A collection of ideas for infant/toddler play, recreation, and games

Summer festival pretend play

[For 4-year-olds] Let’s play summer festival!

Recommended for 4-year-olds! Here are some ideas for a pretend summer festival.

Summer festivals are often held as local events or at schools and kindergartens.

This time, let’s plan a summer festival play where 4-year-olds take the lead.

They can crumple newspaper with both hands to make candy apples and takoyaki, and use them for decorations.

There can also be stalls like a shaved ice shop using cotton and cups.

Through this pretend summer festival, children can interact across age groups and even learn about money—great ideas with lots of possibilities.

Curling Bingo Game

Make it with paper cups! Here’s an idea for a curling bingo game.

Curling is the sport where you slide heavy stones across an ice rink and try to place them as close as possible to the center of a target area called the house to score points, right? This time, let’s use paper cups as the stones and set the house as a 3×3 grid to enjoy a bingo-style game.

Split into two teams and, like tic-tac-toe, adjust your force and control your direction to line up three in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

Ring toss set

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Let’s make and play! Here are some ideas for a DIY ring toss set.

These tips are perfect when you want to set up a ring toss corner but don’t have the equipment.

All you need are toilet paper rolls, origami paper, and foil origami.

Just wrap your favorite origami paper around a toilet paper roll to create a target.

Making and setting up lots of targets will make it even more exciting.

For the rings, twist strips of foil origami to form loops.

Give it a try!

Target practice with a candy box

[Easy Craft] A Shooting Gallery Game with Candy Boxes! Enjoy a Festival at Home [Wacky After School]

Let’s make and play! Here are some ideas for a target-shooting game using candy boxes.

Target games are one of those corners that really excite kids, right? This time, let’s try making one with candy boxes.

You’ll need empty candy boxes, a stapler, rubber bands, and double-sided tape or regular tape.

It seems you can even make a rubber band gun and a festival-style headband out of empty candy boxes, so give it a try! For the targets, just line up the candy boxes and assign point values to each—easy to set up and play.

string lottery

[Indoor Play] Play with Kids♪ Enjoy a Festive Mood at Home! String Lottery♪

Let’s create an exciting, heart-pounding corner! Here are some ideas for a string lottery.

Raffles get both kids and adults excited, don’t they? This time, let’s make a festival-style string raffle.

You’ll need cardboard, twine, a screwdriver, a utility knife or scissors, origami or construction paper, masking tape, a bold marker, stickers, toilet paper rolls, clothespins, and prizes.

If you bundle the twine and thread it through the inside of the toilet paper roll in advance, it seems to help prevent the strings from getting tangled!