[Childcare] Sports Day activity ideas. Let’s make the Sports Day exciting!

Flower arranging with everyone

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day – Nursery Class: “Flower Arrangement Together”

Introducing a field day event that even very young children can enjoy: a collaborative flower arrangement race.

Prepare plenty of artificial flowers big enough for a child to hold in their arms.

Try making them in a variety of colors like yellow, red, and pink.

At “Ready, go!” the children run to the bouquet pile and each picks their favorite flower.

They then run with the flower, place it into an empty container at the far end of the course, arrange it nicely, and cross the finish line.

The rules are simple, and it’s a delightful event where you can see the children looking adorable as they play.

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Soran Bushi

Mebae Kindergarten [Soran Bushi] – Nursery School & Kindergarten in Hiroshima City

Soran Bushi is popular with both children and adults for its powerful, heroic, and crisply disciplined movements, which are also a hallmark of Japanese tradition.

The graceful motions of the hands and arms that depict waves, along with the dynamic, forceful gestures that portray bold fishermen, create a beautiful contrast between stillness and motion.

Highlights include children running around the schoolyard with big “bountiful catch” flags and everyone shouting out the calls together.

Their earnest dedication to the performance is both endearing and strong.

It’s a piece that moves parents to the core as they witness each child’s growth.

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A circuit for jumping over cardboard boxes

[You can do this at home too ✨] Circuit movement play 🎶 Let’s use things you have at home and move our bodies together!

You can prepare this with materials you have at home or in your classroom! Here’s an idea for a cardboard jumping circuit.

You’ll need cardboard, scissors, a pen, a long floor cushion, and masking tape or vinyl tape.

Draw large illustrations on the cardboard and cut it in half.

Jump over the cut cardboard pieces and make your way to the goal.

With repeated actions like squatting and jumping, your whole body will warm up nicely.

Cardboard kart circuit

[3-year-olds] We made carts and had a race!

Let’s have fun with decorations too! Here are some ideas for a cardboard kart circuit.

What you’ll need: a kart made from cardboard, hats made from construction paper, crayons or colored pencils, coloring pages, double-sided tape, building blocks, and balloons.

Some kids may have played go-kart or racing kart games before, right? Hop into a cardboard kart and race along a course made from blocks! It’s also great to arrange it as a parent-child activity.

Since decorating the cardboard karts is part of the fun, the making process looks exciting too!

Balance Ball Circuit

7 Balance Ball Exercises Parents and Kids Can Do Together

Here are some ideas for a circuit using a balance ball.

All you need to prepare is a balance ball.

Many people may think of it as something adults use for rehabilitation or training, but there are plenty of fun ways to play with a balance ball, so I highly recommend it! Of course, it’s great for practicing balance and strengthening the core, but you can also incorporate activities suited to each child’s stage of development—like crawling under a springy, bouncy balance ball or clinging to it tightly and using their whole body.

A circuit of hula hoops and mats

2.5–4-year-old class circuit

This is an idea to set up hula hoops and mats outdoors to create a circuit.

For the areas with hula hoops, move forward while hopping like hopscotch.

For the areas with mats, move forward by doing forward rolls or rolling along.

Please have a teacher on standby to assist and to make sure no one falls off the mats.

You can also include three-dimensional mats, such as triangular ones.

Try arranging them as equipment to walk across like a balance beam or to climb over.

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Hula hoop relay

Hula hoop relay

This is a relay where two people run together inside a hula hoop.

Mark the start line and the turnaround point, divide into several teams, and at the starting signal, each team’s first pair runs.

They go around the turnaround point, return to the start, and pass the hula hoop to the next pair.

The team whose last pair gets back to the start first wins! If you don’t match your speeds, you might lose balance and fall, so go at the fastest pace you can manage together.

At the turnaround point, it helps to have the person on the inside act as the pivot to turn smoothly!

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