Fun Activities For Toddlers On Rainy Days – Inside. Check out our list of 150+ rainy day ideas for kids. This includes crafts, quiet games, educational activities, indoor places to visit, fine motor practice, free printables and much more.
I watched through the window as water flowed past my window, creating a maze of connected streams of water. Well, there are our plans to play outside today, I thought.
Fun Activities For Toddlers On Rainy Days
I sipped my coffee and closed my eyes as I tried to think of some fun things to keep my toddler and preschooler busy in the morning. Coffee couldn’t get in fast enough.
Rainy Day Activities For Preschoolers (indoor And Out)
Here, I’ve rounded up my favorite activities for toddlers and preschoolers, including crafts, quiet games, educational activities, indoor attractions, fine motor practice, a list of over 100 kids’ activities, free printables, and more.
My kids can’t get enough arts and crafts projects. Honestly, neither did I as a kid. I watched Mister dress up like a kid and dreamed of creating all the fun crafts he made. Just hearing the sound of her scissors cutting through construction paper made me smile. Yes! Yes, I just admitted. 🙂
For this activity you will need some old toilet paper rolls, scissors and markers. You pre-cut the rollers in half to make ‘hair’.
I use the free printable Scissors Safety Poster to talk to my kids about what we cut and what we don’t cut. It worked really well. You can get it here.
Rainy Day Umbrella Craft
So I let my kids do their hair. It is very fun! Click the link to see all the details on this fun scissor safety craft.
We print free puppet templates to make Elmo, Grove, Cookie Monster and Grover. Click the link for complete instructions for creating your Sesame Street characters.
It’s good to have a list of games and activities that the little ones can do with peace of mind. These silent games are great for playing indoors, running errands, waiting for indoor vacations, meetings or restaurant visits.
You can click here to close your printable list of all 20 activities or click on the link to read more about the 20 children’s games.
Places To Play Inside On A Rainy Day
I used to be a first grade teacher, so there’s a part of my brain that has both fun and educational activities that I just can’t turn off. Here is a list of some of our favorites that will be perfect for the little ones on a rainy day.
With just a bubble bath and a water base, you can make five fun preschool activity ideas to explore bubble bath. Children’s activities include art, play, sensory, literacy and science.
To make a bubble bath base that can be used for each of the following activities, you will need to add 3 tablespoons of bubble bath to 1/4 cup of water and liquid watercolor (or food coloring).
Then use the mixer on the highest setting for 1-2 minutes. After a minute, stir the mixture to mix the water underneath. Continue mixing until a thick foam forms.
Fun Outdoor Rainy Day Play Activities For Kids (toddlers Too!!)
Make math fun again with slime and some printable game boards, see how these great digital games for kids beg you to play (and learn).
With three levels of difficulty, your preschooler can practice their number skills with slime. For these slime number games you will need printable slime count number game boards, slime, 2 dice and a dry erase marker.
This is a fun sensory and writing skills activity. Essentially, you teach children to write by first creating the lines needed to make the letters.
They can practice these lines using the free printable pre-writing practice. They then use a cotton swab to trace the lines of the printable template onto the bag.
Fun Things To Do With Your Kids On A Rainy Day In Los Angeles
It’s good to get out and go somewhere if you’re feeling a little fuzzy. So I’ve put together a list of my favorite indoor activities for preschoolers.
Children’s fine motor skills revolve around using their hands. Mastering fine motor skills allows your child to independently perform smaller physical tasks, such as washing hands, zipping up a coat, or tying shoes. Fine motor skills also include the ability to master hand-eye coordination.
The first is a list of 50 summer activities for kids. And I bet you guessed it, there’s a free printable poster so you can keep track of the bucket list items you’ve tried! So funny, right?
Spending time with your kids can be surprisingly fun with these easy activities for kids. Not all of these events are indoors, some are outdoors as well. But you can choose which ones would be good to do indoors. The list is headed by activities such as:
Rainy Day Activities For Toddlers To Keep Them Busy And Entertained
So if you’re still with me, you can probably tell that I love creating fun printables to go with kids’ activities. Some printables included in this post were:
All of these printables and more are included in what I call “free stock”. It’s a web page where I collect all the free stuff I’ve created.
You can access it by subscribing to my email broadcast list, where I send updates on new printables and children’s activities.
PS – If you liked this article, you might also like 5 Preschool Foam Exploring Activities That Will Make You “Wow!” These are my top 10 activities I did around the house when my kids were little.
Bubble Painting With Straws
The indoor activities are great for all ages this time of year. But babies seem to be especially enthusiastic and need extra attention.
Each of these indoor activities for kids is easy to do. Easy to set up. It uses materials that you might already have on hand (all of which are fairly common items).
Get out of the cardboard boxes and create! Let the imagination run wild. A box can be anything: a train, car ramps, an airplane, a house.
Glue the doorframe and throw some newspaper (or cotton balls) over the top to see if it sticks. A great activity for gross motor practice.
Best Rainy Day Activities, Crafts, And Toys!
Shaving cream is a great sensory activity that kids love. Pour some into the pan and let them enjoy it. Add food coloring if desired. You can put them on an old shirt and maybe a towel too. It gets messy (you can also keep the messy game clean, I have 10 ways).
Bowl inside! Take one of the children’s balls. Configure various items for pins. Most things will work for them, soda bottles, a tube of paper towel or toilet paper too.
Create a necklace, baby style. Use a piece of string (a shoelace works well because of the stiff end) and something to tie it with. Big beads would be great. But other items like a straw or large noodles will also work. This will be a great motor activity.
Dig up the newspaper from the trash can and let the ball play it. You can add a dartboard to the mix with this indoor kids activity and also practice counting. All gross motor practice.
Best Indoor Activities For Toddlers For A Rainy Day
Here is an easy and clean sensory activity. Pour some hair gel (lotion will work too) into the bag and seal it. Add some craft items to the mix for some fun too.
Draw a line on the floor in different shapes (zig zag, curved or straight) and ask the child to walk along it, trying to balance as best they can. They can do it forward, but what about going backwards? Another fantastic gross motor activity that can be done indoors.
Have your child place pom poms in the opening of a small bottle or cut a small hole in a container. Pom poms and other small objects can be used for fine motor skills, but always be careful around young children and supervise them closely.
An alternative to modeling clay (although it’s great, sometimes it’s fun to play with something else) is cloud putty. The texture is great and kids love exploring it.
Rainy Day Activities For Toddlers (zero Planning)
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If you want more kids activities, here are 50 of them for you to get inspired. Most of these can also be done indoors.
Quiet activities for preschoolers are also great for these days. How do you like to keep your child busy at home?
Jamie learned to be a mother by creating activities, crafts, and art projects for her three children. Jamie needed the creative outlet this activity offered to get through the early years of parenthood with a smile. Follow Jamie on Pinterest and Instagram.
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