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Screen-Free Summer Week 4: Rainy Day Rescue

Screen-Free Summer Week 4: Rainy Day Rescue

Create your own Rainy-Day Rescue Jar with our free activity cards and discover simple screen-free ideas to keep kids entertained when you’re stuck indoors.

Emily Longman Wall

Published: August 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM

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Welcome to Week 4 of Screen-Free Summer!

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This week, we’re helping families beat those stuck-indoors moments with a simple stash of screen-free ideas ready whenever boredom strikes.

Your challenge is to create your own Rainy-Day Rescue Jar using our free activity cards, then pick at least one activity to complete together as a family.

Screen-Free Summer week 4 challenge: Rainy-Day Rescue!

Rainy day? Kids getting restless? We’ve got you.

We’ve created a free pack of Rainy-Day Rescue Activity Cards filled with simple screen-free games, creative challenges and family activities you can try at home.

Download and print our Rainy-Day Rescue Activity Cards, cut them out and pop them into a jar, bowl or container.

Then, whenever boredom strikes, simply pick a card and give the activity a go.

Your challenge for Week 4 is to create your Rainy-Day Rescue Jar and complete at least one activity together during the week.

What could be inside your Rainy-Day Rescue Jar?

Our downloadable pack includes 50 simple ideas for keeping everyone entertained away from screens. You might find yourself:

Building a cushion castle
Having a teddy bear picnic
Putting on a puppet show
Baking a sweet treat
Designing your own board game
Putting on a family talent show

You can also add your own cards with activities your family loves, so your Rainy-Day Rescue Jar is completely personal to you.

Ways to make it even more fun:

Let everyone add their own activity ideas to the jar.
Decorate your jar or container together before filling it.
Take turns choosing the next activity.
Add a few surprise or silly challenges of your own.
Keep the jar somewhere handy so you can reach for it whenever you need a screen-free boredom buster.

What could you win this week?

Create your own Rainy-Day Rescue Jar and enter the prize draw for the chance to win one of our brilliant family prizes.

This week’s prizes:

Kinderkraft RAKET scooter (worth around £39)
Pictato (worth around £20)
Uno Zero (worth around £10)
Five Little Ducks Board Game (worth around £12.99)

How to enter the week 4 prize draw

Once you’ve created your Rainy-Day Rescue Jar and tried an activity, share a photo of your jar or your family completing one of the challenges, tag us @madeformums and use #MFMScreenFreeSummer.

Every valid entry will go into the draw for the chance to win a family activity prize. We’d especially love to see entries full of creativity, teamwork, screen-free fun and families making memories together. Terms & Conditions apply.

We’ll also be sharing some of our favourite Screen-Free Summer entries across our social channels throughout the summer.

What will you pick first?

Keep your Rainy-Day Rescue Jar somewhere easy to reach and, next time you hear “I’m bored”, let the jar decide what happens next.

You might discover a new family favourite — and hopefully make those rainy days a little more fun along the way.

Pic: Getty

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Emily Longman WallDigital Content Producer

Emily is the Digital Content Producer at MadeForMums and creates editorial and video content across the brand. She also edits the weekly editorial newsletter, oversees our reviews process and loves creating our craft articles and videos. She specialises predominantly in car seats and pushchairs, and has yet to meet a buggy she couldn’t fold! With a 1st class degree in History, she always researches topics thoroughly to find the best recommendations for parents.

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