Weekend activities for kids
A weekend day, planned
| When | Activity | Why then |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | Exercises at home | Move first, while everyone is fresh. |
| Mid-morning | The Rainy Day Box | Build or make something: a fort, a craft, an experiment. |
| Lunch | Easy recipes | Let a child lead lunch, with a grown-up on the hot jobs. |
| After lunch | The Activity Book | A quiet puzzle while little ones nap. |
| Afternoon | STEM projects | One bigger project, or an outing. |
| Evening | Game Night | Family games with the child as scorekeeper. |
| Bedtime | Short bedtime stories | One more short story. |
Weekend activities by what you have
| You have… | Try |
|---|---|
| Ten minutes | Brain breaks, a riddle or a maze |
| An hour | The Rainy Day Box, a no-bake recipe or a magic trick to practise and show |
| An afternoon | A STEM project, a science fair project or a full Game Night |
| A car | Activities for kids on a road trip |
| The whole family | Family game night games |
| One tired grown-up | Screen time that teaches, or Peabody TV read-alongs |
Every weekend activity
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Science fair projects | Explore | Forty projects with a question, a test and what to write down. | 8 and up |
| Story idea generator | Make | Tap for a who, a where and a what-happens, then write or tell the story. | 6 and up |
| 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 |
| Road trip games | Play | The License Plate Game, car games and checklists for the drive. | 4 and up |
Making weekends easier
Pick two things on Friday night, not ten: one to make and one to play. A plan that fits on a sticky note is more likely to happen than a perfect one. Let the oldest child choose one of the two, and let the youngest choose the story. The Rainy Day Box plans a whole day and prints it, and its ticks stay on your device so next weekend can pick up where this one stopped.
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Questions parents ask
What can we do this weekend at home with kids?
Follow the day above: move in the morning, make something, cook lunch together, a quiet puzzle, one bigger project, family games in the evening and a short story at bedtime.
What are cheap weekend activities for kids?
Every page here is free, and the crafts, recipes and tricks use things most homes have: paper, cups, coins, string and the kitchen cupboard.
What can kids do on a weekend without a screen?
Cooking, exercise, magic tricks, charades, printables and the Rainy Day cards are all done off the screen once the page is open or printed.
What ages are these weekend activities for?
About 3 to 12, and every row says its ages. The age pages pick for one year at a time: 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12.
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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.