[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)
Flip-over game
This is a game where lots of sheets of construction paper with different colors on the front and back are laid out on the floor, and you flip them over.
Try to flip as many as you can to your team’s color.
The team with the most sheets flipped to their color within the time limit wins.
Be sure to follow the start and finish signals and line up properly!
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!
Paper Cup Relay
It’s a game where you pull out the bottom paper cup so it drops without toppling the stacked cups, then pass it on to the next person.
You have to judge how to move it to avoid knocking the cups over, which really tests each person’s control of strength and speed.
The relay format—passing it to the next person—is also key, because the pressure of someone waiting makes control even harder.
Precisely because it’s a simple action of pulling the cup out to the left or right, it’s a game that people of all ages can enjoy together.
Simple games using tools (11–20)
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!
Plastic Bottle Bowling
This is an easy bowling game you can make with just empty plastic bottles and a ball! Real bowling balls are too heavy and can feel dangerous for kids.
But as you can see in this video, you can have plenty of fun with a soft ball you use every day! Another fun part is decorating the plastic bottles any way you like to create your own original pins!
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!