Jake and the Migration
of the Monarch

* Butterfly Tag *

This game is fun to play with a group of children.

• One student is the bird (predator).
• Another student is the butterfly.
• All other students link elbows with one other student to make a butterfly. Their hands should be on their hips.
  
  The bird chases the single butterfly. If he catches him, he pretends to eat him. (Did the butterfly taste good? — NO!) The bird lets the butterfly go, but that butterfly becomes the new “bird”. (You may, at this point, discuss other predators than the bird mentioned in the book, such as a spider, a hawk, a lizard, etc. — Students have fun running in the style of the animal.)
  
  The single butterfly can be “safe” if he locks arms with one of the paired butterflies.  When this happens, the student attached on the other side must let go and become the single butterfly.