- Go outside and let yourself get soaked. Dance in the rain if you like and get your friends and other loved ones to dance with you.
- Play football in the mud and have a hot bath afterwards.
- Make a mug of hot tea or coffee or chocolate and drink it while trying to save raindrops from falling in
- Cuddle up in bed with your favourite book.
- Listen to the rain's music on the window.
- When it's stopped raining go for a long walk and enjoy the smell.
- Play melancholic music while watching the raindrops.
- Write a story or poem or song or just a post on rain.
- Make paper airplanes and fly them across the room.
- Organize your own film festival. Agree on a theme (fantasy, horror, romance, sci fi, action, children etc.) and rent several videos according to the theme. Serve popcorn with different flavours and colourful candy.
- Go to a museum or an art exhibition.
- Do crossword puzzles or - if you're feeling very creative - make your own ones. For additional challenge make a crossword puzzle in a foreign language! You can do the same with word search puzzles. When you're finished exchange them and do the others' puzzles.
- Try sudoku.
- Play a board game. get your old Scrabble or Monopoly boards out.
- Make a huge jigsaw puzzle.
- Bake cookies and give them to family and friends.
- Take bets on which raindrop will be the fastest on the window.
- If you have an older member of the family around, let them tell family stories and learn about your family history.
- call someone you like for a long talk.
- Make hot soup - tomato soup or ginger carrot soup are two of my favourites.
- Make shadow puppets on the wall using your hands and a flashlight.
- Print out a mandala and colour it or make your own mandala. Take the time to learn something about them too.
- Make puppets out of paper bags.
- Learn how to say hello, thank you and goodbye in foreign languages. If you're with a loved one, learn how to say -I love you- in different languages.
- Eat your food on the floor pretending you're on a picnic.
- Draw pictures for your grandparents and write them a letter to send along with the drawings.
- Go to the library and let everyone involved choose a book. Take turns reading out a passage from the book.
- Watch a documentary about nature and animals or a science programme.
- Write a story together with everyone writing one sentence.
- Get audio books and snuggle up on the sofa listening to them.
- Make chocolates. If you don't have any chocolate molds, make simple balls with different fillings: coconut, nougat, marzipan, raisins etc.
- Camp inside. If you don't have a tent that you can set up without stakes, just build a tent or teepee yourself with tables or chairs and blankets. Sit inside and tell each other ghost stories.
- Have a cushion fight but be careful not to destroy your cushions.
- Make a tower from plastic or paper cups.
- Learn something new (together or on your own) - a language, an instruments, some crafts, how to type using all your fingers etc.
- Make a list of alternatives to watching tv. Find as many things as you can think of and then pick one at random and do it.
- Ask a question and then use your books (or Google if you don't have enough books) to find the answer.
- Take a nap.
- Make a book (or collage) with favourite things - trees, flowers, animals, food, drink etc.
- Have an indoor "snowball fight" with old newspaper.
- If you have one - jump on a mini trampoline
- Clean out a cupboard or drawer.
- Mend some clothes that have been piling up for ages.
- Re-decorate or re-organize your room. Put up new pictures or postcards or decorations.
- Make a treasure hunt.
- Save boxes and containers and decorate them for small bits and bobs that would otherwise get lost. Or decorate containers for food like a pasta glass etc.
- Make and send a postcard.
- Start a new collection.
- Get a colouring book and do one page.
- Make paper dolls and colour them.
- Draw a picture together with everyone taking turns adding details to it. Afterwards make up a story around the picture.
- Start eary DIY gifts for Xmas or the next birthdays.
- Make collages from old magazines.
- Finger paint with chocolate pudding on a plate and lick it clean afterwards
- Make a themed photo album and decorate it.
- Find an easy and safe experiment and perform it.
- Play with the globe if you have one. Otherwise play with a map.
- Make play dough and play with it.
- Sew puppets or toy animals.
- Make a themed meal with dishes from one country or dishes with one colour or using the same ingredient (among others).
- Design a boardgame and make the rules for it.
- Play charades.
- Play dress up.
- Make a fancy menu for a restaurant you made up and then let someone order things from it.
- Have a tea party. Bake cupcakes and use your nicest teaset and best tea.
- Make music - with real instruments or pots and pans. Or make an instrument.
- Tell a story without using a book.
- Learn to do tricks with a yoyo.
- Make boats and let them swim in the tub.
- Make a newspaper, a journal or a zine.
- Exercise - pushups, crunches etc.
- Make a scrapbook.
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