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| I will free you! Micheala saves the day! |
These two versions of tag were fresh additions to the summer fun at Sprucelands. I have no idea what you call either one of them. They were played on what we call Tag Night.
The first version of tag started out with an 'it' who ran around and tagged people. When a person was touched, they dropped to the ground to create what looked like a bridge. In order to get freed from their stance, a free group member needed to scurry under their bridge. Then they were good to go again.
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| I'm trying. Really I am. Oh my gosh. This is too funny. |
I had a laugh with this one because larger campers and staff members really struggled to get under those bridges. Most of them ended up in honest belly laughs and doubled up on the ground totally powerless to move. What fun! ~ and of course that's the object of the game.
Another addition was a terrific game that I would call Hello. The group formed a large circle. The 'it' this time started around the circle shaking people's hands and saying something like, "Hello. How are you?" Eventually the 'it' would hang on to a person's hand and interact three times, changing the conversation a bit each time.
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| Make the circle bigger everyone. Stretch out and drop hands. |
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| Hi. How are you? |
When the two interacted three times, that meant the 'it' had picked them as the lucky one. They would drop hands and the two would run in opposite directions around the circle.
The object was for the 'it' to get back to the place of the person they picked before that person made it back. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. When it worked, everything was good because the displaced player was now the new 'it'.
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| Run, Anna, run! |
The anticipation of being the picked runner was really fun to watch. No one knew whether the first handshake would become three interactions or just one. With every handshake, you could feel the tension and excitement build. And of course, when the run was on, there was a huge amount of cheering. Just another evening of fun at Sprucelands.
Comments welcome as you pass on through.
Some things never change at Sprucelands.YAY! Only some twists and added intrigue to old favorites. We can tell in the photos and your descriptions of 'goings on' Eileen, that campers and staff can't get enough of the infectious "oldies" but "goodies"!
ReplyDeleteFacebook, laptops, cell phone texting, I-PODS, and computer games don't even come in as a distant second place when compared to good, energizing, healthy, and belly laughing back to basics fun. All u need to do is look at the faces of campers and staff alike to know this is true. Life on Sprucelands Mountain is going as strong as ever! Hooray!
SPRUCELANDS FOREVER! YES! YES! YES!