Ameba Tag and Peanut Butter and Jelly Tag

Spring Break seems to be long gone, but the games that we played are not!  Whenever you have a large number of people in a group, see if they will play one of these two games. 

Ameba Tag is a great game to play to work on building team work.  When you have a large number of students holding hands, trying to tag one person without letting go becomes very difficult! 

After talking to one another in a small huddle, they must keep their bodies in a straight formation and try not to let go of each others hands while they chase and tag one other player.

When the line gets real long, it is very hard for everyone to turn around quickly.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Tag is another great game to work on shuffling skills.  In this game, three people are holding hands, two are "pieces of bread", with one person being the "peanut butter".  The fourth person, "jelly", has to try and run around the two "pieces of bread" to tag "peanut butter".  The students who are "two pieces of bread" must keep "jelly" away from "peanut butter"!  The "bread" must shuffle quickly left and right as the "jelly" tries to get around the "bread" to the "peanut butter".