INDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR 2-5 YEARS AGE GROUP KIDS

I would like to gather all indoor activities that can be useful for kids in 2-5 years of age.Some are my own ideas, some are taken from internet, and some are my daughters school activities. I thought it is useful for mothers during this lockdown. 

1. Coloring: The easiest way to attract the toddlers
2. Memory game: Place 3-4 items/toys in a tray. Make your toddler remember what they are, place a cloth on the items and carefully remove one of the item, without their knowledge. Let them guess which item was removed.
3. Frozen dance: Play some energitic music, let your kid dance to that music, you also dance if required,and freeze your movements, when the music stops suddenly. 
4. Mis match: Take 4 pairs of items,/toys, place it in two rows with mismatch sequence.  Ask this toddler to match them accordingly. 
   
5. Round alphabets: Arite alphabets on small pieces of paper,and arrange them in a circular shape. Let the music start and your kid run around. When the music stops, kid should stop, then the kid need to identify the letter and ask them to say the related word to that alphabet.
6. Find the color: Make sure you placed the colours visible to your kid. Ask them to bring specific colored item to you. Kids will run around to search that.
7. Hopscotch: This activity is simply favorite thing for many kids.  You just need to draw lines for jumping. You can make them more interesting with your creativity.
8. Treasure hunt: For this you don't need garden or open places. Draw the outline of your house/room, hide some of their toys or daily things in the room and ask them to find out. You can even list out the things you were hidden. For reference see the picture below. 
   
9. Puppet show: All you need for a puppet show is plastic/wooden spoons, wool and all fix gum. You can create whatever charecters you want.
   
10. Hide and seek: My favourite game for gaining some time for moms.
11. Word/alphabet search: Write random alphabets and ask kids to find purticular alphabet or word. Yes you can create your own word search for your kids.
    
12. Follow the lines: Make your kids take a round all over your home. Draw arrow lines directing to their favourite toy, with some obstacles like chairs or tables. They surely enjoy the process.
13. Basket and ball: Take any available basket or vessel so that your kid can throw some paper balls or small toys. Score them and encourage.
14. Crafting: You team up with little scientists, they can make you do miracles!!!
    
15. Play imaginary roles: Kids are more influenced by cartoon charecters, play with them. Our favourite game is Dora and explorer, myself Boots in that play, Dora role played by my daughter.
16. Make play doughs: Use wheat flour or all purpose flour to make the doughs, and if food color is available, you use it too.
17. Try music: Try what kind of sound comes from an empty glass and glass full of water. Try to create music from that. Who knows, you may become an expert in Jaltarang, after this lock down!!!
18. Bubble bath: Stay at home is not alone safe, you need to disinfect the home. Take help of your kids and wash their toys in bubble bath. Sure they enjoy the bubbles.
19. Board games: Board games are ever green games. Do you think they cannot understand board rules. Let go of rules for some time and play with them. You get a heatful of laughter!!!
20. My Kitchen rules: When is the last time you truly enjoyed cooking?? Dont worry about the rotis/dosas shape, enjoy cooking with your kid's help. 

These are only suggestions, you can design more games with your creativity!!