by Rachel
(IA)
There’s a Fox and then the rest of the guests are critters.
The critters will stand on the edge of the pool (shallow end) and call out to the Fox who is on the opposite side of the pool. The Fox will answer a time like 12:00 then the kids would go 12 steps (or spaces) forward towards the fox. (So 4:00 means 4 steps.
Then when the Fox chooses, he/she will call out “Lunch Time!” and chase after the critters, while the critters escape to the starting side of the pool without being caught (tagged) by the fox.
Whoever gets tagged first is the new fox.