Indoor Basketball sounds like it would wreak havoc in your house, but not in this rainy-day version! It's a perfect and fun boredom busting activity!

What You Need

• a wastebasket
• paper from the recycle bin

• masking tape (optional)

Instructions

1.
Tape lines on the floor to mark distances from the waste basket.
2.
Have your child "scrunch" up the paper for balls while you tape out the floor.
3.
Start shooting "hoops". Begin at the easiest tape line and work your way back.

Tips

• In our house this activity has been used as a fun math skill game. Make a graph of successful baskets from each line, and then count up how many all together.