Preschool Field Day Games

Field day is a much loved end of the year tradition – it signals summer and warm weather! Children look forward to the opportunity to spend extra time outside playing games with their friends and teachers. Keeping them active and engaged is key to a successful preschool field day. That means finding the right combination of games that are both fun for little ones and fairly simple to set up and run for teachers and parent volunteers. This comprehensive list of game ideas gives tons of options so that you can rotate through them over multiple years!

• Distance races
• Egg and spoon relay
• Fill the bucket relay
• Ball toss – distance
• Ball toss – into a container
• Ball toss – through a hoop
• Long jump
• Hopscotch
• Jump from hula hoop to hula hoop
• Obstacle course
• Weave through cones
• Partner water balloon catch
• Ball kick – distance
• Ball kick – into a “goal”
• Three legged race
• Sack race
• Balancing an item on head
• Simon Says
• Follow the leader
• Freeze dance
• Dizzy spin relay
• Beach ball keep up
• Balloon keep up
• Limbo

What else would you add?!