Best 10 Fun Indoor Games For Kids At Home

Materials: Foam bath letters and Ziploc bags.

Instructions:

1. Ahead of time, freeze each of the foam bath letters in water in a Ziploc bag.
2. Place all of the frozen bags in a dish.
3. Each player takes out a bag and uses a spoon to excavate the letter from the ice.
4. The first person to spell out a four-letter word with the defrosted letters wins.

Variations:

1. Use multiple sets of letters and choose a word everyone must spell.

The reason some board games become classics is simple — people enjoy playing them. These are some top board game picks for those under 7 years old.

• Junior Monopoly — this is a less intense and quicker version of the adult game.
• Chutes And Ladders.
• Candyland.
• Connect 4.
• Eye Found It.

Materials: Photos of family members or friends when they were babies.

Instructions:

1. Lay the baby photos out, face down.
2. The first player picks a photo and has to guess who the person is.
3. If they guess correctly they keep the photo. If not, they place the photo, face down, back to where it came from.
4. The winner is the person with the most photos at the end of the game.

Variations:

1. For older kids, use celebrities’ or other famous people’s baby photos.

Materials: Paper cups, ping-pong balls, and paddles.

Instructions:

1. Tape paper cups, open end up, to random points around the room, and be sure to place them at different heights.
2. Each child takes turns trying to hit a ping-pong ball into a cup.
3. A ball in a cup wins that player one point.
4. The player with the most points wins.

Variations:

1. Players stay at one cup until they get a ball in and then move on to the next cup. The fastest player to get balls in every cup wins.

Materials: Straws, paper, and pens.

Instructions:

1. Each child gets a straw and some paper cut into triangles.
2. Curl the triangles around so they look like tiny, narrow, cone hats.
3. Decorate the cones.
4. Place a cone on the end of the straw and blow to launch your “rocket.”

Variations:

1. Have everyone stand behind a line. The winner is the one whose rocket goes furthest.
2. Stand behind a line and tape targets to the floor. Whoever hits the most targets wins.

Materials: Paper cups and straws.

Instructions:

1. Tape a starting line at one end of the table and a rectangular goal at the other.
2. Players must blow an upturned paper cup from the starting line to the goal.
3. The first person to get three cups into the goal, or any other number of cups you choose, gets to crush the cups.

Materials: This game only requires players.

Instructions:

1. One player is chosen to start.
2. That player begins with any genre of a story like horror, drama, or action, with a sentence beginning with the letter A.
3. The next player carries on the story but must start their sentence with a word that begins with the letter B.
4. The next player starts their sentence with C, and so on.
5. If a player hesitates when it’s their turn or says “Um,” they’re out.

Materials: Magnetic wands and magnets and prizes.

Instructions:

1. Tape small magnets securely to your random prizes, then wrap the prizes in a layer of paper.
2. Tape an area on the floor to serve as the fish pond.
3. Drop all of the wrapped prizes into the “fish pond.”
4. Give each child a wand and let them fish for prizes.

Variation:

1. Fishers must hold their fishing rod between their teeth and fish with hands behind their backs.

Materials: Just the players.

Instructions:

1. The first player says, “I’m going to Grandma’s house and I’m taking a …” and then says an item beginning with A.
2. The next player takes their turn and says, “I’m going to Grandma’s house and I’m taking a…” They repeat the item the first player says and add one of their own beginning with B.
3. The game continues until someone makes a mistake.

Materials: Dice and paper pens.

Instructions:

1. A different bug body part is allocated to each of the numbers on a die. Use head, body, leg, tail, antenna, and eyes.
2. Each player has a pen and paper.
3. The players take turns rolling the dice.
4. They draw the body part that corresponds with the number they roll.
5. Players need six legs, two eyes, two antennae, a body, a head, and a tail.
6. The first player to complete their bug wins.