[Children’s Club] Easy and fun indoor games. Exciting party games
Looking for active games you can enjoy in a quiet indoor setting? Even on cold or rainy days, playtime can turn into a fun, smile-filled experience when you’re with a kids’ group or friends.
Here are indoor games with simple rules that you can start right away—moving your body while engaging your mind.
From music-based games to activities with quiz elements, these ideas are all about shared excitement and anticipation.
You can freely adapt them to different group sizes and ages.
Give them a try and create some treasured memories!
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Simple games using tools (1–10)
Fruits Basket
The classic game Fruit Basket, popular with children, starts by choosing one player to be “it.” The other kids are grouped by several fruit names and sit on chairs arranged in a circle.
Once the “it” player stands in the center, the game begins! When the player in the middle calls out a fruit, the children assigned to that fruit stand up and move to a different chair.
The player in the middle also tries to sit in a chair, so the child left without a seat becomes the next “it.” There’s also a variation called “Anything Basket,” where instead of fruits you can pick any theme you like—such as “people wearing skirts” or “those who had bread for breakfast.” “Anything Basket” is recommended for older kids!
Mission game
The directives and missions issued in the hugely popular TV show “Run for Money” really get your heart racing, don’t they? How about hosting a “Mission Game,” a milder version of those missions, at your Christmas party? Examples of missions include stacking paper cups into three tiers, threading a string through a toy needle, or quickly changing an outfit on a doll.
Be sure to design missions suited to the seniors and children who will play the game.
And if completing a mission earns candy or prizes, it’ll be even more exciting!
True-or-False Quiz
A classic game: quizzes.
How about trying a True-or-False quiz that lots of people can join? Prepare questions that can be answered with O (true) or X (false) and write them on a big sheet of paper.
If you’ve got the space, you can have people move to the O side or the X side and play while splitting into groups.
Get lots of questions ready and give it a try!
Paper Tearing Game
A lot of kids love tearing paper to shreds, don’t they? Normally, Mom or Dad might scold them, but with this paper-tearing game, they can rip to their heart’s content without any worries! There are game rules, though: like peeling an apple, you aim to turn the torn paper into one long, continuous strip.
That means you’ll need a clever tearing technique.
Set a time limit, and the person who creates the longest single strip within that time wins! Even if your strip breaks along the way, it’s fine to start over as long as you’re within the time limit.
Try different approaches and have fun figuring out how to make the longest strip!
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It’s a game where you roll a ball aiming for paper cups set along the edge of a table.
If you throw too hard, the ball will jump over the cups; if you throw too softly, it won’t reach them.
This game helps you learn how to control force and develop hand–eye coordination.
It’s a good idea to tilt the table slightly so it slopes upward.
Prepare several paper cups and aim to sink the ball into all of them.
Assigning points to each cup and going for a high score sounds fun too!
Simple games using tools (11–20)
Stacking game
A stacking game where you compete to build the tallest tower within a time limit.
Paper cups are easy to use for stacking, but anything works—like toilet paper rolls, milk cartons, or plastic bottle caps! The person who stacks the highest within the time limit wins.
Even if your tower collapses partway through, you can start over as many times as you want as long as time remains.
You can let players stack however they like without specific rules, or set a rule like “only this stacking method is allowed” for an extra challenge.
Play it as an individual contest, a team competition—enjoy it in whatever format you like!
Newspaper War
Do you have old newspapers piling up at home? This is a game called “Newspaper Fight,” the newspaper version of a snowball fight.
A real snowball fight needs snow, it’s cold, and getting hit can hurt quite a bit, right? This game solves all those problems at once.
It’s great because you can play safely indoors even on rainy days!
