Chinook Lake Park
May’s Playground of the Month is Chinook Lake Park!
Chinook Lake Park is a beautiful community park located in the heart of Uplands in North Lethbridge.
We asked a local family to check out the playground and let us know their thoughts!
How to play ‘Grounders’
Grounders is a version of tag in which one child is “it” and the other children climb on to the playground structure. The child who is “it” attempts to “tag” the children on the playground structure from the ground. The children on the structure move around to avoid being tagged.
Although the rules are known to vary from town to town and school to school, here are some basic guidelines to follow if grounders is new to you.
Essentially a game of tag, with three major differences:
The player who is IT has their eyes closed at all times.
When the player who is IT calls out "grounders" any player on the ground becomes the IT player.
The game is played on a play structure and the surrounding area.
OBJECTIVE
IT Players: To blindly wander on a playground in search of tagging other Players.
Players: To avoid the IT Player(s) while trying to stay off the ground.
RULES
Players must stay within the playing field, usually the sand around a play structure.
The IT Player must have their eyes closed at all times.
The IT Player must touch another Player for them to be IT, or call out grounders while one or more Players are on the ground.
The IT Player is only allowed to call out "grounders" every 5 seconds; any grounders call within the same 5 seconds of another call is invalid.
When the IT Player tags someone, that person must announce that they are "IT", descend to the ground, spin in a circle and count to five before they can tag anyone else.
SPECIAL RULES
Multiple IT Players - In the case of an IT Player calling 'grounders' while multiple Players are on the ground, there can be a possibility of multiple IT Players, this can be perfectly fine and even make the game more challenging depending on the total amount of players, but if not it can easily be solved by anything as simple as rock paper scissors, or flipping a coin.
If any Player touches the IT Player, in taunting or otherwise, they become the IT player.
The state of being "on the ground" is whenever a limb that is supporting you is touching the ground.
Jumping in the air while traveling on the ground in hopes of avoiding contact with the ground while the IT player calls out grounders is useless. The Player becomes the IT Player regardless if he/she is on or slightly above the ground.