Things to Do
Things to do...
- Wear flannel and listen to 90′s music
- Make mud… then play in it!
- Go Fishin’ – dress up, put a piece of straw in your mouth, leave a ‘gone fishing’ note on the door and head to the nearest fishing hole
- Make snow angels
- Build an igloo
- Build a sand castle
- Take your couch to the beach or park and just chill out
- Sneak into a golf course in the middle of the night to play golf…using night vision goggles.
- Put a bunch of Barbie pieces in a tub of water and play “Bobbing for Barbie’s”
- Wake up in the morning take a picnic lunch get in your car and see where the day takes you
- Go for a car ride and ask people what direction you should travel and see where it takes you
- Fill your tank with gas – drive till it’s half gone and come back
- Rent a limo with friends, dress up like rockstars and drive around town
- When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, ” I Won! I Won! Third time this week!”
- Walk down a busy street and then freeze for no reason
- Put on a business suit and walk around a toy store playing with the toys really enthusiastically.
- Print up a bunch of “lost pet” signs, instead make signs for a missing grilled cheese sandwich. Tape them up in lots of public places, and make sure people see you doing it. Be sure to look very sad.
- Play flash light tag in a crowded place at night
- Place a Whoopee Cushion on someone’s chair just as they are sitting down
- Keep a squirt gun in your vehicle and have it loaded at all times
- Dress up really weird and walk around the block waving to people you don’t know
- Do a fake fall – falling down is funny
- Bring a rope and a Cowboy hat to a local park, find some geese and have yourself a fun time trying to rope some geese.
- Freely distribute mini bottles of bubbles in crowded public places
- Throw a toga party
- Dress up like harry potter and walk around town pretending to cast spells on people
- Throw a dress up party
- Throw a potluck
- Make your own web show
- Take your shoes off and go splashing through a fountain
- Go puddle jumping
- Roll down a hill
- Ride the kiddy rides outside of Kmart or Ben Franklin
- Have tricycle races
- Bounce on a pogo stick
- Play with play-dough
- Play Tag
- Play kick the can
- Play hide-and-go-seek
- Play cops and robbers
- Play Barbie’s
- Partake in some yo-yoing
- Look for shapes in the clouds
- Give balloons to random people
- Get yourself the coolest lunch box money can buy
- Get a Slinky and play with it
- Draw with chalk on the road
- Do some hula-hooping
- Chase the ice cream truck
- Tell scary stories
- Start a pillow fight
- Scrabble
- Invent a new dance
- Have a limbo contest
- Jump on your bed
- Build a time capsule
- Wash the dog
- Sing in the shower with all your might
- Have a back yard talent show
- Get some pink flamingos for your lawn
- Build a home for your gerbil or small pet
- Build a tree house
- Play jacks or pickup sticks
- Next time you see a rainbow, try to find the gold at the end of it
- Make a house out of card board boxes
- Have a paper airplane distance contest
- Get up early to watch the sunrise
- Fall asleep on the lawn
- With your hands behind your back eat Jello out of a bowl.
- Use a straw to drink everything – extra points for silly straws.
- Put your fork aside and eat with your fingers especially if it’s spaghetti
- Make gingerbread men and decorate them so they look dangerous
- Make food sculptures.
- Make Chocolate Chip Pancakes (and give them smiley faces)
- Go to the grocery store and buy one of every fruit, then enjoy!
- Go to a pinball arcade and eat hot dogs
- Go for appetizers at one place, a main course at another and dessert at another
- Go bowling with pineapples as bowling pins and cantaloupe for bowling balls.
