Flag Tag is an exciting chasing and fleeing game for physical education. In this version of the game, students attempt to collect additional flags that they can use to keep themselves (or others) in the game.
The teacher marks out an open playing area with clear boundaries. Students begin in a scattered formation inside it, and the space just outside the boundary is used by players performing their exercise before they return to play.
Keep your tail. If you lose it, do your exercise and get straight back into the game.
Make sure students keep their head up when running.
Teach students how to properly tag another player.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
Players get into a scattered formation. On the teacher's signal, all players begin moving about the playing area while avoiding contact with other players.
This build exists to help students understand the limits of the game while developing their dodging skills.
Players now play the game with the full version of the rules.
Because everyone is IT and everyone gets their tail straight back, nobody is ever out. That is what makes this build a good one to sit in for a while before adding consequences.
In this build, a player who successfully removes another player's tail now keeps it. A player with no tail must sit down.
If a player holding a spare pinnie has their own tail removed, they may replace it with the spare. No player may hold more than two spare pinnies at a time.
To bring a player who is sitting out back into the game, any player with a spare pinnie may give them one.
The two-pinnie cap is what keeps this build generous rather than cutthroat. Without it, the strongest players hoard and the game empties out fast.
In this build, only one player starts as IT and that player does not have a tail.
The IT player tries to turn other players into ITs by removing their tail. A player whose tail is removed returns it to the teacher and rejoins the game as an IT player.
If you are a runner, the goal is to be the last player still holding their tail. If you are IT, the goal is to turn every other player into an IT player.
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