I am super excited to share with you, 102 Screen-Free Indoor Activities For Kids! It’s taken me a while to compose as I wanted to do a little research to make sure I could provide you with the best possible activities for your family. I have divided them into categories to help you discern the right activity for your children, as well as the right time to present it. Of course, there is always room in our daily schedules for a little bit of family fun!
102 Screen-Free Indoor Activities For Kids
Educational
- read books
- write a journal entry a day
- learn a new life skill like making butter, baking bread, or building a bookcase
- research the history of the house you live in
- do a science experiment
- make paper airplanes in different styles, then see which one consistently flys the furthest
- participate in a sound study, sit in silence and listen…write down what sounds you hear in your home
- learn a new card game
- write a family newspaper
- play dress up and reenact a historical event
- learn to knit or crochet
- write letters to family and friends
- make a bird habitat outside of your kitchen window
- make up a bedtime story and make sure to snuggle up under lots of covers, light a candle
- make a family band
- start an indoor garden from seed
- post a map on a corkboard and stick pins in where ever your family has traveled
- make a family tree
Crafts
- make a cereal box or shoebox panorama
- paint rocks
- make a friendship bracelet
- make a collage out of tissue paper or old magazines
- make beeswax candles
- make your own playdough
- make sock puppets and perform a puppet show
- paint with sponges or potato cutouts
- fingerpaint
- make a plant topiary
- make bookmarks
- draw in the dark, no lights allowed
- make pancake art, this is so much fun!
- start an easy fabric sewing project, start with hand stitching then move to the machine
- draw a self-portrait
- paint the inside of a recycled jar to make a secret treasure chest
- make a Bible character costume
- handprint art
- make a coffee filter wreath
- make door hangers with a personal message for every bedroom door in your home
- make a dollhouse room out of a shoebox, have fun decorating!
- make a time capsule
- make hand-cut snowflakes
Imaginative Play
- Make an indoor fort with couch cushions or under a table
- play dress up
- unplug and have a pioneer day
- play makebelieve…a farmer, a zookeeper, family, teacher, animals
- build with blocks or Lincon Logs
- put on classical music and do free movement dance
- make funny faces at each other
- act out a play
- make a book nook
- break out the play jewelry
- Make a mystery box
- look for 5 things you never noticed before in your home
- shadow play, make animal shapes on a wall
Active
- make an obstacle course, use tape and other objects you have around the house
- set up an indoor scavenger hunt
- make a sensory bin
- have a pillow fight and be careful!
- make indoor hopscotch with painters tape
- have a member of your family lead a self-made exercise class
- build a giant cardboard house
- indoor bowling
- have a dance party
- play cornhole
- make a sock toss game
- play freeze dance
- play with an indoor water bin or in the sink
Service
- take a walk through your home and decide what to donate
- pick a place on a map and pray daily that Jesus would be known in that community
- make a ritual of truthfully, complementing someone in your home once a day
- hide love notes under pillows
- financially support a child in need from an impoverished part of the world
- write thank-you notes
- leave a present in your mailbox for the mailman
- purchase extra food to donate to your local church or food pantry
- take a selfie and send it to a grandparent or family friend
- make a giving jar and place loose change in it every day, donate the money to a favorite charity
- make a gift basket and send it to a missionary you know
- make a prayer jar, write prayer requests on scraps of paper, pray and wait in anticipation for God to answer
- adopt a family pet
- make a loaf of bread or a favorite dessert and deliver it to a neighbor
- send leftover drawings and artwork in the mail to the elderly in your family or church
- make a thankfulness jar
Games
- play I Spy
- play charades
- do a puzzle
- play bingo
- play Simon Says
- play dominoes
- play chess
- do a crossword puzzle or brain teaser
- play “keep the balloon up”
- play hot potato
- play hide and seek
- play “would you rather”?
- play checkers
- play hangman
- play darts
- ask riddles
- play “cats in the cradle” string game
- play 20 questions
- design your own board game and play it
I hope you and your family will make many memories using 102 Screen-Free Indoor Activities For Kids!
Your Turn…
What are your favorite screen-free Indoor family activities?
Blessings,
