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The purpose of this study is to verify that the new sports, Hanoi Tower Building and Cup Stack, help elementary school students improving their recognition and senses-perception and to investigate their experiences during the process. To achieve these goals, 12 periods of classes were given to 16 students on their grade from fourth to sixth in a D elementary school located in D metropolitan city. They participated in the new sports club of the free-of-charge extracurricular activities, and the male teacher taught them from June to November, 2010. The effects and experiences created through it were categorized into five concepts. First, students were absorbed in ‘fun’, the emotional influence of sensory perceptive exercises, through which, their ability to cope with stress had been being improved remarkably without their knowledge of it. Also, they were joining the activities with curiosity about what’s new. Second, they were positively fulfilling another emotional effect of ‘forming friendship’, and in the process they were learning how to control and express their emotions effectively. Third, they were putting another emotional effect of ‘spending time together with family’ into practice, which provide the tip for how to combine family and social physical education and sound pastime for a family. Fourth, a cognitive effect of ‘concentration’ had been developed, and it has proved the transition effect of exercise on studying intellectual subjects. Finally, as for a kinetic effect, they experienced ‘developing physical strength in new and fresh ways’. They have learned how they can build up their physical strength for their healthy life in the situation where the space for movement is becoming smaller. As stated above, exercises of sensory perception affected elementary school students by improving their capability of recognition and sensory perception. The following suggestion would be made. To begin with, more diverse exercise programs of sensory perception need to be developed and applied to study for sound pastime of family. And the ways to combine them with social physical education should be conducted. Moreover, researches of expanded application range and period have to be carried out continuously.