Equipment:
- NONE
Description:
- Select one student to be the octopus and place them in the middle of the gym.
- Have all other students line up beside one another at one end of the gym, facing the octopus.
- When the octopus shouts “Octopus,” all of the students try to run from one side of the gym to the other.
- The octopus is allowed to run anywhere in the gym.
- If a students is tagged by the octopus, their feet become frozen to the floor and their arms stick straight out: They are seaweed.
- For the following rounds of play, the game gets harder as the students who have been turned to seaweed reach out and try to tag students who are running by.
- Remember that seaweed students CAN NOT move their feet in order to tag a passing student ( you might want to let them turn and face the line of students after each round, and just have them re-glue their feet to the floor once they have turned).
- The last student(s) remaining at the end of the game gets to be the octopus at the beginning of the next game.