When you’re stuck in a house on a rainy day with nothing to do, it’s not very good for an active kid. He needs to run around having fun. We had a few ideas that seem to help. Honestly, we’ve been getting bored and decided to reach out for some new ideas. So I asked a few bloggers some of their rainy day ideas do when it’s too wet to play outside.
Rainy Day Roundup
For us, we usually try to do some reading and a lot of boxcar driving. But that doesn’t usually last for never long. So we’ve been working on a list of fun stuff to do. That doesn’t mean watching a screen for hours.
Parenting Expert to Mom, Kayla has quite the list. Check out her 13 rainy day ideas including splashing in the mud puddles, rotating toys, and fort building.
Katelyn from What’s Up Fagans created a 13 idea quiet activities roundup. One of the ideas I really like is the quiet box with all kinds of things. And long audiobooks as an excellent distraction.
Make Something Yummy or Fun
Ideally something you can use after making. The first thing that comes to mind is baking something. Aiden loves to play chef and will make quite the feast of pretend food. So when I allow him to help me cook he’s quite happy.
Something to Eat
We bake cookies or muffins. Or he helped me make dinner.
Pie offered a bunch of low carb recipes from her Low Carb Yum blog. Check out her recipes:
Zucchini Pizza Bites looks like a brilliant way to get your kids to eat more veggies. And even Chocolate Cupcakes Nutella Frosting which looks quite good.
Something to Play With
Or make something to play with like play dough or slime. Yes, messy but it’s hard to contain active without something different.
If you’re looking for a great play-doh recipe, Rebecca has a nice gluten-free playdoh recipe here. Which is fantastic for anyone who has a gluten allergy. She also uses an all-natural dye.
And check out Carleen’s sand slime recipe. It looks like it has a really nice texture to it.
Shari at Diary of a So Cal Mama came up with three very easy and cheap ideas here. Great for a little concentration and hopefully a little peace and quiet with her DIY simple toys.
Create Something New
Much of the time Aiden just wanted to draw. So pictures are a good place to start. Usually, he gets a stack of construction or other colored paper and draws on the front and backs of everything.
Carleen created a really cute butterfly with a few dollar store items and a wine cork. Check her DIY here.
This DIY should be doable with even a very young toddler as Lisa explains her friend’s almost 2-year-old did this craft. A yarn heart.
Pretend Something
We definitely play chief a lot. He can’t get enough of making food and getting me to “eat” it. We have a beautiful set of pots and pans and fruits and vegetables from Melissa and Doug that we found at a garage sale this summer. Which is completely fun to play with.
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Katelyn also had an imagination idea of playing a doctor.
This one is one of my favorites from Laura. She created a dinosaur garden with some rocks and mini plastic dinosaurs. It looks like a great one to make on your next dollar store trip.
Rainy Day Roundup
I hope this gave you a few new ideas for your next rainy day. For even more ideas check out my Pinterest board: rainy day ideas. And remember to like, share, and subscribe. 🙂
This is quite a list and I think my kids will enjoy doing everything on a rainy day. Thanks!
I used to love splashing around outside on a rainy day. It is still a little too cold to do that yet though. This looks like a good day!
These are really cool ideas, sure I am going to check it out some for my kids.
These are some amazing ideas! My mom could totally use some of these!
These are such great ideas, thanks for sharing! It’s been so rainy this year in So. California
We have plans for my nephew in a few weeks. We’re hoping to go to the zoo but if it rains I’ll try these!
Preparing something yummy works out for everyone . For me, snacks and rain goes well together. DIY projects are more fun to do together to spend a perfect day.
These are great activities for toddlers. I love letting them be creative and try new things when cooped up inside!!
Sometimes there is nothing like doing something fun on a rainy day OR just jumping in puddles!
I’ll have to try my hand at that sand slime and those double cheese Zucchini Pizza Bites look super yummy! I could go for some of those right now!
That looks pretty easy to make and would be a great idea to make with kids. I don’t have any but this would be good in the future if I did
These are great ideas for rainy days. I will keep these in mind for my boys.
These are really great ideas for when the weather decides to rain all week long and you either choose to be indoors or find something to do outside.
Thank you for these ideas my toddler would love to do these activities 😃👍🏼
We’ve been doing tiny living for a couple of years now, so we’ve learned to stock up on stuff to do for the kids so they won’t get bored on rainy seasons. We’ve got a mini library of books they devour, art materials they can freely use, and Lego. Lego has always been an effective time-consumer for our boys.
Play dough and slime are great rainy day ideas. I like to make crafts with my kiddos on rainy days!
What a great list of ideas for moms to use to entertain their little ones during rainy days. I love the play pretend game, DIY crafts, and baking sweet or savory treats together. These are surefire ways to keep our smile on our little one’s faces and burn off some energy.
lovely ideas for kids to bring out creativity
I love these ideas for the kids, especially it is rainy season in our country as well. I love the making something yummy activity, as well as making that DIY sand slime. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for giving us so many ideas and from others as well. I also love baking with my little ones. It’s a great activity and doubles as an incentive to eat their dinner!