Fun Indoor Activities for Kids

Below are some great ideas for fun indoor activities for kids. These fun indoor activities for kids are easy and inexpensive for parents to do with their children. Most of the are free ways to keep your kids occupied, bond with your kids and have fun.

Tell a Story or Create a Story

Parents can read and discuss a book or a chapter of a book with their kids. Parents can make up their own endings to make the stories more exciting and unpredictable. You can even make up your own stories by sitting the kids in a ring and letting them "add a sentence". You will be surprised at how good the stories end up to be. Kids are usually very creative.

Painting on Giant Easel

Painting is usually a fun indoor activity for kids. 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 kids paints, crayons, chalks pens etc and let them create their own frieze. The little ones reach the bottom, whilst the big ones can reach up to the top.

Making Fun Wax Creations

Give the kids their old, wax crayon stubs and let them make shavings from them with a butter knife onto a piece of wax paper. When they're done, carefully take their creations to the ironing board, lay another piece of wax paper on top, and briefly press with a warm iron. Let the kids watch as the colors melt together. Put them on the table to cool down and harden.

Play Dressing Up with Old Clothes

Sort through all of your old clothes. There's bound to be something that doesn't fit, or isn't in fashion and that you're too embarrassed to take to a charity shop. If you haven't got anything at all ask your friends and family. Get 2 cardboard boxes, one for "dress up" clothes, and one for rags. Fill the "dress up" box with the most outrages clothes, and cut up the other clothes for the "rags" box. Let the kids play "dress up", or let them create things with the rags. Kids love to be creative and they will have hours and hours of fun with them.

Making Finger Puppets and Putting On a Puppet Show

Let the kids make finger puppets from paper, help them to create a "show" with a script and characters. Build up a few boxes stuck together with packing tape, make the top one have an opening at the front and hang up a curtain (you can use rags from the rag-box for this). Let the kids practice until they feel really confident then invite a few friends or family members over to watch the "show".

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