Indoor games and recreational activities recommended for spring

paper cup holder

[Kids’ Exercise You Can Do at Home] Paper Cup Stacking Race (For All Ages)

Do you know the bottle flip challenge? It’s a game where you flip a plastic bottle that’s about one-third full of liquid and try to make it land upright.

Thanks to social media and video sites, it’s become something we see a lot.

But let’s all have fun with something that might have been around even before the bottle flip: standing up a paper cup.

You can throw it by hand or kick it—change up the rules however you like and try to get the cup to stand.

It’s a non-digital game you can enjoy indoors—perfect for a rainy day!

circuit play

Let’s Move Our Bodies and Play a Lot! ~Circuit~ [Ages 0–2] | Minamisenrioka Yuuiku-en [Nursery/Kindergarten Event]

Let’s have fun moving our bodies with a circuit play activity! Use mats, color cones, and hula hoops to create a wonderful course.

For one-year-olds, this is a time when activities that use the whole body—like walking, jumping, and climbing—become very active.

Be sure to support each child so they can move freely at their own pace.

We’ll likely see many moments of “I did it!” from the children.

You might be amazed at how they grow.

To prevent injuries, don’t forget to include warm-up exercises.

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The Little Bird’s Move

[Exercise & Gymnastics Kids Enjoy] “Little Bird Moving House” Recommended from Age 3 / Rule-based movement games and exercise/gymnastics educational videos from ‘Okaasan to Issho’ to improve motor skills

Here’s a little “Birdie Moving House” game we really want you to enjoy with young children.

The kids play as little birds, while the teacher or parents play as crabs or crocodiles.

The rules are simple: if three children are playing as birds, prepare six “houses.” The houses can be chairs or any kind of markers.

At the starting signal, the birds sit in a tuck position and scoot on their bottoms to move to a different house.

But crabs and crocodiles block their way! Hurry and move house without getting caught by the crabs’ sideways scuttle or the crocodiles’ big mouths!

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Murakami Shinpei

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Armony Game

[Viral] Tried Amoni (Armony) Game and it was so hard I burst out laughing at the most nonsensical parts lol

A slightly unusual game where you play by singing: the “Ah-mony Game.” You prepare several songs that either include an “ahhh” or start with one, and the players sing the “ahhh” to guess which song it’s from.

If the sung “ahhh” matches, it’s correct—simple.

The more songs you include and the more people participate, the harder it gets.

When you hear the original, you’ll go, “Ohhh, that one!” but while you’re listening, it’s surprisingly hard to tell which “ahhh” it is.

And as you play again and again, it all starts to feel a bit silly—in a way that makes the game even more fun and lively.

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Musical chairs

Who on earth is going to be left? It’s a game of musical chairs.

A game of musical chairs where quick reflexes make all the difference—extra thrilling! Set up one fewer chair than the number of players and have everyone walk around them in circles.

Give a random signal, and whoever manages to sit down at that moment wins that round.

Those who fail are eliminated, and one chair is removed each time.

In the end, it’s a climactic showdown with two players vying for a single chair! It’s sure to get everyone hyped.

Wink Killer

[JK] High school girls Trendy game Wink Killer rules

Prepare as many cards as there are players, and write “Culprit” on one of them.

Deal the cards to everyone, have each person check their card without letting others see, and sit in a circle so that no one has any blind spots.

When the game starts, everyone looks into the eyes of the people around them.

The Culprit can “kill” someone they make eye contact with by winking at them (anyone who is killed leaves the circle).

If someone witnesses the wink as it happens, they can point and shout “Culprit!!” to catch the perpetrator.

If the Culprit manages to eliminate everyone else without being found out, the Culprit wins.

Gesture Telephone Game

Tried Playing a Gesture Telephone Game by PRIMA DONNA

A recreation that mixes the telephone game and charades.

First, decide who will give the prompt and the order for passing it along, using rock-paper-scissors or something similar.

The prompter writes the prompt on a whiteboard, and everyone else lines up in a single file facing away.

The prompter first shows the prompt to the first person, then conveys the prompt to the second person and beyond using gestures without any words.