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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