I got this years ago from a workshop with Jason Fritze. It's the Peruvian (?! Jason, correct me!) version of tag, I think.
I own several giant white boards, so I use one of them for my demonstration, but you could just as easily use paper. I write on it:
Angelus/diabolus: Tax tax tax (knock knock knock)
Omnes: QUIS ES?
A/D: Angelus/Diabolus sum!
Omnes: QUID VIS?!
A/D: ____________ volo! (colores, animalia - whatever topic you've chosen)
Omnes: QUID/QUEM/QUAM (thingy) VIS?
A/D: (responsum)
Each kid, except the angel and the demon, gets a white board. Together, you and the class (or just you) should select 4-5 words in a given category. Imagine you select animals, and within that category, a lion, a bear, a seal, a giraffe, and a llama. Each kid can draw one of those.
Your angel and demon will be your It.
Take them outside, with your angel and demon 20 or so feet from your group, which is facing your angel and demon. The angel will go first, reading through the script above:
A/D: tax tax tax
Omnes: Quis es?
A/D: Angelus sum
Omnes: Quid vis?
A/D: animalia volo!
Omnes: Quid animal vis?
A/D: leones volo!
Any kid then holding a board with a lion runs for [designated point]. If they make it there without being touched, they are safe. If they get touched, they're the new angel and hand over their board to the old angel.
Meanwhile, while the lions are running and the angel is chasing, the devil is going through the script with the remaining kids (obviously saying diabolus and not choosing lions). This continues in a cycle.
Have the kids switch boards every three or four rounds so nobody gets complacent.
This is fun for about twenty minutes on a pleasantly warm day, and it's a good way to rehearse discrete vocabulary.
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