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