Rainy days with kids can go in two completely different directions. Sometimes the rain feels cozy, everyone settles in, and somehow the afternoon passes without anyone asking when they can go outside. Other days, I feel like I’ve heard “I’m bored” before I’ve even finished my first cup of coffee. What I’ve learned is that having a huge collection of complicated crafts isn’t necessarily the answer. The rainy day activities that save me are usually the ones kids can change, rebuild, replay, or take in a completely different direction once the original activity is finished.
That’s what I wanted this list to be about. I’m not filling it with twenty-five versions of coloring, painting, and gluing paper together. I wanted a real mix of movement, sensory play, imagination, building, cooking, problem-solving, quieter activities, and a few wonderfully silly ideas that make being stuck indoors feel like an event instead of a punishment. Current rainy-day play recommendations also keep coming back to this balance: children need opportunities to move when outdoor play gets cancelled, but building, pretend play, puzzles, sensory experiences, and hands-on projects can hold their attention in very different ways. (Junosphere) So when the forecast shows rain from breakfast until bedtime, these are the activities I’d actually want ready.
1. Build an Indoor Adventure Course
When my kids have been staring through the window at rain for half the morning, I know sitting them down immediately with a quiet activity probably isn’t going to work. They need somewhere for all that energy to go first. An indoor adventure course is one of my favorite ways to do it because I can build one from whatever is already around the house. Couch cushions become stepping stones, painter’s tape becomes a balance line, a blanket draped over two chairs becomes a tunnel, and a laundry basket makes an easy target for soft balls or rolled-up socks. Indoor throwing and movement games are also specifically recommended as useful alternatives when weather prevents outdoor physical play. (NAEYC)
The reason this activity never seems to get old is that I don’t build the exact same course twice. One rainy day it becomes a jungle where nobody can touch the lava. Another time, we’re astronauts crossing craters or secret agents crawling underneath imaginary laser beams. Older kids can design the course themselves and time each other, while preschoolers are usually happy jumping, crawling, balancing, and repeating the same route twenty times. I keep anything climbable low to the floor and move hard or sharp furniture away first, because the goal is energetic play without turning my living room into an actual adventure emergency.
2. Create a Giant Cardboard Box Town
I have stopped throwing away a really good cardboard box too quickly because kids can turn cardboard into almost anything. Give them several delivery boxes, washable markers, painter’s tape, paper scraps, and child-safe scissors, and suddenly the floor can become an entire town. One box becomes a bakery, another becomes a pet hospital, and a long flat piece becomes a road. They can make parking spaces for toy cars, little cardboard houses for dolls, tunnels, bridges, shops, or even a drive-through restaurant.
What I especially love is that the project doesn’t have to be finished in one sitting. That makes it perfect when you have several wet days in a row. On the first afternoon, we might construct the town. The next day, the kids make signs, furniture, or cardboard food. By day three, they’re usually playing elaborate pretend games inside the world they created. Simple open-ended materials such as cardboard boxes are exactly the kind of inexpensive play materials pediatric guidance highlights for encouraging imagination. (HealthyChildren.org) Sometimes the least impressive thing I put on the floor creates the longest stretch of play.
3. Turn the Living Room Into a Flashlight Treasure Hunt
A treasure hunt is one of my rainy-day secret weapons because it can be as simple or elaborate as I have energy for. For younger kids, I hide a handful of familiar toys around one room, dim the lights slightly, hand them flashlights, and let them search. For older children, I write clues that lead from one location to another until they finally discover the treasure. The prize doesn’t have to be anything exciting. I’ve used stickers, a snack, a note announcing hot chocolate, or even the privilege of choosing the next family game.
Adding flashlights completely changes the mood. The hallway they’ve walked through a thousand times suddenly feels mysterious, and the hunt becomes much more immersive than simply asking them to find hidden objects. Sometimes I give them categories instead of clues: find something soft, something yellow, something shaped like a circle, something that makes a sound, and something beginning with a certain letter. That turns the game into observation and problem-solving without making it feel remotely like school.
4. Open a Family Café for the Afternoon
Pretend restaurants are one of those activities that can start with almost nothing and somehow become incredibly serious business. I let the kids choose a café name, make a simple menu, arrange a few tables, and decide who will be the chef, server, customer, and cashier. Play food is wonderful, but you don’t actually need it. Blocks become cakes, pom-poms become berries, paper circles become pancakes, and empty clean containers can turn into pretend pantry ingredients.
