Rainy Day Ideas

  • Blow bubbles and see who can blow the biggest ones
  • Jump rope contest
  • Have an art contest and paint msterpieces
  • Read a book, then act it out
  • Make a pet rock
  • Put on a magic show
  • Decorate a box for memories and treasures
  • Take a pretend trip to another planet
  • Take a pretend trip back in time
  • Make origami animals
  • Make and fly paper airplanes
  • Plan a trip somewhere and research what you can do there
  • Have a scavenger hunt
  • Learn something new: a foreign language, instrument, how to sew, candle making, etc
  • Think of 100 things to do besides watching TV
  • Make a book of your favorite thing, animal, bugs, trees, etc
  • Have an indoor snowball fight
  • start collecting something
  • Make a group picture- take turns adding details
  • Make up your own game
  • Write a letter to someone in another country
  • Tell a favorite story without using a book
  • Learn to do tricks with a yo yo
  • Make a group newsletter
  • Read a favorite fairy tale and change the ending
  • Have a reading marathon
  • Write stories together
  • paint pictures in pairs
  • Have a board game contest
  • Make up stories to tell
  • Make mazes or puzzles to solve
  • Create a scrapbook
  • Make a movie with a camcorder
  • Write letters to family members
  • Learn magic tricks
  • have a dance
  • paint each others faces
  • make a comic book
  • Play in the rain
  • Take turns saying tongue twisters
  • Tell ghost stories in the dark with a flashlight
  • Thumb-wrestle
  • Have a paper airplane contest
  • Stage a Barbie fashion show
  • Create your own book
  • Start a newspaper
  • Build a house of cards
  • Make a house from magazine pictures
  • Make a book mark
  • Record  a story on tape
  • have a puzzle marathon
  • Look for worms in the rain
  • Pretend to be a pirate for the day
  • Collect candy wrappers and make a pretend candy shop
  • Play "American Idol"
  • Sharpen all your crayons
  • Write a letter to yourself to open when you are grown up
  • Hold the Daytona 500 with your Matchbox cars
  • READ, READ, READ!!!!
  • Learn to sew
  • Choreograph a dance routine
  • Sketch a roadmap of your neighborhood
  • Set a world record
  • Line up all your stuffed animals by height
  • Make a fort with popsicle sticks
  • DO brain teaser or mind bender puzzles
  • Play charades
  • Make a "Hall of Fame" wall
  • learn new card games (http://www.pagat.com/)
  • Turn into an expert. Find a sunject that interests you and study it.
  • Keep a personal diary
  • Develop a new talent
  • Look up new words in the dictionary
  • Celebrate a NEW holiday
  • Open a petting zoo with stuffed animals
  • Play I SPY
  • Make your own word search
  • Indoor Bowling
  • Set up an obstacle course
  • Play with a globe
  • Create a bulletin board
  • Have a funniest face contest
  • Rolled paper beads
  • Make a feely box
  • Happiness list
  • Scrambled recipes
  • Backwards day
  • Paper bag skit