Indoor Fun

1 Hot Potato
Have the kids form a circle with a leader sitting in the middle. With his or her eyes closed, the
leader tosses the hot potato (a ball or similar object) to someone in the circle. The person who
catches the hot potato must pass it around quickly, from one person to the next. When the leader
randomly calls the words hot potato, the person left holding the object must leave the circle. The
game then continues in the same fashion until only one person is left. That person is, of course,
the winner.

2. Clothespin Drop

What you Have: Clothespins, chair, and jar What to Buy: Nothing

Rules:

A large mouth jar is placed at the base of a stable chair. One by one, children stand or kneel on the
chair (facing the back) and try to drop clothespins into the jar. Clothespin must be held at chin level
before dropped. Children may have five tries with an extra turn for every clothespin that goes into the
jar.

The person throwing the highest number of clothpins into the box will be the winner.

3. Coin Tower

What you Have: coins, watch What to Buy: nothing

Rules:

Place at least six times as many coins as guests in a basket. Have children sit in a circle. When time
starts and have kids try to pick out as many coins as possible. Ask them to make a tower of the coins
picked out. When the time finishes, the one with the longest tower wins.

4. Small pieces of newspaper (or beans, eg. kidney beans) are sucked up with a
straw from bowl A to bowl B. Max wins.

5.The person/group picks up maximum M&Ms (or beans) from bowl A to bowl B
using toothpick wins.