150+ screen-free activities for kids at home
“I’m bored!” If you’ve heard those words before, then here’s some relief. Here’s more than 150 screen-free activities to keep your kids entertained from dusk until dawn. Keep reading!
Right now, we are one week into what could be several weeks of self-isolation due to COVID-19. This virus has forced everyone in the entire world to slow down.
Now, we get to spend more quality time with our kids within the safety and protection of our own homes. So here’s more than 150 great screen-free activities to get started on today.
Screen-free activities: Crafts
• Felt flower pens
• Paper plate string art
• Diamond art
• Cross stitch bookmarks
• Yarn pom poms
• Puppet show
• Origami
• Glue handprint
• Homemade kite
• Rainbow rice
• Candle making
• Paper mobile
• Paper snowflakes
• Sock puppets
• Legos
• Homemade volcano
• Pool noodle swords
• Shrinkie dinks
• Homemade window clings
• Leaf rubbings
• Beading jewelry
• Cardboard forts
• Thank you letters businesses
• Fruit loop necklaces
• Gnome garden
• Crayon shapes
• Spray paint t-shirts
• Polymer clay
• Slime
• Elephant toothpaste
• Homemade pinatas
• Decorate room for holiday
Art
• Light switch covers
• Painted rocks
• Finger painting
• Paper mosaics
• Connect the dots
• Drawing
• Push pin pictures
• Folding person paper game
• Sidewalk chalk
Food
• 3-ingredient desserts
• Fondu party
• Banana split party
• Jell-O Jigglers
• Jell-O worms
• Mini pizzas
• Homemade ice cream
• Candy sushi
• Pie eating contest
• Watermelon seed spitting
• Cookies
• Cupcake wars
• Suckers
• Mall pretzels
• Fear Factor Food Challenge
• Indoor s’mores
Games/activities
• Matching game
• Homemade ball pit
• Braiding hair
• Parachute with balls
• Dump truck races
• Photo scavenger hunt
• Pile of pillow at bottom of stairs
• Bubble bath with crayons
• Twister
• Heating vent bubbles
• Learn another language
• Kid yoga
• Paper airplane contest
• Mother may I?
• Pictionary
• Chess/checkers
• Facecard games
• Headstand contest
• Break dancing
• Sudoku
• Scavenger hunt
• Bingo
• Folding table slide
• Balloon rocket race
• Paint fingernails
• Daddy/mommy horse rides
• Scary stories
• Table ping pong
• Karaoke
• Stop motion video
• Princess tea party
• Super hero party
• Cake walk
• Fishing pond carnival game
• Toddler board games
• Leap frog
• Duck duck goose
• Board games ages 6-10
• Would you rather
• Speak out
• Telephone game
• Add-on story game
• Musical hats
• Sardines
• Hide and seek
• Treasure hunt
• Simon says
• Red light green light
• Puzzles
• Laser tag
• Pen pal letters
• Spring cleaning
• Egg experiments
• Pin tail on donkey
• Secret service games
• Reading marathon
• Popsicle stick bombs
Backyard
• Croquet
• Horse shoes
• Nap in a hammock
• Kick the can
• Ghosts in the graveyard
• Capture the flag
• Freeze tag
• Missionary tag
• Red rover
• Giant bubbles
• Obstacle courses
• Kickball
• Frisbee
• Spike ball
• Hopscotch
• Slip ‘n slide
• Campfire
• Sandbox cities
• Build a tree house
• PVC bow and arrows
• Soccer
• Frisbee golf
• Silly string fight
• Glow sticks
• Water bottle rocket launcher
• Balance beam
• Scooters
• Wall ball
• Four square
• Four-legged race
• Water balloon fight
• Bocce ball
• Snowman/igloo
• Kiddie pool
Trampoline
• Dodgeball
• Crack the egg
• Sleepover on tramp
• Worm attack (sleeping bags)
• Sprinklers under tramp
• Add on
• Trampoline fort
I hope some of these ideas will pique your interest. So, if you have any other ideas, leave them in the comments below. You can also print this list ideas and post them on your fridge by clicking on the link below. I offer this printable for FREE to all visitors of my blog, but if you’d like to show your support, feel free to buy me a taco 🌮.
