Things to do with kids at home
Start with
- If today is…
- Stuck inside, lots of energy
- Then
- Exercises at home, then a fort from the Rainy Day Box
Pick by what kind of day it is
| If today is… | Start here | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Stuck inside, lots of energy | Indoor activities for kids | Exercises at home, then a fort from the Rainy Day Box |
| Saturday or Sunday with nothing planned | Weekend activities for kids | A morning-to-bedtime plan you can print |
| A toddler or a 3 year old | Activities for toddlers at home | No-bake recipes and short bedtime stories |
| The screen is going on anyway | Screen time that teaches | Games that practise reading or math, with no ads |
| Everyone home in the evening | Family game night games | Game Night's scorer, Trivia and Charades |
| A long drive | Activities for kids on a road trip | The License Plate Game and car games |
| Raining | The Rainy Day Box | Forts, crafts and games, each card saying how messy |
| A child who just says "I'm bored" | Bored? | Eight big buttons a child can tap alone |
Pick by age
Each age page lists the activities, recipes, art, puzzles, stories and games that suit that age, at home rather than games only: 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12.
Everything, by kind
| Activity | What kind | What a child does | Ages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | 3 and up |
| 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. | 4 and up |
| Dot-to-dot | Puzzle | Join the numbers and a picture appears. Counting practice with a pencil. | 3 to 8 |
| Shadow match | Puzzle | Match each picture to its shadow: looking closely, with no reading needed. | 3 to 6 |
| Odd one out | Puzzle | Find the one that does not belong, and say why. | 3 to 6 |
| Mazes | Puzzle | A new maze to print or trace with a finger. | 4 to 10 |
| Spot the difference | Puzzle | Two pictures, a handful of changes to find. | 4 to 9 |
| Word find | Puzzle | Hidden words to circle, from short ones up. | 6 and up |
| Riddles | Puzzle | Riddles to read out at the table and guess together. | 6 and up |
| Secret code | Puzzle | Crack a coded message, then write one back. | 7 and up |
| Sudoku | Puzzle | Number grids from small to full size. | 8 and up |
| Logic grid | Puzzle | Read the clues and work out who has what. | 9 and up |
| Coloring pages | Make | Pictures to color on screen or print for the table. | 3 to 10 |
| Trace letters | Make | Trace capital letters, starting with the first letter of your name. | 3 to 5 |
| The Art Studio | Make | Crayons, paint and coloring on the screen. | 3 to 10 |
| How to draw | Make | Step-by-step drawings to copy onto paper. | 5 and up |
| No-bake recipes | Cook | Food small hands can make with no oven: mix, spread, stack and eat. | 3 to 8 |
| The Kitchen | Cook | Real recipes step by step with Crumb, saying which jobs are a grown-up's. | 4 and up |
| Easy recipes | Cook | Simple recipes a child can lead, with a grown-up on the hot and sharp jobs. | 5 and up |
| Funny food | Cook | Snacks shaped like critters and faces. | 4 to 10 |
| Exercises at home | Move | Real exercise sorted by how much room it needs, from a chair's width to a hallway. | 4 and up |
| Brain breaks | Move | One-minute moves to shake out the wiggles between quiet things. | 5 and up |
| Stretches | Move | Slow stretches for a calm end to a busy day. | 4 and up |
| Easy magic tricks | Play | First tricks to learn, practise and show the family after dinner. | 5 to 9 |
| Magic with household items | Play | Real tricks with cups, coins, string and paper already in the house. | 6 and up |
| Card tricks | Play | Tricks with an ordinary deck of cards. | 8 and up |
| STEM projects | Explore | Builds and experiments with things from the recycling and the kitchen. | 6 and up |
| The Workshop | Explore | Step-by-step builds and experiments to follow. | 6 and up |
| Science fair projects | Explore | Forty projects with a question, a test and what to write down. | 8 and up |
| Animals: compare two | Explore | Pick any two animals and see which is bigger, faster or lives longer. | 5 and up |
| Space | Explore | The planets in order, and what each world is like. | 6 and up |
| The Body | Explore | Tap the skin, muscles, bones, heart and organs to see what each does. | 6 and up |
| The library | Read | Free stories by reading level, to read together or alone, with no account. | 3 and up |
| Short bedtime stories | Read | Stories short enough for one more before lights out. | 3 to 8 |
| Peabody TV | Read | The library's books as read-along shows. | 3 to 7 |
| Story idea generator | Make | Tap for a who, a where and a what-happens, then write or tell the story. | 6 and up |
| Pet care books | Read | Short stories about looking after dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters and more. | 4 to 10 |
| Music | Music | Song sheets in any key, the Chord Finder, Beat Buddies and the sing-along. | 5 and up |
| Game Night | Play | A phone score sheet for family dice games where the child does the adding. | 6 and up |
| Trivia | Play | Ready trivia rounds, or build your own, for the whole table. | 7 and up |
| Charades | Play | Charades words by age, for a living room game with no board. | 5 and up |
| Chess | Play | A daily puzzle, a game to play and the openings explained. | 7 and up |
| Tangram puzzles | Puzzle | Seven shapes, one picture to make. Cut a set from paper. | 6 and up |
| Worksheets | Puzzle | Printable reading and math sheets by grade. | 5 and up |
| Typing games | Play | Learn the keyboard with races and lessons. | 6 and up |
| Preschool learning games | Play | Tap-to-play games where every question is said aloud, so no reading is needed. | 3 to 5 |
| Free games | Play | The arcade: every game quietly practises reading or math, and Just play turns the questions off. | 5 and up |
| Picture timers | Play | Fun picture timers for a turn, a tidy-up or ten minutes of screen time. | 3 and up |
A rule of thumb for a day at home
Mix the kinds. Something to move, something to make, something to cook, something quiet, and a story at the end covers most of a day, and only one of those needs a screen. A grown-up nearby matters more than the activity: the cards and recipes say which jobs are theirs, such as the oven, the scissors and anything sharp.
Everything here is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.
Questions parents ask
What can I do with my kids at home today with nothing planned?
Open the Rainy Day Box and tap Pick one for me, or print a sheet from the Activity Book. Both use things most homes already have and take ten minutes to an hour.
Are these activities free?
Yes. Everything here is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.
Do any of these need a screen?
Most do not once they are open: the recipes, exercises, magic tricks, printables and Rainy Day cards are done off the screen. The games, the Art Studio and Peabody TV are on screen.
What ages are they for?
About 3 to 12. The age pages list what suits each year, and every row here says its ages.
Is anything about my child saved or sent?
No. Nothing here asks for a name or an email. Rainy Day ticks, plans and game saves stay in your browser on that device.
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.