Indoor Games for Kids: Turning Boredom into Creativity
When children are forced to stay indoors due to illness or bad weather, it is important to find fun and stimulating activities to prevent them from getting bored and spending too much time in front of the TV or smartphone. Here is a list of creative games to play at home to transform boredom into an opportunity for learning and fun.
Homeschool Essentials: Simple Tools for Big Adventures
To organize fun activities at home, it is useful to have some basic materials available:
- Cut and paste: Paper, scissors and glue are perfect for stimulating children's imagination and creating collages, greeting cards or small works of art.
- Color: Pastels, watercolors, wax crayons, tempera and markers are essential for drawing, coloring and bringing fantasy worlds to life.
- Board games: Forget about digital for a moment and rediscover classic board games such as snakes and ladders, memory, dominoes or puzzles, suitable for children of all ages.
- Children's books: There's nothing better than a good story to stimulate children's imagination and creativity. Read aloud or listen to an audiobook together.
10 Original Ideas for Home Games: Guaranteed Fun
Here are 10 original ideas for games to play at home with children:
- Home Bowling: Use empty milk bottles and tennis balls to create a bowling alley at home.
- Origami: Learn to make origami with colored paper.
- Legume Herbarium: Plant a small herbarium of legumes (beans, lentils) on the wet cotton.
- Characters with egg cartons: Recycle egg cartons to create cute characters.
- Made up stories: Make up a story together, telling a little bit of it in turns. One finishes and the other begins where the first left off.
- One-two-three-star: Play "One-two-three-star", a classic game to play with children, also suitable for indoor spaces.
- Magical refuge: Build a magical shelter out of chairs and blankets that transforms with your imagination into a castle, a fort or anything else you can imagine.
- Walking the tightrope: Draw a thread on the floor with colored tape and ask the child to walk on the thread. Increase the difficulty by asking to walk with eyes closed or on one leg.
- Shooting range: Play a game of shooting with ping pong balls and containers of various sizes.
- Castle of books: Build a castle out of books, tomato boxes, or any other object that lends itself.