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Indoor games serve as an ideal way to keep your kids fit and healthy. Since these games are played in the house, the outside weather won’t bother you at all. So whether it is too hot or cold outside, you can play these games to have some fun and keep your kids active throughout the day.

According to Pagona Xenos, owner of Wellspring Center for Health & Healing starting and maintaining activities beginning as a child has an incredible impact on ones future health.

Below are some of the most interesting indoor games that you can play with your kids and keep them busy in a healthy way. Most of these games can be played in your living room, and are suitable even for tight spaces.

Jump Rope

This is a fun-loaded game that is simple to play and has numerous health benefits. What you need is a jumping rope. You should play this game in the living room or another spacious area of your home.

Obstacle Course

This game offers various physical and mental health benefits. In order to play obstacle course, you have to create a furniture course in the room. The participants should clear the obstacles by answering a riddle.

Headstands

It’s a great way to give your kids a chance to exercise a bit. This game is a perfect exercise to activate the core muscles and allow the oxygenated blood to enter the brain. To play this game, ask kids to stand on their heads and see who continues to stay in this position for a specific time. In order to play this game, kids must seek the assistance of their parents or elders.

Balloon ball

You can use balloons to play different games while staying inside your home. You may either play catch and throw or try to keep it off the ground for maximum time.

Popcorn Pushups

To play this game, you need a small bowl of popcorn on the floor. Ask your kid to take a position for pushups. The kid will stick out his/her tongue and pick a piece of popcorn with each pushup.

Animal Race

This is the most interesting games of all times. Here, you need to run like the different animals and try to win the race. You can either hop like a frog or bunny. Apart from bering interesting, this game is informative too.

Scavenger Hunt

This game is a great option when you want to enhance the physical and mental abilities of your child. To play this game, you must hide different food items and ask the kids to find them. You can create some clues for the kids, which will allow them to locate the items.

Sock Skating

Believe it or not, your kids would love playing this game. You just need a room with hardwood floors and a pair of woolen socks for each kid. The socks tend to slip on the wooden floor, allowing kids to skate around.

Dance Party

Dancing is an ideal way to exercise. Just turn on the music and start moving your body. You can also conduct a competition between the kids. You can choose the best dancer of the day by analyzing the performances.

Get ready to move your body and stretch your muscles, as we have compiled a list of such fun loaded games that not only relax the mind but also strengthen your body. So without any further delay, let’s find out what these games are.

Dance with the Moves

To play this game, you need a couple of friends. You need to play fast video songs and try to copy the dance moves. This is a hilarious game, as while following the dance moves of professional dancers, you create some kind of weird and funny dance styles.

Dancing is a type of work out that increases your metabolism rate. You move almost every part of your body when dancing. Hence, whenever you are getting bored or feeling lazy, grab your phone and bring all your friends to the dancing floor.

Workout for Fun

It is not necessary that you should go to the gym or attend a class for your daily workout. On the contrary, you can create your own workout regime by including some interesting games. For instance, you can arrange a sack race championship.

For this purpose, you can make teams consisting of your friends and family members. Each team has to set a record and the other must break it in order to win the game. Apart from sack race, you can include any other physical game to have some fun and stretch your body.

Frisbee

Frisbee is a fun way to do some workout. By throwing a Frisbee, you actually use your muscles to generate the required power. Similarly, you need to run when trying to catch the Frisbee thrown by a player. You can make it more interesting by making a couple of teams and recording the score for each team.

Kick and Catch

You might have played this game in childhood. It is an exhaustive game that burns your calories like dry wood. Apart from relieving your stress, this game is a kind of workout that strengthens your muscles and bones.

To play this game, you need at least two players. One player hits the ball with full force in order to dodge the player who is trying to catch it. Hence, a player kicks the ball and other runs after the ball to collect it.

Boxercise

This is a perfect cardio exercise that boosts your metabolism and strengthens your cardiac muscles. It also helps to burn your extra calories, making you feel much lighter an refreshed. This is a game based on the exercise done by the pro-boxers. To win the game, each player needs to hit a maximum number of punches on the sandbag.

Battle of the Water Balloons

As the name suggests, it is an activity, which adds fun to your summer afternoons. You need some water filled balloons and two buckets. Create two teams and give a bucket full of water balloons to each of the teams.

The player will take the balloon from the bucket and take cover behind the trees or bushes. When other players are throwing water balloons over you, try to save yourself by running and hiding.