How to Play Team Freeze Tag

Team freeze tag is the ultimate recess game for a school yard that is filled with children. It is also good for physical education classes and can be played in a gym. Of course, it also works in parks and backyards with groups of neighborhood children playing outside on a nice day.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 6-50 children divided into two teams
• Large playing area outside or in a gym
• Fence or tree or wall to use for "base"
• Enough colored wrist bands for each child to get one- half the bands should be one color and the other half should be a second color
• 1 coin

1. Introduce the game of team freeze tag by dividing the group of children into two equal teams of players. Pass out wristbands to each child. Each team has a different color wristband. It is important that every player's wristband remain visible at all times. Agree on what will be the base. People who are "on base" are taking a personal time out to rest. They cannot be tagged.

2. Toss a coin to determine which team will be "IT" first. The other team gets 10 seconds to run away. Then, the ITs can give chase.

3. If a member of the ITs Team tags a member of the other team, the tagged player must "freeze." This means that the player must stop still and remain in the exact position, "frozen," until someone from their own team tags them to "unfreeze" them.

4. Play continues for five minutes or until everyone on the non-ITs Team is frozen. The ITs score a point for every frozen non-ITs player when time is called. The non-ITs team now becomes the ITs. Play resumes for an additional five minutes.

5. Switch the ITs and non-ITs every five minutes. At the end of 30 minutes each team will have had three opportunities to be the ITs and three opportunities to be "frozen." The team with the most points at the end of thirty minutes (or any other agreed upon length of play) wins.