[Children's Association] A Collection of Fun Entertainment and Activity Ideas

Kappa Plate Ball-Carrying Race

Kappa Plate Ball-Carrying Race [Party Game for Banquets, Parties, Year-End Parties! After-Parties!]

It’s also great to use paper plates at the party venue for an obstacle-course-style game! If you’ve got a large space, the excitement doubles.

Balance a paper plate on your head, hold it in place with your hands, and put a ping-pong ball on top.

The winner is the person who finishes with the most ping-pong balls still on their plate after clearing all the obstacles.

Simple obstacles made from tables and chairs are plenty.

Even just doing one lap around the venue along the walls works well.

You can customize the obstacles in many ways—like greeting the department head or playing rock-paper-scissors with a junior colleague.

Don’t forget to prepare classic sports day-style background music to play during the game!

hand play song

Nursery teachers teach! A medley of popular hand-play songs: “It’s Starting,” “When I Grow Up,” “Disney Hand Play,” “Rolling Eggs,” and more!

The perfect hand-play songs to liven up a children’s club.

With simple movements and easy-to-remember lyrics, they’ll capture kids’ hearts.

Shout out loud with “Kaeru no Uta,” and get moving with “Ito Maki.” The best part is that not only children but also adults can enjoy them together.

One special charm of hand-play songs is how they deepen connections across generations.

The time parents and children spend singing the same songs will surely become unforgettable memories.

Let’s all sing and dance together to make the children’s club a blast!

[Dance] Idol

[Idol] YOASOBI 'Easy Dance' ~Theme song of Oshi no Ko~ A simple arranged dance you can perform at recitals and events!

In the first half of 2023, it felt like there wasn’t a single day we didn’t hear YOASOBI’s “Idol.” Along with the song, the dance went mega-viral too, getting heavy rotation on YouTube’s dance covers and on TikTok.

I think plenty of people can do it even without formal dance training.

So how about we all dance to “Idol” together? Spend the first 10 minutes teaching anyone who doesn’t know it at all, and then it’s free dance time.

Try moving your body with whatever version you like—kid-friendly choreography, the original routine, anything goes.

It’s a sure-fire crowd-pleaser and a highly recommended party activity!

Panel theater

The Wonderful Hat Shop: Keropons Panel Theater

Panel theater is full of tricks that delight children.

It’s sure to keep them glued to the world of the story.

Making everything from scratch is great, but there are also kits that include everything you need for panel theater, so you might make good use of those! Even a single performance often takes time, so save a moving, meaningful story for the grand finale and present it to the children!

TT Brothers

TT Brothers Tried Our Best to Imitate Chocolate Planet’s Skit! Role-Playing ♥ -Bonitos TV- ♥

The comedy duo Chocolate Planet’s “TT Brothers” bit is all about finding the various “T” shapes in the world around us.

It’s hard not to love how, even though you’re just looking for T’s, it somehow gets you excited.

It’s also a huge hit with kids, so once it clicks with the audience, you’re bound to get big laughs.

Go ahead and look for the T’s around you!

YouTube coordinator

[New Roles & Duties] This new term, let’s break free from the same old duties.

The YouTube committee will film videos about things the whole class is likely to be interested in.

The finished videos will be saved in a dedicated committee video room so classmates can watch them.

Filming and editing might be fun too, since you can feel a sense of accomplishment when the work takes shape.

Depending on the season, it’s also recommended to record class activities, edit them as memories, and hold a screening for everyone.

Be sure to set clear rules about personal information and how to use the editing devices, and let’s create fun videos that make everyone smile.

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reading drama

“Peter and the Wolf” through music, animation, and narration (for upper elementary students)

Even if you have opportunities to read stories in Japanese class, you probably don’t often read them aloud with feeling.

How about trying a dramatic reading—delivering the story with emotion so the scene comes to life—and presenting it as a performance? You’ll read not only the dialogue but also the narrative parts that convey the situation, so you can try out various techniques.

It’s important to determine whether someone excels at narration or at dialogue and assign roles for the whole piece accordingly.

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