French Day ideas for OSHC
6 DIY activities for French Day at before and after school care or vacation care. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Bonjour Bakery Role Play
Children run a pretend French bakery and market stall, using simple French greetings and polite words to buy and sell paper breads and pastries.
French Day · Cooking Day · Pancake Day +3Crêpe Spreading Station
Children help whisk a simple crêpe batter, watch the educator cook thin crêpes, then fill and fold their own with sweet or savoury toppings.
French Day · Art Through the Ages · Art Attack Day +3Garden Dab Painting Outdoors
Children paint outside with short dabs and dots of colour, the way French painters of the 1870s captured light on gardens, ponds and flowers.
French Day · Wheels Day · Great Race Day +2Mini Tour Cycling Race
Children race a looping course on bikes, scooters or on foot in stages, earning coloured jerseys like the famous French cycling race held every July.
French Day · Science Week · At the Building Site +3Newspaper Iron Tower Challenge
Teams roll newspaper into strong tubes and build the tallest freestanding tower they can, using the triangles that hold up the famous iron tower in Paris.
French Day · Dramatic Play Day · Circus Day +2Silent Street Mime Show
Children learn the basics of mime, a performance art with a long history on French stages and streets, then perform silent scenes for the group to guess.