Tag

If the person is tagged then they are frozen. Variations of how to get unfrozen are limitless (Ex. someone has.

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Go-Tag

Go-Tag

Everyone squats in a line, facing alternate directions, think of the line as the center of an oval running track..

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Head and Tails Tag

Head and Tails Tag

At a flip of a coin, or shout of “Declare”, each person chooses to be either heads or tails, as.

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Help Tag

Help Tag

Pick two people to be “It”. The rest of the group has two or three objects that are considered to.

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Home Run Tag

Home Run Tag

Create a square area with bases similar to that on a baseball field. Make sure you address that the imaginary.

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Hoop Scoot Tag

Hoop Scoot Tag

Scatter hoola hoops in the play area several feet apart. Select players to be “it” and give them a tennis.

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Hospital Tag

Hospital Tag

The basic rules are the same as tag. One person is “Mr. Yuck” and the others run. When you get.

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Hug Tag

Hug Tag

This is your classic tag game with one exception, people are only safe if they are hugging.

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Icicle

Icicle

Designate an area in which to play. Everyone stands in a shoulder to shoulder line on one end of the.

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Infected

Infected

A large or small-school group within a determined boundary picks the “infected” person. All others run away. There are no.

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Jack O Light

Jack O Light

Tag at night without the running. Set up some safe boundaries. Send out half of the participants to hide within.

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Magic Tag

Magic Tag

Designate 3 magicians to start the game. Review the boundaries and the consequence for going outside them (you automatically become.

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Mat Tag

Mat Tag

First you simple take any and all the mats that you have at your camp. You then proceed to spread.

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Maze Tag

Maze Tag

Create a maze with cones in a large area. Choose one student to start as the tagger and one to.

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Meltdown Tag

Meltdown Tag

One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the.

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Noodle Tag

Noodle Tag

A tag game with pool noodles. Approximately five noodles per 25 campers. Determine boundaries and pick five students as taggers.

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Odds and Evens Tag

Odds and Evens Tag

This game is most easily played in a gym or a square space, or outside with two lines of cones.

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Off the Ground Tag

Off the Ground Tag

Designate a chaser. During the game the chaser cannot tag another player if he or she is not on the.

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Pacman Tag

Pacman Tag

This game is played in a gymnasium. Select one or two students depending on the group and area size to.

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Partner Tag

Partner Tag

Partners start approximately 10 feet away from each other. Both people power walk. The chaser is trying to catch up.

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Patella Tag

Patella Tag

You’ll need a class set of multi-colored beanbags or yarn balls. Have each student get a beanbag. The taggers change.

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Reverse Tag

Reverse Tag

First you choose who is “IT”. Then the people that are NOT IT count to five while the person that.

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Rhomboid Tag

Rhomboid Tag

Limited space, walking only, everybody is it! The only place you can tag someone is on the designated muscle. If.

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Shark and Octopus Tag

Shark and Octopus Tag

Similar to Sharks and Minnows but with a twist. Everyone begins the game as an octopus and stands on one.

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Shout Tag

Shout Tag

Designate a large play area with clear boundaries that has room for students to run and enough items to be.

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Shrink Tag

Shrink Tag

Can be played outside or in a gym. Designate a large play area with clear boundaries to separate the different.

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Skunk Tag

Skunk Tag

Played like regular tag but the only one to stay safe is for the chasee is to place the right.

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Slow Motion Tag

Slow Motion Tag

Ask each player in the group to find their own personal space within the boundary area. Make sure there is.

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Sock Tag

Sock Tag

Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a.

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Statue Tag

Statue Tag

To start the game pick a pose each student has to freeze in as a statue when they get tagged..

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Sunny Day Shadow Tag

Sunny Day Shadow Tag

One person is “it”. Their job is to try to tag the shadow of the other players by stepping on.

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Tail Tag

Tail Tag

Have one camper chosen to be “it”. Then give every other camper a piece of ribbon or string in which.

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Toe Touch Tag

Toe Touch Tag

Divide the playing field in half and designate two small “zones” on both sides to hold people who are tagged..

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Toilet Tag

Toilet Tag

When someone is tagged, they must squat down to form the “toilet” and hold one hand out to the side,.

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Tortoise Tag

Tortoise Tag

One person is “it.” Every other player tries to avoid being tagged. If they get tagged, they must crawl on.

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Tree Tag

Tree Tag

One person is “it” and tries to tag everyone else. Players are only safe if they are touching a tree.

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