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