[Childcare] Easy! Make a DIY target game. Playful craft and fun game
When holding a mock street fair or summer festival at a nursery or kindergarten, it’s common to set up a game corner, isn’t it?
This time, we’re introducing handmade target-throwing games that are perfect for early childhood settings.
From creations using recycled materials like paper cups, chopsticks, and plastic bottles to decorated versions for special events, we’ve got plenty of target game ideas that will make participating children’s eyes light up with excitement!
Choose options that suit the children’s ages and developmental stages, and try making them together.
Target games have lots of benefits—they spark children’s curiosity and help cultivate concentration, thinking skills, and motor control.
Be sure to include them and have fun together with the kids.
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[Childcare] Easy! Let's make a DIY target game. Playful crafts and fun games (1–10)
Play hero with a extending sword!
When it’s raining and you can’t go outside, how about playing hero at home? All you need are everyday items like straws, chopsticks, newspaper, and construction paper.
We’ll show you a game you can make easily with things you already have and start playing right away.
First, the hero’s sword: make a handle by inserting chopsticks into a cut straw.
Then wrap a long strip of construction paper—glued together if needed—around it to form the blade, and your sword is complete.
For targets, line up several balloon balls made from crumpled newspaper.
Now you’re all set.
Aim your hero’s extendable sword at the balloon targets and see if you can hit them!
Straw blow dart cup-target game
A simple and fun blow-dart game that children can play from age four.
You’ll need construction paper, a paper cup, and two straws—one thick and one thin.
Scissors, crayons, and tape are also helpful.
Since the goal is to hit a paper-cup target with the blow dart, making the target colorful makes it even more fun.
Cut small slits into the tip of the thin straw and attach a circular piece of cardstock to it.
Insert this thin straw into the thick straw to complete the blow dart.
Make the target with a paper cup.
Write colorful point values on construction paper, cut them out with scissors, and tape them onto the paper cup.
Your target is ready.
Aim at the target and blow hard through the straw to launch the dart—now you’ve got a fun game ready to play.
Exterminate ghosts in a target-shooting game!
In a target-shooting game, the design of the targets is important.
No matter how impressive your launcher is, if the targets are just plastic bottles, it can be disappointing.
That’s why we recommend a ghost-busting target game.
Preparation is simple! First, gather several toilet paper rolls.
Then decorate them with origami paper and stickers to make them look like ghosts.
Be careful not to make them too scary, though.
Also, if you cut two slits at the end of a toilet paper roll and hook a rubber band onto them, you can even make a simple launcher.
Shooting Game You Can Make with Paper
Even when you suddenly feel like playing a target game, it’s reassuring to know a paper shooting game you can whip up.
To make this target game, all you need are paper, rubber bands, and scissors.
You can gather those in no time, right? The steps are simple too—most of the process is just folding paper.
There are a few moments when you’ll need scissors, so please have an adult help at those times! It’s also fun to decorate by drawing pictures on the targets or adding stickers.
Fruit guessing game
Some of you might be wishing for a more cute-looking target game.
For those people, I’d like to introduce a fruit-themed target game.
First, prepare a laundry net.
Fold the laundry net and attach fabric fruit patches to it.
Then sew on a string so it can hang, and it’s done.
Attach hook-and-loop (Velcro) to the ball as well, so when it hits the target, it sticks.
Since sewing is required, it will take some time to make.
But it will be sturdy, so you can play with it for a long time.