100+ Indoor Activities for Kids

Looking for fun indoor activities for kids (of all ages) that will actually keep them entertained? Whether you’re stuck inside because of a rainy day, cold weather, school break, or you simply need something new to do at home, this list has you covered.

I’ve rounded up 100+ fun indoor activities for kids, including easy crafts, games, creative projects, learning activities, movement ideas, and screen-free ways to play. There are ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, school-age kids, and activities siblings can enjoy together.

Many of these indoor kids activities use things you already have around the house and require little to no prep. So when you hear “I’m bored!” for the tenth time, bookmark this list and pick something new to try.

100+ Indoor Activities for Kids

Activities

1. Give your Dolls a Haircut.
2. Build a Book Rainbow.
3. Make Ice Cream.
4. Make a Smoothie.
5. Have a Tea Party.
6. Make a Journal.
7. Turn your Salad Spinner into the best toy.
8. Make a DIY Ball Ramp.
9. Have an Indoor Picnic.
10. Take a fun Bath.
11. Make a Robot from LEGO and cardboard.
12. Have a Dance Party.
13. Make a car mechanics station with cardboard.
14. Make Bread in a Bag.
15. Trace Your Body with LEGO.
16. Make An Aquarium
17. Play Paper Towel Roll Dominoes.
18. Make a Book Drop.
19. Make Air Dry Clay.
20. One-Room Museum: Choose a theme, create exhibits from household objects, write labels, and give family members a museum tour.
21. Cardboard City Planning Challenge: Design a miniature town complete with roads, parks, shops, homes, and public buildings.
22. Invent-a-Holiday Day: Kids create a brand-new holiday, including traditions, decorations, food, and a holiday song.
23. Restaurant Creator: Invent a restaurant, design its logo and menu, set prices, and take pretend orders.
24. Household Fashion Designer: Design wearable creations from paper, newspaper, ribbon, or recyclable materials.
25. Family Newspaper: Report on the day’s breaking news, weather, sports, interviews, and funny family stories.

Sensory Play

1. Make Play Dough.
2. Make with Oobleck.
3. Make Silly Putty.
4. Rescue Snowball.
5. Play Balloon Tennis.
6. Make a LEGO Snowflake.
7. Feed the Penguins.
8. Make a Hungry Caterpillar Sensory Bin.
9. Make a Hot Chocolate Sensory Bag.
10. Make Salt Dough.
11. Make Cloud Dough.
12. Make Fake Snow.
13. Make a Rainbow in a Bag.
14. Make Taste-Safe Kinetic Sand.
15. Feed the Farm Animals.
16. Make Bubble Foam.
17. Play Snowball Pick Up.
18. Make a Bubble Wrap Road.
19. Do Blow Painting.
20. Do Mega Block Jumping.
21. Make a Farm Sensory Bag.
22. Make Stress Balls.
23. Feed the Caterpillars.
24. Build Snowman Towers indoors.

Crafts

1. Make a Bug Hotel.
2. Make a Giant Nail Salon
3. Make a Snack Necklace.
4. Make Straw Flower Vase.
5. Make a Guitar.
6. Trace and color in Dolls.
7. Make a cardboard Castle.
8. Paint with Ice.
9. Make a Dinosaur.
10. Make a Fairy Door.
11. Make a cardboard Marble Run.
12. Make Pasta Jewelry.
13. Make cotton pad Ice Cream.
14. Make a DIY Weaving Board.
15. Make a Bird Feeder.
16. Make a Watermelon Garland.
17. Draw a Self Portrait.
18. Make Your Own Superhero Mask.
19. Make a Teddy Bear Pouch.
20. Paint with Bubbles.
21. Make a Pet Bird.
22. Paint Lines.
23. Make a Nature Wish Catcher.
24. Make Puffy Paint.
25. Make Farm Animal Puppets.
26. Make a Fairy House.

Science

1. Make Baking Soda Volcano.
2. Make homemade Glowing the Dark Slime.
3. Make a Lava Lamp.
4. Make Invisible Ink with Turmeric.
5. Make Fizzy Ice.
6. Make Wiggly Worms.
7. Make an Exploding Pumpkin.
8. Make Invisible Ink with Lemons.
9. Play Sink or Float.
10. Soundproofing Experiment: Put a ringing timer or sound-making object inside boxes lined with different materials and compare which reduces the sound most.

Educational

1. Make a Shapes Parking Lot.
2. Paint Your Name with Sponges.
3. Practice Letters with Dot Sticker Ladybug.
4. Trace Letters with a Q-Tip.
5. Grocery Store Math Lab: Use pantry items to practice prices, addition, subtraction, budgeting, and making change.
6. Dictionary Detective: Pick an unusual word and have kids invent fake definitions before revealing the real one.
7. Measure the House: Predict and then measure doors, tables, rugs, toys, and rooms.
8. Design Your Dream School: Create classrooms, schedules, subjects, rules, menus, and a school map.

Games

1. Try a fun Brain Teaser.
2. Make a Giant Dot & Boxes.
3. Play a Board Game.
4. Floor Is a Number: Label safe landing spots with numbers and call out math problems; kids must jump to the answer.
5. What’s Missing?: Display 10–20 objects, let kids study them, secretly remove one, and have them identify what’s gone.
6. Indoor Curling: Slide plastic lids toward a taped target on a smooth floor.
7. Sock Target Tournament: Roll socks into balls and create targets worth different numbers of points.
8. Copycat Builder: One player secretly builds something with blocks while giving verbal instructions for another player to recreate it without looking.

Free Printable: 100 Indoor Activities for Kids

Need an easy way to keep all these ideas handy? I created a printable list of 100 indoor activities for kids that you can save for rainy days, snow days, school breaks, weekends, or anytime the kids start saying, “I’m bored!”

The printable includes a mix of indoor games, educational activities, creative projects, science experiments, STEM challenges, and screen-free activities for kids. There are plenty of simple ideas that use things you probably already have at home, along with activities that encourage kids to create, move, experiment, and learn.

Print the list and hang it on the fridge, keep it with your kids’ craft supplies, or add it to a family activity binder. When you need something to do indoors, have the kids choose a number from 1–100 and see what activity they get!

Tip: You can even turn the printable into an “I’m Bored” challenge. Close your eyes, point to an activity, and that’s the one you have to try!

100 Indoor Activities for Kids

Get the printable list here.

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Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers

There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!

But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.

Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.

Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again! 

These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!

Click here for more information: Play2Learn

Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids

Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon. 

Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.

Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.

Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids

Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more. 

Find out more and grab your copy here.

Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.

Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids

Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.

• 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
• Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
• Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.

Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!

Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.