Recommended Themes and Slogans for Nursery and Kindergarten Sports Days

Last updated:2025/5/6

Recommended Themes and Slogans for Nursery and Kindergarten Sports Days

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When you decide on a theme or slogan for a sports day at a nursery or kindergarten, it brings the children’s feelings together and creates special memories.

To help you come up with a fun theme, here are some ideas and phrases.

We’ve chosen simple, easy-to-understand words so they’re clear for the children.

Use these as a reference while listening to the children’s ideas—the time you spend in childcare will be even more enjoyable.

Bring children and adults together as one, and make it a wonderful sports day!

Keyword “Smile” (1–10)

For some children, this will be their very first sports day at nursery or kindergarten.

They may feel nervous or anxious about their first time.

But we want them to enjoy it with smiles and see it through, right? For those children, how about choosing a sports day theme with the keyword “smile,” so everyone can stay cheerful? It’s a perfect theme keyword for creating an atmosphere where even kids who don’t like competition can join in, have fun, and do their best with a smile.

Full-on smile!

This makes you want to hold a sports day full of smiles! It looks like we can have a sports day overflowing with the children’s smiles!

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Sports day where we do our best with smiles

A smile is important even when you’re doing your best! Even if you stumble or make mistakes, it encourages you to overcome them with a smile!

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Smiles All Around: ◯◯ Nursery School Sports Day

Expressing the sentiment of “Let’s all do our best with a smile!” It conveys the wish for the kindergarten children to enjoy the sports day.

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Happy Smile ○○ Nursery School Sports Day

A smile is a symbol of happiness.

Here’s a slogan that seems perfect for creating a sports day full of happiness and full of smiles.

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Everyone, smiles for all the ◯◯ kids

When deciding on a sports day theme or slogan, a recommended phrase is “Everyone Smile, ○○ Kids.” Here, put your own preschool’s name in the ○○ to make it a lively, relatable theme.

Using such an approachable phrase helps children feel even more motivated for sports day and boosts their sense of unity.

It’s also appealing because parents can enjoy it too.

Additionally, by incorporating the children’s opinions and ideas when choosing the theme, you can create an even more enjoyable sports day.

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Humor scale (1–10)

There are surely some preschools that want to go with a lighthearted, humorous theme.

How about riffing on famous lines from anime that kids love? From the smash-hit anime Demon Slayer that every child seems to know, there’s “Total Concentration! Breathing of ___!” And from the widely beloved Pokémon, there’s “Victory, I choose you!” Both should be a hit not only with the children but with their parents, too, don’t you think?

Championship, got it!

A line from Pokémon.

It’s a sports day–style humorous phrase about catching not Pokémon, but the championship.

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Full of smiles! Full of sweat!

How about livening up the sports day with the slogan “Full of Smiles! Full of Sweat!”? Using the word “smiles” creates a positive, forward-looking image that’s perfect for a preschool sports day.

And since it’s an athletic event, the word “sweat” fits well too, suggesting a hopeful image of each child doing their best.

The words have a nice rhythm, so it should be easy for the children to remember.

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