Fun for Children’s Day! A Collection of Performance and Play Ideas Recommended for Early Childhood Education

Children’s Day Event

Enjoy Children’s Day with fun all day long! Here are some ideas for Children’s Day events.

What comes to mind when you think of Children’s Day? Things related to the celebration, like koi-nobori (carp streamers), kashiwa mochi (oak leaf-wrapped rice cakes), cool kabuto (samurai helmets), and chimaki (bamboo leaf-wrapped dumplings)! Let’s incorporate these into activities while having fun throughout the day.

For example, you could use paper-theater (peep shows) or panel theaters to explain the origins of displaying koi-nobori, and serve kashiwa mochi as a snack.

It could also be fun to make kabuto out of newspaper or play games using the kabuto! Give these ideas a try.

Treasure Hunt Game

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Let’s go on a hunt for a special treasure! Here are some treasure hunt game ideas.

These ideas will give kids an exciting, heart-pounding adventure! Follow clues to find the hidden treasure while exploring the playground or the room.

It’s so much fun to team up with friends and search, thinking, “Maybe it’s hidden over there!” As a variation, you can hide treasures and give out stickers or small gifts each time a treasure is found to make it feel extra special.

It’s a wonderful game to play with friends and teachers, enjoying the sense of accomplishment together!

Sketchbook Theater: Hungry Koinobori

Let me introduce a sketchbook theater perfect for Children’s Day in May: “The Hungry Koinobori.” It’s a story where a carp streamer, hungry for food, changes into different colors after eating.

The moment it transforms from a colorless carp streamer into a colorful one is sure to capture the children’s attention.

You could match the colors to your class hat colors or get creative with the palette so the children feel more connected to the koinobori.

Give this seasonal koinobori theater a try!

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Ball-carrying race with a plate

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

Use a headband, such as a katyusha-style headband, to secure a paper plate on top of your head.

Place a ping-pong ball (or similar object) on it, and race from the start to the finish without dropping it.

It doesn’t have to be a ping-pong ball—for example, you could use an apple or other fruit, which might look cute.

Carrying ping-pong balls with chopsticks

Play with Japanese manners! Carry the ping-pong ball with chopsticks [banquet game, party game, year-end party, after-party!]

Chopsticks are a “tool” that symbolizes Japanese cuisine.

Let’s also feature them as an item that can boost the fun for Children’s Day, which is connected to traditional Japanese events.

The basic action is picking up a ping-pong ball with chopsticks.

The method is simple, but it’s surprisingly difficult when you try it.

For example, prepare two plates, each with about ten ping-pong balls, and have two players use chopsticks to pick up balls and place them into the other person’s plate.

When time is up, the player with fewer balls left on their own plate wins.

This is one way to enjoy it.

Dizzy Bat & Shoot

Dizzy Bat: Score the goal! [Party game for banquets, parties, year-end parties, and after-parties!]

How about a game where, after doing a “guruguru bat”—placing your forehead on a baseball bat standing upright on the ground and spinning your body around it—you then try to shoot a soccer ball into the goal? It kind of fuses baseball and soccer, and it might be welcomed by fans of both…

Spot the difference

[Quiz / Moving Spot the Difference] 'It's Children's Day! Spot the Differences in the Koinobori' [For Kids / Picture Book Video, Animation]

Doesn’t spot-the-difference make you feel nostalgic, remembering how often you played it as a kid? When I was little, there were two illustrations and you had to find the differences between them, but these days there are tons of spot-the-difference puzzles available even in free videos.

In connection with Children’s Day, how about trying a spot-the-difference featuring carp streamers and the like? You could also compete by giving 1 point for each difference found and tallying up totals.

Adults might end up getting more fired up than the kids!

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