When the group needs a calmer pace, these games bring everyone together without lots of noise or running.
Fishing Pond is a screen-free birthday game for children aged 3–8. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Blanket Fort is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 2–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Kim's Game is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Shadow Theatre is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Car Bingo is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 4–12. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
Twenty Questions is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 4–12. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
Round-robin Story is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 4–12. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
Calm Children's Yoga is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 2–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Massage Story is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 3–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Cardboard Robot is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Telephone Game is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Draw and Guess is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Who Am in? is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 6–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Story Dice is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Homemade Memory is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 3–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Fairy-tale Relay is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Letter Game is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Colour Hunt is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 3–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Stone Balancing is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 4–12. It works well outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Nature Art is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 3–12. It works well outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Bird Bingo is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 5–12. It works well outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Chalk Art is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 3–12. It works well outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Colour Story is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Paper Bridge is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 6–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Paper Figure Workshop is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Sound Painting is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Scribble Workshop is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Pattern Workshop is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Rhymes on the Road is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 5–12. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
The Imagination Suitcase is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 4–10. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
Three Things in the Window is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 4–10. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
The Window Poem is a screen-free travel activity for children aged 6–12. It works well while travelling or waiting and can be adapted to the group.
Secret Pattern is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Sound Map is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Mirror Drawing is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Calm Director is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
One Line at a Time is a screen-free calm activity for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Bring small containers on a berry-picking trip and let the children search, pick and collect at their own pace.
Choose a card game that suits the children's ages and the number of players, then learn it together around a table.
Choose a simple dice game and play a few clear rounds, helping one another with counting and rules.
Visit the library, explore the children's section and let each child choose books to borrow and take home.
Choose a fairy tale, settle somewhere calm and read aloud with short pauses for questions and predictions.