Tango no Sekku

On May 5th we celebrated Tango no Sekku, which is Japanese Children's Day. This day initially celebrated boys but has become a holiday for all Children. We wanted this video about Tango no Sekko and then participated in various activities.

After watching the video we made Japanese Kabuto Helmets out of newspaper.

We also asked for families to share traditional children's games. One game that was brought in by our classmate Altea was a game called "Chinese Garter". In this game a garter (we used Holy Moly Straps from the gym) is strung between to people starting at their feet. Players jump over the garter and then the garter gets moved higher and higher until it's too high to jump over. Check out one of our classmate's great jumping here.

We also played with traditional Japanese games such as Kendama, Daruma Ototshi and made Oragami. This is one of our classmates playing Kendama.

It was a fun day!