We still have work, school work, and household tasks that need to be done, but if you or your kids are feeling discouraged/bored/tired/frustrated, here are a few suggestions to get you started. Some are mainly for the kids, but parents may need some ideas as well.
1. Plant something, inside or out
2. Bake cookies or bread
3. Check on your neighbors
4. Dance party with the family
5. Yard work
6. Wash the car
7. READ
8. Learn origami
9. Listen to audio books
10. Kindle books
11. Take a Strengths Finders test
12. FaceTime with other family
13. Make new play lists on Spotify
14. Donate things
15. Online museum tours
16. Fly a kite
17. Backyard or patio picnic
18. BBQ
19. Movie night
20. Watch old musicals
21. Jump rope
22. Bike ride
23. Walk the neighborhood
24. Paint a room
25. Send grandparents a questionnaire
26. Take a tour of Little Free Libraries
27. Download Libby app for library books
28. Enter KCLS poetry contest
29. Khan Academy – learn something new!
30. Learn to sew something
31. Do puzzles as a family
32. Complete KCLS Ten to Try Readng Challenge for 2020
33. Pick up trash in your neighborhood
34. Sell/buy things on Varage Sale
35. Research colleges
36. Build a blanket fort
37. Watch documentaries
38. Practice an instrument
39. Make a digital scrapbook
40. Write and record a song
41. Collect quarters by state/year
42. Watch YouTube squirrel videos
43. Practice calligraphy
44. Try new recipes
45. Enter contests: Writing, poetry, photography, etc.
46. Read aloud as a family
47. Read William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily a New Hope aloud as a family
48. Learn how to shut off the water at your house
49. Have a fire drill
50. Visit a nursery and buy plants
51. Have a campfire if you have space
52. Investigate ways to save on utilities
53. Make a family video
54. Build something out of popsicle sticks
55. Get an atlas and do geography quizzing
56. Watch Drive Thru History videos
57. Plan and plant a garden
58. Mow an elderly person’s yard
59. Read The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
60. Read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
61. Read a book on your bucket list
62. Sort out the pantry
63. Organize your books
64. Listen to Adventures in Odyssey audio with the kids
65. Clean out the garage
66. Sit in the sun
67. Put up a bird feeder
68. Plan a victory garden
69. Learn 50 Latin phrases
70. Take photos of covers of each book you read
71. Write a letter to someone
72. Reconnect with someone in your life
73. Watch church services and podcasts online
74. Pray for countries that have it worse than us
75. Pick a country to learn about
76. Plan a future trip
77. Learn a new skill
78. Play Blokus
79. Tidy up computer files
80. Brainstorm Christmas gifts
81. Send graduation cards
82. Redo your resume
83. Finish your taxes if you haven’t already
84. Go through old family photos together
85. Make collage from old magazines
86. Rearrange the furniture
87. Exercise
88. Clean out your email (I have over 10,000 items in my email)
89. Make something to enter in the local fair
90. Make a “book safe” with an old book and a box cutter
91. Read The Lord of the Rings trilogy
92. Read a Bible devotional every day
93. Research scholarship opportunities
94. Go through clothes/donate what doesn’t fit
95. Give to a cause you care about
96. Catch up on sleep
97. Photography
98. Listen to audio The Chronicles of Narnia
99. Watch a DVD you own but have never watched
100. Find ways to be kind to each other
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker