Best 10 Fun Indoor Games For Kids At School

Materials: Flour and two edible prizes.

Instructions:

1. Pour flour into a large bowl, along with a prize.
2. Compact the flour and turn it out onto a flat surface.
3. Lightly balance a prize on top of the “mountain.”
4. Each child takes turns cutting away a slice of the mountain.
5. If the prize on top falls, they are out. Replace the prize.
6. When only one player is left, they have to find the second prize in the flour, with their hands behind their back.

Materials: Books of mazes or maze printouts, pens, a hat, scarf, and gloves for each player.

Instructions:

1. Each player is given a copy of the same maze book or five maze printouts. The clothing items are put in one big pile at the opposite end of the room.
2. The timekeeper shouts “Go!” and the kids start working their way through the maze.
3. When they get to the end of a maze, the child runs to the pile of clothes, selects one item, puts it on, and runs back to their mazes.
4. The first player to complete the fifth maze wins.

Materials: Pen and paper.

Instructions:

1. Before the game begins, write down several words or phrases on separate pieces of paper. Fold the paper pieces and drop them into a pot. If you need inspiration, check out our charades post for ideas.
2. One player takes a slip of paper out of the pot and has to mime the word or phrase to the other players.
3. Whoever gets the word takes over and mimes the next word.

Variations:

1. Play in teams and time the mime. If the player’s team guesses the word correctly before the time is up, they get a point. If they don’t get the word in time, the other team guesses and, if they are right, they get the point.
2. Purchase a pre-made charades game.

Materials: Lots of socks.

Instructions:

1. Split everyone into two teams.
2. Put a line down the center of the room and put one team on each side.
3. Ball up socks and put an equal number of socks on each side.
4. Set a timer, and players must throw their socks onto the other team’s side of the room.
5. When the timer goes off, players stop and whichever team has the fewest socks on their side, wins.

Variations:

1. Don’t use a timer. Instead, the first team to get all of their socks onto the other side wins.
2. Use crinkled-up balls of newspaper or stuffed toys instead of socks.

Materials: All you need is players.

Instructions:

1. One player makes a random movement, such as a jump or a wave.
2. The next player makes the same movement, then adds one of their own.
3. The third player makes the first, then the second movement, and adds one of their own, and so on.
4. The first player to get the chain wrong is out.

Variations:

1. Limit the types of movements that can be made, by implementing rules such as you can’t add a movement with your left hand.
2. Rather than the person to the left going next, the mover nominates another, random player.

Materials: A blindfold for each player and some wrist bells.

Instructions:

1. Every player, except one, is blindfolded.
2. The last player has bells attached to their wrists and ankles.
3. The blindfolded players have to catch “it.”
4. When a player catches “it,” they hand over their blindfold and have the bells attached, and carry on.

Materials: Large bar of chocolate, knife and fork, gloves, hat, scarf, and a die.

Instructions:

1. Unwrap the bar of chocolate and place it on a tray or large plate, along with the knife and fork.
2. Everyone sits in a circle, with the chocolate in the center.
3. The first person rolls the die.
4. If they get a six, they go to the center of the circle, put on the hat, scarf, and gloves, and start eating the chocolate with the knife and fork.
5. If they do not throw a six, that person passes the die to the next player, who then throws it, and so on.
6. Each time someone throws a six, they go into the center and take over from the person eating, who then goes to sit down again.

Variations:

1. Use mittens instead of gloves, which makes it harder to eat the chocolate.