A rainy day can be fun, with these indoor activities for your school-aged child! These games, puzzles, and activities are perfect rainy-day distractions. From quick boredom busters to fun group activities, these games offer hours of play for older kids and tweens.

Discus Throw
Materials : String or tape
Paper Plates

Directions : Mark a square at one end of a room with string or tape. Have your child stand back several feet and try to throw paper plates into the square. A child playing alone can see how many plates land in the square in a designated time.

Two or more children can take turns throwing plates to see who has more successful throws. You may want to color-code each child's plates or label them with the child's name.

Name Games
Directions: What's the connection between an avocado and an aardvark? Find out with this activity! Hold up whatever ingredient you're using and say its name. You and your child have to come up with as many words as you can that start with the same letter as the object (they don't necessarily have to be food-related).

For example, hold up an egg. Immediately, the words start: "elephant," "elf," "extraterrestrial" . . . To give yourselves some variety, try thinking of words that begin with the last letter of the food, or words that rhyme with the food. A more sophisticated version, for older kids, involves thinking of opposites. If the item in the recipe is round, kids have to think of a square food (box of cereal or brick of cheese). If it's soft, then the goal is to come up with something hard. Same with qualities like "bitter" and "sweet," and so on. Now, then, what's the opposite of broccoli?

Besides many basket ball, volley ball, table tennis, cricket, base ball are the other choices also.