The seven students each then quietly tap the thumb of one of the students and then return to the front of the room. If he or she guesses correctly, they replace the student who tapped them. The game begins again once all the students have had a chance to guess. It requires a few minutes of prep time the first time, but after that the game plays itself. Write out a direction on an index card; have at least as many cards per students in your class. The next card read would then read, When someone yells GO, stand up and open the door.
One rule I had to institute was that everyone had to wait until the person before them had sat back down in their seat, otherwise it was too confusing to try and follow multiple students doing activities at the same time. Most of the above-mentioned games are for younger students, but I was surprised at how much my older students loved the games too.
Confined to the house? You can still have a fun treasure hunt adventure, and our free indoor treasure hunt sheet has a selection of things to do, ideas for things to find and fun activities to help pass the time!
All you have to do is provide each child with their printed treasure hunt and a small box, bag or basket to collect their items.
Your local library is a great resource on a rainy day. Everyone who takes part will be entered into a draw to win an Amazon gift card — we have 2 up for grabs! One of the classic rainy day activities is playing board games, and it is a great way to spend time together. Are you a Monopoly fan, or perhaps Candyland?
Turn off the lights, close the curtains, and with the help of a torch, take turns making shadow shapes on the walls, with your hands. See who can make the best shape. Set up a home cinema and settle down to watch some fun family movies together. Remember the card games you used to play as a child, and how much fun that was?
Why not teach your kids how to play the same great card games and see if you have a little card shark on your hands! If you need a refresher on the rules, here are 15 fun card games for kids that are great for getting started. All you need to make paper airplanes is paper — and pens if you want to decorate it. First fold your paper airplane and then the kids can draw the pilots at the front and the passengers looking out of the windows. Then have a race and see whose plane gets furthest!
Have the children put on a play or show of their own creation. Get some blank sheets and let them loose to get creative. Take out the colouring books or print off some free colouring pages , get out all the pens and crayons, and set up a colouring station at the kitchen table. This would be a special treat for Grandparents, friends or cousins. Set up a family News Desk at the kitchen table! Decide on what stories are going to go in the magazine.
It could be a profile of someone in the family, maybe an interview with a grandparent. Will someone take photos or draw pictures? Maybe there could be a fun corner with a puzzle or a joke in it. Decide on what story or item will go on what page, maybe write down a mini magazine plan on a sheet of paper. Then have fun putting the magazine together! Most kids love to bake, particularly with the promise of a sweet treat at the end!
And getting kids involved in the kitchen from an early age is a great way to introduce them to everything from new flavours and foods, to the math and science of baking and cooking. What about trying baked berry squares , some easy cookie recipes to make with kids, vegan chocolate chip cookies , and more easy peasy baking recipes.
This is one activity that does need some advance planning, so why not keep your baking cupboard stocked with some decorating basics, such as selection of sprinkles and stars, hearts, mini marshmallows, candy, chocolate, as well as cupcake cases.
Once cooled, you can add buttercream or icing, or just melt some chocolate and drizzle over the top. This is a great activity for older kids.
Cuddly toys and dolls also make great guests. Feeling overwhelmed by toys around the house? We have 10 great hacks for parents to organise toys , helping you to simplify and organise the family chaos! Everyone gets a matchbox to fill, and ten minutes to find and fit into their matchbox as many tiny whole objects as they can. Tiny things that would fit in the matchbox could include a paper clip, a safety pin, a pea, a button, a piece of LEGO, a bead, etc.
Create your own playlists of your favourite songs. Why not pick 5 songs each that you all like, to add to your playlist, then put it on shuffle and have a disco in the house? Move back the furniture, and get moving! One of our favourite rainy day activities is to spend the day having a LEGO-building contest.
Alternatively, you could pick a theme e. Kids love looking at old photos and hearing stories, so find those old photo albums and have a look at the past. A real winner in our house is to give each child their own photo album, and let them choose their own photos for it — this is a great entertainer on a rainy day!
They can get creative with their own albums, decorating the covers and pages. Do you have a stack of old magazines? Get them out, along with some paper, glue and other art supplies and have a collage-making session.
This is one of the ideal rainy day activities or project ideas for older kids and tweens. All you need is a drawing pad, and pencil. Explain how the book works: that you draw an image in the same corner of the book on each page, and that each image changes only slightly.
You can let the kids use their own dress-up things, if they have them, but more fun is to let them loose in your closet! Ideally drag out some of your older clothes not your favourites! Make up a list of items that can be found throughout the house, then the children must find and photograph each item on the list!
