Games to Play on Children’s Day: A Collection of Family-Friendly Ideas
Children’s Day is a day to celebrate and wish for children’s healthy growth.
There are many ways to spend it, such as displaying carp streamers and samurai helmets, or eating kashiwa-mochi.
But since it’s a special occasion, why not try incorporating games that everyone—family and friends—can enjoy together? In this article, we’ve gathered a wide range of game ideas perfect for Children’s Day.
From activities themed around carp streamers and kashiwa-mochi to ones you can enjoy with minimal preparation, they’re all games you can play excitedly indoors.
These are games that both kids and adults can get absorbed in, so be sure to check them out!
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Games to Play on Children’s Day: A Collection of Family-Friendly Ideas (61–70)
Crash Ice Game
Careful not to drop the penguin in the middle! Let me introduce the Crash Ice Game.
It’s perfect for when you want to get excited and feel the thrill.
Set up the ice blocks and use the included hammers to tap the blocks little by little.
The rules are simple: whoever makes the penguin placed in the center fall loses! It can be played by 2 to 4 people, and it’s fun for both kids and adults.
Since it doesn’t require special strategies or techniques, it’s easy to jump in and play—that’s part of the charm.
Jenga
Jenga is a thrilling balance game you can enjoy with family and friends, where not only technique but sometimes luck plays a role.
Players take turns removing one block at a time from a stacked tower and placing it on top; the person who causes the tower to collapse loses.
There are many variations, such as Jenga Extreme with rhombus-shaped pieces, versions with different sizes, sets with instructions written on the pieces, and ones played in combination with included dice or cards.
Creating your own original rules can be fun, too!
Tyrol Chocolate Flavor Guessing Game
With its wide variety of flavors, Tirol Chocolate has long been a favorite treat among children.
Because there are so many kinds, playing a blindfolded flavor-guessing game is especially fun—you can’t easily narrow down the answer.
Even with flavors you usually eat, you’ll be surprised how hard it becomes when you can’t see them, which makes it enjoyable for adults to join in as well.
It’s a perfect Children’s Day recreation using sweets, so if you can’t go out, give it a try at home.
Old Maid showdown
Old Maid is a simple card game you can play right away with just a standard deck.
As the name suggests, the person left holding the Joker at the end loses.
It’s straightforward yet strangely exciting, and even small children can enjoy it.
Players try to read each other’s expressions to avoid drawing the Joker—and, conversely, to make the other person take it—creating a fun psychological battle.
Adding small penalties or wagers can make it even more entertaining.
There’s also a hugely popular kids’ version with new rules called “Pokémon Old Maid!”
Catching tissues with a party blower
You know those party blowers that shoot out a long paper tongue when you blow them and curl back up when you stop, like a chameleon’s tongue? This is a game where you try to catch a tissue dropped from a height using one of those.
Because tissues are so light, their movement is unpredictable, which makes the game exciting.
Plus, the silly sound the blower makes always makes you laugh.
Ping-Pong Ball Speech Bubble Showdown
Fill a bowl with lots of ping-pong balls and blow on them to push them out of the bowl.
Whoever finishes getting them out the fastest wins.
Ping-pong balls are light, so they’re easy to blow away at first, but toward the end, the ones at the bottom of the bowl tend to slip and are harder to get out.
It’s a simple game that’s fun even with a small number of players.
Pose Matching Game
This is a game where someone gives a prompt like “When you think of ◯◯, what comes to mind?” and everyone matches by striking a pose.
For example, if the prompt is “When you think of baseball?”, there are poses like pitcher, batter, catcher, etc.
If everyone picks the same pose, it’s a big success! Can your team become one in spirit and get in sync? It might be a game that tests your everyday chemistry!
Mozzarella Cheese Game
It’s a game where you replace the word in the “Mozzarella Cheese Game” with any word you like and face off.
Originally, it’s a game where you keep saying the word “mozzarella” with more and more enthusiasm than the person before you, but in this version, you change the word and play.
As you can see from this video, it’s guaranteed to get everyone hyped!
Limbo dance
Many people may feel that staying at home all the time leads to a lack of exercise.
In such times, why not try the limbo dance to get your body moving even indoors? The limbo dance originated on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies and spread around the world for its humor and novelty.
Dancers, moving to the music, bend backward and pass under a horizontally held bar without touching it.
It really tests your flexibility.
If you don’t have a bar, try holding a string between two people and play!
Russian cream puff
Russian roulette is a staple gag at banquets and wedding after-parties.
You prepare a batch of cream puffs, but hide just one ultra-spicy one filled with mustard among the regular ones.
Several people eat them at the same time, and everyone tries to guess who got the spicy one.
Some people play it with wasabi instead of mustard.
However, since that might be too intense for kids, it’s a good idea to tweak it—for example, use something about as spicy as kimchi, or prepare mini cream puffs with chocolate filling and make just one of them filled with okonomiyaki sauce.