What kids of things do you like to do with the kids indoors when it's bad weather outside?

abookworm

Looking for more ideas! One I remembered and had forgotten about until a few months ago was rock-paper-scissors and I'm loving it because there are no pieces to get lost.

hillgirl322

My kids are 10, 7, and 5 and they LOVE board games and playing cards. Uno is a family favorite.

KMKaiser07

Are you willing to go be indoors somewhere outside of your home? A children's museum, the library, or going to stores

At home you could have a picnic lunch. Put a blanket/sheet out on the floor and make a picnic lunch. You could even do picnic and a movie.

Make a fort

Bake something-decorate cookies

Make oobleck and let your kids play with it.

Playdoh

Craft

Set up a treasure hunt

If you celebrate Christmas and have some gifts wrapped, let them open one early

Story time

I'm sure I have more ideas but I would need to think a little more.

Pinterest probably has good ideas too

jhjocelyn

I love bubbles in a bowl!

Pour bubble solution and a squirt or dishsoap into a shallow bowl/deep plate. Just enough to cover the whole end of a straw. Use a straw to build a mountain of bubbles! Once the bubbles are up you can pull out the straw and put it in any bubble you like and make it even bigger.

If you add food coloring you can make bubble prints by gently laying a piece of paper over the bubbles.

It's great entertainment for just about any age.

mandymack

Kinetic sand is our new favorite indoor activity. ANYTHING can be a mold to move the sand through: toilet paper roll, straws, measuring cups/spoons. LOVE the stuff!

kelly136

Play in the bathtub with plastic dishes, measuring cups, empty bottles, or whatever else

Wrap each other in toilet paper and be mummies

Turn out the lights and play with flashlights

Easter egg hunt inside

willowprincess

We do a lot of what I call dollar store science experiments. I stock up on random items at the dollar store and some days we will either use our sensory bin or the bath tub and combine some of the ingredients just to see what happens. Baking soda, citric acid, cornstarch, vinegar, dish soap, and water are some common ones to start with. Also adding food coloring or liquid watercolors makes it more fun.

Art projects are also big over here. I keep tons of art supplies on hand and the kids each have their own sketch books. We also have a large stock of canvas boards and rolls of un-primed canvas. They choose the supplies they want and we get going. I also save random things like toilet paper rolls, cool leaves or sticks from outside, or really anything and we use those in our sculptures or to paint with a lot.

willowprincess

We also love to go to the library. Ours has themed backpacks you can borrow that have activities and books on a certain theme. I then try to get other books and find simple activities on the same theme and focus on that for 2 weeks. 

Our mall also has a play area, so we will go there a lot. They can play and I can drink my starbucks and read. Then we walk around to various stores. We've gotten to know a lot of the mall employees this way.

vettymama

We're in a rural area and only have a small mall, WalMart, and a grocery store.

We go to the library, mall walk, stroll WalMart, and the grocery store.

At home we only stay inside all day if it's below 0 and/or really windy. Most times it takes more time to get everyone bundled up than we stay outside but it is still fun.

Inside: color, read, independent play, empty out kitchen drawers, play with pots and pans, help me "bake", sing, dance, Thomas Trains, Little People, play blocks, dress and undress the baby doll, basketball, t-ball, golf, and some days even movies. 

tbmadeamistake

You can also change up how you nor ally do an activity. Instead of painting with brushes, make stamps out of veggies or sponges, use a fork to drag the paint on the page, etc. Beads on pipe cleaners can keep my two year old busy for an hour, older kids can strong pipe cleaners through a Colander's holes. Get a big roll of paper and tape a long strip to the floor and let them paint with their hands and feet. Shaving cream in a tray with various containers and utensils to smush it through. Conditioner and corn starch make a good playdough. Water and baking soda make a good clean mud.