It can be tricky to find indoor activities to entertain your kids on a rainny day! We all know how difficult it can be when you and your kids are stuck indoors while your kids have no space to run around and end up bouncing off the walls. Luckily there are in fact many rainy day activities you can occupy your kids. If you are looking for fun rainly day activities both you and your kids can enjoy, you have come to the right place. We have put together a list of 35 things you can do with your kids on a rainy day at home!
35 Rainy Day Activities You and Your Kids Can Enjoy At Home
1. Play board games!
Playing board games is a great activity for kids as it can be done with family members and it doesn’t involve a screen!
2. Play hide and seek
Make sure all children are familiar with the area that the game will be played in. Also you should make sure that the boundaries are well marked. Never let children play where they can get stuck, trapped, take a fall or be injured when hiding or seeking.
3. Do some bakings
Here are some of the easiest things to bake at home: Banana Bread, Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Blueberry Streusel Muffins, Almond Flour Cookies and Homemade Crackers.
4. Play drawing games
Pictionary is the draw and guess game you can play with your kids. All you need is some paper and pencils, plus some drawing prompts. Then divide yourself up into teams and take turns guessing what your teammates are drawing.
5. Decorate their rooms
Instead of decorating your child’s room yourself, you can give them the freedom to create his or her own environment is an effective way of making him or her feel comfortable in his or her own space.
6. Paint some rocks
If you are doing it the first time, patio paint or acrylic paint are the two best options for painting on rocks as they will stick well to most type of rock surface.
7. Make fruit pops
Not sure where to start? Frozen fruit drinks, fruit juices or smoothie can be turned into popsicles by blending the ingredients in the blender until smooth then poured into molds and frozen.
8. Lego building contest
Here are of some of the challenges you can try. 1) Build a boat that floats, 2) Build your name in LEGO, 3) Build something in one minute, 4) Build a LEGO pizza, 5) Build something by following the instructions of a partner.
9. Play card games
There are many card games you can play however you should pick based on your child’s age and make sure it is easy (and fun!) for them to play.
10. Make your own photo album
You can create your covers with a decorative heavy paper and album pages with solid sheets of paper. If you don’t want to glue photos onto the pages, you can use photo mount squares on each of the photo’s corners to ensure that they are secure on their respective pages.
11. Make a pizza
12. Do some knitting
13. Face painting
14. Set up a home cinema (movie marathon)
15. Go online!
16. Read a book
17. Jigsaw puzzles!
18. Learn to do magic tricks
19. Make an escape room at home
20. Listen to a story podcast
21. Get active with video games!
22. Play chess
23. Relax with yoga
24. Tie dye old clothes
25. Do some science experiments
26. Dance party
27. Make a pen pot
28. Virtual tour i.e virtual museums
29. Try VR (virtual reality)
30. Make handmade jewellery
31. Have a picnic in your living room
32. Make a bucket list of things they want to do this year
33. Day spa at home
34. Camping at home
35. Have an indoor treasure hunt