- Choose a cat and mouse.
- Arrange the others into a neat “grid” – for example if there are twenty children, four rows of five.
- All of them stretch their arms out, fingertips touching, to form four lines.
- The cat and mouse are able to run up and down these lines, the cat trying to catch the mouse, but they cannot break through the lines.
- However, when you call “change” the children must turn 90 degrees, forming new rows at right angles to the old ones.
- Sometimes it will help the mouse, sometimes the cat – change at leader’s