The Tokyo 2020 Games may not be happening this year but you can still get active, stay connected and win prizes with Travel to Tokyo, Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s official, free programme for children aged 5-11 and their families.

We have registered our Nursery, so why not use the link above to log in – find exciting activities and log them on our nursery page.

Click on the link below to access:

https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/log-activity

All About Japan

Here is a link so we can learn about Japan where the Olympics should have been held. Its always interesting for us to learn about other cultures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ryYJPOx5w

Our Olympic Song

Sung to: “The Mulberry Bush”

Here we go around the friendship  flame,

The friendship flame, the friendship flame.

Here we go around the friendship flame,

Let’s get ready for games.

We will have fun and run some races,

Run some races, run some races,

We will have fun and run some races

At our Olympics today!

Make Your Own Medal

Why don’t you try and make your own medal?

Resources: Ribbon, Cardboard, Pen, Glitter

Activity: Cut out a small circle shape from your cardboard, piercing a hole at the top of your circle. Put the ribbon through the hole to create the medal!

On your medal you could try and draw your countries flag, the Olympic flag/colours and you could even add glitter to make it nice and shiny! Or you could write something on your medal such as – “Winner”, “1st, 2nd or 3rd” or even just “Well done!” for taking part.

Well done Olympic athletes!

Boat Race

Use a toy boat or make one out of paper to have a boat race.
Resources: toy boat or paper, basin and water.
1. Fill a basin with water.
2. Place a toy boat or a paper boat into the basin.
3. Blow the boat across the basin to get it to the other end.
4. Have competitions between children and parents/ carers to see who can get their boat to the finish line the quickest.

OLYMPIC RING ART

Why not experiment with some old kitchen roll or toilet roll holders to create the Olympic flag.  If you have run out of paint you could try making circle shapes with dipping into water and stamping onto slabs or your path outdoors.

Talk about circles and the primary colours, and challenge your children to recognise and match colours and circle shapes throughout the house or garden.  Or even when you are out your daily walk.

Have fun and enjoy playing and learning. Stay Safe.

Olympic Emotions

When athletes are competing in the Olympics, they feel lots of different emotions.

• Happy
• Surprised
• Excited
• Overwhelmed
• Fear
• Sadness

Why don’t you try at home to make different faces to describe these emotions.

Take a picture of yourself doing these emotions and have a look at them. Try and remember what emotion you were trying to show and see if you can describe it.

Look into the mirror and try different expressions.

Or you could try and draw a picture of the different emotions, have a look at them online.

Olympic ring toss

Resources: Empty water bottles or kitchen roll tubes and plastic or paper rings.

1. Place the bottles or kitchen roll tubes out across an area. Some close to the child and some further away.
2. Give the child the plastic or paper rings and encourage them to try and get the ring to go on the water bottle or kitchen roll tube.
3. Have a competition to see who can get the most rings on the water bottles or kitchen roll tubes between children and parents/ carers.

 

The Olympics at Home

Health and Wellbeing 

Let us see if you can set up your own Olympics in the house or in your back garden.

You could set up an assault course around the house or garden using different materials.

If you are in the house you could use pillows to put in a row and walk along them without falling off. Jumping, hopping!

See how fast you can run from one end of the room to the other

Here are a list of activities you could get involved with outside:

• Place two buckets at either end of your garden. Fill one up with water. Your child must scoop the water into a small paper cup and transfer it to the empty bucket.
• Layout a ladder and bunny hop through it
• Get into a black bag or sack and hop from one obstacle to another
• Get from one obstacle to another with a ball wedged between your knees. Every time you drop it, you need to start again.

 

Olympic torch

Steam Activity

Resources: Paper, pens/ pencils or crayons and scissors.
1. Show your child a picture of the Olympic torch.
2. Encourage your child to draw a picture of the Olympic torch. Using red/ orange for the flame and another color for the base.
3. Support your child to cut the torch out with scissors.

 

 

Livingroom Olympics 

MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN INDOORS

WARM UP

We like to start slow and get our bodies ready for moving gradually.

Slowly jog around the garden or living room 2 times

Move your body in a zig-zag pattern

March with high knees

Crawl like a caterpillar.

STRETCH

Reach up high

Reach to the side

Reach down low

Stretch your legs

Give yourself a great big hug.

Olympic Biscuits

The children will love decorating their own Olympic biscuits – and eating them afterwards. Make sure your workspace and the children’s clothes are well-protected from the bright colours used in the icing!

Olympic biscuits

You will need: 5 ring biscuits (coconut biscuits) – if you don’t have these you can simply use a digestive or any other plain biscuit

“Writing icing” in red, green, black, blue and yellow (or mix icing sugar with food colouring)

Instructions: Decorate each biscuit with a different colour icing. Lay out your biscuits on a plate in the pattern of the Olympic rings. Eat!

 

Olympic Numeracy

An activity to progress your child’s understanding of the language of measure
Long Jump
Mark a line on the ground where to start and demonstrate to your child how to run then jump forward.
Once your child does this the first stage is talking about how far, who went furthest and using words such as long, longer, short and shorter.
The second stage is to get a tape measure and measure how far you can jump using simple measurements in centimetres . This will introduce more complex mathematical vocabulary.
You could further extend this by encouraging the child to write the numerals in their measured distance down using chalk on the path or pencil and paper.

Olympic Colouring with kitchen towel

No preparation needed!

Why don’t you try to make the 5 Olympic rings creating a circle shape and using kitchen towel. (if this is a bit tricky then you could always just create different patterns using the colours)

Resources: Kitchen towel, Blue, Black, Red, Yellow and Green pen.

 

Indoor Basketball

Indoor Basketball

Use Rolled up socks for balls and something to catch the balls in like a clean bucket or basin. Move the bucket higher and further away to make the game harder. Count how many you can get in bucket

Resources: Rolled up socks, bucket, basin(something that you are able to catch things in)

 

SKI Activity

Ski ramp

Resources: cardboard and toy people or plastic balls.
1. Set the piece of cardboard supported up onto something such as the couch, a box or a table.
2. Place the toy people or the plastic balls at the top of the piece of cardboard.
3. Let the toy person or plastic ball fall down the ramp and see who’s gets to the bottom first.
4. Have a competition to see who’s toy person or plastic ball get to the bottom the quickest between children and parents/ carers.

Ten Pin Bowling

What you need:

• 10 Toilet roll tubes/kitchen roll tubes
• Paint/pens
• Small ball or socks swiped into a ball
• · Paint or colour the toilet tubes / kitchen roll tubes
• · Tubes can be numbered 1 to 10 (optional)

Once you have decorated your tubes set them up in a triangle. Starting with 4 at the back next row 3 then next row 2 and 1 tube at front.

If playing inside use socks swiped into a ball and a small ball can be used outside.

See who can knock the most tubes down and get the most points.

HAVE FUN!

 

Olympic rings out of Lego or blocks

Resources: Red, yellow, green, blue and black Lego or blocks.

1. Make red, yellow, green, blue and black rings out of Lego or blocks.
2. Place the rings you make with the different coloured Lego/ blocks in the order of the Olympic rings which is blue, black and red on the top line. Then yellow and green on the bottom line.

Olympic Colours

Use a clock or phone to give yourself 30 seconds to find as many blue things you can find in a room or garden. Change the colour each time using all the colours in the Olympic Rings.

Olympic Flags

Why don’t you create the flags of countries around the world?