Couch Potato
Please note: Reproduced with permission from The Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA), Active Kids: Anytime, Anyplace, 1992. May be copied by members of Girl Guides of Canada for non-profit use within Guiding.
This tag game reinforces the positive aspects of Active Living. Couch Potatoes can be identified with name cards or other props.
One or more Couch Potatoes are "It". If tagged by a Couch Potato, a player pretends to sit on a couch by putting her hands on her thighs and slightly bending her legs. Any other player can free her by doing a physical activity with her. They mime an Active Living Activity, such as tennis, sweeping the floor, basketball, or skiing for five seconds. She mirrors them and she is free to move again. Couch Potatoes may not tag anyone who is in the process of freeing someone, or is being freed.
Variation: Players can have three chances to stay alive before becoming a Couch Potato. They must hold their hand(s) on the first and second spots where they were tagged. They become a Couch Potato the third time they are tagged.
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