ICE SKATING TAG: Winter K-5 Elementary (Sliding) PE Game
ICE SKATING TAG will definitely be an awesome addition to your physical education curriculum this winter season! This unique PE game is designed to engage elementary students in a fun, active, and skill-building gym game that simulates ice skating indoors.
This exciting PE game focuses on developing sliding skills, evasion techniques, and cardiovascular fitness. Students will love pretending to ice skate using paper plates as “skates” while playing an engaging tag game.
Enhance your winter-themed PE lessons with this versatile, low-equipment resource that improves locomotor skills, promotes safe sliding techniques, and encourages strategic thinking and spatial awareness.
ICE SKATING TAG
READY, SET – LET’S PLAY!
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
To play this Ice Skating Tag game you are going to need a few pieces of equipment including:
- 3-4 BLUE POOL NOODLES
- 2 RED HULA HOOPS
- PAPER PLATES – Enough for each student to have two
- KIDS ready to have some SERIOUS FUN
EASY GAME SET-UP
First, give all students a pair of skates (2 paper plates). Then choose 3-4 students to be the “Ice Taggers.” Give each tagger a blue pool noodle and send them to the middle of the gym. Then, choose 2 students to give the 2 red hula hoops (Hot Hoops) to. Have those students and all others spread out on the skating rink (gym floor) with their skates.
HOW TO PLAY – Ice Skating Tag
Explain to the students that the gym floor is the ice skating rink for this game. Students will be using the paper plates as their skates. They will simply step on them with their shoes on and glide across the gym floor.
When the music starts or the game begins, the “Ice Taggers” will skate along trying to tag other skaters using their blue pool noodle. If a skater gets tagged, they turn into a frozen icicle. They must freeze with their hands in the air, making a point, like an icicle.
The skaters with the Hot Hoops (red hoops) have the power to melt the icicles and get them back in the game. They do this by skating over to an icicle and dropping the red hoop over them (thawing them out). The rescued skater now picks up the Hot Hoop and looks for another icicle to rescue. Students with the Hot Hoops CAN NOT BE TAGGED by the Ice Taggers.
After a minute or so, switch taggers. Play as many rounds needed to give everyone a chance to be an ice tagger.
GAME TEACHING TIPS
- TIP #1: I like to play the song ‘LET IT GO’ from the Disney movie, FROZEN, when I play this ice skating tag game. The kids either love or hate that song (little kids usually love it and the older kids SAY they hate it (LOL) but even the kids who hate it have a blast when I play it. It’s so fun to hear them silly sing it at the top of their lungs.
- TIP #2: Instead of paper plates, you can use juggling scarves for the skates. Or, I’ve even had the kids just take their shoes off and play in their socks.
- TIP #3: Let them know that they need to press down with their feet & put a little pressure on the paper plates. This will help keep the skates on. For students with bigger feet, I’ve found that the bigger paper plates with the lip/edge on them work a little better than the smaller, cheaper ones. SO FUN!
WATCH: How to Play – Ice Skating Tag
Ice Skating Tag is Ideal for Kindergarten PE through fifth grade physical education students. It’s such a great whole-class activity that keeps everyone sliding, fleeing and having tons of fun.
So, why not blast some “clean” and upbeat PE music and bring the excitement of ICE SKATING TAG to your gymnasium TODAY!
GREAT NEWS! You can snag your very own PDF of this awesome ICE SKATING TAG PE game RIGHT HERE. It’s also a very easy lesson plan to leave for a substitute teacher. Just print off, gather the equipment and you’re good to go. So much FUN!
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