101 Things to Do When Stuck at Home

101 Things to do when stuck at home

By someone who has done them all

Draw a collage big enough to take up the WHOLE refrigerator
Try crazy, random recipes that you come up with off the top of your head
Surf the Internet for cool videos and Twilight pictures
Discover 365 ways to wear a Magic Scarf (one for everyday of the year!)
String popcorn all over your house
Put a marshmallow peep in the microwave and watch it explode
Put an empty Doritos bag in water, then in the microwave and watch it shrink
Shove one of everything in your kitchen in the microwave and successfully watch your house catch on fire (but hey! the muffins will be well done!)
Karaoke to anything and everything on your Ipod
Go through your parents music and see if they have anything good
Get out all your old Barbie’s and make a fashion show, complete with runway (throw rug) and spotlights (flashlight)
Spend hours coming up with play lists for bizarre reasons on your Ipod, like “when I eat pickles” or “during a monsoon”
Attempt to jump from the top stair all the way to the bottom
Save money in a jar for emergency trips to a hospital
Watch all 5 Harry Potter movies, and yell when they mess something up (or any book-turned-into-movie, for that matter)
Rearrange the furniture according to a dream you had
Wear crazy outfits and have a photo shoot
Construct a TwinkieTower
Sing in television jingles for the entire day
When twilight rolls around, run outside your house, screaming for Edward
Make a shrine just for Alice Cullen
Rearrange clothes in closet by color
Then change it to season
Then change it to date purchased
Get fed up with closet and shove all your clothes under your bed
Listen to music at maximum volume while cleaning
Invent a new dance
Create a FanVid
Re-read old books assigned to us in middle school, and try to repress the memories.
Watch old Disney movies, and sing along with all the songs
If your house has hardwood floor, slide around in socks
World’s longest paper clip chain
World’s biggest rubber band ball
World’s longest tape trail (has your mom killed you yet for wasting all her office supplies?)
Compose a song, and sing it non-stop
Find bubble wrap and stomp on all the little bubbles
Have a long, in depth conversation with yourself
Read your Bible
Make a Pop-Tart sandwich
Jump up and down on bed
Learn the moves to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and put on a show
Do your homework (if really bored)
Find a random journal that you kept in the second grade, and read all the stupid things you said
Meditate (don’t forget to go “ohmn…”)
If during winter, go on strike and sit outside, set up a beach chair, and sip pina coladas while reading magazines, wearing a bathing suit and attempting to get a tan
If during summer, go on strike, go outside and attempt to make a snowman, wearing a puffy coat and mittens
If during fall, go on strike, go outside and have an Easter egg hunt
If during spring, go on strike, go outside and try to find a turkey to shoot
Make animals out of your garden hedges.
Sit on the roof of your house and read
Try to barbeque something on a Polly Pocket grill
Make balloon animals, but instead of balloons, use hot dogs
Dress-up your pet
Play Nancy Drew games until your eyes glaze over, and your hand cramps from holding the mouse
Read Twilight until the wee-hours of the night
Paint your face in the colors of the Italian flag (or any country’s flag)
Turn into a possessed doll by putting white cream on your face, draw black eyeliner running down your cheeks, put black lipstick on, and put your hair up in pigtails
Call every number in the phone book, and tell people who answer “Happy Unbirthday!”
Put underwear on your head and walk around nonchalantly
Pretend that the floor of your house is hot lava. Then, the only way to move around is to jump from furniture piece to furniture piece
Dye your hair green
Take two Pringles and make duck lips. Attempt to talk to people with them in place for the rest of the day.
Take a brand new box of Kleenex and throw the tissues one at a time in your living room
Take a brand new tube of toothpaste and make a toothpaste cake in your sink
Write all kinds of crazy stuff on your fridge with alphabet magnets
Try to go swimming in your bathtub
Sweeper Wet-Jet hardwood floors (cleans and is totally fun!)
Make yourself a cup of hot, steamy typhoo
Have parents hide stuffed animals, then go on a “safari” for them, complete with hat and net
Cut your hair yourself, with your eyes closed
Smear lotion on your face, then pour glitter on it
Stick glow-in-the-dark everything all over your bedroom walls and ceiling
Take rubber worms and throw them up on your ceiling
Throw stickers up on your ceiling
Make a fort in the living room
Paint bedroom walls in bright, swirling colors and make people who walk in think that they are on an acid trip
Slide down stairway railings
Slide up stairway railings
Laugh hysterically and try to float up to the ceiling
Juggle fruit (and other disastrous-if-dropped food items)
Then move up to basketballs
Then move up to chainsaws
Try to slam a swinging door
Turn a light switch on and off for sheer amusement
Turn all lights off except a lava lamp and disco lamps and party!!!
Turn every single light in the house on and watch mother have a stroke upon seeing the electrical bill
Call a lumber company and ask if you can order a pizza
Attach one end of jump rope to door of laundry chute, and then swing yourself down
Smear black paint on your windows
Black-light your room
Go on a stroll around your neighborhood, wearing a tie-dye t-shirt, sofi shorts, knee-high rainbow tube socks, and red Converses
Blow up a million balloons and put them all over your house
String Christmas lights on your house even if it isn’t Christmas
Have a tea party with your stuffed animals
Attempt to fly, like Peter Pan
Try to surf in your bathtub
Attempt to jump from your trampoline all the way up to your roof
Be the Wicked Witch of the West and “fly” around the house on a broomstick
Eat a zillion and one Cheez-Its!
Do everything on this list in one day
Compose your own 101 things to do when stuck at home list