Goal:
- warming up
- opponent and team awareness
Prison Tag
- 1 or 2 guards = tagger. They tag 1 minutes. How many will be in prison?
- if you are tagged you go to prison= standing in small square
- how to get out of prison:
-the prison players can get their hands out of the square (idea of hands out of the bars).
- If a runner claps in your hands, you are free and can get out of prison.
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