[Childcare] Unique event ideas to try at a sports day

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.

Dekapan Torch Relay

Sports Day explanation video – Senior kindergarten parent-child: “No. 4 With Giant Pants! Torch Relay”

Footraces and relays are the star events of a school sports day.

Watching children run their hearts out is adorable on its own, but let’s add a creative twist to make the event even more exciting.

If there’s a race where kids run in pairs with friends or parents, prepare an oversized pair of pants that both can wear at once.

If the pair runs wearing a handmade jumbo pair of pants, it’s sure to become a crowd-pleasing highlight of the sports day.

It’s like a pants version of a three-legged race.

Let’s steal the show with laughter and applause as pairs synchronize their steps and run together in one big pair of pants.

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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.

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!

Borrowed Item Race

Borrowed Item Race

The borrowing race held at daycare centers and kindergartens starts like a footrace.

It can be done individually, but pairing up works well because the younger children are small, and the older children can take the lead.

Have the older child take the younger child by the hand and guide them to the table where the prompts for the items to borrow are written.

The older child can tell the younger child what the prompt says, and the two can search together.

You can prepare the prompts on sheets, or you might plant them with parents in the audience.

It’s an event that gets the whole venue excited and having fun.

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