25 Indoor Game Ideas

In the event of it being too cold to do much outside, what can you do inside with your kids and family? I had all sorts of fun coming up with this list of ideas from websites and books for my sis and brother in law. Of course, not having kids to practice this on myself, I have no idea if these would really work or be fun, and seeing the way my last couple classes went that I taught, most likely these might be flops, but here's hoping!

1) Indoor Camping

Flashlight
Indoor S'mores
Tent or sheet tent

2) Indoor picnic in a box
blanket
special picnic food

3) Glow-In-The-Dark hide and seek

Use glow in the dark bracelets found at the dollar store

4) ABC hunting in the house game

Make a list of common items that you could find around the house that start with letters of the alphabet. Have a "treasure" hunt to see if you can find them all

5) Make a cake

6) What's missing?

find small items - like a spoon, doll, shoe, timer, etc) and group them together. Take a good look at them, cover with a towel and take one item away. Then look again and see if you can tell which item is missing

7) Tightrope walking

8) Puppet shows

9) Indoor Obstacle Course

pillows
box
laundry basket
couch
taped lines on floor
quilt

10) Bowling
cardboard toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes, or plastic bottles
small inflatable ball

11) Balloon Tennis
balloons
flyswatters
drying racks
paper plates with popsicle sticks stapled to it

12) Bean Bag Toss (into laundry basket)

13) Pillow Fight (make special little pillows for this event)

14) Letter writing

have a shoe box filled with envelopes, junk mail, stickers, colored pencils etc

15) Paper bag pinata - the little paper lunch sacks probably work best

16) Popcorn party

17) Bug Hunt

creative bug "nets" (could be anything from a plastic sack to a real net made with netting and a stick)
bug stickers or picture cards

18) Hide-The-Marbles (or milk caps or thimble)

19) Make a car out of a box

20) Gift wrapping game
wrapping paper or gift bags

play it where you find a gift from your house that you alread have and "re-gift" it, practicing saying thank you and something nice about what you recieved

21) Make a book

color pictures

cut out people pictures

make a book with you own photos

22) Treasure Map

use a floor plan of your own house to seek out a hidden treasure

23) Bake cinnamon rolls to give away

24) Sound Hide-and-Seek

hide a ticking clock and see if you can find it

25) Dance Night
Music
Colored scarves or streamers

26) Relay Race

And last of all, I found this book at our local library and it really has some neat ideas for making your own board games, and some fun snow games to play too!

A Christmas Poem

We used this poem to make a preschooler's Touch & Feel/Know Your Colors book last Sunday. But I really like the way it goes. :)

Black is the color of the dark, dark night
Where the moon and the stars were the only light.

White was the color of the many sheep,
Who stood in the field while the people sleep.

Yellow is the color that the shepherds saw
As the angels sang, they stood in awe.

Glory in the highest to the God above
A baby has been born, a gift of love.

Gray is the color of the cloth that kept
Baby Jesus warm, as he slept.

Green is the color of the grass that grew
As Jesus became a big boy too.

Purple is the color that kings do wear
And some wise men came, their gifts to share.

Blue is the color that the sky did cry,
As angry men wanted Jesus to die.

Red is the color of God's love true.
He has so much for me and you!

Pink is the color of the story's end:
Jesus died, and arose, and is coming again!

Aha!

I found this in a cookbook of all places the other day, and thought to myself, Aha! I will memorize this and it will help me when I am scared of the dark! :)

"Keep me, Lord, for darkness gathers

Round about the path I tread;

Keep me, Lord, and let my footsteps

Ever by Thy Word be led."

Cookie Exchange

We did a cookie exchange at work and it was lots of fun. I was in charge of sorting and organizing. I found these bags on Black Friday for pennies each.

I printed out the recipes and stamped snowflakes on them as well as personal name tags. I also got each a different cookie cutter, just for fun, that I found for a good price at Ben Franklin.

We all went home with 7 dozen different kinds of treats. Yum!

It's a Keeper

Here is an experimental recipe I tried the other week. We all declared it's a keeper! It's quick to prepare, simple, yet tasty and spicy. Easy to throw together for last minute company:)

Emily's Tortilla Wraps

• 1/2 lb ground pork
• 1 serano pepper
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 tsp pepper
• 3/4 cup salsa
• 1/4 cup pepper jack cheese
• 3 warm tortillas
• leftover jar of spinach dip :)

Fry the pork, peppers,  and onion till done and juicy. Drain off grease. Add salsa and cheese and warm through. Warm up the tortillas, fill with meat mixture and a couple spoonfuls of spinach dip, and roll up. Serve warm with corn (or other veggie), salad, and chocolate pudding cake :) Yum!

Winter Decorating

Reminder

"When God measures men He puts the tape around the heart, not the head."

~ Anonymous