50 Things To Do With Your Kids Indoors

1. Have an indoor picnic.

2. Build a fort out of blankets (use chairs, couches, yarn- anything to hold up the blankets!).

3. Make sock puppets (check out our tutorials for monster puppets and sock puppets!).

4. Finger paint with pudding.

5. Playdough- use rolling pins and cookie cutters.

6. Dance PARTY–dance to your favorite songs.

7. Have a tea party.

8. Read nursery rhymes.

9. Make your own indoor hopscotch with masking tape on carpet/wood.

10. Pedicures.

11. Play school–have the child be the teacher.

12. Make a letter book. Let the kids take a picture of something that starts with each letter of the alphabet.

13. Look at photo albums.

14. Make a movie of yourselves, then watch it.

15. Paint with water colors.

16. Play Barbies.

17. Play with matchbox cars (check out our $5 Rain Gutter Race Track and Car Caddy!).

18. Play board games (my kids love Candy Land!).

19. Color with crayons. Take off the wrapper and see the different ways you can color with them.

20. Make paper bag puppets.

21. Watch a movie and eat popcorn.

22. Go on a treasure hunt.

23. Bake cookies.

24. Play dress-up.

25. Make paper hats.

26. Make a healthy snack.

27. Make a relay race or obstacle course in your house–be creative!

28. Play hide and seek.

29. Indoor snowball fight with socks.

30. Build a fort out of cardboard boxes and duct tape.

31. Make plans and invitations for a party.

32. Play tic-tac-toe.

33. Make your own puzzle out of poster board or cardstock, color and cut it out.

34. Make your own matching game.

35. Swim in the kitchen–put down a tarp, fill up a little kiddie pool with warm water and let them play for hours!

36. Make Valentine's décor.

37. Make a car track all around your house with masking tape.

38. Play "Monster in the Middle." Pillows are “safe” the carpet is the “lava.” Jump from pillow to pillow and if the monster touches you, you are in the middle.

39. Apple stamps. Cut an apple in half horizontal and use it as a stamp using washable paint.

40. Make lacing cards with their favorite cereal boxes.

41. Learn a new song.

42. Create a giant dot-to-dot with poster board.

43. Make homemade Valentine's.

44. Make a necklace with yarn, beads or Fruit Loops.

45. Have a talent show.

46. Cut paper snowflakes.

47. Make a paper countdown chain to Valentine's Day or an upcoming birthday by cutting strips of paper and stapling them together.

48. Hard noodles, Elmer’s glue, and paper… need I say more?

49. Marble racing. Take 2 of your swimming pool water noodles and prop them on the stairs. Race marbles down the middle of them. The hole is a perfect size for a marble.

50. Sculpt clay, let it dry, then paint.