Puppet Theater

• Make a puppet theater with your kids. Bring home large pieces of cardboard, such as the packaging from a refrigerator or stove. Assemble the puppet theater and let the kids paint and decorate it. Older children can make their own sock puppets while you help the younger ones to design their characters. The children will have fun putting on puppet shows.
  
  

Activity Games

• Play activity games like Twister or Charades. Have fun trying to twist your body in different contortions without losing your balance. Use your imagination for Charades. Adapt the game of musical chairs for dancing. Stop dancing and keep that pose when the music stops.
  
  

Music Activities

• Find a musical arrangement that accommodates each family member's instrument and level of expertise. Play together as a family. Alternately, have karaoke night with everyone singing as a group or each person singing to his favorite music.
  
  

Scavenger Hunt

• Use small, unbreakable household objects for an indoor scavenger hunt. Decide which rooms you will use and who will hide the items. Give each child a plastic grocery bag to collect his treasures.
  
  

Slumber Party

• Let the kids help to make appetizers, homemade pizza and ice cream. Use an old Christmas tree wheel as a disco light while the kids dance, sing or play DJ. Have a three-legged race if there are enough children.
  
  

Backyard Camping

• Pitch a tent in the backyard, barbecue dinner and toast marshmallows. Use binoculars or a telescope to identify the constellations and look for shooting stars.
  
  

Indoor Gardening

• Start an indoor gardening project, such as planting early spring flowers or an indoor herb garden, and share your love of gardening with your children.
  
  

Art Activities

• Give your kids some old magazines and let them make a collage to decorate their room. If you have extra shoe boxes, construction paper and small decorative objects, the kids can make shadow boxes using pebbles, seashells, charms, old dollhouse furniture and whatever else you have.
  
  

Board Games

• Play your favorite board games or learn a new one. Many kids like Mouse Trap, Sorry and Concentration. Older kids may enjoy Battleship or Ouija.