Indoor Kids' Activities That Keep Cabin Fever at Bay
The weather stinks and even your game-addicted kid is getting bored with the Wii. Quick! Try one of these fun indoor activities that'll bust cabin fever before your kid morphs into an avatar. Tell him to step away from the console, then grab his attention with one of these fun activities when you're stuck inside on rainy days (or snow days or sick days ...).
- Teach your kid an awesome invisible writing trick.
- Stuff a container with ideas for you kid to act out or draw.
- Make a floral bouquet out of popcorn.
- Play the slap game.
- Make salt dough magnets for the fridge.
- Make homemade peanut butter or potato chips.
- Do a cool science experiment with raisins, baking soda and vinegar.
- Play a food guessing game with your kid.
- Have the kids turn the video camera on you and your partner to get some great rare footage of mom and dad.
- Send your kid on a seated scavenger hunt through your old magazines.
- Make a guitar out of a shoebox and rubber bands.
- Help your kid make a handmade picture book out of magazine cutouts.
- Engage your kid in this rockin' science project. Teach her to make her own rock candy.
- Create a luau in your living room to beat the winter blues.
- Make a puppet out of a singleton mitten.
- Teach your little artiste about secondary and primary colors with this painting activity.
- Create crazy pictures together with this drawing game.
- Make a list of opposites and challenge your kid to match them up.
- Make a lava lamp with this trippy science project.
- Scrapbook together.
- Create a funny story with this silly word game.
- Make some cool window art.
- Invite your kid to make this awesome key chain/coin holder.
- Make a brilliant beaded pen.
- Play tic tac toe with a homemade board made out of pasta and felt.
- Make and play the classic arcade game skee ball in your living room.
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