Boredom Busters

ª  Build a challenge in Legos

ª  Draw a comic strip story

ª  Play a solitaire game

ª  Play educational computer games

ª  Build obstacle course & time yourself thru it

ª  Draw a scene with stick figures

ª  Make paper/straw airplanes and a target board to shoot them through

ª  Learn 3 knots and demonstrate them

ª  Play croquet

ª  Research another country

ª  Play basketball

ª  Make a flip book

ª  Do an extra chore

ª  Make bubbles and blow them outside

ª  Make a science experiment

ª  Use binoculars/magnifying glass/microscope to study bugs or specimen slides

ª  Learn magic tricks

ª  Whittle

ª  Play the keyboard or piano

ª  Listen to an audio book

ª  Recycle odds and ends and make a new creation

ª  Put food outside ant hill and observe

ª  Program with Scratch

ª  Create with duct tape

ª  Design a map or new game character

ª  Create mods for Minecraft

ª  READ!

ª  Learn to draw something new from an instructional video and practice it

ª  Play a board game

ª  Use the punching bag

ª  Check the house smoke alarms

ª  Do a mad libs

ª  Paint

ª  Learn new constellations and find them with the telescope

ª  Write a letter to a friend

ª  Make silly putty, Playdo, or GAK

ª  Find quarters for the national park collection

ª  Build a history diorama in a shoebox

ª  Learn origami

ª  Make paper bag puppets and put on a show

ª  Protect an egg, drop it from a 6 ft ladder and keep it from breaking

ª  Bury a time capsule

ª  Practice your Mashoonga moves

ª  Write a play and perform it

ª  Find a play and perform it

ª  Do stop motion animation

ª  Make illustrations for your book

ª  Create a list of your favorite songs

ª  Air up a balloon and play one man volleyball

ª  Take pictures of your Lego creations

ª  Make a marble run and test it.

ª  Play darts

ª  Help in the vegetable garden

ª  Learn how to play middle C on the guitar

ª  Go on an alphabet scavenger hunt – write down items around the house from A to Z

ª  Draw a scene in chalk on the concrete pad

ª  Freeze a big block with stuff in it and excavate it when it’s solid

ª  Do a nice thing for someone

ª  Make a target tarp for your football throwing practice

ª  Practice with your yo-yo

ª  Map a destination and guide Mom when we go

ª  Choose items of yours to donate

ª  Design your own notecards

ª  Organize our room

ª  Take pictures and create a slideshow for the family

ª  Decorate a plain t-shirt with fabric markers

ª  Jump rope 50 times in a row

ª  Learn pig Latin

ª  Learn a more useful language with Duolingo, Memrise or Mango

ª  Learn how to whistle

ª  Make a fort and read in it

ª  Wash the car

ª  Refill your first aid kit

ª  Pick a plant (at store or home) and keep it healthy

ª  Learn to bake/cook a new recipe

ª  I.D. five new plants/trees/birds in our neighborhood

ª  Memorize countries with Stack the Countries app or SheppardSoftware.com

ª  Build a Koob wooden game

ª  Learn how to sharpen a knife

ª  Do a snap circuits project

ª  Build a project with your Lego education set

ª  Whittle small gifts for friends

ª  Design and build wooden weapons

ª  Pick a learning topic, research, then present what you know

ª  Build a snap model set

ª  Learn sign language alphabet

ª  Learn to type 15 words per minute with 100% accuracy

ª  Watch computer learning videos

ª  Land on the moon in Kerbal space program

ª  Finish Khan math for your grade

ª  Study other subjects at Khan

ª  Write more in your book

ª  Finish your spreadsheet chart of spells