What fun different or interesting activities can school age kids do when you are bored?

Answer 1

If you are bored you have too much time on your hands. Perhaps it's the weekend, or the summer.

I don't think that there ever comes a time in life when you have nothing to do. There is always something you can be doing!

Don't be afraid to use your imagination and you are never too old to do any of these activities - there is always something to do.

Since boredom comes from inside you and not from out in the world, get up and go discover the world.

There are many things to see and do outside your door. Go find them. Since everyone is different when boredom hits, they solve that problem by engaging in their favorite hobbies or activities. If you don't know what you absolutely enjoy doing yet, you could experiment with a few time consuming activities that will spike your interest.

Don't like that? Write 25 questions down that come to mind. Not silly things, but real questions and then go look for the answers. Many great men did this all of their lives and inventions, art, and other things have come from them because of it. Da Vinci is one such man who wrote questions to himself all of his life and he did many great things.

I hate being bored, but then I tried doing some of these activities. It really helps! If it doesn't help, at least you tried something!

Please refrain from all illegal activities

For children of school age

Tidiness

• Clean your room
• Make your bed
• Look under your bed for missing toys or clothing

School Work

Most children or teens think school work is boring, but it's something we all had to do or are doing to get a good education. Go to the library and read more and oh yes, there are computers there so check out google.Com and find some subjects you would be interested in.

• Do your homework
• Catch up on your homework
• Do extra work
• Read the next chapter
• Answer study or practice questions at the end of a chapter
• How about learning to spell words correctly. Unless, of course, you are a board - as in a plank of wood!

School Activities

• Practice cheering
• Practice your sport
• Practice dancing
• Practice your musical instrument
• Plan what you're going to do at school

Brain Activities

• Find a long word and see how many words you can make using those letters.
• Make a word pyramid ( one letter word then a letter word and so on) A An Ant Pant paint

Outdoor activities

• Play outside
• Go outside and explore.
• Go outside to swing
• Go outside and get some fresh air and exercise when the weather is good.
• Ride your bike
• Just get out of the house for a while
• Go swimming in your backyard.
• Learn how to hula-hoop.
• Create a sidewalk mural with chalk.
• Create a masterpiece on your driveway with sidewalk chalk
• Have a water balloon fight; or a sponge ball fight

Outdoor solitary games

• Hopscotch
• Jump up and down
• Jumping Rope
• Running
• Grab a blanket and spread it out in the grass and cloud watch.
• Study an insect
• Catch lightning bugs.

Outdoor Games with Friends

• Freeze!
• Red Rover
• Hide and Seek
• Tug of War
• Make up a game
• Go to a park and make friends with new kids and play with them

Exercise!

• Take a walk
• Do exercises, calisthenics
• Make up new exercises
• Skip rather than walk

Reading

• Read a book. Try one that someone recommended, but that you wouldn't normally choose for yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised.
• Swap a favorite book with a friend and read it.
• Read a comic book
• Read the newspaper or a magazine

Book Titles to read

• Harry Potter series
• Hunger Games
• Agatha Cristie novels
• To Kill a Mockingbird

Library

• If you have nothing to read, go to the library)
• Check out 2 books on topics you've never read
• Watch a video
• Research a topic
• Research your Family Tree
• Watch patrons

Pretending into the future and write it all down!

• Pretend to be a scientist, mathematician, doctor, nurse, librarian. Write a journal of your observations about size, shape, colors, texture, taste, usefulness… such as:
• Measure random things
• Weigh random things
• Test foods you don't usually eat as if you're a scientist
• Write an essay on what you would do if you could.

