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Purpose: This
warm-up game works on speed
and agility while participants must
also work as a team.
Equipment: None
Description:
Mark out an area approximately the size of half a basketball court.
Select one participant to be “It” and everyone else
is to
be
chased. On the command of “Go” the person who is
“It” tries
to tag anyone they can. The people being chased can run around the
area to elude being tagged. Once a person being chased is tagged,
they become “frozen” and must remain stationary.
The
“frozen”
person can be “unfrozen” by another person being
chased.
The
chased person crawls between the legs of the
“frozen”
person to
unfreeze them. The game continues for a set time, until everyone has
been “It”, or everyone is frozen. Participants must
pay
close
attention to the “It” person and the people frozen
because
the
game can continue as long as there are people to chase.
In figure
below,
person X is “It” and the numbered circles are
“frozen”. Person Y attempts to crawl under person
#3.
Person X sees this and
begins to run towards person Y. If person X reaches person Y and
tags him/her, they are also frozen. If person Y crawls under person
#3s legs, then person #3 is unfrozen and can run again. The game is
over when everyone is “frozen”. Another game can
begin with
a
new “It”
Variations:
-
Increase
difficulty: Add more
participants that are “it” to speed up the game and
make it
more challenging.
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Make the
game specific for your
activity: Change the way a person becomes
“unfrozen”.
Example: a person must do two pushups to unfreeze another. Tailor the
unfreezing action to any part of the body you want to warm-up.
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