Boredom Busters

Build a challenge in Legos

Draw a comic strip story

Play a solitaire game

Play educational computer games

Build obstacle course & time yourself thru it

Draw a scene with stick figures

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

Learn 3 knots and demonstrate them

Play croquet

Research another country

Play basketball

Make a flip book

Do an extra chore

Make bubbles and blow them outside

Make a science experiment

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

Learn magic tricks

Whittle

Play the keyboard or piano

Listen to an audio book

Recycle odds and ends and make a new creation

Put food outside ant hill and observe

Program with Scratch

Create with duct tape

Design a map or new game character

Create mods for Minecraft

READ!

Learn to draw something new from an instructionalvideo and practice it

Play a board game

Use the punching bag

Check the house smoke alarms

Do a mad libs

Paint

Learn new constellations and find them with the telescope

Write a letter to a friend

Make silly putty, Playdo, orGAK

Find quarters for the national park collection

Build a history diorama in a shoebox

Learn origami

Make paper bag puppets and put on a show

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

Bury a time capsule

Practice your Mashoonga moves

Write a play and perform it

Find a play and perform it

Do stop motion animation

Make illustrations for your book

Create a list of your favorite songs

Air up a balloon and play one man volleyball

Take pictures of your Lego creations

Make a marble run and test it.

Play darts

Help in the vegetable garden

Learn how to play middle C on the guitar

Go on an alphabet scavenger hunt – write down itemsaround the house from A to Z

Draw a scene in chalk on the concrete pad

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

Do a nice thing for someone

Make a target tarp for your football throwing practice

Practice with your yo-yo

Map a destination and guide Momwhen we go

Choose items of yours to donate

Design your own notecards

Organize our room

Take pictures and create a slideshow for the family

Decorate a plain t-shirt with fabric markers

Jump rope 50 times in a row

Learn pig Latin

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

Learn how to whistle

Make a fort and read in it

Wash the car

Refill your first aid kit

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

Learn to bake/cook a new recipe

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

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

Build a Koob wooden game

Learn how to sharpen a knife

Do a snap circuits project

Build a project with your Lego education set

Whittle small gifts for friends

Design and build wooden weapons

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

Build a snap model set

Learn sign language alphabet

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

Watch computer learning videos

Land on the moon in Kerbal space program

Finish Khan math for your grade

Study other subjects at Khan

Write more in your book

Finish your spreadsheet chart of spells