[Childcare] Recommended indoor activities and recreation games for April

hopscotch

130616 Ken-ken-pa

A classic old game: Kenkenpa (hopscotch).

Adults probably played it when they were kids too, right? You draw circles on the road with chalk and advance while hopping on one foot, and when there are two circles, you spread your legs and land with both feet.

It’s a game where the rhythm changes depending on the placement and length of the circles.

Kenkenpa can be enjoyed both outdoors and indoors.

Indoors, you can tape down ring toss rings on the floor or make circles with masking tape and stick them to the floor.

Try courses of different lengths to suit the age of the players.

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Rock-Paper-Scissors Train

Rock-Paper-Scissors Train GAME

Everyone moves around freely in all directions to the music.

When the music stops, they freeze where they are and play rock-paper-scissors with someone nearby.

The loser goes behind the winner, puts their hands on the winner’s shoulders, and they start moving around again to the music—then stop and play rock-paper-scissors—repeating the cycle.

Eventually, everyone forms a single line.

The person at the front is the winner.

It’s a game that tests your rock-paper-scissors skills!

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Musical chairs

Musical Chairs (4- and 5-year-olds)

Musical chairs is such a popular game that almost everyone has played it at least once as a child.

You set up chairs in a circle, with one fewer chair than the number of players, and walk around them to the rhythm of the music.

When the music stops, everyone stops walking and tries to sit down.

Since there’s one fewer chair, someone is left standing and loses.

Then you remove another chair and repeat—it’s a last-one-standing kind of game.

Try playing it seriously as an adult—you’ll probably have a blast!

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Fruits Basket

[English × Physical Play] 08 Fruit Basket Game

An old classic game: Fruit Basket.

Many of you have probably played it at least once.

Everyone sits on chairs arranged in a circle, with just one person standing in the center.

Players are divided into teams by fruit names, and when the person standing calls a group—a fruit—everyone in that group stands up and moves to a different empty seat.

The person who fails to sit down becomes the next caller, and the game continues like that.

If the caller says “Fruit Basket” instead of a specific fruit, everyone stands and changes seats.

You can also play in a question format without team divisions, such as “People who had bread for breakfast.”

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Ball-passing race

Children and Parent-Child Event/Activity Plan: Ball-Passing Relay Race in Kawaguchi, Saitama

Pass the ball backward and compete to see which team can get the ball to the goal first.

Alternate passing it over the head and between the legs.

After you pass, run to the back of the line, and repeat until you reach the goal.

You can change the rules depending on the number of players or the group—for example, passing only over the head while seated, or only between the legs.

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