ABC Tag

ABC tag needs several people to play.  It’s a great way to work listening skills into a physical activity.

Here is how you play:

• Determine who is “it”.  - you can use several different ways.  The youngest in the group, the oldest in the group, the person with the next birthday, the person who just had a birthday, the person born closest to the New Year - just a few ideas.
• “It” stands in one place and counts to 5 giving time for everyone to start running around.  
• “It” starts to run and tags the other players.
• When a player is tagged they must freeze.
• To be unfrozen they must be tagged by another player.  
• When they are tagged by the other player the unfrozen player must shout out a letter of the alphabet (starting with A).  
• The next unfrozen player will shout out the next letter.  
• Play continues until either all players are frozen or all the letters of the alphabet have been shouted.  
• The player that shouts Z is the next “it”.  

Are you playing with older kids?
The first player yells out a letter - any letter.  The rest of the game unfrozen players must yell out a word that starts with that letter.  Play continues until someone cannot think of a word starting with the letter and yells “STUMPED” or a count of 5.  They become “it.”