"Tag" is the Russian mobile game easy on perception and interesting in process. It is very effective for development of reaction, attention, skill and endurance of the child. Play it cheerfully and with enthusiasm. There are also games for adults based on the principle of "cat and mouse".
Instruction
1. Take children players for the classical game "Tag". The number of people is not limited, but nevertheless adhere to optimum number (10-30 people). The age of children can begin of four years. It is better to play "Tag" on the open area.
2. Place children around. Let will join hands, forming thereby the "closed" space.
3. Choose two driving (at own will the child or by means of counting rhymes). One will be a cat, another – a mouse. Start the child who will be a mouse in a circle, other kid remains behind a circle.
4. Explain rules of the game: a cat, having entered a circle, has to catch up with a mouse. At the same time the children forming a barrier in every possible way prevent a cat to enter in a circle. The cat is allowed to break off a chain of players, to creep under the linked hands of children or to jump through them. When the cat manages to get to a circle, the playing children release a mouse and try not to let out from a circle a cat now.
5. When the cat touches a hand a mouse (will catch it), announce its victory, and a mouse defeat.
6. Choose the following couple of driving and begin a game anew. For more brisk and cheerful game choose several couples of mice and cats.
7. Participate in a reality game for motorists of "Tag". In it the principle of a classical game is observed: the cat has to catch a mouse. On a certain site of the city organizers several cars (mice) with identification marks (words, letters, etc.) are issued. Participants (cats) by cars try to find the car mouse in the city. Having stopped the found mouse, the cat receives a certain task which she has to execute with the team and score points. The one who will catch more mice and will score more points wins. Remember that not the one who quickly goes, and the one who is attentive wins.