5 activity ideas to keep children occupied during rainy days

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What indoor activities for children?

With the return of autumn often come rainy days. While the most beautiful days are often devoted to walks in nature to collect leaves and chestnuts, rainy days are much less fun. However, there are many activities you can offer your children on a rainy day. Here are 5 ideal activities for a rainy day.

Big sort out and reorganisation of the child's room

This is certainly not the proposal that will please your children the most, but it's a very good way to involve them in sorting and organising their room. We could almost compare it to a spring cleaning before winter. It can also be a good time to change the bed if your child's is no longer suitable.

As a reminder, a cot is recommended until about 2 years old. Then, you can opt for a child's bed like a 2-year-old child's bed. Smaller than the classic child's bed, it is more reassuring. From 6 years old comes the standard child's bed, or the 90x190 cm child's bed. You can opt for a child's bed with storage, a child's house bed, a child's trundle bed, anything is possible! You can even combine several possibilities like our 90x190 MANLY trundle bed with storage.

As for sorting and reorganising, this rainy day is a good opportunity to empty bookshelves and toy chests to choose what to keep, what to give away, what to throw away or what to store. Children will certainly rediscover games they had forgotten and this will make room before the end-of-year festivities.

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A cinema afternoon

You never have time to show your children great cinema classics? This is the opportunity to take that time. Prepare some popcorn, hot chocolate, and comfortably settle the whole family on the sofa. You can take this opportunity to introduce your favourite films like The Lion King, Shrek, Ice Age, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone or other more modern creations that your children wanted to see.

To ensure the experience is optimal, make sure you're not disturbed by putting smartphones on vibrate and create a cosy atmosphere with a few candles, for example.

Making a delicious meal

Another possibility to occupy a rainy day: make a complete family meal. Offer your children several options among dishes they like such as hamburgers, pizzas, or others to show them how to make them entirely from scratch. But before you start creating the main dish at the end of the day, you can first tackle the dessert with a cake recipe, pancakes or something else. Moreover, if your children are not the type to wait until evening to taste their creation, you can also simply start making a cake for the afternoon snack.

To ensure the experience is optimal, choose a recipe you already know so you can delegate steps to your children and involve them as much as possible. For younger ones, you can use a Montessori learning tower which will allow them to be at counter height with ease (the Montessori method also offers other furniture to promote autonomy such as the Montessori baby bed for example).

Organising a creative workshop

Craft activities are ideal for occupying rainy days. They allow children to be creative and inventive using multiple materials. Painting, colouring, beads, drawings, salt dough, or others, there is no shortage of online tutorials to keep children busy with very little.

You can decide to make gifts for grandparents, create puppets and tell stories, make a decorated crown, there are many possibilities.

💡 Our advice: make sure you always have some materials at home like paint, paper, glue, glitter, feathers, etc. This way, you'll always be equipped if bad weather strikes.

Play a board game

Board games are also a very good activity idea to offer children on a rainy day. It allows for sharing a family activity and experiencing very good moments. Adapt the choice of game according to the number of players, but also the age of the children so that everyone can participate. If the children are too young to hope to win, why not form teams to compete against each other? There are all sorts of new board games to discover as a family today that will make all the difference on rainy days.

Bonus ideas

If the previous 5 ideas don't appeal to the whole family, here are some other suggestions to try:

  • An indoor treasure hunt: hide a reward and give clues to find it.
  • A yoga session for children: offer them simple and fun movements (if possible giving them names they will love to memorise like downward-facing dog, cat, cow, etc.)
  • A fancy dress fashion show: in which parents will of course participate too.
  • An indoor picnic: include dolls and stuffed animals!
  • An indoor den: with cushions, blankets, and other items.
  • Viewing souvenir photos: to reminisce about good family moments.

So you have a multitude of possibilities available to keep the children occupied on a rainy day. Whatever you choose, spending time as a family will always be appreciated!