Activities for 11 year olds
Activities for 11 year olds at home
| Activity | What kind | What a child does |
|---|---|---|
| The Rainy Day Box | Make | Cards of forts, crafts, games and experiments with things most homes have, each saying how long, how messy and what a grown-up does. |
| The Activity Book | Puzzle | Mazes, word finds, riddles, dot-to-dots and logic puzzles in four sizes, most of them new every day, to print or do on screen. |
| Word find | Puzzle | Hidden words to circle, from short ones up. |
| Riddles | Puzzle | Riddles to read out at the table and guess together. |
| Secret code | Puzzle | Crack a coded message, then write one back. |
| Sudoku | Puzzle | Number grids from small to full size. |
| Logic grid | Puzzle | Read the clues and work out who has what. |
| How to draw | Make | Step-by-step drawings to copy onto paper. |
| The Kitchen | Cook | Real recipes step by step with Crumb, saying which jobs are a grown-up's. |
| Easy recipes | Cook | Simple recipes a child can lead, with a grown-up on the hot and sharp jobs. |
| Exercises at home | Move | Real exercise sorted by how much room it needs, from a chair's width to a hallway. |
| Brain breaks | Move | One-minute moves to shake out the wiggles between quiet things. |
| Stretches | Move | Slow stretches for a calm end to a busy day. |
| Magic with household items | Play | Real tricks with cups, coins, string and paper already in the house. |
| Card tricks | Play | Tricks with an ordinary deck of cards. |
| STEM projects | Explore | Builds and experiments with things from the recycling and the kitchen. |
| The Workshop | Explore | Step-by-step builds and experiments to follow. |
| Science fair projects | Explore | Forty projects with a question, a test and what to write down. |
| Animals: compare two | Explore | Pick any two animals and see which is bigger, faster or lives longer. |
| Space | Explore | The planets in order, and what each world is like. |
| The Body | Explore | Tap the skin, muscles, bones, heart and organs to see what each does. |
| The library | Read | Free stories by reading level, to read together or alone, with no account. |
| Story idea generator | Make | Tap for a who, a where and a what-happens, then write or tell the story. |
| Music | Music | Song sheets in any key, the Chord Finder, Beat Buddies and the sing-along. |
| Game Night | Play | A phone score sheet for family dice games where the child does the adding. |
| Trivia | Play | Ready trivia rounds, or build your own, for the whole table. |
| Charades | Play | Charades words by age, for a living room game with no board. |
| Chess | Play | A daily puzzle, a game to play and the openings explained. |
| Tangram puzzles | Puzzle | Seven shapes, one picture to make. Cut a set from paper. |
| Worksheets | Puzzle | Printable reading and math sheets by grade. |
| Typing games | Play | Learn the keyboard with races and lessons. |
| Free games | Play | The arcade: every game quietly practises reading or math, and Just play turns the questions off. |
| Picture timers | Play | Fun picture timers for a turn, a tidy-up or ten minutes of screen time. |
| Road trip games | Play | The License Plate Game, car games and checklists for the drive. |
What 11 year olds are like at home
An 11 year old can plan their own afternoon, cook a meal with a grown-up nearby, and enjoys logic, strategy and trivia.
A day for a 11 year old
| When | Try |
|---|---|
| Morning | Exercises at home |
| Before lunch | The Rainy Day Box |
| Lunch | The Kitchen |
| Afternoon | The Activity Book |
| Evening | Magic with household items |
| Bedtime | The library |
20 of the 34 activities above need no screen once they are open or printed. For games only, see middle school games. Everything here is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.
Other ages: 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12.
Questions parents ask
What can a 11 year old do at home?
Things to make, puzzle, cook, move, play, explore, read and music: the table lists 34 that suit a 11 year old, from The Rainy Day Box to Road trip games.
Which activities for a 11 year old need no screen?
The Rainy Day Box, The Activity Book, Word find and Riddles, and more in the table.
Are these activities free?
Yes. Everything here is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.
What if my child is ahead or behind for 11?
Ages are a guide, not a rule. Look one year either way: 10 or 12.
Teacher? Share this page to Google Classroom. Children open it with no sign-up.
Checked against how Peabody works on 6 November 2026. Written with help from AI, from Peabody's own code and library. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment: if you're worried about your child's learning, talk to their teacher. How Peabody's pages are made.