[For Preschoolers & Kids] Game, Play, and Craft Ideas to Enjoy on Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day)

Hina-arare hunt in the room

Hina-arare is an indispensable snack for Hinamatsuri! Its poppy colors are adorable, and the light, crispy texture with a sweet-and-salty flavor is a hit with kids.

How about hiding some hina-arare around the room and letting your children hunt for them like a treasure hunt? It’s great for doing at home, and also recommended for Hinamatsuri activities at daycare or kindergarten! Since March gradually gets warmer, it could be fun not only indoors but also out in the yard or playground.

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Easy! Hishimochi Cookie Making

[Decorate before you eat] Hishi-mochi cookies 🎎

The diamond-shaped rice cakes familiar from Hinamatsuri are so colorful and cute! It’s said that pink symbolizes warding off evil, white stands for purity, and green represents health.

How about making cookies in these hishi-mochi colors with your child? Just color the cookie dough in three shades, layer them, and cut them out with your favorite cutters to create beautiful three-colored hishi-mochi-style cookies! The key is to let the dough rest for about 10 minutes.

Since cutting out the shapes is lots of fun, let your child take the lead!

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Hinamatsuri Food Puzzle

[Let's Play with Hinamatsuri Puzzles!] Babies will be delighted! Babies will stop crying! Lots of delicious Hinamatsuri foods appear | A fun, educational silhouette puzzle video | Puzzle kids anime

Quizzes about Hinamatsuri often include slightly difficult topics like its origins, but this one focuses on foods related to the festival that children love.

For example, you can make silhouette illustrations of items like hina-arare, hishi-mochi, and clams.

Show the children the color illustrations and have them match each colored picture with its silhouette.

It could be even more fun if you include trick questions with shapes that look similar! If the same foods appear in that day’s school lunch or snack, you can probably expect to hear delighted voices saying, “It’s just like the quiz from earlier!”

Treasure Hunt Game

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!

Hina Doll Memory Quiz

Memory Quiz: Hinamatsuri (Doll Festival) (2) – Hina Dolls

How about incorporating a memory quiz into Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day)? First, have participants look at and memorize a picture of the Emperor (odairi-sama) and the Empress (ohina-sama) lined up for a few seconds.

Next, they play a game where they must pick out the ohina-sama they just saw from among various pictures.

Since it tests memory, even images seen just seconds before can become confusing when similar ones appear.

For preschoolers, you could change the Emperor’s headwear from an eboshi to a gym cap and have them say what changed into what; naming the changes might help them remember better.