[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)
Cup-standing race

It’s a simple game where you throw a paper cup upward, and if it lands upright on the floor, you succeed.
Having players throw it above head height makes control more difficult and prevents cheating, such as just dropping it straight down without throwing.
Because the cup is so light, it’s affected by air resistance as it falls, causing it to move differently than expected—another fun aspect.
Whether you throw it with force or give it a gentle lift, keep trying to find the optimal motion through repeated attempts.
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!
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!



