When you come home from work, spending some quality time with your kids is a priority. However, which indoor activities for children should you choose?

It is so easy to resort to electronic devices when you need to find a quick and easy activity, that both parents and children will enjoy at home. But how about letting go of tablets and smart phones?

A Different Kind Of Family Time

When you want to spend some time with your children at home during the colder seasons, it is so easy to find yourself sitting on the sofa together whilst your children use electronic devices. But these are your critical, precious moments to build and maintain your relationships with each other.

Entertainment that doesn’t involve the television, X-boxes or tablets is always going to be so much better.

The tricky bit is that the autumn and winter do make it harder to come up with enjoyable, calm indoor activities. So here’s a quick rundown of the what you can come up with for quality time with children at home.

Indoor Activities For Children Helping With Family Bonding

Monopoly

Monopoly is ahead of the game with responding to the ever-changing needs of children. There are new releases of different versions of Monopoly every year. The updates allow for the increasing need for things to be quicker, more interactive and up-to-date, for contemporary children. Update your monopoly set and enjoy snapping up those expensive locations!

Smart Contemporary Board Games

If Monopoly is not your thing, check out the vast range of new and updated board games on the market. There are tons of new and classic board games to enjoy with your children.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that children today won’t enjoy this kind of activity. With a well-chosen board game you will find that children will jump at the chance to play it with you.

Top Tip: Select a board game that suits your child rather than you!

Colouring books

Colouring books have come a long way since we used them as children. Today, you and your children can sit together and enjoy colouring in specially created images, to turn colouring into a mindful activity.

You may choose to each have your own special mindful colouring book or share.

Top Tip: Make it extra special by having special colouring pens and possibly relaxing music for these moments. 

Card games & Dominos

With all of the entertainment choices that we have today, it is so easy to forget about a humble deck of cards. The options of what to play with a pack of cards is endless.

Your children will be delighted with the opportunity to play cards with you. Snap is absolutely fantastic to play with children of any age. As children get older, you may also want to introduce more complex card games from time, to time.

Likewise, a box of dominoes, will entertain you all to the same degree. Make domino rallies or play any of the many games that you can use dominoes for.

Cook together

When you come home from work, the temptation is to put pressure on yourself to create separate activities for your children. But sometimes that space isn’t always easily available outside of your daily routines.

Rather than adding to the tasks that you need to do in the evening, why not turn one or two of those jobs into things that you can do together?

On the way home, think about the dinner and how your children can help you to prepare it. Children love chopping, stirring and mixing. Plus their assistance reduces the time that you need to spend cooking too.

Top tip: Get children to carry out their cooking tasks at the table where possible, because the larger surface will help to minimise the mess and tidying up.

Thus, with a little thinking ahead, there are plenty of great indoor activities for children that adults can enjoy, too. Bonding with kids is so important  and the best part is that everyone can spend quality family time without electronic devices.

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