During the summer it can be fun to watch the World Games as a family. Get even your youngest excited for the games with these fun Summer Olympics Activities for Kids.
For even more fun, invite a few friends over and host your own mini World Games in the backyard with these fun ideas.
Torch Craft — The first activity we did was create our very own World Games torch. To do this trace your child’s hand on orange construction paper (or a mixture of orange, red, and yellow) and cut out 3-4 hand prints. Use clear tape to secure the hand print flames to the inside of a paper towel tube.
After the traditional passing of the torch, the contestants gathered for a group photo.
Olympic Rings Craft — Create your very own uniforms by printing out the rings coloring sheets from the Internet to color, cut out, and tape to each child’s shirt.
Kids Summer Olympics Activities
Shot-Put — Fill water balloons ahead of time. Draw a line with sidewalk chalk and have kids stand on the line and throw the water balloon shot-put style (with their hand at their shoulder to start). Measure and see who throws the balloon the farthest.
Standing Long Jump — Once again have your children stand on the chalk line. Have them jump as far as they can. You can have each child jump twice and see if they can beat their own distance.
50 Foot Dash — Measure out approximately 50 feet and have a race.
Ring Toss — Tape your torch to the floor. Create rings with paper plates by cutting out the inner circle. See who can toss the ring to land over the torch. (We discovered that thicker paper plates worked better for this. The super thin and light ones had to be dropped over the torch.)
Be sure to have a medal ceremony at the end of the events. You can easily make medals by cutting large circles from construction paper and decorating them with gold and silver glitter. Let these dry and hang them on a loop of yarn ahead of time and you will be ready for your own medal ceremony at your kids World Games.
This year gather the kids together and have fun with your own Summer Olympics activities for kids.
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karen says
July 31, 2012 at 11:56 amOMG how adorable and looks like fun. I’d love to play those games too.
OneMommy says
August 2, 2012 at 3:59 pmThey had TONS of fun, and my daughter wants me to come up with some more to do this week!
Emilie says
July 31, 2012 at 2:54 pmThey loved it! Jacob said he wanted to do the games again.
JDaniel4's Mom says
August 1, 2012 at 9:41 amI love your ring toss! I will have to make one!
OneMommy says
August 2, 2012 at 3:45 pmThanks! I ran out of paper towel rolls since we just took recycling in, so I improvised! 🙂
Cortney - The Mommyhood Project says
August 1, 2012 at 6:00 pmSo cute, OneMommy!
OneMommy says
August 2, 2012 at 3:55 pmThanks! 🙂
Angelique says
August 6, 2012 at 4:36 pmWhat a magnificent post!
Great meeting you and your blog @Kids Bloggers Go Olympics’
Angelique
OneMommy says
August 7, 2012 at 9:40 pmThank you! I had fun linking up!
Donna says
August 25, 2012 at 6:51 pmHow fun. Very creative, and it puts that personal touch to the real Olympics.
Anna from Learn Like A Mom says
January 25, 2014 at 1:19 pmIt looks like you had a lot of fun during all of your Olympics Activities! Thank you for linking up with the Olympics Link Up Party! Hope to see you again this upcoming week!
Anna from Learn Like A Mom! says
January 31, 2014 at 3:54 pmCongrats on getting the Bronze Medal on our Olympics Link Up this week! Come back with more great Olympics posts over the weeks to come!
Betsy says
February 11, 2014 at 7:22 pmThese look so fun! I did a similar thing with my pre-k class in the summer of 2012. I haven’t had much luck doing a winter olympics this winter. It’s been way too cold!
OneMommy says
February 13, 2014 at 2:28 pmSame here! I had hoped to do some sledding, maybe skate in our boots or makes skis to try in the snow… But it has been way too cold for the kids to be outside for very long at all.