[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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Indoor games that involve physical movement (11–20)
Rock-Paper-Scissors Train Game
Introducing the “Rock-Paper-Scissors Train” game.
Move around the room like a freight train to the music.
When the music stops, play rock-paper-scissors with a friend.
The person who loses places a hand on the winner’s shoulder, and together they board the same train and set off.
Repeat the same actions to add more friends to your freight train.
The game is complete when everyone is riding the same train and departs together.
Try speeding up or slowing down the music to match the children’s pace and have fun!
Air-reading game
Let’s read the room so we don’t overlap with our friends! Here’s an idea for a “reading the room” game.
It’s a unique game that helps elementary school students develop the ability to act while watching the timing and what’s happening around them.
In a group of 4–5 players sitting in a circle, you take turns standing up while calling out numbers.
The rule is simple, but what matters is avoiding overlapping timing with your friends.
Through the game, kids can build awareness of others and quick decision-making skills.
The atmosphere is tense at the start, but when two people stand up at the same time, everyone can’t help bursting into laughter!
Bingo Relay
Boost communication skills! Here’s an idea for a Bingo Relay.
In this game, two teams compete against each other.
Use tape or hula hoops to create a 3×3 grid, and work together as a team to get bingo by placing one colored marker per player.
After placing your marker on a space, run to the next player and pass the baton.
A key point is to quickly read the positions of the opposing team’s markers and block their bingo!
Play the Signal Game Indoors!
The “Traffic Signal Game,” where everyone follows the leader’s instructions, is a play activity that can help develop the ability to listen carefully and the judgment to act immediately.
When the signal is blue, take one marching step; when it’s yellow, shake your head left and right and look around; when it’s red, squat down.
Listen closely to which color the leader calls and act accordingly.
If the leader calls a color other than the three, everyone says “nai-nai” (meaning “no such color”).
There’s no winning or losing in this game, so just have fun moving your body!
dodgeball
Back in elementary school, didn’t you go out to the playground to play dodgeball every recess? It’s nostalgic—scrambling to claim a spot, doing your best to borrow a ball, and sometimes a kid would get hit in the face and start crying.
It’s a game kids of any generation get totally absorbed in.
If you use a soft ball, even very young children can enjoy it!
Small Number Game
Do you know the Small Number Game? First, ask the children to choose one favorite number between 1 and 20.
I will call out the numbers in descending order, and when I reach the number they chose, they stand up.
If they are the only one who stands up at that moment, they become the champion and remain standing.
If two or more stand up at the same time, that’s a bust, and they have to sit down.
If someone becomes the champion with a smaller number, the previous champion sits down.
It’s fun because strategy and mind games are important.
Indoor games involving physical movement (21–30)
5 super fun activities
We’ll be introducing five activities: “Irregular Play,” “Swirly Tail Chase,” “Receive & Catch,” “Ball Rolling Play,” and “Cross Rubber Jump Tail Chase.” They mainly use a ball—putting it into a basket, catching it, and combining movements like hopscotch and forward rolls to get the body moving.
In “Swirly Tail Chase,” attach a jump rope instead of a string and run away from the tagger, changing directions between clockwise and counterclockwise.
For “Cross Rubber Jump Tail Chase,” stretch elastic bands across the room and escape from the tagger while jumping over the bands.