50 things to do to beat boredom

  1. Do some yoga @ www.cosmickids.com
  2. Make a paper plane, fly it & measure how far
  3. Do some mindfulness colouring – www.twinkl.co.uk
  4. Take a virtual field trip www.tripsavvy.com/
  5. Take the Lego 30 day challenge @ www.freehomeschooldeals.com/
  6. Play a board game
  7. Design & make your own board game – templates @ www.twinkl.co.uk
  8. Play dominoes
  9. Play a card game
  10. Learn how to doodle @ www.kennedy-center.org
  11. Make a time capsule & bury it!
  12. Complete a Wild Challenge @ www.rspb.org.uk e.g. bird kebabs, Big Bird Watch
  13. Make a fact sheet all about your favourite animal
  14. Write your own joke book
  15. Play catch – try & beat your score
  16. 1 minute challenges e.g. how tall can you build your tower? How many pennies can you stack? How many star jumps can you do?
  17. Shoebox Challenge – make your own puppet theatre, animal habitat or game.
  18. Build a reading den & read a book a day!
  19. Make your own sock puppet
  20. Make up a dance routine to your fav song
  21. Draw the view from a window
  22. Make up your own song & perform it
  23. Have a baking competition
  24. Play hangman
  25. Play noughts & crosses
  26. Play animal charades
  27. Make your own skittles game & record your score.
  28. Alphabet challenge – can you find an object that begins with each letter?
  29. Build a fort
  30. 3D Shape Scavenger Hunt
  31. Play Hide & Seek
  32. Write a postcard to your teacher!
  33. Make a miniature garden
  34. I spy . . . . write a list of things you can see from your bedroom window.
  35. Make a Chatterbox paper fortune teller – templates @ www.twinkl.co.uk
  36. Mystery objects – take photos of parts of objects from around the house for your friend/grown up to guess!
  37. Make a mask
  38. Complete a jigsaw
  39. Do a word search or make your own
  40. Investigate floating & sinking
  41. Do some junk modelling
  42. Play balloon tennis
  43. Have an indoor picnic
  44. Create a treasure hunt
  45. Make a treasure map
  46. Be creative! www.tate.org.uk/kids
  47. Do an experiment – www.sciencefun.org
  48. Make your own comic strip
  49. Make your own rock band!
  50. Go on a virtual trip around the world using Google Earth