Fun Parent-Child Games! A Collection of Ideas to Liven Up Your Nursery School Sports Day

Enjoy freshly baked bread.

Kasama Tomobe Tomobe Kindergarten Childcare Information: “Sports Day Series – Nursery (Year 1) – Individual Events”

Popular anime characters join the sports day events! These are fun sports day games that even small children can enjoy while playing.

First, in a footrace, choose a character face—like Anpan, Shokupan, or Melonpan—placed in the field.

Once you’ve picked a face, look for the house that has the same picture as the face you’re holding.

When you find the matching house, throw the face you’re holding through the window to clear the game.

You can, of course, use non-anime characters for the event as well.

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Let’s deliver flavors of the world!

Turn the recipe cards and start cooking! Bring flavors from around the world! Here’s an idea to try.

Sports Day is a special event that happens once a year.

How about competing while learning about the world? Let’s have parents and children work together to make dishes from around the globe as they overcome items like hurdles and balance beams.

Through pretend play, you can create happy memories of joining a fun event together—making American hamburgers, Japanese osechi, Italian pizza, British sandwiches, and more.

Freshly picked fruit

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day Event Description No. 9: "Freshly Picked Fruits, Enjoy!"

Recommended from infant to preschool classes! Here’s an idea called “Freshly Picked Fruit.” How about incorporating familiar fruits—seen every day at lunch, in picture books, and in pretend play—into a game? Prepare a banana tree, a mandarin orange tree, an apple tree, and animal props (an elephant, a monkey, and a rabbit) with holes for mouths.

At the start signal, each child picks one fruit from any tree and moves forward.

Next, they choose an animal and place the fruit they’re holding into its mouth—then they reach the goal! Give it a try in your class.

Swirly Mixed Juice

FY2019 Minami Nursery School Sports Day — Parent and Infant Event for 0-Year-Olds (Spin-Spin Mixed Juice)

Let me introduce “Kurukuru Mixed Juice,” an activity that parents and babies can enjoy together.

Start by holding your child in your arms.

Spin around the pillar to mix the juice.

Then choose your favorite juice from the table, clink glasses with the teacher, and you’re at the goal! It could be even more exciting if you increase the number of laps around the pillar according to age.

Work together as a parent-child team to make a delicious mixed juice—good luck! Playing the “Mixed Juice” song as sports day background music sounds fun, too.

Bread-eating race while being carried

Flailing around in a bread-eating race

How about arranging a classic sports day “bread-eating race” into a “piggyback bread-eating race” for your nursery or kindergarten sports festival? The key is to hang the bread a bit higher so children can only reach it if their parent picks them up.

Since lifting takes some strength, it’s an event that fathers as well as mothers can easily take part in.

We’d especially love dads who don’t often get chances to interact with their children to join in! It’s a creative twist on the usual bread-eating race.

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