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[Childcare] Fun! Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) Quiz Roundup

[Childcare] Fun! Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) Quiz Roundup

Last updated:2025/2/20

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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

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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!

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Hina Doll Accessories Quiz

[Nursery Teacher Hinamatsuri] What to Bring Quiz

Hina Doll Accessories Quiz

It’s not just dolls that are displayed on the tiered stand! Various items like bonbori lanterns and hishi-mochi rice cakes are lined up festively.

And if you look closely, each doll is holding its own tool, too! So how about doing a quiz on the tools that Hina dolls hold? Turn items like the shaku (ritual baton), tsutsumi (hand drum), and sanpō (offering stand) into questions, including how they’re used.

As you work through the quiz, you’ll naturally pick up knowledge about Hinamatsuri! Create a fun study time!

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Hina Doll Quiz

[Childcare] Who is this? A Hina Doll Quiz perfect for introducing the Doll’s Festival (Hinamatsuri)!

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.

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Hina Doll Memory Quiz

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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.

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Origin of Hinamatsuri Quiz

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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.

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Hinamatsuri History Quiz

[Knowledge] What Is Hinamatsuri? Explaining Its Origins, Decorations, and Foods!! Educational Video

Hinamatsuri History Quiz

The history of Hinamatsuri is very old, going all the way back to the Heian period.

Stories about the Heian era might be difficult for children, but you could turn the history into a quiz—like how the festival has existed since long ago, how people used to make paper hina dolls and perform nagashi-bina by sending them down the river to carry away illness and misfortune, and how that led to today’s custom of displaying hina dolls.

I think there are many historical facts that even adults don’t know.

Let’s have the teachers join the quiz too and enjoy Hinamatsuri together!

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What are the Hina dolls doing?

[Anime] Hinamatsuri Quiz! Can you get all the questions right? [Quiz]

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!

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