1. Go for a bike ride - so much easier now that Riley can ride his own bike without training wheels! Thank goodness there are plenty of choices of bike trails here!
2. Make homemade ice cream or visit an ice cream parlor - Frogurt is one of our new favorites!
3. Bake a double batch of cookies and deliver one to another family
4. Learn a few magic tricks and produce your own magic show
5. Have a picnic - We do this a lot!
6. Hike or climb trees - so many trails, so little time!
7. Make popcorn or maybe even caramel corn
8. Blow bubbles - I have a hand held bubble blower for this reason!
9. Go swimming or water skiing - the bubble comes off the pool at Treehouse this week!
10. Plan a scavenger hunt for outside. Or plan one for in the house using every letter of the alphabet. (Riley LOVES scavenger hunts!)
11. Draw a map of your block or of your town, or trace a map of your country and fill in the states or cities or other features
12. Make playdoh - Peanut butter playdough is our favorite because it doubles as a snack!
13. Read a good book aloud - or with my kids, they beg for 50 books!
14. Look through photo albums or view family movies, or videos
15. Make a collage from magazine words and pictures
16. Collect some canned goods for the food bank
17. Draw pictures with chalk on the sidewalk - they both love to do this!
18. Go fishing - found a fishin' hole near our house!
19. Plan a family game night
20. Work on a jigsaw puzzle
21. Go roller skating - might be tough for Sissy!
22. Paint a picture - may have to break out the finger paints for Sissy this summer
23. Have a candy treasure hunt
24. Work on a crossword puzzle
25. Try origami (Japanese paper-folding) or make a paper airplane and fly it
26. Make an obstacle course in your back yard - right up my alley!
27. Visit a tourist spot near your home
28. Write a poem
29. Make a bird feeder
30. Walk around your block and pick up all the litter you can find.
31. Go to the zoo - thinking about getting a membership
32. Go bowling - have yet do this with the kids!
33. Make your own homemade pizza - this happens weekly at our house...homemade dough and grilled...yum!
34. Invite another family over for a game of charades or "Guesstures" - Riley loves charades!
35. Listen to your favorite music and dance around - Kendall is our little "dancing queen!"
36. Go without TV for a day - is it even possible? Thank goodness it wasn't to go without Facebook! Ha!
37. Make a collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons and sewing scraps
38. Run around the block 3 times - Yes! We must do this!
39. Open a day spa - Kendall loves to get her toenails painted and receive back rubs!
40. Go camping–or stay home and camp out in your own dining room - we do both!
41. Build with LEGOS - everyday all the time at our house
42. Make puppets out of lunch bags, old socks, felt, wooden clothespins. Put on a puppet show
43. Have a bonfire outdoors or in your fireplace and roast hot dogs and marshmallows - no excuse for us since we got our firepit!
44. Write a letter to your best friend - Maddie Moo...we miss you!
45. Visit a shut-in or an elderly friend or relative in a nursing home
46. Pick wild flowers and press some of them to save
47. Make dinner for your family - Don't I do this every night?
48. Sketch a picture of your house from the outside
49. Play educational computer games - Does Legos count? He always wants to be on that website!
50. Find a joke and tell it someone else - dangerous...you'll be hearing it for the next two weeks!
51. Make a piece of art out of objects you have around the house
52. Sign up at your local library for their Summer Reading Program - need to do it tomorrow!
53. Color a picture or write a letter to send to grandparents - Lots of artwork for the g-parents!
54. Make a list together of all the things in your house that use electricity. You might do this when you lose power sometime.
55. Plant something - We've been working on our veggie garden already
56. Enjoy a shopping trip for something little, but fun---a jar of bubbles, stickers, paper dolls, a matchbox car - Sounds like a Dollar Store run!
57. Play store, library or school
58. Visit a farm. Milk a cow, help to feed the animals. Take pictures. - Thanksgiving Point?
59. Play a new sport- badminton, volleyball, tennis, Frisbee, yard darts or ping pong...I'm thinking yard darts is out, but maybe frisbee
60. Tour where Dad works - done, but they always love to go see the trains!
61. Play hide-and-seek (inside or outside) - neither are good at being quiet while hiding, but they have a blast!
62. Help wash the car - Riley enjoys this one
63. Share a favorite movie with a friend
64. Draw a family tree on paper and complete it as a family. Add old photographs if available
65. Go jogging or take a walk together
66. Give each person a large piece of paper and take turns tracing the outlines of their bodies on it. Color in the outlines to look like you. (You can get a large roll of paper at Ikea for $5!)
67. Jump on a trampoline - Sissy's getting one for her birthday! We are all very excited!
68. Go to the library - weekly
69. Gather a variety of leaves and identify them
70. Rearrange the furniture in your bedroom
71. Memorize something meaningful: a psalm, a poem, a passage from the Bible, the Gettysburg Address
72. Make caramel apples - YUM!
73. Fly a kite - sure is windy enough where we live to fly one every day!
74. Jump rope
75. Learn how to make a fortune teller
76. Visit a friend
77. Make a summer snack - more pudding pops?
78. Read favorite poems aloud - does Dr. Seuss count?
79. Put together a scrapbook describing a favorite vacation or any special event (pictures, writing, souvenirs)
80. If it's warm outside, turn on the water sprinkler and run through it - and the slip n slide!
81. Make a lemonade stand
82. Water the yard, houseplants or flowers - daily chore and Riley enjoys helping
83. Play with sand toys and trucks in a sandbox - Uncle Kevin is supposed to help us build a water & sand table...that could be a lot of fun!
84. Swing -"fwing me Mommy!"
85. Play a card game
86. Go to a ball game or play one---football, kickball, softball, baseball, basketball, soccer. Riley has discovered the joy in kickball...I taught the neighbors about "mat ball" this weekend!
87. Finger paint with chocolate pudding
88. Make a milkshake or a smoothie
89. Have a real tea party with some friends
90. Take a trip to an amusement park, a museum or a planetarium - have yet to go to the Clark Planetarium
91. Clean out your closet - or the craft room!
92. Practice playing a musical instrument. If you don’t play an instrument, try learning to play one, maybe the recorder or the harmonica. - Do the drums count?
93. Make a yummy salad and eat it
94. Build a fort - regular past time here
95. String beads to make a necklace - fun!
96. Write and illustrate a short story
97. Build a robot out of empty boxes of all shapes and sizes. Oatmeal and salt boxes work well
98. Volunteer to help a neighbor for free—just because
99. Play with water guns - all the time!
100. Make your own list of things to do when you’re bored - nah!
2 comments:
Love this list!!!!!!
you had me at peanut butter playdough..but i need more info on it.
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