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[Childcare] Fun! Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) Quiz Roundup
Enjoy Hinamatsuri, Japan’s traditional festival! Here are fun quiz ideas you can use in childcare to get kids excited and engaged.
We’ve gathered quizzes that let children learn the basics in a playful way—such as the origins and history of Hinamatsuri and the meanings behind the decorative hina dolls.
By incorporating these into Hinamatsuri events or everyday childcare activities, children can deepen their understanding of the festival.
Use these as inspiration to craft your own original ideas and enjoy Hinamatsuri together with the kids!
[Childcare] Fun! Hinamatsuri Quiz Roundup (1–10)
Hinamatsuri Food Quiz
Let’s turn foods eaten during Hinamatsuri into an illustration quiz! Draw pictures of items like hina-arare and hishi-mochi on construction paper.
Show the children only part of each illustration and ask, “What do you think this is?” and have them guess the answer.
When they get it right, it’s lovely to also explain why that food is eaten on Hinamatsuri.
Especially for preschoolers, telling them, “Teach this to your family at home, too,” can boost their motivation even more! Since hishi-mochi and hina-arare share the same colors, they make great trick questions.
Have fun with the quiz while getting creative with your illustrations!
Hina Doll Memory Quiz
How about incorporating a memory quiz into Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day)? First, have participants look at and memorize a picture of the Emperor (odairi-sama) and the Empress (ohina-sama) lined up for a few seconds.
Next, they play a game where they must pick out the ohina-sama they just saw from among various pictures.
Since it tests memory, even images seen just seconds before can become confusing when similar ones appear.
For preschoolers, you could change the Emperor’s headwear from an eboshi to a gym cap and have them say what changed into what; naming the changes might help them remember better.
Origin of Hinamatsuri Quiz
When you think of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), you picture displaying Hina dolls and eating hina-arare rice crackers or chirashi sushi.
But why do we display the dolls? And why do we eat hina-arare? Explaining this to children might be difficult.
So how about turning the origins of Hinamatsuri into a quiz so they can learn? Don’t kids suddenly get motivated when it’s a quiz? If answering is tough, making it a true-or-false quiz can raise the correct-answer rate, so the children can join in and have fun.
What are the Hina dolls doing?
What Hina dolls represent is a wish for girls to have a happy marriage in the future; while it may be common knowledge for adults that the display depicts a wedding ceremony, many young children may not understand why the dolls are put on display.
To answer their questions, why not turn it into a quiz about what the dolls (the emperor and empress) are doing in the first place? They might get the answers right based on their general impressions, and even if they get them wrong, you can explain the origins of Hina dolls in an easy-to-understand way, which will surely delight them.
Learning new knowledge through a quiz game sounds like a great idea!
Hina Doll Quiz
What we usually call “ohina-sama,” the Hina doll display, is actually made up of figures whose proper names many adults might not even know.
So why not enjoy a Hina Doll Quiz together with your kids? There are lots of names like Shinno (the imperial pair), Sannin Kanjo (the three court ladies), and Gonin Bayashi (the five musicians).
Knowing the children’s song ‘Ureshii Hinamatsuri’ can give you hints.
The key is to think in advance about explanations that will be easy for children to understand.
Hinamatsuri True-or-False Quiz
While it’s important to “put answers clearly into words,” you first want to create a fun environment where kids feel comfortable joining the quiz, right? So how about trying a simple true-or-false (O/X) quiz with just two choices.
Even if they don’t know the answer, they’ve got a 50-50 chance, so the barrier is super low.
Experiencing “getting it right” is really exciting for kids.
And before you know it, that process might naturally nurture their independence!
Hinamatsuri Spot the Difference
Especially with very young children, they might get bored if it’s all stories about Hinamatsuri.
How about a spot-the-difference game? It’s simple and visually lively, so kids are sure to be engaged! I’m sharing a video here, but if you search online you’ll find plenty of image-only versions too.
If you want to get particular or adjust the difficulty, you can even make your own.
It’s an intuitive Hinamatsuri quiz idea that kids can enjoy!