Calm-down activities for kids

For winding down: gentle, screen-free calm activities to help your child relax.

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A-to-Z sign huntages 4–6 · out & about · 30 min Back drawing guessages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Barefoot texture walkages 2–6 · outdoor · 10 min Beat-the-clock puzzleages 5–8 · indoor · 30 min Breathing buddyages 2–6 · indoor · 10 min Backyard bird countages 5–8 · outdoor · 30 min Feed and watch the birdsages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Blanket fortages 3–6 · indoor · 60 min Tallest towerages 2–5 · indoor · 30 min Bug safariages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Count the carsages 3–6 · out & about · 30 min Playing-card towerages 6–8 · indoor · 30 min Categories challengeages 8–12 · out & about · 10 min Name threeages 4–6 · out & about · 10 min Sidewalk chalk muralages 2–6 · outdoor · 30 min Cloud shapesages 2–6 · outdoor · 10 min Sort by colourages 2–4 · indoor · 10 min Concentration card gameages 8–12 · indoor · 10 min Cotton ball dropages 2–4 · indoor · 10 min Cup pouring stationages 2–4 · indoor · 30 min Pick a posyages 2–5 · outdoor · 10 min Rainbow density towerages 9–12 · indoor · 30 min Design a crosswordages 9–12 · indoor · 30 min Domino chain reactionages 8–12 · indoor · 30 min Dots and boxesages 8–12 · indoor · 10 min Draw how you feelages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Build a fairy houseages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Finger puppet storyages 2–6 · indoor · 30 min Torchlight starsages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Paper fortune tellerages 6–8 · indoor · 30 min Four-box comicages 6–8 · indoor · 30 min Friendship braceletsages 9–12 · indoor · 60 min Goodnight, roomages 2–4 · indoor · 10 min Draw the best bitages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Program a human robotages 8–12 · indoor · 30 min Ice excavationages 4–6 · outdoor · 60 min I-spy coloursages 2–6 · out & about · 10 min Memory tray gameages 5–8 · indoor · 10 min Lacing cardages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Leaf and flower pressages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Leaf rubbingages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Leaf rubbing artages 5–8 · outdoor · 30 min Spell your nameages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Make tonight's dreamages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Cardboard marble runages 6–8 · indoor · 60 min Memory matchages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Mental maths raceages 9–12 · out & about · 10 min Menu letter huntages 4–6 · out & about · 10 min Make a mini comic bookages 9–12 · indoor · 60 min Mud kitchenages 2–5 · outdoor · 60 min Mystery feely bagages 2–6 · indoor · 10 min Build-a-mystery storyages 9–12 · out & about · 30 min Napkin drawing gameages 2–6 · out & about · 10 min Nature bingo walkages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Nature colour matchages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Nature field journalages 9–12 · outdoor · 30 min Clap and copyages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Colour of the dayages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Countdown spottingages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Finish the songages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Menu number huntages 4–6 · out & about · 10 min Opposites gameages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Shape spyages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Silly menuages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Origami jumping frogsages 6–8 · indoor · 30 min Painted story stonesages 6–8 · outdoor · 60 min Paper chainages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Paper snowflakesages 8–12 · indoor · 30 min Paper tear collageages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Pasta threading necklaceages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Grid pixel artages 9–12 · indoor · 30 min Plant a seedages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Number-plate wordsages 6–8 · out & about · 30 min Homemade playdoughages 3–6 · indoor · 60 min Pom-pom tong transferages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Cotton-bud dot paintingages 2–5 · indoor · 30 min Rhyme timeages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Rice sensory binages 2–4 · indoor · 30 min Riddle swapages 6–8 · out & about · 10 min Rock balancing artages 8–12 · outdoor · 30 min Salt tray lettersages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Out-and-about scavenger huntages 5–8 · out & about · 30 min Crack the secret codeages 6–8 · indoor · 30 min Plant a seed potages 8–12 · outdoor · 30 min Calm-down sensory bottleages 2–5 · indoor · 30 min Shadow puppetsages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Shadow tracingages 3–6 · outdoor · 30 min Skip-count spottingages 6–8 · out & about · 10 min Sock matchingages 2–5 · indoor · 10 min Sock puppet theatreages 6–8 · indoor · 60 min Listening gameages 3–6 · outdoor · 10 min Spot and countages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Squeeze the lemonages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Star and moon watchages 9–12 · outdoor · 30 min Sticker line-upages 2–3 · indoor · 10 min Sticker scene storyages 2–4 · indoor · 30 min Make a stick sundialages 6–8 · outdoor · 60 min Stone collectingages 2–6 · outdoor · 30 min Story stonesages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min One-line story swapages 4–6 · out & about · 10 min Straw bridge challengeages 9–12 · indoor · 30 min Straw wrapper caterpillarages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Table-top towerages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Teddy hospitalages 3–6 · indoor · 30 min Three good thingsages 3–6 · indoor · 10 min Torn-paper pictureages 5–8 · indoor · 30 min Backyard treasure mapages 9–12 · outdoor · 60 min Twenty questionsages 5–8 · out & about · 10 min Guess the animalages 4–6 · out & about · 30 min Water painting outdoorsages 2–5 · outdoor · 30 min Weather watcher journalages 6–8 · outdoor · 30 min Where's it going?ages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min Whisper and copyages 2–5 · out & about · 10 min Steamy window drawingages 2–4 · out & about · 10 min Window watchingages 2–6 · indoor · 10 min Worm and snail watchages 2–6 · outdoor · 10 min Would you ratherages 3–6 · out & about · 10 min