Activities to do with your children on rainy days
Are you one of the parents who don’t know what to do with their children on rainy days? Don’t miss out on these ideas.
When it rains, life at home can turn into chaos, especially when it rains too many days in a row and you can’t leave the house. If you have young children, you will know that one rainy day is enough to start the stress … you can’t leave the house! What can you do throughout the day? Don’t worry because with a few ideas and a little organization, a rainy day can be a wonderful opportunity to connect with your children and spend quality time with them.
Below you will find some ideas that will help you make sure that rainy days in your home are not a nightmare and that you can enjoy your children to the fullest. Choose any of these activities to do with your children.
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FAMILY MOVIE DAY
There is nothing better than snuggling with the kids on the couch and enjoying a good movie all together. Also if the table is full of delicious things to eat like popcorn or healthy snacks. Children love the opportunity to eat while watching a movie. The next time it rains, turn your living room into a movie theater. You just have to find a movie that you all like.
FAMILY GAME DAY
Those on rainy days can also be a great opportunity to enjoy board games or any other type of game with the family. For the kids love to play with their parents and relatives, so this idea can be great to increase family fun. You can choose a board game according to the age of your children or dress up, play theater, etc.
COOKING AFTERNOON
If your children are the right age, you can have an afternoon of cooking or baking. With an easy recipe to make with children, you just have to put on your apron and put your hands in the dough! Children love to cook and watch food change until they can eat it and sample your culinary works. They enjoy it a lot and they will also learn to understand instructions and feel satisfaction for a job well done.
A FORTRESS WITH BLANKETS
All toys are best when they are in a fort made of blankets. When the next rainy day rolls around, help your kids build their own fortress in the family room. Your children will be delighted to paint or play with their toys inside the fortress. For whatever reason, the dullest toys have a new life when they are under the fortress of the blankets.
PLAY HIDE
Children love this game, it is simple and a lot of fun. Use the whole house and get creative with the rules of the game. For example, children have to recite the alphabet instead of counting to ten. Your children will not be too difficult to find, even when you go to look for them they will hear their giggles from hiding.
HAVE A DANCE PARTY
Help unleash some of your seemingly endless energy with loud music. Dancing around the house will help you burn off pent-up energy and get some exercise. Try dancing with your children to pop and dance songs.
READING AFTERNOON
Snuggling into a blanket with your favorite book and reading together, or starting a series together like Harry Potter or The Chronicles of Narnia … it can be wonderful and you’ll be teaching too. Your children the wonder of reading in leisure time. You can take turns reading if your children are able to read or read an interesting story to them so that they listen to you carefully.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.