Childcare: Recommended program ideas for a sports day

Dancing Tamaire

Yakushiji Kindergarten: FY 2024 Kindergarten Sports Day – Senior Class Parent-Child Event “Dancing Tamaire (Ball Toss)”

Switch your moves to the music! Here’s an idea for Dancing Tamaire.

Dancing Tamaire is a fun, exciting, and unique twist on the traditional ball-toss game, with a dance element added.

While it follows the familiar rules of classic Tamaire, the key point is that participants toss balls while dancing to the music.

Parents might enjoy practicing the dance together with their children! It’s a great way to deepen bonds through the activity.

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.

Parachute (paraballoon) performance

2017 Hakutsuru Sports Day - Parachute (Middle Class)

One of the most popular events at kindergarten and nursery school sports days is the parachute (paraballoon)! It’s a group performance using a single large round piece of fabric.

Everyone works together to inflate the parachute, spread it out, and march with it.

The movements and arrangements are endless.

When teachers join in, you can even do a move called the merry-go-round! The dynamic, colorful parachute is sure to create lasting memories for everyone.

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Tani Satoko

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hoop dance

Children of Light Sports Day: Dance for 4-year-olds #dance #sportsday

“Hoop dance” is a style of dance that uses a hula hoop.

It’s a perfect idea for sports days or school performances, so be sure to check it out.

Choreography and structure are up to you.

Lift the hula hoop to the music, sway it side to side, jump rope with it, or spin it by striking it against the floor.

In the latter half, you could include eye-catching moves like exchanging hula hoops with friends or forming a circle with everyone holding hoops together.

Move your bodies a lot and have fun together!

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A circuit made with pool cues

[Ages 0–5] Seven Types of Indoor Educational and Physical Play! [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

Let’s play while getting creative! Here are some circuit (obstacle course) ideas you can make with pool noodles.

All you need are pool noodles and a utility knife or scissors.

Cut the long pool noodles in half and use them for the course! Place the halved pool noodles on the floor and include a tightrope-walk section where kids crawl or walk along them.

You can also roll balls along the top of the noodles, or connect them into circles to make ring shapes—great ideas to try!