If your child is bored they are forced to come up with their own ways to entertain themselves, it gives them the opportunity to look inside and think about their own interests and passions.
- Scavenger Hunt
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Collect Bugs
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Study a spider web
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Obstacle Course
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3-legged races
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Wash the dog
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Stargazing
- Play silly pranks on brothers or sisters
- Plant a garden for spring
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Camp out in the living room or basement
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Build a bird house or feeder
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Make a paper hat
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Make a paper boat and see if it floats
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Decorate an old or new T-shirt
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Send postcards to family, friends or seniors
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Make your own Play-doh
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Make a necklace out of beads or pasta
- Make clay charms
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Have a fashion show
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Bubbles are always fun
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Hula Hoops
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Rearrange your bedroom
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Have a PJ Party
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Find shapes and animals in the clouds
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Create a play
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Make up a story
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Make decorations, curate a playlist, and throw a family dance party.
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Practice tongue twisters
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Create a house of cards
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Hopscotch out of masking tape
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Freeze Tag
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Hide and Seek
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Red Light Green Light
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Make sock puppets
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Shaving Cream & food coloring
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Create a musical instrument out of recyclables
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Make a box town out of old boxes
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Have a picnic on the living room floor
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Learn clapping games like Miss Mary Mack
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Board Game Night
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Look at old pictures
- Watch old home movies
- Make soap
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Build a blanket fort
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Tell scary stories in the dark
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Go for a hike
- Build a fort outside
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Learn sign language
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Build with toothpicks or popsicle stix
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Walk the dog
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Bake some treats for your neighbors
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Play charades
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Try a new cookie or cake recipe. Bonus idea: Set up a camera or smart phone and film a cooking show!
- Make a mancala counting game with an egg carton.
- Design and go on an indoor treasure hunt.
- Make ice cream in a bag.
- Dress up in your best clothes and have a fancy dinner.
- Make friendship bracelets.
- Make rock candy
- Create your own bingo cards and have a bingo tournament.
- Practice origami, or the art of paper folding.
- Play indoor volleyball or soccer with balloons.
- Make your own popsicles.
- Have a tea party.
- Play “The Floor is Lava.”
- Snuggle on the couch and read your favorite books.
- Have a pillow fight.
- Paint with Kool-Aid
- Make a scrapbook.
- Do a puzzle.
- Create creatures out of pipe cleaners.
- Play hangman or tic-tac-toe.
- Make a time capsule! One day your kids can use it to tell their kids all about this craziness.
- Build a couch cushion cave
- Throw a birthday party for your favorite stuffy
- Rice play table
- Rock Painting
- Cookie decorating
- Create your own TV show
- Go for a bike ride
- Create a gratitude or vision board
- Create Slime
- Write a letter to a soldier
- Make homemade mini pizzas
- Make milkshakes.
- Learn magic tricks.
- Throw a unicorn party
- Play house
- Building contest with Legos
- Create a Lego Movie
- Grow your own crystals