Screen-Free Indoor Play Ideas for Kids

• Do a puzzle
• Make silly faces
• Jump rope
• Flick rubber bands across the room
• Dance
• Make a blanket fort
• Make something with cardboard boxes
• Bounce a bouncy ball
• Build with blocks
• Play Go Fish
• Pet the cat or dog
• Look at your clothes labels to see where they were made
• Draw
• Invent a superhero

• Coloring
• Paint something beautiful
• Paint something ugly
• Decorate a cake
• Ask your family about their heritage
• Make foil jewelry
• Blow a feather into the air and keep it up
• Interview your family about anything
• Look up the inventor of a household object
• Make up a dance
• Listen to audio books
• Play Twister
• Do paper crafts
• Read

• Make a new world with toys
• Point to a country on a world map and find music or a book from there
• Learn sign language
• Do yoga
• Make finger puppets
• Do the hoola hoop
• Play restaurant
• Write a poem
• Make birthday cards
• Pick a random place on a map and learn about it
• Build with blocks
• Make a snow globe
• Learn a new dance from around the world
• Build with Legos

• Make shadow figures with your hands
• Make a bean mosaic
• Hop like a frog
• Smell the spices in your cabinet and describe them
• Color in a coloring book
• Play Uno
• Make your own puzzle from cardboard
• Have a crazy hair contest
• Plant some seeds in pots
• Make a mummy from toilet paper
• Learn some magic tricks
• Make a Slinky go down the stairs
• Do a fashion show
• Play balloon volleybal

• Play hospital
• Pick a country you’ve never heard of and cook something from there
• Have an indoor picnic
• Invent a secret language
• Make a tin can phone
• Build a plane or train with chairs
• Bang on pots and pans
• Make a scrapbook
• Do a word search
• Take a bubble bath
• Make a fairy house
• Take apart a broken appliance
• Make a macaroni necklace
• Do a maze

• Play dress up
• Write a letter
• Observe bugs
• Do a Dot to Dot
• Sew something
• Scavenger hunt
• Invent a toy
• Zumba
• Draw a self portrait
• Invent a game
• Write a letter
• Make crepes
• Do a Dot to Dot
• Sew something

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• Arrange your toys from smallest to biggest
• Draw your ideal world
• Paint
• Play 21 Questions
• Make something with clay
• Sing
• Play an instrument
• Skip
• Have a tea party
• Do cartwheels
• Make something with pipecleaners
• Pop bubble wrap
• Call your grandparents, cousins, etc.
• Spin a top

• Try to find out what things are made of
• Make sock puppets
• Paint rocks
• Make an obstacle course
• Plot an imaginary trip on a world map or globe
• Build a time capsule
• Make a kaleidoscope
• Draw your mood
• Play Twister
• Blow bubbles in water with a straw
• Do paper mache
• Start a stamp collection
• Have a staring contest
• Listen to music

• Play school
• Make paper planes
• Bake cookies
• Make a super hero cape
• Play Hide and Seek
• Learn a new language
• Put on a play
• Make paper bag puppets
• Learn hieroglyphics
• Map all the places you want to visit
• Play vets office
• Write and illustrate a story book
• Have a parade
• Celebrate a world holiday

• Make a wallet out of duct tape
• Perform a concert
• Have an indoor campout
• Make shadow animals
• Build a road for toy cars with tape
• Walk like a crab
• Have a puppet show
• Build something with boxes
• Walk like a bear
• Play Simon Says
• Do thumb wrestling
• Write a song
• Have a pillow fight
• Paint rocks

• Make a wallet out of duct tape
• Perform a concert
• Have an indoor campout
• Make shadow animals
• Build a road for toy cars with tape
• Walk like a crab
• Have a puppet show
• Build something with boxes
• Walk like a bear
• Play Simon Says
• Do thumb wrestling
• Write a song
• Have a pillow fight
• Paint rocks

• Make a scrap book
• Look at old family photos
• Make a domino chain reaction
• Draw family portraits
• Cook a family recipe
• Cook a new cuisine
• Write a letter
• Do a face mask
• Do finger paint
• Do sit ups
• Play post office
• Do push ups
• Doodle
• Write a story

• Do a scavenger hunt
• Invent a toy
• Zumba
• Draw a self portrait
• Invent a game
• Play charades
• Watch an international movie
• Wash the dog
• Observe bugs
• Make egg drop soup
• Have a fashion show
• Hopscotch w/tape lines

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