Sticker Tag

A lot of the weird and wonderful games that come to my head are unplanned and totally random!

I was at Playcentre today, and for some reason, I thought, “hmmm, it might be cool to do something with stickers”. So I went to the drawer and grabbed some blank label stickers and went outside.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them. I saw some of the children who I was playing chase with earlier. I told them I have stickers, and that I was going to give them a “sticker disease”. The quickly screamed and ran away. I tried to place ripped up pieces of the stickers on them. Then I gave them some stickers and told them to rip them up and try stick them on me. They thought this was great fun. The stickers quickly ran out and we had to get some more as more and more children joined in.

We have a wonderful outdoor area, so we were utilising our wonderful fort and long slide to make the chasing even more fun.

It was helpful to know the personalities of the children. I was aware of the ones who got quite flustered and upset at being “caught”, so I would approach them and would say, “shall I put a sticker on you?” or there would be others who would be unsure about all this chasing and catching business, so I would give them some stickers and stay still while they placed stickers on me (good for the younger ones). Then there were the ones who get all excited at being approached by the “bady” (me) and would want to react by throw something or be rough, so I would approach them slower and also took the opportunity to teach them about using gentle hands.

The kids and I had a great run around. They were so fast!