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!

  1. Bust out the coloring pages

2. Create your own coloring pages

3. Write a book with illustrations

101 Kid Activities for when They're Bored

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

Catholic Kid Activities for when They're Bored

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

Child Activities for when They're Bored

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

Activities and crafts for bored kids

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!