Highly Enjoyable Indoor Games for Children

 

1. Balancing Beam

This is an easy activity and can be great for younger kids and toddlers and helps them improve motor skills and their balance.

What You Will Need

• Colored tape
• Flat floor space to play

How to Play

• Stick different colored tapes on the floor
• Each colored tape can have a different rule to walk on. For example, you can ask the kid to walk on one leg on the red colored tape
• The child has to walk only on the tape. If he falls off the tape, he’ll be out of the game.
• The child that walks the entire length of the tape without falling off the tape wins the game

Suggestion

Make the game interesting by changing the rules

2. Pitching Pennies

This game will help in building your child’s hand-eye coordination.

What You Will Need

• Pennies or currency coins
• Large sized paper or plastic drinking cups

How to Play

• Place the cup on a chair on the table in front of the children
• Give each child 5 coins each
• You can ask the child to take a few steps away from the cup in accordance with his age
• Explain to your child that he has to toss the coins, one at a time, into the cup
• The person with the most coins in the cup wins

Suggestion

You can use marbles or ping pong balls in place of pennies to play this game

3. Indoor Bowling

Create a simple bowling alley in your house and have fun. This game is also ideal for hand-eye coordination in children.

What You Will Need

• Flat floor space to play
• Ten empty bottles or soda cans
• Plastic ball or a tennis ball
• Tape
• Marker
• Spray paint (non-toxic)

How to Play

• Using the tape, create a bowling lane
• Peel off the wrappers of the cans and the bottles and spray paint them. Allow them to dry
• Arrange the bottles at the end of the lane. You may arrange it like bowling pins or stack them on top of each other to form a pyramid
• Ask the child to strike this arrangement using the ball

4. In and Out Hangman

This game can be engaging for young kids and may even be a fun way to learn.

What You Will Need

• White or blackboard
• Marker or chalk
• Set of questions and answers or words and hints

How to Play

• Ask your child a question and on the board draw tiny blanks to correlate with the number of letters in the answer. Allow enough space between two words to make it easier for the child to guess the answer
• Instruct your child to guess one letter in the answer and one letter that isn’t in it alternatively.
• Your child is allowed seven wrong guesses, which is the number of steps it takes to complete a hangman figure

Suggestion

You can make the game exciting for your child by asking about his favourite toys, movies, etc.

5. Pictionary

Pictionary is a fun game that requires one player to draw an image indicating the word, where the other player has to guess it correctly.

What You Will Need

• Paper or board
• Pencil or marker

How to Play

• Write down different words on pieces of paper and drop them in the bowl
• Ask your child to pick up the pieces and draw it on the board without telling you what it is. Alternately, you can draw, and he can guess

Suggestion

You can make this game more fun by having groups and competing against each other