Parent-Child Events for Sports Day: Recommended Ideas for Nurseries and Kindergartens

Animal role-play race

[Age 4] Animal Role-Playing Game — Body-Building Games for 4-Year-Olds | Torikai Yui-Kindergarten [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

It’s a parent–child event that’s fun not only as a competition but also as a way to communicate together.

According to the rules, children start on their own, then meet up partway with their guardian, who is waiting and holding an animal mask.

After meeting, the parent and child aim for the finish line while acting like the animal on the mask.

Because of that, how well you’ve communicated and reflected the child’s wishes during the mask-making stage can affect the actual performance.

It’s a parent–child activity where you can enjoy communication from preparation through the main event, participating together using the mask you made as a team.

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Disguise guessing game

[Prank] Big Search! If Mom cuts her hair and disguises herself, can we still find her? Experiment! Renorera TV [#647]

The disguise guessing game is an exciting, heart-pounding idea that’s perfect for a parent-child event at a sports day.

When parents show up with a slightly different hairstyle or outfit, kids can take on the challenge of spotting what’s changed.

The whole venue is sure to be filled with smiles.

It also sounds fun to plan together from the preparation stage, chatting excitedly with your child about what kind of disguise to try.

The challenge of seeing whether they can see through the disguise can help develop your child’s powers of observation.

It’s bound to become a special time for making memories, where parents and children can cooperate and have fun together.

Family Space Travel

Sports Day Explainer Video No. 10: Junior Class Parent-Child Event “Family Space Trip” – Event Explanation

Ride a handmade two-person spaceship, defeat the aliens, and grab the sparkling star from the treasure chest.

This is a sports day event recommended for nurseries and kindergartens that even small children can enjoy while participating.

The race starts by getting into the two-person spaceship.

Work together with your partner to board the ship and run in sync toward the target treasure chest.

Once you arrive, take the star from inside, make a U-turn, and head back to the starting point to pass the baton to the next pair.

The sight of the kids riding in the spaceship is adorable, and it really livens up the sports day.

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Handmade-style side dish

[For 2-year-olds] Let’s make a target and play!

Here’s a recommended parent-child event for a sports day: a water-gun target game.

It’s a simple activity where you use water guns to hit targets with water.

If the targets are crafts made by the children, it makes the activity even more special.

When hanging the targets, you can use calligraphy paper or tissues for the hanging part so that the water knocks them down, and participants can win the prize that falls.

Another fun idea is to have parents act as the targets and try to escape their children’s water-gun attacks! If your sports day is held off-site, consider adding this to your program.

Perfect for water sports

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day Event Description No. 4 “Go! Go! Summer”

Let me introduce a fun swimming game that uses swim rings.

Have the children wear swim caps and wait with their bodies through the swim ring.

At the start signal, they run and dive through a “sea” made of streamer tape! On the other side, fish are waiting—have them set down the swim ring and go fishing for a fish.

Once they catch one, they run to the finish line holding their fish! For a parents’ event, you can have the parent carry the child while the child pretends to swim, or make the fish smaller for the parents’ fishing part to increase the difficulty and excitement.

Let’s complete the puzzle together as a parent and child

Shota’s Sports Day 2021: “Let’s complete a puzzle together, parent and child.”

Work together with a partner to complete a giant puzzle.

This is a sports day event idea where you collaborate with parents or teachers to fit in one panel at a time, and when you finish assembling the large puzzle, you clear the game.

Teams are divided and complete the puzzle in a relay format.

Adults and children cooperate, think about where to place the panel they’re holding, then pass the baton to the next person.

The team that finishes the puzzle first wins.

For panels placed high up, have an adult lift the child so they can stick it on.

We can’t wait to see what picture appears at the end!

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Balloon volleyball, balloon tennis

[A Must-See for Moms, Dads, and Childcare Students!] Balloon Volleyball & Balloon Tennis

Let’s try an Olympic sport—volleyball—as a parent-child event! Two family members form a team and play volleyball with a balloon against another parent-child team.

It also sounds fun to split into parents versus kids! To add a handicap, guardians could return the balloon using their head instead of their hands, or blow it back with their breath.

You can also make it tennis-style using rolled-up newspaper and a balloon.

Feel free to adapt it to suit your school or class vibe!