Other Pretend

• Build a den
• Build a Fort
• Take all the cushions off the couch and some blankets from your bed and build a fort
• Design a "Box Robot". Find old cardboard boxes. Draw pictures on the boxes. Put the boxes onto your head and arms. Walk and talk like a Box Robot.
• Dress up

Creative activities

• Find something to color (not walls)
• Draw; Drawing
• Draw a picture of something (cat, dog, mom, dad, flowers, yourself, teddy bear)
• Paint; painting
• doodle
• Poetry writing
• Story writing
• Write a book
• Make a play with your friends
• Make something for someone.
• Get out paper scissors, glue, and tape and make something
• Record your singing to see how well you do
• Get out dry macaroni/beads and a plastic bag. Rip up some of the bag into three(better if thin) pieces. Braid the pieces into a thin string. Tie both ends just enough so you can tie the two ends and then put on the beads/macaroni. If you don't know how to braid, just rip a long enough plastic for your wrist. Make the plastic thin by twisting the plastic.
• Make a newspaper for your family
• Create a story/ novel or whatever you want
• Take a picture
• Create a contest
• Make paper airplanes and measure how far they fly
• Run a slide-show of all the pictures on your computer while playing all the music
• Sew
• Knit
• Crochet
• Make a friendship bracelet and send it to your friend.
• If you don't love reading then sing and dance
• Cut out photos, paste them on popsicle sticks and have a puppet show

Planning things

• Write a To Do list
• Write a Favorite Places list
• Write down your goals in life
• Describe 5 jobs you think you might like to do as an adult, and why.
• Plan a party (with parents' permission if you live with them) and make hand-make invitations and envelopes and snail-mail them
• Go through your closet/dresser(s) and try on clothes that you wonder if they still fit you. Put ones that don't fit you or you don't like in a bag and donate them to your nearest charity (like Salvation Army).

Fashion

• Open your closet and pick out the worst match of shirt, pants or skirt and shoes. wear them
• Have a winter clothes fashion show
• Have a summer clothes fashion show.
• Pretend you're going to the prom
• Use plastic bags to make clothing
• Use newspapers to make clothing

Television and Movie Stars

• Watch a program on TV
• watch a movie and eat popcorn.
• Watch movies: Harry Potter; Disney movies, etc
• Watch comedy movies or shows
• Choose a movie to see based on the roll of the dice. Open a newspaper or web browser to your local movie listings. Roll the dice. For example, you roll a three, so go see the third movie in the listings.
• Watch a Silent Film while playing your favorite music on the stereo
• Turn on the t.V. Put it on mute and make up dialogue. Or mute the TV and play music. It's funny to see how the music "matches up" with what's happening on-screen
• Act a little movie and record it on your phone/camera
• Have a TV Series Marathon
• Have a movie marathon. Watch all The Lord of the Rings; Star Wars; Indiana Jones
• Watch MTV; listen to music on the TV
• Write and Act Out a little movie and record it on your phone/camera
• Write and Act Out a new commercial for TV

Give all movie stars new names

Pool

• Have a pool party.
• Play with water balloons.
• Go swimming.

Parks

• Picnic at a local park.

Games and Electronics

• Play a game

Activities to do with your parents and family

• go to the movies
• Cook or Bake something if allowed
• Interview your parents
• Enjoy a board game marathon on your backyard picnic table or on your back porch.
• Have a scavenger hunt.

Activities with your siblings

• If you have younger siblings give them a makeover or give them soccer practice.
• Read to them
• Play school with them

Activities with your Grandparents

• Go for a ride
• Go to lunch
• Have a picnic with them
• Take a walk with them
• Take them cards you made
• Dust or mop the floor
• Listen to their stories
• Learn how to make cookies
• Learn how to fix a car
• Ask them about their parents (your great-grandparents)
• Ask them about their childhoods and 5 things they did

Hobbies

• Research a hobby
• Take up some hobby like stamp or coin collecting
• Update your hobby
• Organize your hobby items

Resting

• Go curl up in bed or on a comfy chair or sofa
• Go to sleep
• Listen to the birds
• Listen to a friend
• Listen to your parents

Letter writing

• E-mail the president
• Write a letter to yourself for when you turn age 15, age 20, age 25
• Write a letter to your best-ever friend
• Write a letter to your worst-ever enemy-but DON'T send it!
• Write a letter to someone you admire
• Write a note to your teacher

Pets

• Play with your dog
• Take your dog for a walk if you have one
• Play with your cat
• Force your cat (if you have one) into a harness and take it on a walk
• Play with your gerbil
• Make a list of tricks to teach your pet.
• Teach your pet one (1) trick
• Make observations about your pet and write them in "(Your Pet's Name) Diary"
• Get on the floor and follow your pet around
• Write a story as if your pet was telling the story
• If you don't have a pet, draw pictures of a pet you would like to own.

