When it's too cold to go outside to play, use these simple and FREE ideas to help keep your kids entertained and cure the inevitable cabin fever from setting in.
20 FREE & Fun Indoor Activities for Kids
- Have a Board Game Tournament
- Create Paper Airplanes {The Eagle, High Glider and Fancy Flier}
- Make Ivory Soap Clouds in the microwave
- Grab a Deck of Cards and learn some Magic Tricks
- Make Paper Snowflakes or get your computer and Make Digital “Paper” Snowflakes
- Use the snow to make Honey Snow Candy or Snow Ice Cream
- Make Rainbow Loom Bracelets. Our favorite designs Starburst, 5 Row Name Bracelet and the Ladder
- Make Water Walk Science Experiment
- Use LEGOs to Learn Math Concepts
- Make Homemade Lava Lamps
- Use Cookie Cutters, Bird Seed and Gelatin to Make Homemade Birdfeeders
- Get your Sharpies, some Rubbing Alchol and an old t-shirt and Tie Dye with Sharpies
- Make a Balloon shoot across the room like a Rocket.
- Make a Butterfly out of a Coffee Filter and a Clothespin
- See Raisins Dance in a Glass of Pop
- Play with Homemade Slime
- Create a Handprint Flower Bouquet
- Make a Maze out of LEGOs
- Build a Sculpture out of Grapes and Toothpicks
- Make your own Miniature Golf Course
Have any other ideas for fighting cabin fever? Leave a comment and we'll add it to the list.
Waxed paper art~ Stained glass art!
Items needed:
waxed paper
crayons (with the paper peeled off)
warming tray, candle warmer…CAUTION….SUPERVISE when hot/warm!
Color waxed paper with crayons on warming tray surface. When done coloring, adult carefully picks up drawing & it dries in seconds!
Optional framing with any recyclable materials or construction paper.
Alternative ideas…adult shaves crayons & child sprinkles onto waxed paper, let melt. Cool.
I had my girls use red, pink, white & purple crayons. Then I cut out hearts from their melted colors & they stuck them onto clear contact paper! Valentine stained glass art!
Some things we do when we cant go outside…. Bring the snow indoors to play with & of course color it with food coloring. Make an indoor “fire” and have a camp in with a fort- bake cookies- make snow-doh, the list can go on! Thanks for your posts, we love find time for fun ~ Gina