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Buffalo Stampede

Various

Run to one side of the field without getting tagged

Safe Touch

Practice safe touch in all activities:

  • Ask permission

  • Try to only hold hands

  • When holding out a hand please make hands spoons not forks

  • Do not touch private areas like chest, groin, or butt.

  • Be respectful to each other

Game Instructions

Setup:

  • Set up a large square grid of game squares

Play:

  1. Start with everyone on the outside of one side of the square

  2. The facilitator and one volunteer call out one specific piece of clothing or color. Ex: jeans, the color red, a hat

  3. Anyone wearing that color or piece of clothing must run across the meadow without getting tagged with a pool noodle by the facilitator and volunteer

  4. If they are tagged, they stand in place where they were tagged, they become a waving cactus. They are allowed to tag anyone that runs past them the next rounds but can’t move their feet.

  5. Now there are two groups of people on either side, when you yell out a color or clothing, anyone on either side must run across the field. Now there are people running from both directions.

  6. If the facilitator yell Buffalo stampede everyone that is still in runs

  7. The last two winners get to become the callers and taggers the next game.

RULES & SUPPLIES

Rules:

  • No picking out 1 individual when calling type of clothing or color of clothing

  • If someone runs out of bounds, they become a catus where they ran out

  • No jumping over people

  • Catus can never move

Supplies

Note: all supplies are located Game Shed

  • Game Cones

  • Tag Noodles

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