Olympic Games Taking Part Certificate
It's the taking part that counts - so give one of these certificates to everyone who's taken part in your own Olympic Games at home or school.
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One way to get kids interested in the Olympic Games is to host your own Olympic Games event. We have made it easy for you by providing everything from Olympic Games event printables, to suggested games, printable medals, and even suggestions for the food to provide...
Olympic Games Event Printables
Choose from two designs of Olympic Games printables and print out everything you will need your event, from the invitations through to the score sheets!
Depending on the age of the children involved, you may let them choose their own teams and team names. For younger children it might, however, be preferable to allocate teams and names in advance and announce them on arrival, or perhaps when sending out invitations. Specifying a colour for each team works well and you could always ask the children to turn up wearing a T-shirt or sash in their team's colour to help with identification.
For older children, you could assign a country to each team - perhaps by letting them pick a card (or a flag) out of a hat. Or print and make a flag badge for each child and let them each pick one out of a hat - this way you allocate teams completely randomly, which can be the fairest way and prevent too much anxiety.
Every Olympic Games has its mascots, and every team has their mascots too. You can have fun dressing up your teddies and other toys to support your team! Perhaps you could start your own event with some cutting and sticking - ask kids to bring along a teddy and you provide the printables, ribbons and so on.
Teddy Mascots
Have your own opening ceremony. Get the kids busy making flags, hats and mascots, then parade around to display their creations. Play some good marching music.
Of course no Olympic Games can be complete without awarding medals and a closing ceremony. If possible, find some boxes so that medal winners can stand high to get their applause! Older kids will accept that there are winners (and losers) in every event, but for younger children you should plan to give every child a medal for something.
We have many ideas for making medals using card, foam, felt...
Olympic Crafts
If you don't have time to make your own we have some medals available to print.
Medal Printables
When medals have been handed out, give the kids a chance to march around again, this time displaying medals proudly.
If the children's parents have not been present, it is a nice touch to invite them at a specific time to see the Medals and Closing Ceremony.
Standard party fair will go down well at your event - sausages or hot dogs, sandwiches, pizza slices and so on. Keep it simple as you will have enough to do supervising the Games and won't want to spend too much time fiddling with the food. Remember if you are having an outdoor summer event that you will to provide plenty of drinks, which should be available at all times, not just when the kids sit down to eat.
If you have chosen your teams in advance, you could theme the party table - perhaps with the appropriate colours of paper plates and cups, streamers and so on.
If your Olympic Games are a collaborative effort, it is a good idea to ask each mother to bring a specific items of food. Otherwise you can end up with all sandwiches or all chocolate cake! If you have the ability to put up a list somewhere, you could post some suggestions and ask people to sign up for what they want to bring on the day.
Encourage kids to get involved with the Olympic Games by serving up an Olympic treat or two!
Olympic Recipes
It's the taking part that counts - so give one of these certificates to everyone who's taken part in your own Olympic Games at home or school.
Here's a printable certificate that you can give to all your friends who have taken part in your own mini Olympic Games event.
Here are some printable winners certificates to hand out at your own Olympic games - we have one each for gold, silver and bronze medal positions.
Are you holding your own mini Olympics at home or school? Print these colourful winners certificates to hand out to the gold, silver and bronze medallists!