Line Tag
Skills:
Physical: agility, balance, lower extremity coordination, upper extremity strength
Cognitive: visual processing, selective attention, sustained attention, divided attention
Social: teamwork
Number of participants:
5 or more
Equipment:
none
Description:
- children hold each other’s hands
- first person attempts to tag the last person without breaking the line (with the assistance of the other children)
- if line is broken or the last person in the line is tagged, the last child becomes the “tagger”
History:
A traditional Indigenous game of the Blackfoot to develop balance, cooperation, speed, and hand strength.
Wheelchair friendly?
This activity might not be suitable for people who use wheelchairs. “Wheelchair Friendly Activities” has a list of activities that are easy to adapt for wheelchair users. This list isn’t exhaustive, so we invite you to come up with your own creative ideas to make any activity work for you. If you have an idea on how to make this or any other activity more accessible for wheelchair users, We’d love to hear your ideas on how to make this or any other activity accessible for wheelchair users. Thank you for helping make play more inclusive!
Modifications to make the activity easier:
Change the environment: make the activity area smaller to decrease physical demand
Change the task:
- give a strategy to the first child on how to tag the last person in the line to decrease cognitive demand
- have the last child in line stay in the same spot to decrease physical and cognitive demand
Modifications to make the activity harder:
Change the environment: make the activity area larger to increase physical demand
Change the task:
- increase duration of the activity to increase physical demand
- give a time limit to tag the last child in the line to increase physical and cognitive demand
Goal examples:
- I will be able to tag the last child without breaking the line in 2 minutes
- I can tag my last friend on the line
