Elbow Tag

Warm Up Games

OBJECTIVE
Today we are playing Elbow Tag. In this game, the objective is to avoid being tagged.  

INSTRUCTIONS

• I will select one person to start out as the tagger and one person to start out as the runner.
• Before the game begins, link arms or hold hands with a partner and spread out onto the field.
• When I say, “GO!” the tagger will try and tag the runner.
• The runner has 10 seconds to link arms with any pair.
• The student in the pair that the runner does not link elbows with, detaches and becomes the new runner.
• A runner must choose a different linked pair than the one he/she detached from.
• If the tagger catches a runner before he/she finds a link, the runner then becomes the new tagger and the tagger becomes a runner.

TEACHING TIPS

• Approach:
  • Play on a half-field only.