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100 Indoor Activities For Kids (Updated)

100 Indoor Activities For Kids (Updated)

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It’s raining or snowing, but your kid needs to get their energy out.

If you are cooped up inside with your kids, don’t fret! There are several boredom busters that you can create (screen-free!) for your kids to get their wiggles out and creative juices flowing. If your kids are screaming, they are bored… here are many awesome indoor activities for kids!

That’s when boredom busters come in handy!

This list includes games, activities, and crafts your children will enjoy. Your children don’t have to become addicted to screens. These activities are great and engaging for all ages. Whether your child likes games or crafts, you will be able to find something to entertain them with.


Have you ever been tempted to grab a box of chocolates and hide in the bathroom until bedtime?

You’ve been there too, haven’t you, momma? Sitting in the middle of your floor, surrounded by baskets of laundry begging to be folded. And it’s not like this laundry is fresh out of the dryer. No, ma’am. Those baskets have been sitting there for five days straight, mocking you.

You look over to see your dirty dishes piling out of the sink. Your oldest child sits at the table impatiently waiting for you to help her with schoolwork. Next to you sits your youngest child, begging you to play a game with her, laying the guilt trip on strong.

You glance at the refrigerator and remember you forgot to plan something for dinner.

It’s almost 5 o’clock, and bedtime feels too far away.

Chaos. It’s all you feel. Where is peace? Is creating a peaceful home even a reality anymore?

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100 Awesome Bored Busters For Your Kids

1. Break out the play-doh

2. Pull out your board games

3. Try yoga

4. Make homemade play-doh

5. make homemade slime

6. create an obstacle course

7. Create an indoor fort

8. Learn how to create a stop-action video

9. Bake a new treat

10. Draw a self-portrait

11. Play hot potato

12. Start a new chapter book

13. Play red light, green light

14. Play Mother May I

15. Play Tic Tac Toe with Tape

16. Have a Pillow Fight

17. Have a dance Party

18. Make paper airplanes and have a contest

19. Have a shape contest

20. Play “Going on a camping trip.”

21. Play animal charades

22. Play freeze dance

23. Make paper bag puppets

24. Play keep the balloon up

25. Put on a puppet show

26. Have a tea party

27. Make salt dough

28. Make sun catchers

29. Make an easy paper plate craft

30. Color rice

31. Make a sensory bin

32. Make sand dough

33. Make a bird feeder

34. Make friendship bracelets

35. Make a cereal box monster

36. Make cloud dough

37. Go on a color scavenger hunt

38. Grow a rainbow

39. Play Easter egg rescue

40. Make straw rockets

41. Make coffee filter butterflies

42. Paint with ice

43. Make a giant nail salon

44. Play with bubble foam

45. Make a kid-friendly volcano

46. Paint with bubbles

47. Create a marble race

48. Play Simon says

49. Play tape hopscotch

50. Make a pompom shooter

51. Play bowling with cups

52. Play balloon swat

53. Make bean bags

54. Play bean bag games

55. Play with shaving cream

56. Build a large tower

57. Build a building with magnets

58. Play connect four

59. Create a mini basketball court

60. Make pipe cleaner animals

61. Research your favorite animal

62. Break out the puzzles

63. Start a journal

64. Make a craft stick ballerina

65. Create snowflakes out of torn paper

66. Make a paper roll dog

67. Make a no-sew sock bunny

68. Create egg carton animals

69. Paint with q-tips

70. Make a calm-down jar

71. Stamp with forks

72. Paint pet rocks

73. Paint pet cacti

74. Make a coffee filter rainbow

75. Create a Kaleidoscope

76. Learn to knit

77. Make DIY coasters

78. DIY fairy garden

79. Make a clothespin grasshopper

80. Make an “I’m bored” jar

81. Play ring toss

82. Play Minute to Win It

83. Have an apple bobbing contest

84. Make big dice

85. Play a Nerf target game

86. Make balloon rockets

87. Create a straw maze

88. Play target golf

89. Play laundry basket skee ball

90. Make an ice and water sensory bin

91. Make a ball ramp

92. Create a galaxy jar

93. Sort fruit loops

94. Sticker Sorting

95. Make a sticky wall

96. Play number sort with balls

97. Make a flour bin

98. Make a gravel pit

99. Have a movie day

100. Make a bubble pop road

101. Build a chair out of newspaper

Never hear “I’m bored again!” These boredom busters can help get your child’s creative juices flowing and creating.

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