Celebrating Inauguration Day with Preschoolers

I put a lot of thought into how to cel­e­brate tomorrow’s inau­gu­ra­tion with my kids. We debated for months about whether going into DC to expe­ri­ence the excite­ment of the crowd would be mon­u­men­tal or mis­er­able, and finally the thought of the potty to peo­ple ratio and the pos­si­bil­ity of chang­ing pull-ups in the cold made the deci­sion to stay home seem most rea­son­able. Instead, we’ve invited some friends over to com­mem­o­rate the event.

Below are a cou­ple games we’ll be play­ing tomor­row with at our Inauguration Day play date.

Pin the Presidential Seal on Obama

Supplies:

• pic­ture of Obama — we used a recent Time mag­a­zine cover — in con­junc­tion with poster board and creativity
• small print­outs of the US Presidential Seal
• painters tape

Crowded Metro Station

Supplies:

• one Hula hoop
• eager kids

The goal of this game is to see how many kids can stand inside a hula hoop. Next, we’ll see if they can walk across the room with the hula hoop at waist level. I am guess­ing the game will end when the kids start to dis­agree about alter­nate uses for the hula hoop…

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