Fun, Indoor Activities to Engage Kids

With the festive season beginning your child will have the luxury of many holidays – Dussehra vacations Diwali vacation followed Christmas Break. Working parents are often anxious about these vacations as they do not have enough time to spend with their child while he/she is at home throughout the day. Many parents prefer to sync their official yearly leaves with their kids’ vacations, in order to make the most of the limited time. Often while spending time with their kid at home, they struggle about the indoor activities. Taking them to the zoo, park, library, amusement parks are easy as you don’t even realize how time flies by. But when the child is at home it becomes a struggle on how to engage and entertain kids. Often kids are seen resorting to TV shows and digital games on tablets and smartphones. But with these ‘easy to go to’ activities parents re-think whether they are healthy for their child?? They remember their old days when there was no TV, no phone and yet there were many activities we did indoors like playing board games, reading comics, floor games, role plays, etc.

There are a whole lot of interesting and simple indoor activities that parents can do with their kids and keep their child away from boredom.

Board Games

Ludo and ‘Snakes & Ladders’ are passé! Your child feels that these are games of the oldies. How about introducing similar games to them with a colorful and new twist. Educators at Sesame Street Preschools often play ‘Cookie’s Road Rules’ game with kids. This is a board game that aims to educate children around road safety and road rules as they roll the dice and move ahead in the game.

Make a café at home

Make one of the vacation day as a café day. One evening invites your kid’s friends to your home for a fun role play in which you and the child becomes the café owner and server, while the friends are customers. During the day engage the child with yourself in cooking healthy food like sandwiches, colourfulidlis, dhoklas, milk shakes, etc. Put a price tag against each item. In the evening when all kids have gathered distribute play money among them and explain to them that to buy each item on the menu they need to shell out a certain sum of money. In this way, kids learn about dealing with money, counting, spending, etc. While your child gets educated about simple money matters, you will be thrilled to see an amazing get together at your place!

Activity Sheets

There are many interesting activity sheets available online which can easily grab your little one’s attention. You can also create activity sheets are home. For example - Make an outline of a tree and help your child do ladyfinger painting on it. Using colourful sheets of paper, help your child create Diwali /Christmas Greeting Cards for his/her friends and relatives. You can also visit www.galligallisimsim.com or www.sesamestreet.org to engage your child with some interesting art and craft related activities. 

Play educational songs and videos

Kids love to play games on the laptop or tablet. Wouldn’t it be ideal if these games were also educational? There is a huge list of educational and entertaining games on www.galligallisimsim.com which are aimed at literacy, numeracy, sanitation, etc. On the website you can also find many educational videos like Chamki and Grover talking about nutritious food or Elmo signing about savings and many other healthy habits.

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