50 indoor activities for kids |

Last Updated on April 18, 2024

Entertaining kids indoors is hard and stressful, but here are 50 indoor activities for kids that you can try, to maintain everyone’s sanity.

Indoor activities for kids

Try some kid and toddler friendly baking recipes, including CBeebies Chocolate Crispy Cakes, Chocolate Brownie Cake, Jam and Coconut Thumbprint Cookies, or anything on this Kid’s Baking Recipes page
Decorate cookies
Make a bus out of a giant cardboard box that your child can sit in and decorate
Make string or pipe cleaner necklaces and bracelets out of Cheerios, pasta, beads, or buttons
Colour in with Crayola Color Wonder Mess Free Colouring or colour on some Post-it notes
Colouring books, stickers
Craft kits, here’s one from HobbyCraft that Ryan has
Have a dance party
Do some Cosmic Kids Yoga
Make a road on a box with some tape and markers, cut a hole at the end of the road so your child can drive their cars into the hole
Draw shapes or animals on photographic paper, then have your child stick coloured mosaic paper onto it with water. After about 30 minutes take the paper off and it looks like the picture has been painted
Have an indoor picnic
Wash toys in the kitchen sink with water and soap
Line up dominos and knock them over
Play with magnetic letters or magnetic numbers on the fridge or heater
Build things with Magna-tiles or wooden blocks
Magnetic dress up kit
Make a cake mug
Make tunnels out of toilet rolls, stick them to the floor and drive cars through them
Make cardboard crowns and put jewels on them
Set up an ice cream sundae station
Put toppings on a pizza base for lunch
Make some slime, here are some homemade slime recipes
Tape markers or pencils to the back of any toy that moves so lines can be drawn on paper when your child plays with them
Make flowers out of popsicle sticks and pom poms
Make paper chain garlands
Make paper plate masks
Play sink or float like Blippi
Play-Doh and Play-Doh sets
Colour shaving cream with food colouring and drive cars, move animals, or write letters and numbers in it
Do puzzles
Paint rocks
Stamp paper
Create an indoor treasure hunt, hiding favourite toys around the house
Draw things using stencils
Do a scavenger hunt
Paint ice
Create an obstacle course
Play in a sandpit
Pretend to water indoor plants
Have an picnic
Play basketball with a mini hoop
Play soccer with a mini goal kit
Create a treasure hunt with favourite toys
Create a pouring station by letting let your child pour water into different shaped containers, bottles and funnels, and add some food colouring to make it fun
Finger painting
Play with water beads
Get drawing
Declutter toys
Paint with paint sticks, or blow bubbles