Fun activities with newspaper! Recreation games kids will love
We’ve gathered ideas for children’s games and activities using newspapers.
Newspaper play is fun to enjoy together with kids, so it’s easy to incorporate as an indoor activity at daycare centers, kindergartens, and elementary schools.
If it’s hard to get newspapers, try using advertising flyers or unwanted letters and notices instead.
Using colored paper will give the activities a different feel.
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Fun Games Using Newspaper! Recreation Activities and Games Kids Will Love (1–10)
Newspaper Relay
Form small teams, and have each team member stand on their own sheet of newspaper.
Here’s the catch: the person at the very back has the toughest job.
The person at the back takes the newspaper they’re standing on and moves it to the very front.
Then everyone steps forward onto the newspapers placed ahead.
This leaves the backmost spot empty again, so the last person moves that newspaper to the front once more.
Repeat this to gradually move forward—the team that reaches the finish line first wins! Since you might slip when stepping onto the newspaper, the key is to advance carefully.
Newspaper Island
Prepare one sheet of newspaper per person and have them stand on it.
Play rock-paper-scissors; the loser folds their newspaper in half and stands on it again.
As the game continues, the loser’s newspaper gets smaller and smaller.
Anyone who can no longer stand on their newspaper, or who manages to stand but falls off, is eliminated.
The last person remaining wins.
Making animals
Twist a sheet of newspaper round and round, and you’ve got a snake.
I think this is the simplest one, but let’s try making other animals too.
Newspaper is soft, so you can shape it in many ways.
It’s also fun to draw eyes and patterns with a pen or paint it with colors.
Three-way split game
It’s a simple, casual game with easy prep and rules.
All you need is a newspaper and a pair of scissors.
Take a double-page spread and make two cuts from the bottom upward to divide it into three sections, leaving about 10 centimeters uncut at the top.
Then, using both hands, pull to see if you can neatly split the newspaper into three parts.
Timing and concentration are the keys.
Torn-paper collage
If you make good use of the color pages of newspapers, you can create beautiful torn-paper collages without having to color them in.
First decide what shape you’ll tear, then look for colors that match it.
It also sounds fun to choose what to make after looking at the colors on the color pages.