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[For 0-year-olds] Cute sports day themes: Ideas to make the event more fun

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We’re introducing sports day themes perfect for 0-year-old classes, such as “picture books,” “nursery rhymes,” “anime,” and “vehicles”! For 0-year-olds, it’s still difficult to do activities all together like the older classes.

If you’re looking for ideas that babies can enjoy and that parents will love, creating a cohesive “world” or theme is probably the best approach.

Simply giving a theme to activities like crawling races, circuits, and parent-child interaction games will turn them into memorable, super fun times.

We also recommend dressing the children in costumes that match the theme!

[For 0-year-olds] Cute sports day themes: Ideas to make sports day more fun (21–30)

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Mini sports day for the Bear Cubs (0-year-olds) at Hachiman Kodomoen (Tsukimi, Fukui City)! They did a footrace, a ball toss, and some exercises, and at the end they received medals. Sports day is so much fun!

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As both an attraction and a means of movement, vehicle-themed ideas are essential for a sports day for the 0-year-old class.

Prepare boxes decorated with cars, trains, buses, and so on, and make sure there’s space for the babies to sit inside.

By simply attaching a string to the box and pulling it, the babies can move around the room.

In addition to standard illustrations, adding animals or anime characters is also recommended.

Draw vehicle illustrations that make babies want to hop in.

Creating traffic lights and roads to make it feel like they’re actually driving is a great touch, too.

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Little Red Riding Hood

Primo Nursery School 2021-11-07 Sports Day (7) Bears & Squirrels Parent-Child Event (0-, 1-, and 2-year-olds)

Little Red Riding Hood

A competition based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood delivering food to her grandmother.

It’s a parent-and-child event where you work together, making it perfect for creating fond sports day memories.

The baby, dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, reaches the goal when they put food into Grandma’s mouth.

A wolf waits along the way, so you’ll make a full loop and move carefully to avoid bumping into them.

Dressing the baby in a costume that evokes Little Red Riding Hood is recommended.

By paying attention to the background music and props, you can enhance the worldbuilding even more.

Use cute illustrations and crafts that babies will enjoy to liven up your sports day.

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In conclusion

Every theme was well thought out, and they all seemed perfect for parents and children to enjoy together! Using familiar materials like picture books and nursery rhymes might make it even more exciting.

Making full costumes can be tough, but even just having hats would look great.

I hope your first sports day turns out to be a wonderful time!