- Get a large group of people and throw tomatoes at a target
- Bake a cake and eat the whole thing
- Eat a huge piece of watermelon then have a watermelon spitting contest
- Have a water balloon fight
- Make up a song and sing it on the street corner for tips
- Dig for fossils (Sorry, but not at the cemetery)
- Act out a play with costumes and make up
- Bake cookies for a stranger
- Take a nap in a stranger’s hammock
- Sing songs around a campfire & eat s’mores
- Make cookies
- Watch a sports game at school
- Play ping-pong
- Have a scavenger hunt with a group of friends
- Go for a run
- Open a lemonade stand (and score some cash)
- Go to a open mic
- Go fishing
- Sneak around on a neighbor’s property and try not to be seen
- Have Shopping Cart Races
- Make a slide down the stairs using mattresses, laundry baskets or inside a sleeping bag
- Make sock puppets
- Make your own soap or lip balm
- Make paper chains
- Make hand puppets
- Make a trophy or certificate to represent a great feat that you have or have not done
- Make a sculpture
- Make a flag for your bike
- Learn to play the bongos (then dress in black, put on a beret and go to a poetry reading)
- Learn to play the bagpipes, guitar or any other instrument
- Learn to play the accordion and then serenade someone under their window
- Learn to play an exotic instrument like the Didgeridoo
- Learn to knit, if only to create the longest scarf you can imagine
- Get a plain shirt and decorate it with ribbons and rhinestones etc
- Do a crayon drawing and put it on your fridge
- Build a model rocket
- Build a float for a parade
- Watch kids play – and then join in
- Walk
- Make faces at strangers to make them laugh
- Make a rope swing
- Have a egg toss
- Go dumpster diving and see what you can find
- Bring dog treats to the park and meet some new dogs
- Flip some coins into a fountain (don’t forget to make a wish)
- Find some crutches and pretend to have a broken leg
- Watch 101 Dalmatians and see if they really show 101 Dalmatians
- Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends (to save your self from getting grounded ask your parents first)
- Turn on the T.V., put it on mute and make up dialogue
- Give yourself a mow hawk
- Run around your house as fast as you can and, count how many times you
- Rent a movie, 2 hours later go back to the same movie store and rent the sequel, 2 hours after that go back and get the third movie
- Put doll clothes on your cat and play dress up
- Pronounce your friends names, backwards
- Play dress-up with all the clothes you have in your closet
- Play bottle cap hockey…with pens as the sticks and a bottle cap as the puck
- Plan a journey
- Listen to some polka music and eat sausages
- Listen to really hard music and head bang
- Listen to a type of music that you don’t normally listen to
- Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it
- Learn to peel a banana with your feet
- Learn to juggle
- Lay a long straight line of masking tape on the floor. Now spin around really fast then try walking on the masking tape
- Kiss your elbow, if you can
- Have a staring contest with yourself in the mirror
- Have a carpet picnic
- Go through the English dictionary looking up really long words like discombobulated.
- Give names to your body parts
- Get on the radio
- Flip a coin 500 times to see who wins
- Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter – See if they write you back
- Figure out how to get yourself on TV (but don’t get yourself arrested)
- Fiddle around with a Ouija board
- Play Duck Duck Goose
- Dress in something silly and laugh at yourself
- Go to a NEO event
- Doodle
- Chase your friends around the sofa
- Call a wrong number and talk to whoever answers
- Break into a friend’s house and clean it
- Go on a road trip
- Go to a poetry reading
- Go to an event at the fairgrounds
- Watch a parade
- Go to a concert
- Do some yoga
- Start a band
- Play volleyball
- Fly a kite
- Have a camp out
- Take your dog for a walk
- Hopscotch (outside Mekka or anywhere else in town)
- Play a board game (in a restaurant of coffee house)
- Become a boy scout/girl scout
- Go to a lake
- Join a club
- See a play
- Have a squirt gun fight
- Have a slumber party
- Go to a friend’s house
- Barbeque
- Chill out at a cafe
- Go swimming
- Play at a playground
- Look at old photos
- Have a tea party
- Have a formal dinner party
- Go to a band, choir or dance performance at school
- Watch TV
- Volunteer
- Help your neighbor
- Play disc golf
- Go Hippie Dancing
- Dance
- Blow bubbles
- Go gold panning
- Play foosball
- Be a tourist (funny hat, Hawaiian shirt, camera)
- Play pool
- Hang out with your brothers and sisters
- Rent a gorilla, chicken or any other animal suit from a costume shop and walk around making the sounds of the animal you are dressed up as
