Indoor Game – Octopus Tagging

Date: 11^th April 2014

Day: Friday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Indoor Game – Octopus Tagging

I came across this interesting game online and since the children are studying about octopus, it’s suitable for them to try it out.

Before we start, I gave them some instruction and rules of the games:

-          I drew the area that the children can run about

-          I shall select an octopus to start off with by standing in the middle of the hall

-          All the rest of the children will be fish and they shall stand at the end of the hall

-          Once the fish is caught by the octopus when trying to swim across the ocean, they will turn into sea anemone and squad down

-          All sea anemones can also grab other fish and turned them into sea anemones.

-          The last person who is not being caught will be the next octopus

I demonstrate the first round to let them know how to be an octopus and what will happen when they were caught. We had this game played for another 2 rounds. Most of the children could obey the basic safety by not pushing or pulling each other. They enjoyed the game. 

The children pretended to be fish. They were excited for the game to start.

Oh, Yi Fai is the octopus. Run fishes before it catches you!

Kai Heng is the next octopus. The children looked at him before the game start.

Look at those "sea anemone" laughing away at those running fishes.