[Children's Association] A Collection of Fun Entertainment and Activity Ideas
Introducing fun activities and performances that will liven up your kids’ club! Kids’ clubs bring together children from the neighborhood or school to have a great time.
Getting together to play games, enjoy performances, and put on skits—children really look forward to those precious moments.
In this article, we’re introducing entertainment and performance ideas perfect for kids’ clubs.
We’ve gathered lots of ideas, from activities led by the children themselves to performances where adults entertain the kids.
Use these as inspiration and make your kids’ club as exciting as possible!
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[Children’s Club] Collection of Fun Entertainment and Activity Ideas (31–40)
Rubik’s Cube
It’s a very simple 3D puzzle where you match the colors on all six faces, but it’s surprisingly difficult.
Since its release in 1997, it has become popular around the world as a toy enjoyed by both children and adults.
Why not use this 3D puzzle to show off a quick party trick? If you can smoothly solve a puzzle that stumps everyone else in an instant, you’re sure to earn a round of applause! There’s a specific method to solving it, so be sure to learn it and practice.
Snacks with a two-person haori (two-person performance)!
The classic party act known as futari-baori is performed in pairs.
Two people wear an oversized haori together, and the person in the back tries to feed the person in front—that’s the usual setup.
It’s simple, but it really gets the crowd going.
Since the person in the back can’t see, they often end up pressing the food against the other’s cheek or nose instead of getting it into their mouth.
A team competition to see who finishes eating first is also a lot of fun, so definitely give it a try with everyone and liven things up.
Adults go all out! Gesture game
If you want to enjoy a game with everyone, how about Charades? It’s a game where you convey prompts using only gestures, without words—and depending on the prompt, it can be pretty hard to get your message across.
Try coming up with prompts that everyone can enjoy, from easy-to-imagine ones like baseball or soccer to animals or prompts with a bit of a story.
If you have a large group, we recommend splitting into teams, setting a time limit, and competing to see which team can guess the most prompts correctly.
Sign language dance ‘Racing into the Night’YOASOBI
How about performing a sign language dance to the famous song everyone’s heard at least once, YOASOBI’s “Racing into the Night” (Yoru ni Kakeru)? Adding precise finger movements to the dance raises the difficulty a bit, but that’s exactly why it could capture the audience’s interest.
Plus, this dance might spark curiosity about sign language as a communication tool and open up a new world for you.
Talk together about which signs to incorporate into the choreography, and try creating an original routine.
No rehearsal party trick!
When it comes to party tricks, it often happens that someone says, “Hey, let’s try something right now!” on the spur of the moment.
For times like that, I recommend no-practice-required hidden talents.
There are a few, but to give some examples: a game where you guess what object is being held between someone’s butt cheeks, and qigong tricks.
As you might guess, with qigong, the technique that matters is not the person supposedly doing it, but the person it’s being done to.
If someone “hits you with qigong,” try dramatically flying backward or spinning around.
It’s guaranteed to get laughs.
[Children's Club] A Collection of Entertaining Skits and Performance Ideas (41–50)
Challenge the ‘Jugemu’ tongue twister!
A classic staple among opening acts in rakugo! The tongue twister “Jugemu” is famous, and it’s surprising to learn it’s actually a person’s name.
The story goes that when auspicious words wishing for a long life were strung together, it ended up this long.
For elementary school kids, it may seem like a confusing string of words and feel difficult, but there are some funny phrases along the way, and near the end it finally sounds like a real name with “Chosuke.” If you can say it, that’s amazing! You’ll definitely get praised, so don’t give up—practice and wow everyone.
A flutist using things you have at home!
At school, we don’t often get the chance to play instruments other than the recorder or the melodica.
But did you know you can play something like a flute using items you have at home? Try performing with objects that can produce a lovely, flute-like sound.
For example, a bottle! Place your lower lip on the mouth of the bottle, and blow as if you’re directing your breath toward the far edge of the bottle’s opening, rather than into the inside of the bottle.
For low notes, blow with a “hoo, hoo,” and for high notes, push your tongue slightly forward and blow like “hyoo, hyoo.” Adjust the sound and try making music with bottles, as well as items like chikuwa (a tube-shaped fish cake) or cups! It’s also fun to play together in a small ensemble.