- Make a shark fin out of cardboard, strap it to your back and walk around singing the Jaws theme song (da dun…da dun)
- Write a poem
- Hit some balls at the driving range
- Get dressed up and go to a fancy restaurant
- Go to dinner
- Play basketball
- Rearrange your room
- Go snowshoeing
- Take a dance lesson
- Play computer games
- Call a friend
- Put a bunch or rubber ducks in a pool and sing, ‘Rubber ducky you’re so fun…’
- Go to the gym
- Have a food fight
- Bake a cake
- Have a picnic
- Go to the movies
- Build a snowman
- Go sledding
- Play cards
- Invite friends over for a board game party
- Go to Bridgeport
- Go to a local performance
- Make a scrapbook
- Go get ice cream (or make your own)
- Go bowling
- Read under a tree
- Paint or draw a picture
- Make cookies
- Cook a delicious meal
- Build a fort
- Teach your dog a new trick
- Assemble a jigsaw puzzle
- Play baseball
- Start a journal
- Go to the skate park
- Ride a horse
- Play Frisbee
- Check out an event at the Western Gateway Park amphitheater
- Put on a puppet show
- Play soccer
- Turn on music in your room and practice your rad dance moves
- Play catch
- Bike the harmony Ridge Trail
- Climb a tree
- Dress up like a ninja and play super spy (roll around on the ground an sneak up on your friends)
- Play tennis
- Make your own music
- Make popcorn and rent your favorite movie
- Stargaze
- Play a pick-up game of football
- Visit the Imaginarium
- Go for a hike
- Go to the park
- Go to the river
- Write your name in permanent marker on all your underwear
- Stare at the ceiling and try to make something out of the dots
- Stand on your head
- Spin until you’re dizzy
- Dance like no one is watching
- Sing even if you can’t
- Play dead
- Play with marbles
- Play house
- Play cards
- Practice your arm pit farting skills (Advanced participants try with your hand cupped on the back of your knee)
- Make a new friend
- Get a bubble gun, walk around and blow bubbles all over town
- Learn how to fake an accent (test it out on some unsuspecting people around town)
- Laugh out loud
- Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center
- Eat 6 spoons full of sugar, a soda, and another thing that makes you hyper and then you won’t be bored anymore, you will end up finding something to do… trust us
- Cut out photos and paste them on Popsicle sticks and have a puppet show
- Blow bubbles with bubble gum (see who can make the biggest one)
- Go boating
- Learn to sail
- Go rock climbing
- Learn to use a compass, then test your skills
- Give someone a piggy back ride
- Fly a kite attached to your bike
- Go 4 wheeling
- Build a raft like Tom Sawyer and float down the river
- Learn to do a cart wheel
- Write and mail postcards to your friends (even if you’re not on vacation)
- Visit someone you haven’t seen in a long time
- Dress up like the Burger King, go in to Burger King and demand free burgers
- Wear a crazy wig and walk around town
- Put on some music and lip sync
- Put on a grass skirt and go hula dancing in public (see if you can get some tips)
- Have a Star Wars marathon
- Dress up like Superman and run around town helping little old ladies cross the street
- Do makeovers
- Make and play your own version of the Olympics with your friends and see who wins
- Stage a fake sword fight in public with you friends (make your own cardboard sword, use a plastic fork or whatever else you can find )
- Rent a bounce house and invite everyone you know to come bounce with you
- Go canoeing
- Bring some friends and some life jackets – go out in two canoes on a lake and try to sink each other’s canoe (p.s. don’t drown)
- Take pictures of your friends and add your own captions
- Play 4 square in the dark (dress in all black)
- Make friends with a cop
- Play laser tag
- Kidnap your friends when they’re still asleep and to out to breakfast in your pj’s
- Go to a thrift store and try on crazy clothes!
- Make jewelry
- Have your own fashion show
- Find someone with a projector and white sheet and have a movie night in your backyard
- Jump on a trampoline
- Build a fort in your house with blankets and tables/chairs
- Get friends together and have a dance off with funny music
- Walk around town and see how many bottles/cans you pick up, then recycle them and get $
- Dress up in army clothes and run around town acting like you can camouflage into the walls
- Climb a tree and eat a banana in it
- Go to a store, buy cereal, bowls, milk, and eat the whole box in the store
- Play ZOMBIE TAG in a public area
- Make a movie with a video camera
- Find Waldo! (He’s painted on a wall in GV)
- Make up your own ninja moves
- Go to $1 Scoop Tuesdays at Baskin Robins
- Make stencils and spray paint them onto shirts
- Tie-dye clothes
- Buy a kiddy pool and invite your friends over for a pool party
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