Olympics week ideas!

Olympics week ideas!

by: dd83 - 20-06-12 20:50

I am currently trying to organise a weeks activities for the olympics at my nursery and am struggling for new ideas so any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

by: curly

You could do a great opening parade with costumes and music and a march around the playground with the parents invited. 

by: Bee

My Olympics planning went something like this;
Mark Making - olympic border with heading I am good at .......
I would like to be ........... and a variety of colouring pics
Water - Canoes (made & maunfactured)
Sand - play mobil and a range of backgrounds including race tracks, courts (tennis, badminton) and nets (beach volley ball)
Creative - designing and making medals
Making Area - gold paper and hole punches to make an olympic torch
Malleable - olympic dough mats
Investigation - looking at bronze, silver and gold metals
Small World - Castle with olympic route (paper road) drawn around it (olympic torch is passing Nottingham Castle next week)
Outdoors - torch relay, track races, volley ball
ICT - Following the torch and clips of Rebecca Adlington
And I'm sure there are many more

Good luck

by: dd83

Aw thankyou so much for those ideas, I had a few of them but there's some new ones too which I can use! Really looking forward to getting started now!

by: x-mardimoo-x

How old are the children?? How many??

by: allie

Have you asked the children what their knowledege of the Olympics is? Is this something they are really interested in? Try to build on the knowledge they have. This subject could be too abstract for pre-school children.

We have asked the children what they know about the Olympics and have used this as a building block to plan in enhancements to support learning.

by: Lydia Lawton

an activity we are doing is making olympic rings. Cut toilet rolls into pieces, children have 5 circles each, paint in relevant colour, glue together to form olympic circle ring.

by: gemma green

what age are your children you are doing the activities with???  We are doing an olympic week and as i work in the baby room, we were doing races in the garden using bikes, baby walkers etc.  we are encouraging the children to make their own medals using our craft resources.

by: Guider-too

We have a wall display and on it we have a countdown to the Olympic opening ceremony (27th July) each day we tear off a number. We then encourage the children to count (together) to that number.