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

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!

Soccer in big underpants

Sports Day explainer video No. 4: Senior class parent-child event — “Soccer in Giant Pants”

We’d like to introduce a fun “giant pants” soccer game that strengthens the parent-child bond.

The parent and child both get into the prepared oversized pants.

While kicking a soccer ball wrapped in a net together, aim for the goal and get the ball into the net.

After scoring, the guardian carries the ball back to the starting line.

Once you return, pass the ball to the next person like a relay.

The key is how smoothly the parent and child can put on the giant pants together.

Think of an easy way to wear them, and do your best to win!

Carrying a ball with a holey newspaper

Here’s an idea for a relay game using a newspaper and a tennis ball.

The rules are very simple: two players work in perfect sync to reach the goal without dropping the tennis ball through the holes in the newspaper.

The rules are easy, but it’s surprisingly challenging even for adults—that’s part of the fun.

You can play it anywhere, indoors or outdoors.

First, pair up, spread out a sheet of newspaper, and place the ball on top.

Work together to carry it carefully without dropping it.

If you drop it along the way, pick it up immediately and restart from the same spot.

The team that reaches the goal first wins! It’s also a great activity to include in a sports day event.

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Spoon-and-ball carrying relay

Spoon Ball Carry Relay 🎱🥄 #shorts

The concentration needed to keep the ball from falling off the spoon is so much fun! Here’s an idea for a “spoon-and-ball relay.” You can enjoy this indoors.

Place a ball on a spoon, go around a cone, and pass it to the next person.

It’s a great way to build concentration while having fun, so it’s also recommended as a sports day event.

Both kids and adults can enjoy it, so why not adapt it as a parent–child activity? You can also switch the ball for different items to make it even more fun.

Be sure to include it in your sports day program!

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The rice ball goes rolling, roll, roll.

Tomobe Kindergarten Sports Day Event Description No. 2: 'Omusubi Kororin Korokororin'

How about a competition inspired by the classic folktale “Omusubi Kororin,” beloved by children both in the past and today? Beforehand, read the picture book to the kids to share the story’s world.

Once the activity starts, they first stand inside the hula hoop placed at the start and pass their bodies through it from below.

Next, they move forward by rolling a large round rice ball—just like a giant ball roll.

Then, after placing the rice ball inside the second hula hoop, they run to the finish line.

It’s a fun and adorable obstacle race that’s perfect for a preschool sports day.

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Swirly Mixed Juice

FY2019 Minami Nursery School Sports Day — Parent and Infant Event for 0-Year-Olds (Spin-Spin Mixed Juice)

Let me introduce “Kurukuru Mixed Juice,” an activity that parents and babies can enjoy together.

Start by holding your child in your arms.

Spin around the pillar to mix the juice.

Then choose your favorite juice from the table, clink glasses with the teacher, and you’re at the goal! It could be even more exciting if you increase the number of laps around the pillar according to age.

Work together as a parent-child team to make a delicious mixed juice—good luck! Playing the “Mixed Juice” song as sports day background music sounds fun, too.

Candy-eating contest

Dad who got covered in too much flour during the parent-child candy-eating race

We’d like to introduce a simple but fun candy-biting race that both adults and children can enjoy.

A parent and child hold hands at the start.

Without using your hands, use your mouth to grab a candy hidden in the powder inside a food storage container.

Since you can’t see where the candy is, your face might end up covered in white powder while you search! Once you get the candy, hold hands and run around the cone together toward the finish line.

Have the guardian take the candy for you! We recommend wearing comfortable clothes that allow easy movement and that you don’t mind getting dirty.