Things to Do With Kids in India: Indoors and Out

Weekends with small children in an Indian city are a logistics problem. It is too hot, or it is raining, or the place that looked good online turns out to be forty minutes away and shut on Mondays.

This is what we have written on filling the time, at home and out of it.

At home

For the afternoons that have to be filled indoors.

Rainy day activities — indoor obstacle courses and the rest, tested on real monsoons

Easy crafts (2–6) — ones that build motor skills, with things you already own

Screen-free activities — for when you want the tablet to stay in the drawer

Sensory activities for toddlers — messy, cheap and genuinely absorbing

Sensory play for babies — 12 activities for under-twos

Days out, by city

With ticket prices and the ages each place actually suits.

Delhi NCR — 15 places with prices and suitable ages, including the free ones

Mumbai — where to go, what it costs, and which ages it works for

Bangalore — 9 places with prices and ages, planned before you leave

For working parents

The schedule is the hard part.

A routine that holds — built around a working day rather than against it

Working from home with young children — what actually works, including the honest limits

Going back after maternity leave — the logistics and the feelings, both

Time for the two of you

Easy to drop, worth protecting.

Date ideas at home — for when a babysitter is not happening

Postpartum recovery — what no one tells Indian mothers

The tool that goes with this

We built our free learning games — alphabet, shapes and a fish game, free in the browser, for the twenty minutes when you need both hands. It is free and there is no sign-up.