13 Homemade Indoor Games for Your Kids

Great Concepts for Indoor Activities:

1.  Story time : Read and debate a book or a chapter of a book, make up your own endings.

You can also make up your own stories by sitting the children in a ring and letting them “add a sentence”. We’ve made up masses of really funny stories this way.

2- Giant Easel : Go to a charity shop or wallpaper shop and buy leftover rolls of wallpaper. Cover a wall with the paper, back to front, stick it up with blu-tac or drawing pins. Give the youngsters paints, crayons, chalks pens etc and let them create their own frieze. The tiny ones reach the bottom, while the big ones can reach up to the top.

3- Wax Creations : Give the children their old, wax crayon stubs and let them make chips from them with a butter knife onto a chunk of wax paper. When they are done, rigorously take their creations to the ironing board, lay another piece of wax paper on top, and temporarily press with a warm iron. Let the youngsters watch as the colors melt together.

Put them on the table to cool down and toughen.

4- Old Garments : Sort thru your old garments. There’s sure to be something that doesn’t fit, or isn’t in fashion and that you are too embarrassed to take to a charity shop. If you don’t have anything at all ask your pals and family. Get two card boxes, one for “dress up” garments, and one for rags. Fill the “dress up” box with the most outrages garments, and cut up the other garments for the “rags” box. Let the children play “dress up”, or let them create things with the rags. Hours of fun!

5- Puppet Show : Let the children make finger puppets from paper, help them to make a “show” with a script and characters. Build a few boxes stuck along with packing tape, make the top one have an opening at the front and hang up a curtain ( you may use rags from the rag-box for this ). Let the youngsters practice till they feel truly assured then invite a few buddies or family members over to look at the “show”.

6- Kitchen Fun : Find some cookery books, let the youngsters select an easy recipe and work with each other on making dinner, puddings, nibbles or cakes. The older ones can do the main cooking, and the more youthful ones can do the measuring or decorating.

7- Mini Worm Farm : Get a big clear plastic container, some soil, leaves, a little sand, and some bits of veggies to make the farm. Dig up some earthworms. Fill the container with loose layers of soil and sand, beginning with soil and swapping the layers. Make the soil layers about 4x the dimensions of the sand layers. Also ensure the top layer is soil. Four or five layers should be adequate. Drop some little bits of vegetables and leaves on top, and then put the worms in. Add a lid of some type ensuring it has air holes. Put the just made worm farm in a cool dark place for 1 or 2 days. The worms will tunnel down thru the layers, and the kids can see just how good they are at churning up the soil. Do not forget to let the worms go when the children have finished with them.

8- Jewelry : Collect beads, buttons and string in a shoebox. When the children are bored, bring out the shoebox and let them make necklaces and bracelets.

There’s certain to be tons of beads and buttons you can salvage from the rag-box.

9- Make a Picture : Collect a complete bunch of decorative mags and some little sheets of card ( A4 size is good ). Give the youngsters a sheet of card each, some PVA glue and some mags. Let them rip up and tear the mags to their hearts content and create mosaic photographs or collages.

10- Board Games : Board games are generally a huge hit, so take care you have masses of them handy, everything from the most straightforward to the most advanced. Come up with new methods of playing the games ; under a blanket with a torch, under the table, out in the shed, or with new handmade rules for example. It’ll add that little of excitement to games the children might be uninterested in.

11- Spook Stories : If you are prepared for a sleep-deprived night, try a night of spook stories. First, find two torches / flashlights, then cover a table with a heavy blanket.

The goal here is for the youngsters ( and you ) to make up spook stories as ghoulish as they dare. Everyone crouches under the table, with just the lights from the torches and takes turn telling tales.

Depending on the age of the youngsters participating, be ready to be freaked out!

12- Growing A Seed : Children of every age love this one, as it’s not just sticking a seed into soil and hoping it’ll grow. This way you can spot when it starts rooting. Get a paper towel, fold it into a medium sized rectangle then moisten it. Put the seed between the initial layer and the remainder of the damp paper towel, and place the lot into a tiny bag. A Ziploc sandwich bag works excellent for this. Employ a strip of masking tape on the bags with each kid’s name on it so they can check on their seeds progress. Close the bag and put it sort of dark but in a spot where youngsters can walk up to check on their seeds and see the glory of nature in action.

13- Indoor Funny Golfing : Get the youngsters to sit together and design a silly golfing course to run across the house ( or merely one room if you could have issues getting them to scrub up afterwards ). Use toys, toilet stuff, kitchen implements or anything more handy to make the holes and routes. Tiny plastic golfing sets are simple to come by in most toy shops, and they are customarily intensely inexpensive. Have treats prepared for each time a kid reaches the end of the golfing course.

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