For the daycare’s sports day! Fun and unique event ideas

Let’s deliver flavors of the world!

Turn the recipe cards and start cooking! Bring flavors from around the world! Here’s an idea to try.

Sports Day is a special event that happens once a year.

How about competing while learning about the world? Let’s have parents and children work together to make dishes from around the globe as they overcome items like hurdles and balance beams.

Through pretend play, you can create happy memories of joining a fun event together—making American hamburgers, Japanese osechi, Italian pizza, British sandwiches, and more.

Freshly picked fruit

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day Event Description No. 9: "Freshly Picked Fruits, Enjoy!"

Recommended from infant to preschool classes! Here’s an idea called “Freshly Picked Fruit.” How about incorporating familiar fruits—seen every day at lunch, in picture books, and in pretend play—into a game? Prepare a banana tree, a mandarin orange tree, an apple tree, and animal props (an elephant, a monkey, and a rabbit) with holes for mouths.

At the start signal, each child picks one fruit from any tree and moves forward.

Next, they choose an animal and place the fruit they’re holding into its mouth—then they reach the goal! Give it a try in your class.

parachute ball

Parachute Performance “Que Sera Sera” at the 49th Sports Day, Hana Class

Parachute activities using large, colorful fabric are a popular event at sports festivals.

With a parachute, several people hold the cloth and perform moves like creating a dome, a merry-go-round, or fireworks by inflating and shaping it.

Each person uses their whole body to raise and lower the fabric or move it sideways, making teamwork the key.

It’s also recommended to have a representative blow a whistle to give instructions and synchronize timing so everyone can move together.

Parachute play offers a valuable experience of working together to create something as a team, and it may help foster both self-confidence and empathy for others.

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Ball-collecting competition

🧡 [Parent-Child Play • Boost Motor Skills] Three birds with one stone just by having fun—sharpen decision-making, quickness, and stamina! “Ball Collecting Race” ✌ For toddlers to lower elementary school students [Parent-Child Exercise]

Let’s incorporate activities that develop motor skills! Here are some ideas for a ball-collecting race.

There are likely many opportunities to use balls during exercise time.

By using familiar balls in competitions, children can develop their motor skills.

This time, we’re introducing a ball-collecting race that children can try together with parents or teachers, helping them build decision-making skills and quickness.

Competing while following rules can also provide a chance to learn social skills.

Be sure to give it a try!

Kicking Sniper

Tried VS Arashi’s Kicking Sniper, part 2

How about incorporating a “Kicking Sniper” event, modeled after soccer—one of the Olympic sports? In this game, you kick a ball at targets, and the person who knocks down the most wins.

You can use softer balls suited to the participants’ ages, and making the targets popular characters could add extra fun.

For infants, you might intentionally place the targets in an unstable way so they topple easily, while for preschoolers, adding mechanisms that make the targets move would make it even more exciting.

Give it a try together as a parent-child team!

obstacle race

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day, Nursery Class: “Help! Toothbrushing Man”

Become Tooth-Brushing Man, a hero who defeats nasty cavities, and run through obstacles to reach the goal.

This adorable obstacle race, where little preschoolers run their hearts out, is a highlight of the kindergarten sports day.

At the teacher’s starting signal, children clear the obstacles in their own lane.

Right in front of them stands a big obstacle representing Tooth-Brushing Man’s enemy—the germs.

Once they knock it down with all their might, they dash toward the finish line.

The obstacles aren’t difficult, so even the youngest children can join in and have fun.

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Go! Go! Go! by Shinkansen!

FY2024 Kirara-en Sports Day Parent–Child Event for 0-, 1-, and 2-Year-Olds

Recommended for classes that love vehicles! Here are ideas for Shinkansen GO! GO! GO! Many children are likely interested in bullet trains and working vehicles.

How about planning events centered on the Shinkansen this time? Start at a gate where you tap a card.

Seat the child in a cardboard Shinkansen and have their guardian run while pulling or pushing it.

After passing through a “waterfall” made of plastic tape streamers, they receive a souvenir and head to the goal.

If you package the souvenir like a station bento (ekiben), it will add to the excitement.

Give it a try!