If I’m willing to add real food, this gets even better. We might make a simple snack plate, fruit skewers, sandwiches, or hot chocolate and let the kids actually serve it. Older children can write prices and total orders while little ones love carrying trays and taking pretend orders. Current indoor-play guidance continues to highlight pretend and role play because one setup can support countless different stories. (Gift Palace) I like it because the children aren’t just consuming an activity I’ve planned; they’re running the whole thing themselves.
5. Make a Rainy Day Sensory Café
I love sensory bins, but instead of pouring random things into a tub and hoping they play, I find that giving sensory play a pretend purpose makes it last much longer. A rainy-day sensory café can use play dough, scoops, muffin tins, silicone cupcake liners, wooden spoons, pom-poms, large craft pieces, and pretend dishes. Kids can roll play dough cookies, make pretend ice cream sundaes, create cupcakes, or run a tiny bakery.
For toddlers, I keep everything large, age-appropriate, and safe for their stage because anything that can fit in a mouth needs extra thought. Older kids can make detailed menus, invent ridiculous desserts, or challenge one another to create something from a limited set of materials. The beauty of this setup is that there is no finished product they have to copy. They can squash everything and begin again, which is exactly why it lasts longer than a craft with one expected result.
6. Build a Blanket Fort That Has a Purpose
Blanket forts are hardly new, but I don’t think kids actually get tired of them. The trick is making the fort the beginning of the activity rather than the whole activity. We use chairs, sofa cushions, blankets, sheets, and sturdy clips to build a cozy space, then decide what the fort is going to become. Sometimes it’s a reading cave. Sometimes it’s a campsite, spaceship, secret headquarters, bear den, or tiny cinema.
Once it’s built, I bring in pillows, battery-operated lights, books, stuffed animals, puzzles, or snacks. On a really wet afternoon, lunch inside the fort suddenly feels far more exciting than lunch at the table. I also let the kids redesign it when it collapses instead of immediately fixing everything for them. Building together naturally brings little engineering problems—how to make the roof stay up, where the entrance belongs, and how everyone fits—which is part of what makes the experience worth repeating.
7. Try the Mystery Building Challenge
Blocks, magnetic tiles, LEGO-style bricks, and wooden construction sets become much more exciting when I add a challenge. Instead of saying, “Go build something,” I write ideas on little folded slips and place them in a bowl. Build the tallest tower you can. Build a bridge that can hold three toy cars. Build a house for a stuffed animal. Make a marble maze. Build something with exactly twenty pieces. Create a vehicle nobody has ever invented.
Kids can pull one challenge at random and decide how to solve it. If siblings are different ages, I avoid making it purely competitive because the older child usually has an obvious advantage. Instead, they can work together or each create completely different solutions. Hands-on construction is repeatedly recommended as a strong screen-free alternative because it gives children real objects to manipulate and problems to solve. (HealthyChildren.org) The challenge card simply gives familiar building toys enough novelty to feel new again.
8. Set Up an Indoor Mini Golf Course
This one sounds elaborate until you actually try it. I use plastic cups turned on their sides as holes, painter’s tape to mark paths, cardboard pieces as obstacles, and soft lightweight balls. If we have toy golf clubs, wonderful. If not, kids can gently roll the balls, use cardboard tubes, or invent their own safe method of getting each ball through the course.
What keeps this entertaining is letting the children redesign each hole. A stack of books becomes a tunnel, blocks become barriers, a cardboard ramp adds difficulty, and a chair-leg maze suddenly becomes the championship hole. Older kids can assign each hole a par and keep score, while younger kids mostly enjoy trying to get the ball into the cup. It combines building and movement without requiring children to sprint through the house, which makes it especially useful when I want active play that still feels somewhat controlled.
9. Make a Giant Tape Road Across the Floor
Painter’s tape has saved more rainy afternoons in my house than some expensive toys. I make roads across a hard floor, adding intersections, parking spaces, bridges, garages, and roundabouts. Then the kids bring over toy cars, buses, animals, blocks, and little figures and turn the whole thing into a miniature world.
