Remember the days when you played tag with your friends? The screaming, yelling, hysterical laughing when someone was chasing you. The out of breath experience while you standing at base. You were exercising and having a blast!
Now that we are adults doesn’t mean we can’t relive that experience. Grab your kids and play tag with them outside. If you don’t have a front or back yard go to the nearest park. Run until you can’t run anymore. Can the kids out run you? I sure hope not.
Here are some different types of tag that you can play with your kids or make up some of your own.
Freeze Tag
When a child is tagged, they freeze in place. If another player touches them they can be unfrozen. The game ends when everyone has been frozen, and the last person frozen starts the next round of the game as “it.”
Squat Tag
In this version, if a child squats down quickly when they are close to being caught, they can be kept “safe” and avoid being tagged “it.” All the players need to agree at the start of the game on how many times they can squat to avoid being tagged.
Wood Tag
This version makes a good indoor tag option. Wood Tag is played like the basic game, but if the player touches something made of wood, they’re “safe” from getting tagged by “it.”
Vegetable Tag
This version can be a lot of fun and your kids may learn the names of some new foods! When a child is close to being caught, they can be kept “safe” by squatting in place and saying the name of a vegetable. If you can’t think of one and get tagged, you’re “it.”
Blob Tag
When you’re tagged “it,” you join hands with your tagger and become a tagging pair. You chase others moving together as a “blob.” Every time the “blob” tags another child, that child becomes part of the blob. This version requires a bit of teamwork — the “blob” needs to move together to tag others.
Now go out and have some fun.
