Winter Queen: Tag Game for Primary School & Children's Gymnastics

Winter Queen is a tag game for primary school and children's gymnastics, in which two taggers freeze the other children and the sun thaws them out. Anyone who is touched immediately freezes into an ice cube and remains standing in the frozen pose until the sun frees the child. The remaining children can run around freely, while the sun itself must not be caught.

This is included in the material

• Game description with the roles, the course of play, an illustration of the game situation and information on duration and material
• Variants with which the game can be varied

Tips for using the material

• Role change: After about three minutes, the roles can be changed.
• More suns or more taggers: The game can be played with several suns or several taggers.
• Thawing task: Before a thawed child can continue playing, it can complete a short task, for example, jumping jacks.
• Safe zones: Laid-out mats can serve as safe zones, on which only one child may stand at a time.
• Bibs instead of pool noodles: Taggers and suns can also receive bibs instead of pool noodles.

These skills are promoted

• Reaction time when running away from the taggers
• Body control when suddenly standing still as an ice cube
• Spatial orientation when running freely between taggers and fellow players

Organizational notes

Pool noodles are required: The two taggers each receive a blue one, the sun a yellow one. The game lasts about 5 to 10 minutes.

To match: the tag game Monster Machine, the Christmas Grinch as another winter game and Team Catch as a tag game tournament.