What starts as driving usually grows into something else. They build shops beside the road, create a zoo, add a hospital, construct houses, or decide that one section is an airport. If I have older children playing too, I ask them to design street signs or plan the town before we tape it. When we’re finished, the tape peels away and the room goes back to normal. It gives us the excitement of a huge play setup without permanently sacrificing the floor.
10. Have a Kitchen Science Lab
There is something about announcing “We’re doing an experiment” that makes kids appear in the kitchen immediately. I keep rainy-day science simple and use familiar demonstrations rather than projects requiring a shopping trip. Depending on their age, we might explore what sinks and floats, make baking soda fizz with vinegar, experiment with color mixing, investigate what dissolves in water, or test which household materials absorb the most water.
I make the prediction part almost as important as the experiment. Before anything happens, everyone guesses what they think will occur and explains why. Older children can write results in a notebook while younger ones can draw what they observed. Current rainy-day activity guides continue to feature pantry-based STEM experiments because they turn ordinary household materials into hands-on discovery. (Mom Loves Best) I supervise closely and choose only age-appropriate ingredients, but the setup can still feel wonderfully dramatic without being complicated.
11. Create an Indoor Camping Night Before Dinner
Sometimes the best rainy-day activity is changing the atmosphere of the house. I pull out sleeping bags or blankets, turn off some of the regular lights, use battery lanterns, and create an indoor campsite. The kids can make a pretend campfire from cardboard tubes and tissue paper, bring stuffed animals on a “wildlife expedition,” and tell stories around the camp.
Then I stretch the theme into dinner. We might eat picnic-style on the floor, make simple camp-inspired snacks, or have a flashlight story after eating. It doesn’t have to become an actual sleepover unless I want it to. Even two hours of indoor camping can completely change a long afternoon. Children love when ordinary household routines get temporarily broken, and I love that most of the supplies are blankets and things we already own.
12. Make a Family Stop-Motion Story Without Posting It Anywhere
I don’t believe every rainy-day activity has to ban screens completely. Sometimes I prefer turning technology into a creative tool instead of passive entertainment. Older children can arrange LEGO figures, clay characters, toy dinosaurs, or paper shapes and take a sequence of photos while moving them slightly between shots. With adult help and a simple stop-motion feature or app, those pictures become a tiny movie.
The important part for me is that most of the activity happens away from the screen. They have to create characters, build scenery, decide what happens, solve continuity problems, and often remake scenes when somebody bumps the table. We don’t need to upload or share the finished film anywhere. It can simply be a ridiculous thirty-second family masterpiece that gets watched five times before dinner. For kids who love videos, this flips them from viewer to creator.
13. Host a Stuffed Animal Veterinary Clinic
Whenever pretend play feels stale, I give it a very specific job. Gather stuffed animals, bandages or strips of clean fabric, toy medical supplies if you have them, sticky notes, blankets, and a few empty safe containers. Suddenly the playroom becomes a veterinary clinic and every stuffed animal develops an extremely urgent problem.
Kids can create waiting areas, examine their patients, wrap pretend injuries, assign beds, and prepare discharge instructions. Older children often start writing patient names and making appointment schedules without me suggesting it. Younger children simply love caring for their toys. I particularly like this one on rainy days because it can become a long, gentle stretch of imaginative play after we’ve already done something energetic.
14. Run a Sock Olympics
Clean socks are one of the best pieces of rainy-day sports equipment because they’re soft, cheap, and already in the house. Roll pairs into balls and create several silly events: sock toss into laundry baskets, distance throws down a clear hallway, target throwing at taped circles, balancing a sock ball on a spoon, or carrying one between the knees across a short finish line.
We usually create three or four events rather than twenty, because the fun comes from replaying them and trying to improve. Kids can make medals from paper if they want, but I avoid turning everything into a serious winner-versus-loser competition. Sometimes everyone is trying to beat the family’s previous score instead. The American Academy of Pediatrics specifically includes active screen-free ideas such as timed obstacle courses and sock-based games among alternatives children can enjoy during time away from screens. (HealthyChildren.org)
15. Bake Something Kids Can Actually Customize
Baking becomes much more interesting when children have decisions to make. Instead of having them stand beside me while I do everything, I choose something forgiving that allows real participation—mini pizzas, simple muffins, cookies, fruit-and-yogurt cups, decorated toast, or another age-appropriate family recipe. Kids can measure, pour, mix, arrange, and decorate depending on their abilities.
