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A Few Ideas to do Inside!
Sometimes it isn’t always feasible to do activities with your child outside, due to the weather, allergies, or illness. You may also be having money problems so sometimes doing fun activities can be hard. Listed below is a list of cheap indoor activities that you and your child can take part in.
List of Indoor Activities
- 1. Cook and bake with your child. Kids love to have the opportunity to do things with you. Helping in the kitchen is a great option to consider when looking for some cheap activities to do. Making pie crusts, pizza, and biscuits can be some of the most fun things for kids, because they enjoy the feeling of the squeezing of dough through their fingers.
- 2. Make roads for toy cars using colored tape on floors. This activity will keep your child busy by playing with their toy cars on the makeshift “road” you built for them. It will keep them busy for hours and is a very cheap entertainment idea that takes little time in making.
- 3. Have fun with arts and crafts. For many kids, finger painting and coloring is a great activity to do to fill their time. It can obviously be messy so ensure that if painting, you put some old newspaper down on your table to prevent messes and any hassle.
- 4. Play some board games. This is especially cheap if you already own some board games to play. This type of activity can be a lot of fun and is a great opportunity to bond with your child.
- 5. Transform an old box into a slide. If you have a set of stairs and a big enough box, simply take the box apart and lay it flat on the set of stairs. This will act as a fun slide for your child to slide down on and is a very cheap alternative to purchasing a playground. Be sure though, that if you do decide to make this type of a slide, you’re careful that no one gets hurt. Ensure that there isn’t anything your child can bump into on the way down or any other dangers that could be looming.
- 6. Make some tie-dyed t-shirts. This activity can be cheap if you have any plain t-shirts that you aren’t wearing. All that you may need to buy is the dye for the shirts. This activity is a fun thing to do with each other and is something that, once the shirt is dry, can be worn together.
- 7. Make a fort. Drape some blankets and pillows over some chairs in the living room and make a fort. Then have a picnic lunch inside your fort.
Mother Nature & Contentment
Sometimes Mother Nature has different plans for us, so having some fun things to do indoors is a bonus. It’s an even bigger bonus when the things you do inside are fun, cheap, and offer you the opportunity to bond with your loved ones. These activities can provide hours of creative entertainment for even the tightest of family budgets.
I love the slide idea! I’ve never thought to do it with boxes!
I remember as kids going down in laundry baskets or on sleeping bags lol.
When I was a nanny, arts and crafts was a big hit on a rainy day. They also had these cool markers made specifically for drawing on windows. So they had fun with that as well!
Forts were my favorite as a kid. Probably the introvert in me now that I think about it. Making roads with tape is a great and easy idea!
Thank you. All great tips on what to do when you really can not go out with kids.
Great ideas! My kids love playing in cardboard boxes! We make them into all kinds of toys and games!
Great ideas! Of course, I’m partial to cooking and baking with the kids, they love it and in the process, they learn a lot about science and math! Thank you for the ideas for our now grandkids too. 🙂
Great list of fun things to do! I love the slide and fort idea! Thanks for sharing these!
This brings me back to my days as a teacher :). Great ideas.
Yes, yes, yes – making a fort is so great. My kids loved that – ad in some microwave s’mores and you’re camping!
We used to pull out all of our socks and have sock fights! I swear, we never broke anything!
I did these types of things all the time with my kids when I was home schooling, and we had so much fun! They grow up so fast, and as adults, we sometimes forget how to play. All of these things help us reconnect with our inner child too. Great post!
What great ideas. Winter can so challenging when the weather doesn’t let you get outdoors to play.
These are great ideas! I love the one about making a road on the floor with colored tape. I remember my son playing with his toy cars for hours and this would have made it even more entertaining. Thank you for the inspiration.
Such a great time to have a good list of stuff to do indoors! My son always says he is bored, so I need to have a list like this for those days!
Great list of indoor activities! Kids love to make forts!
These are great ideas…and bring back a lot of memories!
Great ideas! My little one is 1 and there’s a foot of snow outside so we are always looking for fun things to do indoors.
What a fun list! My little one is 1 and there’s a foot of snow outside so we are always looking for fun things to do indoors!
Great ideas! My daughter loves board games and baking most, but she’s always down for crafts, too.
Fun ideas! Your post brings back happy memories of when my kids were young! I have grandkids now. We will have to have an indoor play day. 😊
Baking cookies is one of my favorite indoor activities. Well, all baking in general. Great tips!
I love this! We love to play forts at our house. One time on a rainy day when I was about 10, I was visiting a friends house. Our Mom’s got to talking so we, decided to take couch cushions and use them to slide down a flight of well-varnished wood stairs. We did this for hours until we accidentally knocked the antique wooden clock at the bottom of the stairs over. It taught our moms that they might need to keep a little more watch on us, and it taught me to always have a rainy day plan when I had kids! LOL. Thanks for sharing these great ideas!
This quite a is a fun list! We enjoy cooking and board games. Using tape on the floor to create play areas is certainly creative!
Great ideas! My favorite growing up and then doing with my boys was building a fort or playing train with the dining room chairs. I am now doing the same with my grandson. It’s great! Great post. Thanks.
Great ideas – if I were to have grandkids and we were indoors…. I’d love the cooking/baking and crafts!
Oh, I love these ideas! Makes me miss my kids being young. 🙂
Pretty great list! Love all the ideas
I always did tie-dye in the summer. Never thought of it as an indoor activity but it totally can be! Great idea.
Oh, my goodness. I can remember doing so many of these with my boys when they were little. Ah – the memories! This is a great list!
We are big on the baking and arts and crafts in our house. It is a long winter here.