Are your kids running around the house?
There's a good chance it will end in a fight!
Even if it may seem tempting to put them in front of the TV or the iPad...
...there are much more fun ways to keep them busy!
And this, without it mobilizing all your attention and time.
Here are 43 simple indoor activities to occupy bored children at home. Watch:
1. Make a camp in the house. Lend your children a flashlight, a large sheet. And suggest that they create a campsite. You can even organize a snack picnic.
2. Organize a plush hide-and-seek. The principle ? You are hiding a stuffed animal and the children must find it. Be careful, they get hot…
3. Challenge your kids to put on a "pestacle" which should begin at 5 p.m. sharp. It's up to them to create a show, with a script and costumes, like the pros.
4. Go bowling in the house with a foam ball and plastic bottles. The children will have to write down the points marked.
5. Challenge your kids to create the biggest Domino line possible in the house.
6. Ask your children to write down a list of things you could do better as a parent. This is a good way to engage in constructive dialogue. They will surely have a lot to say and you may have some good surprises!
7. Organize the greatest toy car circuit of all time. Use a roll of colored adhesive tape that you stick to the floor, make a circuit that will pass under the tables, on the stairs... Ride cars!
8. Ask your children to create sculptures with toothpicks and marshmallows. The most difficult will be not to eat the works;-)
9. Challenge your children to draw their self-portrait thanks to mirror then to draw their brother or sister.
10. Ask your children to organize a giant tea party where all the dolls and stuffed animals in the house will be invited. Organizing this tea party will keep the kids busy for a while!
11. Have your kids write a letter to their siblings about how to be better siblings. They can make a long list that you put on the fridge. The dialogue is always constructive;-)
12. Challenge your children to create an inner rainbow. For this, take a glass filled with water. Put a small mirror in it. Turn on your flashlight and shine the beam on the water. Shake the glass lightly. You will see a rainbow appear. For this to work, your room must be dark and the walls must be white. Otherwise you can also put the glass in front of a white sheet.
13. Make a puzzle with maximum coins.
14. Fill the tub, put small containers, kitchen utensils in it. And here we go:your children will love playing with water! Remember to protect your bathroom floor with towels. There is a chance that there will be splashes.
15. Have a monster contest. May the best draw the most terrifying monster!
16. Get your kids to build an indoor treehouse using sheets, blankets, clothespins.
17. Teach them how to play checkers or chess. Then let them play with each other;-)
18. Organize a scavenger hunt in the house with a graaaaaande list of objects to find.
19. Have a "snowball fight" preferably with old white socks.
20. Mix the pieces of two puzzles. The challenge is to separate the pieces and complete the puzzles as quickly as possible.
21. Hide their toy cars in the house. And challenge your children to find them. The goal is to discover as many cars as possible.
22. Challenge your children to make the most beautiful drawings inside a large cardboard box. That should keep them busy for a while!
23. Have them build a little sugar cube shack , candy and pretzel. Hansel and Gretel will be jealous!
24. Have them make collages. All you need are stickers, stickers and sheets.
25. Cut out a piece of image from a magazine and ask your children to draw all around to make a comic strip for example or a story to tell.
26. Make a bird feeder. Cut a carton of milk in half. Put in some seeds, bread crumbs, butter. And put it outside. Then with a book on birds, help your children to identify the birds that come to peck.
27. Have an indoor hopscotch with adhesive tape, glued to the ground.
28. Challenge your children to make a playdough house or monster.
29. Make modeling clay. You will see it is not complicated. Try this easy to make recipe.
30. Challenge your children to successfully do yoga poses watching this video on Youtube. They will learn to calm down with exercise and you will have 1 full hour just for you!
31. Have your kids make the biggest collage. To do this, provide them with old magazines, large white sheets and scissors.
32. Start a Lego contest. Ask them to build the tallest tower, a spaceship only with blue bricks, an animal, a character, a vehicle... in a limited time (10 or 15 min).
33. Ask them to build a huge Lego maze to drive small remote-controlled cars, small friction insects or Hexbugs.
34. Ask them where they would like to go on your next family vacation. Then with a map or a travel magazine, do some research on the chosen region or country.
35. Ask your kids to take pictures of amazing, funny or cool things around the house . To do this, lend them an old smartphone with a camera. You may be amazed at their photo reportage!
36. Inflate a balloon and have a contest to see who keeps the ball in the air the longest.
37. Set up an indoor golf course. For this, use cups or cans placed on their side and a ping-pong ball.
38. Ask them to invent a story. And help them write it:it will be their first novel!
39. Ask your children to prepare a show for you for snack time with some finger puppets.
40. Tell them to organize an obstacle course to cross as quickly as possible.
41. Help your kids draw their full bodies. To do this, tape together several large sheets. Have the children lie down on the sheets. Then with a marker, draw their outline. Then, it's up to them to fill in the resulting form!
42. Ask them to make a nice drawing then to write on the back what they do with their days during the holidays. Grandparents will be delighted to receive this little note
43. Have them inflate balloons with baking soda. It's a very fun experience, you'll see! Find out how here.
