Use an Olympic theme to take advantage of the excitement about this summer’s games. Have each class design a banner to carry during a procession similar to the Olympic Parade Of Nations. Make a “torch” out of rolled-up construction paper and tissue paper flames; let older students run with the torch. Hold a ceremony in which you present 1st-3rd Place Award Ribbons to the top competitors in each activity. Give “Field Day Participant” Ribbons to everyone else.

Enlist the help of your PTA/PTO to locate Wii systems that you can use for Field Day. Also have them round up the “Just Dance Kids” or “Kidzbop Dance Party” games. The games will get students moving to child-friendly songs and will show that physical activity can be fun. Distribute water-filled “Field Day Rocks” Water Bottles to keep youngsters hydrated while dancing.

Have businesses in your area donate styrofoam packing peanuts. Then borrow kids’ plastic pools from students’ families. Fill the pools with the peanuts. Next, obtain as many plastic eggs as you have children participating in Field Day. Place a “Field Day: Where Everyone Is A Winner!” or “Field Day! Fun • Fitness • Health” Temporary Tattoo in each egg. Then hide the eggs in the pools. Let everyone dig in and find an egg.

End of the School Year Class Activities

It is important to celebrate the end of the school year with your students; positive memories have an effect on attitudes of children. Make sure you have some activities lined up for students to enjoy with their classmates. Here are some ideas to get you started!

1.T-Shirt Memories – Have all your students bring in a pre-washed white T-shirt on one of the last days of class. Supply your students with various permanent color markers. Have each student write the grade and class year on the front and back, then have them go around to their classmates to get all their autographs. Encourage students to draw pictures and write favorite sayings on each others’ shirts.

2.Have a “What I want to be when I grow up day” – Have your students come dressed in clothes that represent the profession that interests them. Have them make up posters that represent why they chose this particular profession.

3.Have an Award Ceremony – Be creative and think of fun unique awards to give to your students. You can purchase fun award certificates and then make up your own categories. Try matching them to names of candy bars to make it fun; for example “The Jolly Rancher Award” goes to the class clown. “The LifeSavers Award” goes to the class helper. Have fun with it and be creative!

Field Day Fun – Chicken Relay

Here is another fun field day game for kids! Divide students into teams and give everyone on the team a tennis ball. The tennis balls represent chicken eggs. When the relay begins, the first student on each team puts the “chicken egg” between his/her knees and waddles to a box that has been set up a fixed distance away. The student must get close enough to the box so when he/she releases their knees, the ball falls into the box, which represents the chicken’s nest. The student runs back to the team and tags the next person in line, who then picks up the next egg and waddles off to deposit it in the nest. The relay ends when the last person returns to the team. The first team to finish is the winning team!

Field Day Fun - Water Shoot Out Relay

Field Day - Fun outside game to play on a hot day! Using a high-power water gun, kids try to knock a foam ball off a cone some distance away. For older kids, have teachers or a parent squirting a stream of water back at the kids – they’ll try to squirt the adults defensively and will have a harder time completing their task. Start with the filled water blaster some distance from the starting point in a hoop on the ground. Kids have to run to get their water gun and then replace it in the same hoop – refilling before putting it back.

Field Day Fun - Cone Toss

Another fun Field Day Game! Separate students into teams, give each team one small traffic cone and one beanbag. Line up 3 hoops for each team three to five feet apart at the opposite end of the play area away from the starting line. Competing teams line up relay style behind a starting line. One person from each team holds a small traffic cone inside one of the hoops. On the "go" signal, the first person from each team chooses one of the hoops he/she will toss to and the child with the traffic cone will move to that hoop. The furthest hoop from the catcher is worth 3 points, the middle hoop is worth 2 points and the closest hoop is worth 1 point. The tosser attempts to toss the beanbag so that his/her teammate can catch it inside the cone. After tossing the beanbag, whether successful or not, the tosser runs and retrieves the beanbag from the catcher and runs it back to the next person on line. Play for a designated amount of time. The team with the most points WINS!!!