Indoor Games To Play With Your Kids This Weekend

What’s your agenda for this weekend? Any ideas of what you might like to do with your kids? A lot of times we are just not in the mood to hangout or even leave the comfort of our homes, but for the love of children and because we want to always keep our kids happy and occupied, we are forced to find somewhere to go to. Well here is the thing, you don’t always have to go all out especially if you do not feel like it. Sometimes, staying at home with a few interesting game ideas to play is the only thing you need to make everyone thrilled, excited and engaged; and mind you, nobody says it has to be card, board or video games.

Here are a few lovely indoor game ideas you might want to play this weekend with your kids, it might just amaze you how grateful your kids would be after this.

1. Treasure Hunt

A treasure hunt is one of many different types of games with one or more players who try to find hidden objects or places by following a series of clues. Treasure hunt games may be an indoor or outdoor activity. Outdoors they can be played in a garden or the treasure could be located anywhere around the world.

What You Need

A Piece of paper

A Pen or Pencil

An object

2 players

Instructions: An object is chosen to be hidden. Try to make sure the object is not so small that it can’t be found. The person who is hiding the object draws a map of their home, or the area they are playing in. He marks an “x” on the spot where the “treasure” is hidden. The other player must search to find the hidden treasure. When it is found, switch positions.

2. Draw Your Swords.

This game is pretty simple to play. The idea is to improve memorization of where to find things in the Bible and speed in looking things up.  Someone in the group would call out a chapter or verse in the bible and the first to find it and start reading would be the winner and would get to call out the next verse.  A little friendly competition makes it entertaining.

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The idea “Draw Your Sword” comes from Hebrews 4:12- “For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword.”

To make the idea of familiarizing them with the Bible and looking up references a little more fun, I made this game.

You will need

Bibles according to the number of players

Players; a good number of players makes it more fun

A pen or pencil

A piece of paper to draw lines and record scores

3. Dictation or Spelling game

This game is encourages kids to learn and get their spellings right at the end of the day. This was one of the games I enjoyed playing in my childhood days. To play the dictation game, someone in the group known as the “Lead” stands in front of other players who already have their pens and papers ready, awaiting the word the” lead” wants them to spell. At the end of the day, the lead; who most likely plays the role of a typical class teacher, marks the players’ performances and score them according to number of words rightly spelt. This is one magical way to get your kids good at spellings.

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You will need

A text book

Players

Pens and papers accordingly

4. Museum Statues 

Statues, also called red light, green light (US) or grandmother’s footsteps (UK), is a popular children’s game, often played in Australia, Finland, Sweden and the United States. How the game is played varies throughout different regions of the world.

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Red light/Green light (sometimes abbreviated as RLGL) requires the “it” person who is like the “Orator” stand at one end of the playing field, with the rest of the other players at the other end.

To play this game picture how images in museum arts centres look like or stand like. I guess that’s why it is called the Museum statues. Meanwhile in a real museum centre, statues could either bend, stand, sit, or have other postures. So have that in mind as well.

“It” or “Orator” turns his/her  back to the others and calls out “Green light!” , meaning that the players can move and run as fast as they can to the orator, or Red Light!, which means that the players should automatically freeze or stand still. If anyone fails to stop, they are out or must return to the starting line. The first player to reach the person who is “it” (Orator) wins and becomes “it” for the next round.

What You Need

3 or more players

A spacious room

Instructions: Have the players gather in a large room, called the “Museum.” One person, who is “it” or “orator”, should then leave the room and count to 20 to say Green Light (start movement) or Red Light (freeze movement)

The players then pose like statues, and the person who is “it” comes back and pretends to be a museum guide. If the guide leaves the room, the players must choose a new pose. When the guide spots someone moving, that player becomes a tourist, and must follow the museum guide. Anytime the guide looks at another statue you can quickly change your pose. Continue play until only one statue is left. He becomes the new museum guide.