Indoor activities
23 activities found
Closet Decluttering
Sort through your clothes, decide what to keep, donate, or fold away, and turn a messy closet into a tidy one. This summer project teaches you to organize, make choices, and feel proud of your neat space.
Homemade Catapult Building
Build a small catapult from craft sticks, rubber bands, and a spoon, then launch pom-poms or paper balls across the room — a simple engineering project that teaches leverage and force.
Indoor Bingo Scavenger Hunt
Make a bingo card of everyday objects hidden around your house, then race to find them all and mark your card. A fun solo puzzle that turns your own home into an exciting treasure hunt.
Room Reorganizing
Move your furniture around, try new layouts, and make your room feel brand new. Rearranging your own space is a fun summer project that lets you plan, measure, and create a room that feels totally yours.
Straw Rocket Building
Build a mini rocket from paper and a straw, then blow it into the air to see how far it flies — a hands-on science craft testing aerodynamics through trial, error, and redesign.
Curling
Teams slide heavy granite stones down a sheet of ice toward a painted target, sweeping furiously to steer them — a precision sport combining strategy, teamwork, and just enough muscle.
Treasure Map Making
Draw a map of your garden or neighbourhood, hide a small prize, mark it with an X, and let children follow the clues to find it — a timeless adventure activity that builds spatial thinking.
Castle or Heritage Site Visit
Explore the ruins, battlements, and great halls of a castle or historic site — children naturally become knights and princesses, and history comes alive through stones they can touch and climb.
Indoor Scavenger Hunt
Hide clues around the house leading to a small prize or treat — a rainy-day classic that gets children running through every room, thinking, reading, and working together as a team.
