Top 5 indoor games to keep your kids busy during quarantine

Quarantine gaming for your kids

Thursday, 16th April 2020

Keeping kids engaged and busy during quarantine might be a challenge for parents. As most schools have been shut down temporarily due to lockdown, kids are staying at home right now. Abundance of time and lack of outdoor and playground access have made most kids utterly bored.

Some have become cranky while others are indulging in all sorts of pranks and mischief to kill their boredom. Now, as a parent how can you keep your little one engaged and interested in a meaningful way during this quarantine phase? There are a good number of indoor games that you can engage your kids in…Read more:

1. Hide and Seek

This is one of the most exciting games you have probably enjoyed as a kid. Now, it’s your kid’s turn to enjoy. Hide just anywhere in your house and ask your kid to find you out!

1. Tic-tac-toe

All you need for this game is a pen and a paper. This is one of the simplest games that you have also played in your childhood probably. In this game a grid is drawn on a paper and two players playing the game seek to complete a diagonal or a column or a row with signs like three ‘X’ or three ‘O’.

1. Antakshari

This is a song-based game where one contestant sings a song’s first verse making sure that the song starts with the consonant with which the song sung by the previous contestant ends.

1. Dumb Charades

This is one of the most popular indoor games. If you are a movie buff or can act well this game is a great option for you. In this game you’ll have to enact the movie name when it’s your turn while the other contestant will guess the name of the movie by seeing your enactment.

1. Musical Chair

When you are under lockdown, the two most vital activities or items you would need are music and physical activity. In this game of ‘Musical Chair’ a couple of chairs will be there and the players will have to go round the chairs while the music is on. The very moment the music stops the players will have to find a chair to sit on. One who fails to find a chair is out of the game.