Host Your Own Olympic Games

Whether you’re into watching the Olympic Games or not, this is a fun time to put on your own games, whether as a family or in the classroom.

The Chaos and the Clutter has ideas for a fun backyard Olympics, including races, a ring toss, gymnastics in the grass (and crafts and snacks, too!).

If it’s too hot/cold/rainy where you live to have your games outside, check out the living room Olympic Games from the Educator’s Spin on It. This one is all about those movements that are so important in gross motor skill development, like hopping, jumping and walking backward. You can also set up an obstacle course where kids (and adults!) move through obstacles and perform certain movements.

If you have little kids, there’s the toddler Olympics from Rainy Day Mum. It includes activities like a bean bag toss, racing with something held on a spoon (could be a beanbag or a plastic egg), crawling through a tunnel and more.

[Photo: The Chaos and the Clutter.]

Looking for More Resources for Olympics? Check out these Olympic activity resource books on Amazon.

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Outdoor Activities for Summer Fun

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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