Rainy days can be the worst when you have bored kids at home. Our Tots to Teens parent community shared some amazing at-home ideas, that make perfect rainy day boredom busters.
rainy day Indoor activities
Paint in the shower (nudey kids, water based paint and paint brushes are all that is required) or paint pots with a squirt of dishwashing liquid. When they are finished painting, throw a cloth in and they clean their art. Try glow sticks in the bath once dark, or a disco in the lounge with the curtains shut. ~ Shannon
Make and indoor obstacle course that they are involved in designing. ~ Manju
Put masking tape on the floor to make roads! ~ Sarah
Get them to draw a plan of their bedroom or the lounge and how they think furniture will work, and then shift the furniture to their plan. ~ Barbara
Scavenger hunt. ~ Vicki
Building and then sleeping in a home-made fort. ~ Jenny
Baking
Decorating cupcakes and icing cookies. ~ Barbara
Making sugared petals and flowers ~ Cindy
Find easy recipes, and make a cookbook with photos of what they baked ~ Sarah
Plan a special desert the kids can make. Our kids love making sweet treats ~ Sonja
Check out our recipes for some baking ideas.
Crafting
Rock painting at a table and card making. ~ Michelle
Painting and play dough. ~ Karina
We find clever ideas on Tik Tok (like blowing eggs out of their shells) and try them out at home. ~ Monty
Circus at-home with balloons, paper board and sewer clowns. ~ Neomi
Decorations (for Christmas, Halloween, birthdays or any event coming up) ~ Jane
Movie time
A good movie & warm popcorn ~ Michelle
Movie day in the lounge. Stack one couch up higher on the coffee table like in a cinema. ~ Shannon
Go out in the rain
Dress them up warm and go for a walk in the rain, kids seem to love it. ~ Barbara
Togs and soap on the tramp and then a warm shower. ~ Shannon
Puddle jumping. ~ Jenny
Make little boats with leaves, branches or pieces of light wood and float them in puddles and down the natural rivers formed after rain. ~Kate
Head out but stay indoors
Local indoor swimming pool. ~ Barbara
Going to the mall or library. ~ Mansi
Lego
Have a Lego build day. ~ Philippa + Vicki
Lego building competition. ~ Shannon
SURPRISE RAINY DAY TOYS
I have a box of toys that are kept in the cupboard that only come out for such occasion. ~ Michelle
Activities kept aside for emergencies. ~ Clare
Check out more activity ideas from Tots to Teens.
By Tayla Mitchell
