Grade level: K-4
Equipment: Bean bags
Game Description: Slide beanbags along the floor to tag other players in the foot. All players can run around and jump to dodge, but once there’s a beanbag in a player’s hand, they can no longer move around. When hit, players sit until a beanbag slides within reach.
- Place many bean bags randomly spread out along the floor.
- On the signal, players can run, jump, dodge – trying to not get hit by sliding bean bags.
- Once a bean bag is picked up in hand, players can’t move. They must then slide the bean bag along floor attempting to hit the foot of another player.
- Whenever a player is hit in the foot, he must sit down where hit (and give up any bean bags in hand).
- Player is stuck down until a bean bag slides within reach and he can grab it.
I was born in 1990, grew up in CT, and fondly remember this game, know to us as, “bean bag toe tag,” from elementary school.
The one difference in our version was that, when hit with a bean bag, you would go to “jail” behind the opposing team. If a bean bag made its way past everyone, you were “freed” and could go back out to the field.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!