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[Childcare] Sports Day activity ideas. Let’s make the Sports Day exciting!
Sports days at nursery schools and kindergartens are important events where everyone can see how the children are growing!
By preparing fun activities, you can create a sports day that both children and adults will enjoy.
Here, we’ll introduce a variety of events: those done cooperatively as a class, activities for younger children, and games that parents and children can participate in together!
All of them are ideas that motivate children and allow guardians to feel their children’s development.
Use these as a reference to tailor activities to the children and create a fun and engaging sports day!
[Childcare] Sports day event ideas. Let's make sports day exciting! (1–10)
Let’s go to Mario’s world!
This is an event where kids get to become Mario, a character everyone loves! Dodge the villains that appear one after another and aim for the goal.
Teachers also play a big part, taking roles like moving the character or acting as Piranha Plants.
Since younger children may get scared of the villains and cry, try organizing it in mixed-age groups so they can hold hands and run with the older kids.
Riding a Molcar
https://www.tiktok.com/@harukaa_402/video/7152018389798489346The guinea pig–shaped cars, Molcars, are a stop-motion animation made with needle-felted wool.
Some children might be big fans of Molcars.
Here, we put your child on a Molcar made of cardboard and pull it along to move.
A child who loves Molcars might be delighted to ride.
Partway through, set them down, then run to the finish line carrying them.
From that point on, instead of carrying, you could hold hands and run together or give them a piggyback.
Join forces for a giant panel
Let’s work together as a whole class! Join forces and present your ideas for a giant panel.
In this event, each person selects one large panel and fits it into a frame.
When the last runner inserts their panel into the frame, a big picture is completed—what a fun idea! If the event feels too simple for older children, consider adding activities on the way to the panels, such as vaulting boxes or horizontal bars.
Feel free to adapt and arrange it as you like.
Hey! Welcome!
Kids transform into sushi! Here’s a fun “Hey! Welcome!” activity idea.
In this unique event, children pick their favorite sushi topping, wear it on their backs, and crawl through a tunnel shaped like a customer’s mouth to reach the goal.
Parents play the role of sushi chefs: hold or give a piggyback ride to their sushi-transformed kids and run the course toward the mouth-shaped tunnel.
The adorable sight of the kids is sure to liven up the venue! Don’t miss the chance to give it a try.
Ball toss in oversized bloomers
Let’s get excited with a unique idea! Here’s a beanbag-toss game using “dekapan.” Dekapan means oversized pants, and participants compete while wearing them.
In this event, it seems the rule is that a parent and child wear one pair of oversized pants together and toss beanbags while running in cooperation.
Since the parent needs to move in sync with the child, timing and calling out to each other are important.
Seeing teams competing while bundled into the dekapan is absolutely adorable!
Circuit of circulation
Let’s develop physical abilities! Here are some ideas for a circuit-style activity.
A circuit course is one of the activities often done at sports days or during physical play.
In this event, participants move from one station to the next around a circuit—such as vaulting boxes and horizontal bars—completing each task in turn.
Children can move their bodies dynamically and give it their all, which helps improve their athletic skills.
Be sure to try incorporating it on this occasion.
Snack-Grab Race
An arranged version of the bread-eating race! Here’s an idea for a Snack-Grab Race.
It’s a perfect, exciting activity for a sports day with five-year-olds.
The rule is that participants must get a treat hanging from a string without using their hands—by jumping and using their bodies.
Through the competition, children can enjoy themselves while nurturing a spirit of challenge.
Individual results matter, but since everyone can cheer each other on and have fun together, it will become a memorable event.