In brief: Trying to push the balloon off others’ hands while preventing own balloon from being displaced.
Intensity: High
Introduction: These series of tag games are adapted from the ‘Everybody’s It’ and ‘Buddy Tag’ propless games.
Prop(s): A balloon per player.
How to play:
- Everyone inflates a balloon up to about the size of a human head.
- Each player has to balance his balloon on the back of his outstretched hand. No one is allowed to grab the balloon between his fingers.
- Each player has to try to knock the balloon off the other players’ hands while preventing his own balloon from being knocked off.
- Anyone who loses a balloon is out of the game.
- The last player with a balloon wins.
Caution:
- Warn the players to keep the hand with balloon outstretched. They tend to pull their hands towards the body to keep the balloons safe. However, that will create a tendency for others to accidentally smack them during tagging.
- Players are only allowed to hit the balloons of others. Hitting of hands to knock off the balloon is forbidden. But then again, if the players are having fun and not complaining about it, let it go.
Variation(s):
- Allow players to pick up their own balloons should they dropped them on the floor and continue playing. Stop the game when everyone has had enough fun.
Players form pairs and interlock elbows. One partner balances a balloon while the other tries to knock other players’ balloons off (see picture below).
