Logo For A Preschool Soccer-based Play Program

My friend and I will be starting a soccer-based play program that will develop motor, literacy and numeracy skills for preschoolers (Age 2 to 5 years). We would like to use SmartKicks as the name of our program. Smart, being the educational component and Kicks being the physical/ soccer side of things.

We need a very cool, catchy logo that could eventually be turned into a mascot one day if things take off for us. We are planning to have the logo on all our stationery, website and various items of clothing (T-shirts, hoodies, umbrellas, etc.). We would like our logo to become branded one day. Like the swoosh!

Our customers will be parents with preschool kids from the ages of 2 to 5/6 years of age. We want the wow! factor when they think of us. We think maybe a star would be a cool icon that'll make people think of SmartKicks.

font from the smart car logo looks good. Not sure what other fonts might work to bring our logo to life (check out socatots.com adn litllekickers.co.uk). We are thinking reds, royal blues, yellows....

The style, we'll see what you can come up with for us.

We must have a created SmartKicks character in the logo design. It has to be simple, bright and catchy. Something that'll look awesome on the side of a smart car!!