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Week 30: April 14-18, 1997
IA Name: Line Monsters
Grade Level: 2nd and Up
Equipment: A playing area with lots of lines
Directions:
Identify 2-3 students to be the "Line Monsters". Their job is to move through the playing area (i.e., walking, sliding, hopping) trying to tag their classmates. Their classmates try to avoid getting tagged but they are only allowed to move on the lines of the playing area. The "line monsters" can move anywhere in the playing area. When students are tagged they are to freeze immediately. Also, if their classmates (the ones walking on the lines) fall off or intentionally move off the lines while tagging they are also to freeze (just as if they were tagged).
A person can become unfrozen when they are tagged by a classmate who is not frozen. The goal for the "line monsters" is to freeze everyone. If a frozen player is in the way of an active player, they can choose to unfreeze them or they can "jump" to another line.
Add more "line monsters" if they are having a difficult time getting everyone frozen. Choose new monsters and begin again.
Safety Tips
Make sure to stress students need to be careful movers on the lines. Students turning around quickly pose a safety threat to the children traveling forward behind them. Please demonstrate this.
Make sure kids who are not staying the lines freeze!
Submitted by Erik Columbus who teaches PE at Larned Middle School in Larned, KS. Thanks for contributing to PE Central!
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