Are you in the middle of social isolation or do you have sick kids you’re caring for at home? Whether you’re quarantined or practicing caution, your kids will tell you they’re bored at some point!
Here are a bunch of ideas to fuel that fire and keep your kids from bugging you ever 5 minutes complaining of boredom!
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Check out these 101 Kid Activities for when They’re Bored!
- Bust out the coloring pages
2. Create your own coloring pages
3. Write a book with illustrations
4. Play a video game
5. Read a book
6. Read a book to a younger sibling
7. Record yourself reading a book
8. Put on a play
9. Play video games with a sibling
10. Draw with chalk outside
11. Ride bikes
12. Play a musical instrument (or the pots & pans!)
13. Peel all the carrots and potatoes in the house or cut up green beans or another vegetable into really small pieces
14. Make a marble maze
15. Listen to an audiobook
16. Dance to music/ have a dance party
17. Say the Divine Mercy Chaplet
18. Watercolor
19. Take an online class through your library system
20. Dye the tips of your hair
21. Camp in the backyard
22. Bake bread or muffins or cookies
23. Make up your own song and preform it in front of only-positive judges
24. Learn how to do a cartwheel
25. Do a youtube exercise video
26. Help your parent deep clean the house
27. Do a book report
28. Start a nature journal and look out the window
29. Record the weather patterns and cloud types daily
30. Start a prayer journal or diary
30. Skype with family and friends (try skipping once per day and that will really help break up your day!)
31. Watch a movie as a family
32. Play a board game with your siblings
33. Play solitaire
34. Go through your toys and find things you can donate
35. Learn something new (sewing, whittling soap or wood, cooking, photography, etc)
36. Call a relative or friend
37. Say the Rosary
38. Do math wrap ups to remember your facts
39. Play hide n seek or 4 corners
40. Play with play dough or clay
41. Start a garden and tend it
42. Pull weeds and clean up the yard
43. Play catch with your siblings
44. Do the Stations of the Cross
45. Make plant illustrations
46. Memorize a poem or Bible verse every week
47. Play with legos
48. Make a fort
49. Make an obstacle course
50. Make a birdfeeder
51. Write a letter or email to a friend
52. Learn to type
53. Learn a new language using a free language app
54. Play tag
55. Make a chia pet
56. Take advantage of one of these free subscriptions (Spring 2020)
57. Read about a saint and then write a letter to him or her
58. Say the Spiritual Act of Communion
59. Do something nice for someone else
60. Make jewelry or keychains with dried macaroni or beads
61. Play with puzzles
62. Make tie-dye T-shirts or socks
63. Do a potato sack race of tie your legs together and race/hop
64. Make your own Edible Arrangement with cut out fruit on sticks
65. Blow up balloons and play volleyball with them or use a hula hoop suspended on the wall to play basketball
66. Have a nerf gun war
67. Make puppets out of socks or paper bags
68. Have a puppet play
69. Do shadow puppets
70. Blow bubbles
71. Make a sundial
72. Teach yourself to juggle (balls)
73. Watch a DIY origami video and try it yourself!
74. Observe the plants in your backyard and try to name them using the internet and science encyclopedias
75. Make a family tree
76. Paint your nails (or mom’s)
77. Pretend you’re a hairdresser and put clips and ribbons in your sibling or parent’s hair (with permission!)
78. Massage your mom’s feet
79. Clean your room
80. Go on a scavenger hunt
81. Write down/ draw all the things you love
82. Write down/ draw all the things you think your sibling loves and compare notes
83. Collect rocks and paint them
84. Make a time capsule
85. Use toothpicks and marshmallows to make a tower or bridge
86. Do homemade bowling with a ball and plastic watterbottles
87. Draw a self-portrait by looking at yourself in the mirror
88. Have a tea party with stuffed animals
89. Pretend to be librarians and do a story time with your siblings
90. Learn the art of cake decorating
91. Press flowers or leaves
92. Cut out interesting things from an old magazine
93. Make a collage with those cuttings
94. Collect used stamps from envelopes to make your own stamp collection
95. Put on a dress up costume and be that character the entire day
96. Have a picnic in the backyard
97. Have a picnic under the kitchen table
98. Jump rope. Jump rope with 2 other people holding the rope. Jump rope with one foot.
99. Learn how to do country line dancing
100. Listen to a science podcast for kids
101. Learn how to write your name backwards
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I hope these ideas get you off to a good start! Good luck and God bless!