Winter has arrived, and the weather is getting colder. To promote the healthy growth of children and strengthen the connection between home and school, kindergartens hold annual winter parent-child sports days to enrich children’s lives, improve their physical fitness, and involve parents in their kindergarten life.
Event Plan
I. Event Theme
Big Hands Holding Small Hands, Let’s Cheer Together!
II. Event Objectives
1. Motivational Objective: Experience the joy of sports, the thrill of competition, as well as awareness of rules and the spirit of cooperation.
2. Ability Objective: Develop children’s walking, running, and reaction abilities through games with parents.
3. Knowledge Objective: Learn basic movements such as walking, stepping, running, and jumping.
4. Parent-Child Objective: Encourage parents to pay attention to their child’s physical development, cultivate an interest in sports activities together, and establish good exercise habits for the child’s future.
III. Event Principles
1. Safety First. Whether held on campus or at a rented venue, the safety of every child must be ensured.
2. Full Participation of Parents and Children. Ensure every parent and child takes part in our event. Parents should not just be spectators or onlookers—actively participate and be the proud mom or dad your child can boast about!
3. Fairness and Inclusiveness Principle. The event will embody fair competition and equitable play, helping children develop good sportsmanship and experience the joy of success. Meanwhile, every child will receive a prize to reward their full commitment along with their parents.
IV. Event Time
To be determined based on weather conditions
V. Event Process
1. All kindergarten children enter and the flag-raising ceremony is held.
2. The principal delivers an opening speech and announces the start of the sports day.
3. Children’s exercise display (or teachers’ dance performance)
4. Organization of parent-child games
5. Exit: All children exit in an orderly manner by group, under teacher supervision.
VI. Post-Event Matters
After the sports day, parents may discuss their child’s life, learning, habits, and other aspects with the class teacher.
Parent-Child Games
Toddler Class Parent-Child Games
Feed the Tiger – Indoor Game
Game Focus: Emphasizes accurate target throwing
Game Preparation: One 70cm diameter tunnel, one large thick bag, one table, several ping pong balls, a starting line, two paperboard-drawn tiger heads, and Enbei uniforms
Game Process: Each child has 5 ping-pong balls. The children stand at the designated line, aim for the cupped hand (tiger’s mouth), and throw the balls toward it. The goal is to get the balls into the cupped hand. Children who successfully land 3 or more balls into the tiger’s mouth win a prize. (The throwing distance is adjusted for small, medium, and large classes based on the spacing between two tiger heads.) Game
Ring Toss – Outdoor Game
Game Preparation: 1. Several small rings. Stamps. 2. Several toys.
How to Play: Three children participate each round. Each child holds three rings and stands at the starting line, tossing the rings toward the toys. Successfully ringing a toy earns a stamp on the game card. Each child gets three attempts.
Draw the Facial Features
Game Preparation: One blackboard with two doll heads drawn on it; chalk; two eye masks.
How to Play: Children stand at an appropriate distance from the blackboard, wear eye masks, and are guided by a teacher or parent to the front of the blackboard. They then draw the facial features of the dolls on the board. Well-drawn entries are rewarded with small stickers or a stamp on the child’s arm.
Little Kangaroo
Game Preparation: Kangaroo headbands
How to Play: The child hugs their father’s neck tightly with both hands and wraps their legs around their father’s waist, hanging securely on their father’s chest like a little kangaroo. The father bends down and crawls on all fours.
Penguin Egg Transport
Game Preparation: Several fruit toys
How to Play: Parent and child start at the starting line. When the game begins, the child transports fruits from the basket to a designated location. When time is up, the parent counts the total number of fruits delivered. The family that delivers the most fruits wins.
Middle Class Parent-Child Games
Caterpillar
Objective:
1. Improve children’s physical coordination and balance.
2. Strengthen parent-child relationships through fun games.
How to Play: Prepare six hula hoops. Divide into two groups, with parents included. Form teams of three in a single file line. Each person puts a hoop around themselves and holds onto the hoop of the person in front. The goal is to see which team can complete the set course the fastest. Obstacles such as a balance beam and tunnels are set up along the route.
Transport Colorful Balls
Preparation: Colorful balls, pushcart
How to Play: Suitable for middle class children. Six children per class form two parallel teams. They use the cart to push the colorful balls forward, then pass them to another child at the opposite end, taking turns in a relay.
Tail Pulling
Preparation: Several paper tails
How to Play: A family of three forms a cow. Dad is the cow’s head, Mom’s hands rest on Dad’s shoulders as the cow’s body, and the child sticks closely behind Mom as the tail, with a paper tail pinned to the child’s waistband. Within a set play area, several families compete to pull each other’s tails. The family whose “cow head” pulls the most tails wins.
Horned Ball Race
Preparation: Several horned balls
How to Play: Parents and children stand face to face at starting lines set a certain distance apart. When the game begins, the parent rides the horned ball and runs toward the child, then hands the ball over. The child then rides the horned ball back toward the parent’s starting line. The first to reach their destination wins.
Blow the Ball into the Basket
Objective: Train children’s endurance, enhance lung capacity, and add joy to family time.
Preparation: Plastic basket, table tennis balls
How to play: Place a plastic basket under the edge of a table and put several table tennis balls on the table. Parents and child take turns blowing the balls into the basket. See who can get the most balls in. Parents can guide the child to control the angle and force when blowing.
Parent-child game for senior class
Let’s all play catch together
Preparation: Several sock balls and a small plastic basin
How to play: Find a piece of wire, copper wire, or electrical wire, bend it into a circle, leaving a short length at both ends to make a small “basket.” Hang it up. Have the child throw the sock balls into the “basket,” while the parent picks up the missed balls and gives them back. Count which child gets the most balls into the “basket,” and that team wins.
Train game
Preparation: Starting line marker
How to play: Form a “train” with parents or teachers (6–8 people), crawling forward. The first train to arrive is the winner. (Must crawl on hands and knees.)
Build the pillar
Preparation: Two small carts, ten cans, two large baskets. How to play: Two children form a team to compete. Each child loads five cans from the starting point into their own small cart, then hurries to the finish line where the parent stacks the five cans into a little pillar. The first to finish stacking wins.
Bottle fishing
Objective: Develop children’s accuracy and coordination.
Preparation: Empty purified water bottles, thin string, small sticks, “fishing rods”
How to play: Use the fishing rod with a small stick tied to it to lift the bottle. Parents and children compete — within a set time, the one who lifts the most bottles wins.
Beware the trap
Goal: Encourage cooperation between children and mothers, working together attentively and thoughtfully.
Preparation: Four empty milk bottles, several matchsticks.
How to play: Each participating family is given one empty milk bottle and several matchsticks. When the game starts, the child and mother work together to cleverly place the matchsticks on the bottle opening without letting them fall in. Within the set time, the family with the most matchsticks stacked on the bottle wins.
Rule: One matchstick falling into the bottle means disqualification.