Fun Indoor Games & Activities for Kids

Copyright (c) 2009 Ivana Katz

Keeping kids occupied during school holidays or when the weather is not so great can be a challenge. Here are a few fun indoor games you can play with your children, which will keep them from watching television and prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of rainy days.

Stunt Ted

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: a selection of soft toys

This is a way of livening up play with soft toys, which can sometimes become boring to kids after a while. The aim of the activity is to discover which of your child’s soft toys is most deserving of the title “Stunt Ted Of The Year” and the much-coveted honor of sleeping on your child’s pillow. In order to win, toys must complete a series of challenges (with your child in full control, of course!):

- Flip them in the air to discover which can complete double somersaults or triple back flips.

- Slide them down the banisters to test how far apiece toy can hang on before falling off.
- Encourage the toys (imagination needed here) to participate in a series of death-defying stunts… Ride a skateboard, hang upside-down from the hedge, equilibrise on the top of an upturned cup, squeeze through the letterbox or even take a ride on the family dog’s back if he is willing to comply!

- Might the ideal Stunt Ted win.

Construction Championship

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: a construction kit (e.g. K’nex, Meccano, Lego), a kitchen timer

This fun activity can be differentiated to suit the age of your child and can be spread over the course of a few nights after tea and before bed. Use the kitchen timer to grant twenty minutes initially, for your child to produce a relatively straightforward design, like a Lego bowl of fruit or a plane. As the week progresses, increase the time granted for apiece challenge and make them slightly more complex. Build up to the ‘Mega-Challenge’, a top-secret final day event in which they can make an underground spy bunker, a housework robot or a automobile that is healthy to fly. At the end of apiece day’s challenge, your child has to give their creation a study and explain what it does. Award points out of ten and keep a running score.

Blind Man’s Bluff

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: 2 players, a room with a view

One player closes their eyes. The other player, the ‘Bluffer’, must look out of the window and explain the scene that they can see. E.g. “There’s a Mohammedan actuation a pram and there’s a red automobile parked by the bus-stop…” The aim of the game is to try and insert one or two rather massive bluffs without the other player noticing…. “…and there’s a man holding a lead, taking his chicken for a walk…” If a fib is suspected, the other player must shout “Bluff!” The Bluffer continues, getting a point for apiece huge fib they manage to slip past the other player. If the bluff is spotted, the role of the Bluffer changes and the player who had their eyes shut gets a point for identifying the fib.

Fun Indoor Games & Activities for Kids

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