Customization is the part that stretches the activity. Give everyone a small portion and let them create their own version. One child might carefully arrange fruit while another makes the most chaotic cookie imaginable. I don’t worry too much about everything looking Pinterest-perfect. The measuring and waiting are part of the experience, and eating something they helped make gives the activity a satisfying ending that another paper craft doesn’t always have.
16. Create a Rainy Window Observation Station
Instead of pretending the rain isn’t there, sometimes I make it the activity. We set up a comfortable spot near a safe closed window with paper, pencils, binoculars if we have them, and a few questions. What are the raindrops doing? Which direction are the trees moving? Are birds hiding or feeding? How many umbrellas can we spot? What happens to puddles when the rain gets heavier?
Older kids can keep a tiny weather journal and compare observations over several rainy days. Younger children can draw the clouds, count cars, or simply watch drops race down the glass. I find this especially useful after lunch when everyone needs to slow down. It connects them to what is happening outside without requiring a big setup, and it turns weather that cancelled our plans into something worth noticing.
17. Make a DIY Escape Room
For school-age kids, a homemade escape room can take over an entire afternoon. I choose one room or safe area and create a chain of clues: a simple number puzzle reveals which book to check, a riddle points toward a drawer, a hidden picture gives another clue, and the final answer leads to a small prize or snack.
Once they’ve completed mine, I turn the activity around and ask them to create an escape room for me. That is usually the better half. They have to think about sequence, write understandable clues, hide things without making them impossible to find, and test whether the puzzles actually work. It becomes a surprisingly deep problem-solving project disguised as a game, and every new escape room is naturally different from the previous one.
18. Build a Marble Run From Recyclables
Save cardboard tubes, cereal boxes, paper cups, and small clean cartons, then add painter’s tape and a safe rolling object appropriate for your child’s age. Kids can tape tubes along a large piece of cardboard or build a freestanding pathway and experiment with getting the ball from the beginning to the end.
This is one of my favorite rainy-day STEM activities because failure is actually useful. If the ball stops halfway down, the children have to figure out whether the slope is too shallow. If it flies off the track, perhaps the angle is too steep. Instead of me correcting everything, I ask what they think could change. Once the run finally works, they usually want to rebuild it immediately and make it longer.
19. Have a Family Bookshop and Reading Café
If simply saying “Let’s read” gets absolutely no reaction, I turn reading into an event. The kids gather books from around the house, organize them into little displays, make library cards or pretend money, and set up a cozy reading café with cushions and a simple snack. Everyone chooses a book from the “shop” before finding a comfortable place to read.
With younger kids, I read aloud and let them choose the order. Older kids can recommend books to one another, create tiny review cards, or wrap a few books in plain paper for a “mystery book” selection. Reading and coloring are among the quieter screen-free options pediatric guidance suggests for children who need to unwind. (HealthyChildren.org) The pretend-shop layer simply makes opening a familiar book feel like something special.
20. Make a No-Rules Art Supply Tray
I love crafts, but I don’t always love crafts where every child is expected to make the exact same thing. For this activity, I place a selection of materials on the table—cardboard scraps, washable markers, paper, tape, yarn, stickers, paper tubes, glue, craft sticks, and whatever safe leftovers are already in our craft cupboard—and I don’t provide an example.
I might give one loose prompt such as “invent something that can fly,” “make a creature nobody has discovered,” or “build something useful for your stuffed animal.” That’s it. Some children make sculptures, others draw, and somebody inevitably tapes six unrelated objects together and gives them a complicated backstory. I consider all of those successful. Because there isn’t one finished result to copy, the activity can change every time I pull out the tray.
21. Set Up a Family Game Show
This is perfect when several ages are stuck inside together. I create a few simple rounds instead of relying on one board game everyone may not enjoy. We might have charades, a sound-guessing round, a household-object memory tray, a quick drawing challenge, “Would You Rather?” questions, or a sixty-second stacking challenge.
I keep the scoring deliberately light, especially with younger children. Sometimes teams earn puzzle pieces toward a final picture rather than points against one another. The best part is letting the kids become hosts afterward. They invent categories, create absurd questions, and announce everyone dramatically. Suddenly the game I expected to last twenty minutes turns into an entire production.
