Rainy Day Ideas for Kids

It’s spring time and with spring comes rain. Lots of it in fact. How does that rhyme go “April showers bring May flowers?” Well welcome spring and welcome gloomy rainy days just perfect for a little indoor fun, puddle jumping on the sidewalks, and lessons about the weather.

Spring is such a wonderful time of renewal until the kids start to become restless as the rains come day after day. When the kids get bored life gets a bit harder for us so we all need a few rainy day ideas for kids.

Make that rany day fun with these great ideas

Spring cleaning fun with kids on rainy days

A great way to keep boredom from sinking in is to put the kids to work around the house getting a bit of spring cleaning in on rainy days. Make spring cleaning fun by turning your little ones into busy bees with this cute bee headband and spring cleaning with kids tips. While cleaning their rooms kids are bound to find all kinds of treasures to keep them busy for a while.

Rainy games for kids – Free printable spring memory match

After the house is clean board games are a great boredom killer. If you find yourself without board games that the children have played a million times how about trying printable games like our Alphabet Soup spelling game or this great new Springtime Memory Match perfect for keeping busy and training your brain on rainy days.

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Hands on science for rainy day fun

What better time to learn with hands on activities than when the kids are board? Science experiments make for the best rainy day activities. Oooblack (corn starch and water) can keep kids busy for hours as they learn about and experience the ONLY substance that is both a liquid and a solid simultaneously.

Turn an empty Jar into a twister while you learn about tornadoes. A little baking soda and vinegar can go a long way to show kids about chemical reactions.

Kids love crafts on rainy days

Kids love crafts and a bin of odds and ends left over from other crafts can keep kids busy all day long. Don’t have a bin of craft leftovers? You can buy containers of random art supplies designed for kids creativity and freedom.

You also have the option to offer your child things like knitting kits and knitting kits are fun and great motor skills practice. You can even find fun sets for things like painting wooden cars the possibilities are endless for even the pickiest kids.

Play dough fun on rainy days – free spring dough mats

A great way to get kids having fun on rainy days is to enjoy some time with classic play-dough. You can even raid your kitchen to make your own dough like our simple pumpkin spice dough. or simple pumpkin spice dough.

Play dough is a great way to work fine motor skills and have a bit of fun. These printable phonics based play dough mats are a great way to get kids going and works on letters b, d,f, r, and k. This set is perfect for your preschooler.

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Kids can have fun outside on rainy days

If the rain is warm and there is no lightning go outside and enjoy the rain. Jump in puddles, get wet and have fun. Just be sure everyone gets a shower when you come in for the day. Unless you live in Flint where the rain is cleaner than the water from the tap. In which case take some soap outside with you.