The World Cup kicks off in June and your kids are going to hear about it everywhere — at school, on TV, from friends. Why not lean into it? Here are ten easy ideas to make the tournament fun for the whole family, no football expertise required.
Most of these take fifteen minutes or less. A few might take over your entire Sunday. Try the free World Cup 2026 app or the free Bally Adventures colouring pages.
This one's obvious but underrated. Print a few colouring pages, put them on the table with some pencils, and let everyone pick a country. No instructions needed — kids just start. It's surprisingly calming before a big match.
Start with our three free sample pages and go from there.
Bally's free World Cup 2026 web app is made for kids: match schedule in your timezone, a new colouring page every day, gentle predictions, and stickers — install from your browser in about a minute.
No account, no ads, no app store download. Perfect alongside the colouring book or on its own during the tournament.
Remember Panini albums? Same idea, zero cost. Grab a notebook, let kids draw or print small flags, and stick in the results after each match. Older kids go wild designing player cards. Younger ones just enjoy the gluing.
Draw flags on cardboard, cut them out, tape them to straws. Done. Wave them during games, stick them in plant pots, hang them above the dinner table. Bonus: ask your kid to name one thing about each country while they colour the flag.
Pick one World Cup country each day. Look up where it is on a map, try a snack from that region, or just colour the page from the book. Twenty minutes max. Kids remember way more than you'd expect from these little sessions.
Draw a big bracket on poster paper. Everyone writes down who they think wins each group — parents, kids, grandparents, the dog. Take a photo. Revisit it mid-tournament for guaranteed laughs.
Two teams, real country names, five-minute halves. Paper medals for everyone. It doesn't have to be organized — just kick a ball around and shout "GOAAAAL" a lot. Afterwards, colour the countries you played as.
Mix real questions ("How many teams are in the 2026 World Cup?") with silly ones ("Which country has the best-looking kit?"). Use pasta shapes to keep score so little kids can play along. Winner picks the movie afterwards.
LEGO, shoeboxes, toilet rolls — anything works. Challenge your kids to build their dream stadium. Take a photo and compare it to real World Cup stadiums. You'll be amazed what they come up with.
A sentence, a smiley, a drawing — that's enough. After each match day, kids jot down what they noticed. Stick colouring pages in there too. By July you've got a memory book they'll flip through for years.
Colour a page, snap a photo, upload it on our contest page. That's it. Kids love that their artwork might actually win something. Read the rules together — it's a good excuse to talk about how contests work.
Bally's Big Adventure is a free, kid-friendly web app that takes your child through all 39 days of the 2026 World Cup.
No account needed. No ads. No in-app purchases.
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