Girls play indoor games with as much energy as they play outdoor games.
When girls play indoors, they have a seemingly endless supply of ideas for games. Not stifled by weather, girls may turn to established indoor games or they may devise their own games with rules that only little girls can conceive. Girls will exercise creativity with game "pieces." Ordinary household items, such as toilet paper or kitchen items, become the stuff of imagination in a girl's imaginative world. The U.S. Scouts and other websites provide ideas to keep girls playfully occupied indoors.
Relay
Let balloons signify winners of an indoor relay race.
The U.S. Scouts are masters at occupying kids indoors and out. Relay games energize kids and hold their interest. Adjust game items as needed for individual dietary needs. Teams line up several feet away from a table with as many setups as teams. Setups include an inflated balloon, a bib, crackers, chips, a peeled orange, a can of soda and a straw. On "Go!" the first person in each team runs to the table and ties on the bib. Each girl eats a cracker, an orange section, one potato chip, and one sip of soda. She removes the bib and runs back to her team, tapping the next girl in line. This continues until the first team to eat all of their food pops a balloon signaling a win.
Ms. Frosty
Cold weather need not keep girls from playing snowgirl.
Teams of girls armed with rolls of toilet paper and colored construction paper form the components of the game, Ms. Frosty, as described by the website, Party Kaboose. This game works well with a class of girls with sufficient numbers to form teams. Teams make a hat and use more colored paper to decorate their "snowgirls." Girls wrap a team member in toilet paper, leaving holes for eyes, nose and mouth. Use colored paper to decorate each team's "Ms. Frosty" with girly accessories, such as necklaces, colored hair and makeup. Make sure everyone wins, by giving small prizes for fastest Frosty, most unique, most colorful and other designations.
Indoor Cafe
Play an indoor cafe game with customers and a full staff as players.
Girls set up a cafe. The cafe serves tea, soft drinks, sandwiches, cookies, and chips. Girls play waitress, cashier, cook and bus girl. Create a simple menu. Use Monopoly money for customers and for the cash register. Set a restaurant table, set up a kitchen in one area of a room or in an actual home kitchen. Place a cash register--use a calculator and a cigar box for money in another corner. Begin the Indoor Cafe game when a customer comes in for a meal. Someone from the cafe staff should escort the customer to a table and give her a menu. The cafe staff takes orders, submit orders in the kitchen, deliver meals and tend to the customer. The game ends when the customer pays and leaves a tip she thinks is fair for the service she received.
Board and Card Games
A deck of cards opens the potential for hours of indoor enjoyment.
Board games and cards provide multiple opportunities to occupy girls playing indoors. The list is long, but board games with entertainment potential include, Clue, Chutes and Ladders, and Candy Land. Card games include, but are not limited to, Go Fish, War and Rummy. Think of the favorites from your own childhood that you can remember. Share them with your girls.
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