Come up with your own ideas, or use our indoor scavenger hunt list to get you started. Give your child some old photographs they love to make special scrapbook pages you can add to your own scrapbooks.
Supplies needed include old pictures, craft paper, glue, glitter, stickers, or whatever else you have. We use ours for school dress up days, holidays, Halloween, game days and lots more!
Use your rainy days as time to practice new patterns and styles — you never know when you might need a back up activity for a playdate or an at-home birthday party. Our book scavenger hunt for kids is great fun — and you might find your kids get distracted by some reading while they are at it! Cut a picture from a magazine article, and glue it to a blank sheet of paper with plenty of space around it. Now get the kids to finish the picture — will an alien fly overhead, or a dinosaur appear behind the castle?
Who knows! Let them decorate, bring in their toys, books, and perhaps even enjoy a picnic lunch in their camp. Different colours paper, glue, glitter, stickers, cardboard tubes, pompoms, string, wool, felt, material, ribbon, thread spools, pipe cleaners, tissue paper ….
These panda crafts are fun, but we have lots more great ideas for inspiration:. Jigsaws are an activity the whole family can do, and one that can work well between differently aged siblings. Set each member of the family up with a puzzle to suit their skill level, all helping each other finish, or create teams to work on a large puzzle together.
Place two chairs a few feet apart in the middle of the room and tie the piece of string between them to represent the top of the net. Then, set your players up on opposite sides of the net and start the rally by tossing a balloon into the mix.
You can use a variety of scoring methods either based on real tennis rules or made-up criteria. Once the deck is made, however, there is no prep time. Entertainment Time: Depending on the size of the deck, up to an hour.
Story Cards lets you craft an original story using homemade picture cards. Cut each sheet of 8. The items can be any person, place, or thing, but it helps to make them specific and personal. Shuffle up the deck and begin picking cards from the top to tell a story. Apps like TikTok and Triller are great for easy video editing and allows them to share their creation with friends online too.
Wet weather is a perfect opportunity for young book worms to curl up with a book and teleport into a different world. From teen books to books for toddlers and even personalised books for kids , this is one of those indoor activities that kids of all ages can benefit from. Learning how to knit can also help develop key motor skills and is a nice quiet activity parents can benefit from! At-home science experiments are a great activity to occupy curious minds on rainy days, with kids fascinated by the magic of science and colourful potions.
Safe, fun and educational — you can conjure up your own chemical reaction with objects or ingredients already found around the house. Take for example, this clever magic milk experiment which requires cupboard basics like a cotton bud, washing up liquid and some milk from the fridge.
Bring the picnic indoors and help your little one host their own make-pretend tea party with furry friends. You could use plastic foods from their play kitchen or bake some real afternoon tea classics for an authentic touch.
So sometimes you might as well just bite the bullet and go out in it. Put on your waterproof coats, big coats and wellies and scope out some muddy puddles for kids to jump in.
Worms and snails love the rain. So you could take along some jam jars and collect the most interesting ones. You can print off some ready-made kids bingo cards courtesy of MyFreeBingoCards and pull scrunched up paper with numbers on out of a bag. Have the family come together and crack a number of clues, padlocks and puzzles in an at-home Escape Room.
Start off with the easy Crime Escape Room and work your way up to the special Hijack one. The boxes also include self-help hint cards for when you need a little assistance. A post shared by Epic Escapes escaperoomathome. An activity that requires very little thought or prior planning are some good old-fashioned party games. Stream some music on your phone and have them play musical statues. Simon says is another fun way to try and catch them out.
And theres no need to run out to the shops either. With our play dough recipe easy to make from bits already found in the kitchen. Organise a virtual play date with friends and have them play a number of fun zoom games for kids. Rope the whole family in and enjoy classics like Monopoly, Cluedo or Guess Who.
Or crack out hungry hippos or jenga for younger kids. Set up a mini exercise circuit, where they have to do a different move at each pit stop jumping jacks, lunges or running on the spot. Or have the whole family compete in an indoor sports day with classics like the wheelbarrow and egg and spoon race.
One positive of the pandemic was that some of most famous museums and zoos in the world took their exhibitions online. Yoga or stretching is one of the best indoor activities for soothing restless kids on rainy days. Similarly, there are loads of child-orientated videos that make yoga fun for kids — using stories, characters and playfulness.
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