Step-by-Step Instructions
- Standing on a rubber spot to mark their spot, ask your group to form a large circle at least 8 metres in diameter.
- Place a hula-hoop in the centre of the circle and put a pool noodle inside it.
- Announce that the person in the middle (you) does not have a spot, and will use the noodle to invite someone standing in the circle to vacate their spot.
- Using the noodle, tag a random person standing in the circle below their knee.
- Any time a tag is made, a series of three events will be triggered rapidly:
– The tagger will place the noodle completely inside the hula-hoop;
– The tagee will move to the hula-hoop and attempt to pick up the noodle as quickly as possible; and
– The tagger will attempt to step on a vacant spot before they are tagged by the tagee with the noodle. - If the original tagger can step on the vacated spot with both feet without being tagged, they are safe, and the original tagee now becomes the new tagger.
- If the tagee manages to tag the original tagger before the latter is safe, their roles reverse and the process continues as described above.
- At all times, if any part of the noodle falls outside of the hula-hoop, the person who placed it there must pick it up, allowing the other person to claim the vacant spot.
- Continue playing for several minutes.
- Introduce one or more variations to increase the challenge and levels of participation.
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