[Mini Sports Day] Carefully selected indoor-friendly events that really get everyone excited!

Rock-Paper-Scissors Train

Rock-Paper-Scissors Train (Harvest Festival Ver.)

For a mini indoor sports day, especially recommended for kids, try the Rock-Paper-Scissors Train.

While the music is playing, everyone moves freely around the room.

When the music stops, they freeze and play rock-paper-scissors with someone nearby.

If you lose, you go to the back of the winner’s line.

As this repeats, the line grows longer like a train.

If you have a large group, it’s also fun to form teams and start as separate trains.

The children’s song “Kamotsu Ressha” (Freight Train) is a classic choice for this game, but feel free to switch up the music to match the season or whatever’s trending at the time.

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Tail tag game

Gymnastics class [2- and 3-year-olds tail-chasing game]

A tail-tag game where players, including yourself, compete to collect as many tails as possible while preventing your own from being taken.

Prepare one tail-like item per person—such as jump ropes or paper streamers—stick them out from the back of your pants, and go after everyone else’s tails.

Team play is fun, but running it as a free-for-all where everyone except you is an opponent is also thrilling and enjoyable.

If played indoors, the smaller court adds to the strategic fun—how to corner others, how to escape, and other tactical elements come into play.

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Hoshino Takashi

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Ball run

Ball-Passing Relay (Indoor Version)

Ball Rolling is a game where all participants hold half-cut tubes—like the cores of plastic wrap or shuttlecock tubes—to form a course and compete to see how quickly they can roll a ball to the goal.

Participants face inward to form a circle, each holding a section of the course and passing the ball along.

Because each person holds their own piece, the ball can drop through gaps or, depending on the angle, gain too much speed and run off the course, making teamwork a key part of the excitement.

The difficulty increases with the number of people and laps, so it’s an indoor activity that can be enjoyed by a wide range of ages.

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Hoshino Takashi

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the eye of a typhoon

June 2014 Sports Day Typhoon's Eye

A classic sports day event known by many names—hurricane, typhoon, Naruto whirlpools—because the team rotates like the eye of a typhoon.

It’s done in teams of four or five, with everyone holding a long pole while running, circling a marker such as a traffic cone on the course, and returning to the start, which also serves as the finish.

The innermost runner becomes the “eye of the typhoon” and must rotate the pole held by the team, while the outermost runner covers the longest distance, so lineup order requires strategy.

When run as a relay, after returning to the start the team must work together—such as threading the pole under a teammate’s feet so they can jump over it—making it a guaranteed crowd-pleaser even indoors.

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Hoshino Takashi

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gymnastics

[20 Minutes Nonstop] Upbeat Dance & Exercise Song Medley – 8 Songs Nonstop ~Covered by UtaSuta~

When rainy weather makes it hard to go outside and you’re worried about not getting enough exercise, try doing some gymnastics indoors to really move your body! Dancing to kids’ favorite exercise songs like “Ebi-Kanikusu,” “Poupelle of Chimney Town,” or “Jamboree Mickey” is a great idea.

Using mats and balance beams to practice apparatus gymnastics is also recommended.

You could also move freely and work hard at gymnastics to the teacher’s piano accompaniment.

Be sure to do thorough stretches both before moving a lot and after you’re done to loosen up your body.

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SAKI

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