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At kindergartens and daycare centers, fun parties and birthday celebrations are held for the children.
Games and performances are essential for these events.
While many teachers are brainstorming ideas to delight the kids who eagerly look forward to them, some may be struggling with a lack of ideas.
In this article, we introduce games and performances that are perfect for such parties.
We’ve gathered a wide variety, from activities led by teachers to ones where children participate and have fun.
They’re all engaging ideas that spark children’s curiosity! Many of these games and performances are actually used in kindergartens and daycare centers, so feel free to use them as a reference.
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[Kindergarten/Daycare] Fun Party Games and Performances (1–10)
Team relay with everyone
Little kids would much rather be moving their bodies than sitting still.
Why not turn various activities into relay-style games everyone can enjoy together? For example, how about a “hoop pass relay” using a hula hoop? Five or six people hold hands to make a big circle, and they take turns passing the hula hoop around by stepping through it.
Split into several teams and it’s sure to get lively! If you can be outdoors, three-legged races or beanbag tosses would be fun, too.
A fun gathering held outside sounds great as well.
Colored Water Theater
“Mizuiro Theater” may be an unfamiliar term, but it’s a visually engaging, fun-to-watch activity.
Beforehand, you secretly paint the inside of a plastic bottle cap with watercolor or paint so it can’t be seen.
Then you fill the bottle with plain water, put the cap on, and shake it.
Amazingly, the clear water turns into colored water! Kids get super excited and say, “It’s magic!” You can also vary the presentation—mix red and yellow water to make orange, or blue and yellow to make green—there are plenty of fun combinations to show.
Gesture Game
NHK’s TV show “Gesture” was, incredibly, a hugely popular program that ran for 15 years.
Making gestures and guessing them—its very simplicity is probably what made it so fun.
The hit show “Run for Money” is basically just tag, after all, so maybe the more primitive something is, the more it tickles the human heart? Why not spend a fun moment with a simple “gesture game” that doesn’t even require a big space.
It’s a great recreation everyone can enjoy—the goofy boys, the slightly shy girls, all of them! Sports and animals seem like good topics for prompts.
Bomb game
Even just the name “Bakudan Game” (Bomb Game) is thrilling, isn’t it? In this game, while the music is playing, you keep passing a ball—pretending it’s a bomb—to the friend next to you.
When the music stops, the person holding the ball gets a penalty! Since all you do is pass the ball to the next person, there’s little risk of injury.
Just make sure not to drop the ball and keep passing it along as quickly as you can.
Thinking the music might stop on your turn makes your heart race and your palms sweat, doesn’t it?
3 Hints Game
If they’re in the oldest kindergarten group, could they play the “Three Hints Game”? The “Three Hints Game” is where you give hints one by one, and after the third hint is given, the players answer.
For example, with the three hints “It has two eyes,” “It has no hands,” and “It flies in the sky,” the answer would be “a bird.” This is just the age when their curiosity blossoms, so quiz-style activities can be very exciting.
You can also mix it with a borrowing race—for instance, if the answer is “broom,” you could have them bring a broom to the spot as part of the game.