Fun Indoor Activities for Kids

Have Fun in the Kitchen

Find some cookery books, let the kids choose a simple recipe and work together on making dinner, desserts, snacks or cakes. The older ones can do the main cooking, and the younger ones can do the measuring or decorating.

Learn Biology with Mini Worm Farm

Get a large clear plastic container, some soil, leaves, a little sand, and some bits of vegetables to create the farm. Dig up some earthworms. Fill the container with loose layers of soil and sand, beginning with soil and alternating the layers. Make the soil layers about 4x the size of the sand layers. Also make sure the top layer is soil. 4 or 5 layers should be enough. Drop some small bits of vegetables and leaves on top, and then put the worms in.

Add a lid of some sort, making sure it has air holes. Put the newly created worm farm in a cool dark place for a few days. The worms will tunnel down through the layers, and the kids can see just how good they are at churning up the soil. Please remember to let the worms go when the kids have finished with them.

Making Jewellery

Collect beads, buttons and string in a shoe box. When the kids are bored, bring out the shoe box and let them make necklaces and bracelets. There's bound to be tons of beads and buttons you can salvage from the rag-box. This fun jewelry making is suitable for girls.

Create A Picture

Collect a whole bunch of colorful magazines and some small sheets of cardboard. Give the kids a sheet of cardboard each, some PVA glue and some magazines. Let them rip up and tear the magazines to their hearts content and create mosaic pictures or collages.

Board Games

Board games are always a huge hit, so make sure you have plenty of them handy, everything from the simplest to the most advanced. Come up with new ways of playing the games:

• under a blanket with a torch,
• under the table,
• out in the shed, or even
• with new “home-made” rules etc.

It will add that little bit of excitement to games the kids may be tired of.

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