These Kids’ Olympic Ideas using things you already have around your home is great Olympic fun. Think: Olympic theme party or just as a backyard boredom buster for an Olympic afternoon outside. The handy thing is…all of these Kids’ Olympics Ideas use “ingredients” you already have on hand!
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See what I did in that picture for a decathlon in our backyard? I made an obstacle course using things we already have around the house. The play tunnel, a hula hoop, soccer ball, Bounty paper towel, Swim noodles — and to that we added things you don’t need equipment for like jumping jacks, turning around, and running (you could even add in burpees). It literally took minutes to set up yet was so much physical fun.
Kids’ Olympic Ideas…
Olympic sports and household products you can use…
Long Jump: spray a line of Gillette shaving cream on the sidewalk and use that as the jump mark
Relay Race: use a roll of Bounty paper towel as the baton
Basketball: wad up Puffs tissue and throw into trash bin
Shot put: fill a bottle of Dawn dish soap with water and throw (be careful – don’t hit anyone – best done in an open field or big backyard – kids stand behind the shotput-ter).
Decathlon: see how I did it above
Rhythmic Gymnastics: Move around with bubble wand and bubbles made from Dawn dish soap
And this isn’t simply a one player kids’ Olympics! These kids’ activities all lend themselves well to birthday party activities, play date ideas, and even family fun night (adults Vs kids maybe?!).
As Olympics near, it’s fun to set up engagement ways for your family to get active and enjoy Olympic fun in your own backyard.
You could even make gold, silver, and bronze medals — or — give out HOMEMADE POPSICLES 🙂
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sounds like a fun summer
Thanks for sharing these are really neat ideas
These are fun ideas! My kiddos are already bored and I’ve only been out of school for a few weeks. I have to do something like this in our backyard.
My kids are four legged and furry, so I would use chew toys for the relay batons. After that, things will pretty much descend into wrestling. LOL
Love your ideas! Very creative. I always enjoyed participating in junior olympics when I was back in school and so did my kids. I’m going to share this with my cousin who has little kids at the perfect age for this! 🙂
This is such a fun way to get your kids out and exercising! If my kids were younger I’d definitely be outside doing these with them right now. Also, thanks for sharing that video, it was really awesome
These are cute ideas to bring the Kids’ Olympics home 😉 Very cool and makes for great summer break activities.
We have some pool noodles that I think would make excellent swords for fencing.
I forgot that 2016 was an Olympic year, but now I am all kinds of excited. I think creating at home events is a great way to get in the spirit.
We babysit several young children and I am going to try these ideas. I think they’ll especially love throwing Puffs at the trash can.
We’ve done a winter indoor version of the Olympics in the past and it was a hoot. I think I definitely need to plan a summer version for outdoors.
What a fun way to get the kids excited about the Olympics! I know they are already talking about watching the games this summer when the Olympics happen.
Fun ideas! I would probably use toilet paper rolls somehow as my daughter is always saving them and reusing them.
I’ve never thought of having kids olympics in my back yard. This sounds like a super fun activity to with the kiddies!
These Olympic games would be so fun for a reunion I have coming up. What a fun activity for the whole family.
Now these would be fun to watch and video tape! I may have to set some of these up for our 4th of july party!
This is a really fun idea. I love that you can just use items you already have around the house for some summer fun.
What a great idea to wear kids out!
I think these are all awesome ideas. My girls love to do things like this outside. They always set up obstacle course type things too. It’s always so much fun!
These are fantastic ideas. They would keep the kids active while they have a blast.
These all sound like great ways to not only entertain bored kids this summer, but to keep them moving as well. This would make a great family day for sure!
What a fun idea! I’d love to try this with my kids. Keeping them active and outdoors during summer is a big priority to me.
Dawn dish soap makes great bubbles. These are some cute ideas that my kids would get a kick out of.
I like the idea of using the things we have in the house to have olympic styled fun! What a great idea.
I love the Olympics – it’s great to watch with the family. These are fun kid ideas.
Great ideas! My boys also create a chart and track all the winners and medals… They love it!
What a great list of ideas and a way to tie the Olympics into everyday life and fun.
What super ideas and lots of fun for children 🙂
Great to do with the grandkids when we go camping
They really do – I never buy bubbles anymore – Dawn makes it so easy to DIY
My son had a blast getting his Olympics-on in the backyard with these activities
and it’s pretty easy to set up/clean up.
We had so much fun
These ideas are really good and a lot of fun. The kids would all love this
I love the shaving gel idea, great way to mark a start position since now-a-days it’s frowned upon to use chalk.
Olympic themed activities are fun to do, Mark Oldershaw from the Canadian Canoe Sprint team who won a bronze medal in the last Olympics owns a house on our street. We keep telling him when he is here to bring his medal with him so the kids can see it