I cannot stand when kids (mine have basically learned not to say this --They know it's one of my pet peeves! --but every once in a while they slip up!: )
When they do say this I think that their imaginations just needs a jump start-so they can think of something fun to do. I found this cool idea on SugarDoodle.net this morning. Customize this list to fit your family and put it on the fridge. Then next time you hear those words (I'm bored) then refer them to the "Jumstart Idea List" on the refrigerator. This should get their brains going for sure.
Sugar Doodles' suggestions for a list: (she says that "Take a nap" should always be the last item on the list) I'm going to be making a list like this for our family today. ~Enjoy~
1. Decorate the back patio with sidewalk chalk
2. Make a daisy chain (or dandelions)
3. Take some blank paper and envelopes and decorate your own stationary
4. Get some magazines out of recycling and make a collage
5. Get out your Faith in God book/Duty to God and check something off
6. Paint the dog's toenails
7. Make a border for your room with continuous paper
8. Play with Barbies/Airplanes
9. Measure 10 things with a ruler
10. Get out your last year's school things and play school
11. Make a calendar
12. Decorate bookmarks, "laminate" with clear packing tape
13. Write a poem about something in the yard
14. Blow bubbles or take a bubble bath
15. Make a keytag to hang on your bookpack - bead animal, letter beads with your name, or a scripture verse on construction paper then laminated with tape and a hole poked through
16. Make cookies (from a mix, with easy-bake oven, or from scratch)
17. Organize sock drawer
18. Write a play and produce it
19. Make a castle from toilet paper tubes and boxes in recycling
20. Write a letter to a cousin or grandma
21. Write a talk, color pictures to go with it
22. Find a scripture verse you like and type it on the computer/typewriter or write with fancy letters and color
23. Make 9 Bees and write Gordon B. Hinckley's "Be's" on them, hide them for Family Home Evening
24. Play with toy soldiers outside
25. Make a snack with fruit and vegetables
26. Take pictures with digital camera (with permission)
27. Call a friend
28. Look up your favorite animal in the encyclopedia or dictionary
29. Find your house on a map
30. Make a boredom kit for the car or for a friend. Include word searches, "mad libs", drawings to color, and supplies if you have them
31. Fluff up all the pillows in the house
32. Make a birthday card for a friend
33. Play with legos/duplos/building sets/lincoln logs/tinkertoys
34. Play a game (Chutes and Ladders, Checkers)
35. Make a list of movies/books you own. Put them in alphabetical order. Make a list of movies/books you would like to own.
36. Make a Christmas/Birthday list
37. Make animals out of pipe cleaners
38. Change your bed
39. Have a picnic
40. Read a book
41. Make something with Origami paper
42. Pick some flowers in the yard, put in vase
43. Do a secret good deed :)
44. Look in your Scout book and decide on something you can finish today/Work on your collection
45. Decorate old socks for a puppet show
46. Sing a song
47. Look through your old books, find 3 to donate; or find clothes you have outgrown to donate
48. Play a musical instrument in the house or outside.
49. look at old pictures or scrapbooks
50. Take a nap
1 comment:
GREAT ideas!!
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