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Ball tag: remember who hit you to rescue them

A soft-ball tag game: if you get hit, remember who hit you and rejoin when that player gets hit.

Difficulty
◆ medium

What you need

  • A soft ball, e.g. a foam ball

How to do it

  1. Move around inside an agreed playing area; one child holds the soft ball.
  2. Take no more than three steps while holding the ball.
  3. If you are hit directly out of the air, sit at the edge of the field and remember who hit you.
  4. When that thrower is hit later, everyone they had hit may rejoin.
  5. The winner is the player who has hit all the other children with the ball.

Variations

  • Agree on a time limit beforehand.

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