Fun Badminton Games for Kids at Home

You do not need a court to build skills. These games work in a garden, a hall or a cleared room with soft shuttles.

1. Keep-it-up: tap the shuttle up on the racket. Count the record, then try backhand taps or alternating sides.
2. Egg-and-spoon race: balance a shuttle on the racket strings and walk (then jog) to a finish line.
3. Target toss: throw shuttles overarm into a bucket or hoop at different distances, for points.
4. Serve to the towel: lay towels as targets and score points for landing on them.
5. Shuttle relay: lunge to pick up shuttles from cones and bring them back. Race a parent!
6. Colour calls: four coloured cones; call a colour and they run to touch it and come back to the middle.
7. Catch me: drop a shuttle from shoulder height; can they catch it before it lands?
8. Rally challenge: rally together over a rope or sofa line and count how many in a row you can make.

Tips

• Keep each game to 3–5 minutes and swap often.
• Celebrate personal bests.
• Clear the space of anything breakable, and use soft or nylon shuttles indoors.