These indoor games work well on rainy days, at preschool or for a calm afternoon at home.
Indoor Treasure Hunt is a screen-free birthday game for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Musical Chairs is a screen-free birthday game for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Pass the Parcel is a screen-free birthday game for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Fishing Pond is a screen-free birthday game for children aged 3–8. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Sock Bowling is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 2–8. 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.
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.
Paper Plane Contest is a screen-free creative activity for children aged 4–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Red Light, Green Light is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Simon Says is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Bridge, Bridge, Bright Bridge is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 4–8. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
The Bear Is Sleeping is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 3–7. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Blind Man's Buff is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 5–10. It works well indoors or outdoors and can be adapted to the group.
Dodgeball is a screen-free outdoor game for children aged 7–12. It works well outdoors 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.
Word Guessing Game is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Charades 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.
Balloon Game is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Newspaper Dance is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Limbo is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
The Floor Is Lava is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 3–10. 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.
Musical Stop with Challenges is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–10. 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.
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.
Rhythm Journey 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.
Sock Pairs on the Go is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 4–10. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Cup Tower Builders is a screen-free indoor activity for children aged 5–12. It works well indoors and can be adapted to the group.
Animal Track Course is a screen-free group activity for children aged 3–7. It works well at preschool or school and can be adapted to the group.
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.
Bake a simple cake together and divide measuring, mixing and decorating into clear jobs.
Plan a meal with two to four courses and give each child primary responsibility for one course with support from an adult.
Create a trail of word puzzles and codes for small teams to solve at stations indoors or outdoors.