[Senior Class Events] A collection of game ideas to liven up a sports day for 5-year-olds

Group gymnastics

Tega-no-Oka Kindergarten and Nursery School 2016 Sports Day Senior Class Group Gymnastics

Group gymnastics is when everyone works together to create various moves and formations.

While it’s often associated with elementary school, children who attend kindergartens or daycare centers and get plenty of exercise can definitely perform simple techniques! There are solo moves like bridges and poses that require balancing on one hand, as well as partner or group moves like the “two-tier bed” and the “fan.” There are many techniques that kindergarten and daycare children can handle.

Let’s show parents how cool the kids look as they perform impressive moves in time with the teacher’s calls, drumbeats, or music!

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artistic gymnastics

The last sports day of kindergarten♪

Let’s show parents the gymnastics the children usually practice during exercise time at kindergarten or daycare on sports day! In mat exercises, they’ll try forward and backward rolls, and those who can might even attempt a slightly acrobatic move like a cartwheel.

They’ll work hard to jump over the vaulting box and demonstrate forward circles and pullovers on the horizontal bar…

Sports day is the perfect time to show how much they’ve grown and how hard they’ve been practicing! Seeing their children doing their best is sure to bring tears to parents’ eyes.

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obstacle course

Bullet 4 years old obstacle race

When it comes to school sports days, obstacle races are a classic! Balance beams, crawling under nets, vaulting boxes—anything goes.

It’s popular because you can adjust the distance and obstacles by age and freely design the course.

Kids who are fast runners, those who enjoy detailed tasks, and those with great balance can all shine in their own ways.

You can even add a mental element, like drawing cards to give challenges.

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Olympic Race

2020.10.3 Hiro’s senior-class sports day – Olympic race

Here are ideas for events themed around Olympic sports.

Set up a course on a playground or in a gym and let participants enjoy it like an attraction while taking on the challenges.

It’s also recommended to include elements like a ceremony reenacting the torchbearer lighting the flame, or gymnastics events such as the balance beam.

Adding hurdles and a vaulting box to a straight course leading to the finish line will make the race even more exciting.

Try incorporating ideas that give older children a strong sense of challenge and accomplishment.

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Card flipping

At the Fukui City nursery school sports day, parent-child event: Card Flip! Try this popular game together at the sports day!

This is a sports day event that people of all ages can enjoy intuitively.

Participants split into the White Team and the Red Team and compete to see how many double-sided cards—red on one side and white on the other—they can flip to their team’s color within a time limit.

The rules are simple: flip the cards laid out across the court.

The scramble for cards near the opposing team is thrilling, and the whole venue heats up.

Its clear win conditions are another appeal, allowing the event to progress briskly even on a tight schedule.

It’s perfectly enjoyable indoors, such as in a gymnasium, making it ideal for rainy-day sports days.

Anyone can join, and while moving at full speed, players naturally build teamwork.