Anyway, I am doing 2 posts. This one is the very long list of over 150 boredom buster ideas. *on the left mean I have a pinterest plan * on the right mean it can be indoor or outdoor. Green is outside, red is inside, yellow is art, blue is educational/learning. (There is a lot inside because here summer is our inside time like winter is for others.)
Outside
Go for a
bike ride
Have a
picnic*
Blow
Bubbles*
Have a
paper airplane races*
Take turns
making obstacle courses*
Walk around
the block and pick up litter (wear gloves)
Take a walk
together
Jump rope
Play stick
ball
Have
different races (wheelbarrow, crab walk, crawling, etc.)*
Water
balloon fight
Car wash
Play
hopscotch*
Trace each
other’s shadows
Play
tic-tac-toe with sidewalk chalk
*Make a
hula hoop fort*
Play
baseball
Play soccer
Play
volleyball
Make a
water pistol target range
Play Kick the
can
Play
Capture the Flag
*Make and
use “Foamerator
Draw with
sidewalk chalk
Frisbee
Play Run
across
Inside
Learn a few
magic tricks and produce your own magic show
Plan a
Scavenger Hunt using every letter in the alphabet*
Look through
photo albums or view family movies/videos
Listen to
your favorite music and dance around
Open a day
spa
Build with
Legos
Find jokes
and take turns telling them
Play store,
library or school
Play hide and
seek*
Rearrange the
furniture in your bedroom
Memorize
something meaningful
Read favorite
poems aloud
Play a card
game
Build a fort*
Paint your
toenails and fingernails
Balloon
fights
Play board
games
Music mix CD
Create a
puppet play with stuffed animals
Turn off all
the lights and use a flash light to make shadows on the wall
Make a mini
puppet theater and put on a show
Play the
Minister’s Cart game
Do something
nice for someone in secret
Play charades
Plan an
imaginary trip to the moon
Play marbles
Make a
blanket tent
Make ice cars
Don’t Eat
Pete
Pick some
books to read with Mom
Form a band
Do Wii Fit
Play freeze
dance with the family
Have a silly
jumps contest*
Take pictures
doing fun activities while holding the Friend magazine
Play Red
Light, Green Light*
Walk on
balance beam/tape*
Read books
somewhere new/odd*
build boats
and race them in the tub
*Make and
play Lego board game
Help make a
family Guess Who game
*Lego Quest
challenges
*Balloon
powered Lego car
Make and use
“Get up and Move” dice*
Plastic
bottle/cup bowling
Put glo
sticks in balloons and play
Stuffed
animal run/obstacle course and take turns coming up with rules
Have a photo
shoot
Watch an old
movie
Nerf Gun war*
Toy car races
Wrestle with
Dad
Just Dance
with Mom
Pillow Fight
*Make sponge
balls and play with them*
Have a Splunk
Day
Make and play
BINGO
Take turns
leading exercises
Make a pillow
pile and jump in it
Make a bean
bag toss game*
Make a road
for cars using masking tape
Hallway races
complete with streamer finish line
Play Simon
Says*
Play Mother
May I?
*Spy training
with streamer lasers
Watch old TV
shows
Play with
little people
Play dress up
Sink play
Blog
Hula-Hoop*
Indoor
tumbling and gymnastics
Art
Make play
dough
Make a
collage from magazines
Paint a
picture
Try
origami
Make a
collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons and sewing scraps
Make
puppets and then put on a puppet show
Sketch a
picture of your house from the outside
Make a
picture for your grandparents
Draw a
family tree and complete it together
Put
together a scrapbook of a special event
Draw
pictures to send to the friend
Write and
illustrate a story
Paint
with watercolors
Make
potato stamps and use them
Make
“stained glass windows”
Make
dream catchers
Color in
coloring books or coloring pages
Make
slime
Make your
own stationary and write a letter on it
Finger
paint with shaving cream
Design a
poster for a summer holiday
Make a
pet rock
Fingerprint
art
Splatter
paint
Paint
with your mouth
Bubble
prints
Make a
self portrait
*Make
homemade finger paint
*Paper
towel butterflies
Play
dough with pipe cleaners, beads, googly eyes, etc.
Oil
pastel drawings
Colored
chalk art
Cotton
Ball Painting
Painting
with toy cars
Mosaics
Toilet
paper roll heart stamping
Egg
carton flowers
Marshmallow
and toothpick art
Make
different things out of handprints
Make
homemade piñatas
Q-tip/pencil
eraser painting
*Make a
treasure map
Crayon
art
Make an
Art Gallery
Make
trading cards
Window
Markers
Learning
Draw a map
Read a good
book aloud
Write a letter
Make a list
of all the things in your house that use electricity
Make your
own list of things to do when you’re bored
Write secret
messages
Learn a new
primary song
Make a list
of what you want to learn about in school this year
Learn about
different types of poetry and write your own
Take a week
to learn about a country, cook food from there, color/draw the flag, listen to
their music, etc.
Sing all the
verses of the Star Spangled Banner
Write down
everything you are thankful for
Read pioneer
and ancestor stories. Act out your favorite ones.
Try writing
your own song
Write a
letter to a cousin.
Make your
Christmas wish list
List 5 nice
things about each family member
Think of a
good service project to do. Plan and carry it out.
Make your
own audio books
Write your
own skits
Make up a
board game
Make up a
game
Prepare an
FHE lesson for future use
Read your
scriptures
Create a
family chant
List the
sounds you hear for the next 10 minutes
Give each
letter a cent value and figure out the cost of words (for example a = $.10, b =
$.01, etc.)
Memorize an
Article of Faith
Choose a
favorite story and act it our for the family
Pick some
science experiments to try
Make a
Summer Read Bucket list (at least 10 books long)
Mentos
geyser
Use the
story cubes
Make your own
secret code and write messages using it
1 comment:
Looks like you have things well in hand. You are amazing at this kind of thing. I wish I had mothered as well as my daughters do.
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