22. Make a Mini Indoor Garden
A rainy day is actually a lovely time to start something that will keep changing after the weather clears. Give kids small pots or reused containers with appropriate drainage, soil, and quick-growing seeds. Herbs, beans, or other easy plants suited to your home are good choices. Children can scoop soil, plant seeds, water gently, and choose a bright indoor spot for their little garden.
Then the activity continues for days or weeks. We measure growth, draw what changed, turn the pots toward the light, and sometimes use herbs later in cooking. If I don’t have seeds ready, we can still inspect houseplants, wipe dusty leaves, propagate an appropriate plant with adult help, or draw our dream garden. It gives the rainy day a connection to nature instead of making indoors and outdoors feel like completely separate worlds.
23. Create a Family Newspaper
This one works brilliantly with older elementary kids and can easily include younger siblings. Fold several sheets of paper into a newspaper and decide on sections: family news, weather, sports, comics, interviews, puzzles, advertisements, and a completely ridiculous breaking-news story. Everyone can contribute according to their age.
I love interviewing family members because it turns ordinary details into something funny and memorable. A six-year-old reporter asking Dad about his favorite sandwich can become front-page material. Younger children can illustrate the weather or add hand-drawn advertisements. At the end, we read the paper aloud like serious journalists. If we save a few editions, they become unexpectedly sweet snapshots of family life.
24. Turn Dinner Into a Mystery Picnic
By late afternoon on a rainy day, everyone can start feeling trapped in the routine of the house. That’s when I move dinner somewhere it normally wouldn’t happen. We spread a blanket on the living-room floor, bring out pillows, use picnic baskets or trays, and eat an easy meal together as if we’ve gone somewhere.
I make the kids part of the setup rather than revealing everything myself. They can choose picnic music, arrange napkins, pack snack containers, make place cards, or decide on a simple theme. Sometimes we pretend we’re picnicking inside a rainforest while rain hits the windows; other times we’re camping or eating beside an imaginary beach. Nothing about the food needs to be complicated. Changing where and how we eat is enough to make an ordinary dinner feel like the finale to the rainy day.
25. Create a Rainy Day Challenge Jar for Next Time
This is the activity that makes the next rainy day easier. I give everyone small pieces of paper and ask them to write or draw activities they would genuinely like to do when we’re stuck inside. The ideas might include building a fort, making smoothies, having a dance battle, creating a treasure hunt, playing balloon volleyball, doing a science experiment, making a comic, baking cookies, or having an indoor picnic.
We fold everything and put it into a jar that only comes out when the weather ruins our plans. That little rule makes familiar activities feel more exciting because they’re attached to a special ritual. Current rainy-day guidance also emphasizes rotating different types of activities rather than expecting one thing to entertain children all day. (Kidsongs TV) I like letting the kids help build our rotation because I no longer have to invent entertainment from scratch every time the clouds roll in.
FAQs About Rainy Day Activities for Kids
What are the best rainy day activities when kids have a lot of energy?
I always start with movement when I can tell everyone is bouncing off the walls. An indoor obstacle course, Sock Olympics, balloon games, dancing, movement challenges, or an indoor mini golf course gives kids a chance to use their bodies before I expect them to settle into a puzzle or craft. Indoor physical activity is particularly useful when weather removes the outdoor play children would normally get. (NAEYC)
After an energetic activity, I find that quieter options land much better. That’s when I bring out building materials, books, sensory play, an art tray, or a kitchen project. Trying to make a restless child immediately sit quietly for an hour usually creates more frustration for both of us.
What rainy day activities work for toddlers?
For toddlers, I keep things simple, sensory, and easy to repeat. Large blocks, blanket forts, chunky puzzles, pretend cafés, washable art materials, dancing, safe water play, large-object sensory setups, and simple treasure hunts can all work beautifully.
Safety matters more than making the setup look impressive. I avoid small loose pieces that could be choking hazards, supervise water and sensory activities closely, and don’t build complicated climbing courses. A toddler often doesn’t need twelve stations anyway. One good open-ended activity they can explore repeatedly may work much better.
What can older kids do on a rainy day without screens?
Older kids often need more challenge than simply being handed craft supplies. I like DIY escape rooms, stop-motion filmmaking, marble-run engineering, cooking, family newspapers, complicated building challenges, game-show creation, science experiments, and designing treasure hunts for younger siblings.