Eating, in moderation

• Buy ice cream
• Eat food
• Make an awesome ice cream sundae
• Make hot chocolate, coffee, tea, lemonade, iced tea, or other drink
• Eat a fruit or veggie every time you crave junk food
• Have a lemonade stand
• Eat a candy bar

Volunteering

• Help mom
• Help dad
• Help an elderly neighbor
• Read to a younger sibling
• walk dogs at an animal shelter,
• stock shelves at a food pantry,
• serve a meal at a shelter,
• read books to or play with children,
• go through your stuff and donate items to a shelter or a thrift store
• pick up litter.
• Create a summer safety poster for the local library.

Make Money!

• Sell ice tea ( I did and made $)
• Mow neighbor's grass
• Weed neighbor's flower bed
• Broom neighbor's sidewalk
• Offer to bring up neighbor's mail
• Shovel neighbor's sidewalk
• Do odd jobs
• Activities involving friends!
• Become a babysitter and have fun playing with a child -- everyone needs to engage in an epic light saber battle every once in awhile

Activities with Friends

• Call a friend / your mates
• Phone your friends and invite them over (with parents' permission first)
• Hang out with a friend
• Make a new friend
• Visit someone (with parents' permission first)
• Plan a sleepover (with parents' permission first)
• Have a sleepover
• Get a friend or two and take turns making each other up as movie stars or anyone you can think of.

Skill Games

• Play skill games
• Shoot a basketball
• Play Jacks
• Jump hurdles in the yard

Play a card/board game by yourself, or with family or friends

• War
• Crazy 8's
• Go Fish

Dancing

• Practice the moonwalk
• Make up a new dance

Singing

• Sing with your favorite artist
• Make up songs
• Record yourself
• sing and dance using your hairbrush clasped in your hand for your 'microphone'

Video / Wii

• Play video games
• Find cheats for your video game systems that will make the games fun
• Play Wii
• Play DS

Computer Activities

• Go on the computer; Go online
• Search random things on Google
• Make an account on Runescape (fun)
• Visit free online game websites such as Dizzywood ; boombotworld ; nitrome.com ;addictinggames.com ; miniclip.Com ; pogo.com
• Look up all the flavors of your favorite multi-flavor food (egice cream)
• Read other people's comments on your favorite websites and reply to some
• Go on other cool websites
• girlsgogames.com
• boysgogames.com [also known as agame.com]
• gamesgames.com
• games.com
• imbored.com
• Find new online drawing or coloring tools

Electronics, iPod, Ipad, iPhone

• Use your ipod
• Text
• Call a friend
• Design an App
• Clear out old messages
• Add to your contacts list
• Go online

Cameras

• Take pictures of people when they don't notice. Inaction pictures are always cool
• Pose your dog, cat, dolls, siblings.
• Organize new photos
• Crop new photos

Photographs / Scrapbooking

• (With permission) look at old photos
• Take new photos
• Make a scrapbook

Silliness and Unusual Abilities

• Learn to peel a banana with your feet
• Tie your shoes with your toes
• Dress yourself with your elbows
• Think of the hardest and craziest pose you can think of and do it for half an hour
• Walk backwards up the stairs
• Do every action backwards
• Speak out loud backwards
• Put a sheet on the floor and let your sibling "feed" you your dinner.
• See how long you can yawn

Use your imagination and good communication and you can find fun things to do

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Answer 2

School-age kids can try activities like building a blanket fort, creating a scavenger hunt, making homemade slime or playdough, having a dance party, organizing a talent show, or doing a science experiment with household items. They can also try learning a new skill like origami or basic magic tricks, or engage in outdoor activities like biking, playing in the park, or doing nature scavenger hunts.

Answer 3

This activities question has been split up for preschool children, school age children, teenagers, and adults. The links for these separate questions are:

What fun different or interesting activities can young preschool kids do when you are bored

What fun different or interesting activities can school age kids do when you are bored

What fun different or interesting activities can teenagers do when you are bored

What fun different or interesting activities can adults do when you are bored

Please read through the answers on all the links! You are never too old to have fun, and never too young to try some safe adult activities with permission from your parents.

Please see the community answer for lists of activities!