Indoor / Outdoor Activities
- Blow bubbles
- Dance
- Play hide and go seek
- Play I Spy
- Play jacks
- Play Marco Polo
- Paint
- Make and fly paper airplanes
- Plan a party (NOT a birthday party): an art party, a bug party, a baking party, a water party (sprinklers squirt guns etc.) ... be creative! Invite a few friends and think up related activities.
- Plan a trip somewhere and research what you could do there
- Train a pet to do something new
- Act out a play or story
- Do one of the projects you put off until summer
- Read Aloud (my personal favorite)
- Scavenger hunt
- Tie-dye T-shirts (or Daddy's underwear!)
- Do a paid job (Ask mom for a list)
Indoor Activities
- Fill a large plastic bin with different shaped dry pastas dry beans rice whatever you can buy least expensively. Give them cups and "sand" toys and you have a winter alternative to the sandbox. (Spread a sheet under the bin they will get it everywhere then you can just gather up the sheet and dump it back in the bin.)
- Books on tape and stuff like that from the library.
- Camp in the house. One of our tents can be set up without the stakes so we have camp outs in the living room and make smores in the microwave. You can always drape a blanket over a table.
- Make a tower from paper cups as tall as you can. Then remove the bottom piece and watch it tumble.
- Subscribe or go to Family Fun's website. They always have a ton of creative ideas to try!
- Invite some friends over
- Learn something new together.... A foreign language, an instrument, how to sew, candle making, jewelry making, typing, etc.....
- Think up 100 things you can do besides watch TV
- Ask a question and find the answer
- Go to McDonald's playland and get a soda for the morning.
- Movie night - a special night a week where we rent a kid-friendly movie and eat popcorn.
- Take a nap (you can always try)
- Make a teepee
- Let them sort your spools of thread or stick pins into your pin cushion (if you think he wouldn't hurt himself).
- Write on a white board we all like that!
- Make your own word search puzzles
- Make a book of favorite animals, trees, bugs, etc.
- Kids' Aerobics Video.
- Play basketball with the Little Tikes basketball hoop.
- Line up cans etc and get a ball and bowl
- Go to the local appliance store and get large refrigerator boxes etc and make big forts (similar to McDonald's playland...okay use your imagination). The kids can have hours of fun running through them turning off the lights and using flashlights getting dad to play monster and even sleeping in them. You can also decorate them with paint or turn them into cars etc. My kids love to "invent" stuff out of them. I have even seen playhouses made that include curtains wallpaper etc. Check your local library for "The Great Big Box Book" by Flo Ann Hedley Norvell.
- Play chase
- Chin up bar we put it in one of the boy's rooms. This also helps to get out energy. - Diane
- Set up an obstacle course in the living room or the basement using chairs with pillows over them (kids crawled under) different things to make circles they could step in with different feet a jump rope and a mini-trampoline.
- Play racquetball in the garage or cellar (as long as you don't mind ball marks all over your walls)
- Have an indoor "snowball" fight. Divide; give each one a stack of newspapers yell go and they have to wad up the sheets of newspaper into "snowballs" and throw them. Great fun! Last part is seeing who can gather the most balls into a trash bag!
- Jump on a mini trampoline
- Clean out a drawer
- Clean the house fold laundry do dishes vacuum the rug... - Hee Hee
- Mend
- Help a child re-organize or decorate his/her room
- Let them sort your canned goods or jello boxes.
- Plan a treasure hunt
- Do a craft
- Use large dry beans (limas etc.) and school glue and let him glue beans onto heavy paper or old folders. (You could dribble out a line of glue in the shape of something fun--a car for example--and then let him press the beans onto it.)
- Save boxes and containers then give them a roll of foil and duct tape and let them create.
- Make & send a card to someone who needs encouragement
- Start a new collection of something (besides dust :o)
- Color
- Make and color paper dolls
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