The important difference is giving them ownership. Instead of telling an older child exactly what to create, I give them a problem, materials, or a broad goal and let them figure out the rest. That independence is usually what keeps the activity from feeling babyish.
How can I keep siblings of different ages entertained together?
I choose activities that can be done at several levels. A preschooler can build a simple block tower while an older sibling builds a working bridge. A toddler can scribble pictures for the family newspaper while an older child writes stories. Everyone can participate in a café, fort, picnic, or treasure hunt differently.
I also don’t force every activity to be shared. Sometimes the easiest rainy afternoon includes twenty minutes of energetic family play followed by separate quiet activities. Kids don’t need to be entertained together every minute just because everyone happens to be indoors.
How do I keep rainy day activities from creating a huge mess?
I think about boundaries before supplies come out. Sensory materials stay inside a large tray. Art happens on a covered table. Building gets one defined floor area. Baking ingredients are portioned before little hands start grabbing. If we’re doing something particularly messy, I put an old tablecloth or washable mat underneath first.
I also involve the kids in resetting the space. Cleaning up doesn’t have to feel like punishment for having fun. We put on a song, return materials to baskets, and get the room ready for whatever comes next. When everything has a clear place, I’m much more willing to say yes to creative play again tomorrow.
What supplies should I keep for rainy days?
I wouldn’t rush out and buy an enormous rainy-day activity kit. The things I use most are painter’s tape, washable markers and paint, plain paper, cardboard, child-safe scissors, glue, play dough, balloons, blocks, puzzles, flashlights, reusable containers, and a few sensory materials appropriate for my children’s ages.
I also save useful recyclables such as sturdy cardboard boxes and paper tubes. Some of the longest activities on this list need practically nothing expensive. The AAP’s play guidance similarly emphasizes that simple objects such as blocks, balls, buckets, and cardboard can encourage imaginative play extremely well. (HealthyChildren.org)
How long should one rainy day activity last?
I don’t judge an activity by whether it fills two hours. A toddler might be genuinely engaged for fifteen minutes and then be completely finished. An older child might disappear into a building project for an afternoon. Both are normal.
Instead of stretching one idea until everyone hates it, I rotate the rhythm of the day. We might do movement, have a snack, settle into something creative, eat lunch, have quiet time, and then do a family activity later. Recent rainy-day play guidance similarly recommends rotating different kinds of activities rather than expecting one setup to carry the whole day. (Kidsongs TV)
What are good rainy day activities when I don’t have time to prepare?
My fastest options are Sock Olympics, a flashlight toy hunt, a painter’s-tape road, a blanket fort, a mystery building challenge, a dance game, or a living-room picnic. All of them can be started with things already around the house.
I think this is important because parents shouldn’t have to spend forty-five minutes preparing an activity that entertains children for ten. My favorite rainy-day ideas have a very good setup-to-play ratio: little work for me, plenty of possibilities for them.
How can I reduce screen time on a rainy day without making screens forbidden?
I find it easier to offer something compelling than to spend the whole day arguing about what children can’t do. A cardboard town, obstacle course, baking project, fort, treasure hunt, or pretend café gives them something concrete to move toward instead of simply hearing, “No more tablet.”
I also don’t treat technology as automatically bad. A stop-motion project, taking photographs of creations, or using music for a dance game can turn a device into a tool rather than the entire activity. The distinction I care about most on long indoor days is whether the kids are passively consuming for hours or still creating, moving, talking, imagining, and solving problems.
Final Thoughts
I’ve learned that a successful rainy day doesn’t mean keeping children entertained every second. In fact, when I try too hard to schedule every minute, everyone seems to get tired faster—including me. What works much better is having a handful of flexible ideas ready and letting the day develop naturally. Start with something active if everyone has energy to burn. Move into building, pretend play, art, cooking, or sensory activities when they settle. Bring out a quieter book, puzzle, observation activity, or fort when the afternoon needs to slow down.
And I really don’t think we need twenty-five bins of special supplies to make that happen. A cardboard box can become a town. A blanket becomes a campsite. Painter’s tape becomes a highway. Rolled socks become an indoor sport. Dinner on the floor becomes a picnic. Those are the rainy day activities my kids are most likely to ask for again because they aren’t really one activity at all. They’re starting points. Every time children return to them, they can change the rules, change the story, build something different, and make the day their own—and that’s exactly why they never seem to get tired of them.
