At our HS co-op I teach an intro to world mythology class to 4-8 yr olds. We're working on Greek myths for the next few weeks.
I was planning on holding a "Mythology Olympics" for the last day of the Greek unit. I am trying to make simple games that relate to certain heroes, characters and monsters (we already will have covered Gods/Goddesses). At each station they'll learn a brief, child-friendly rendition of the story and play a game.
Here are some things we had ideas for so far:
Minotaur- "labyrinth" race with these wooden mazes with marbles in them
Medusa- slay-the-gorgon game like pin the tail on the donkey, but with a medusa poster and mini stick-on swords
Odesseus slays the cyclops- knock out the cyclops eye w/bean bags
Pandora's box- box full of balloons with messages inside for all the "woes" that escape. The kids have to catch them and sit on them to pop them. Winner gets hope.
Trojan horse-- pinata
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