Olympics in school

"Olympics in school" was created from the desire to gather the founders throughout Serbia in the framework of a competition based on entertainment, joint effort and fair play: everything that in the game of children returns to each other communication, socializing and develops the sport spirit.

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...

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.