Here are some ideas I'll include:
- Go on an alphabet hunt - find 1 thing for every letter in the alphabet.
- Write a letter to one of your grandparents.
- Search through a cookbook for a new recipe for us to try.
- Send an email to your former teacher, thanking her (all of my kids' teachers are women) for a great year.
- Look through family photos.
- Do a crossword puzzle.
- See how many Legos you can stack on top of each other before the tower falls over.
- Make your own word search on www.armoredpenguin.com
- Plan your "dream vacation" - where would you go? what would you do?
- Get out the world map. Spin around, close your eyes, and put your finger on the map. Look up the place your finger landed on.
- Have a dance party.
- Call one of your grandparents and ask them what they liked to do as a kid.
- Make a collage of yummy foods with magazine pictures. First, ask Mom which magazines you can use.
- Open up a dictionary and read the definition for the 1st word for letter A, the 2nd word for letter B, the 3rd word for letter C, and so forth.
- Call a friend and ask him or her to recommend a good book. Get it from the library and read it.
- Ask Mom or Dad to borrow the camera. Make a photo essay of your room and belongings.
- Cut out a paper garden to decorate your bedroom door.
- Draw a diagram of the solar system.
- Ask Mom to help you make homemade soft pretzels.
- Grab a pail of water and a paintbrush and "paint" the driveway and sidewalk.
- Cut out "summer snowflakes" from colored paper.
- Print out and make paper toys from http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html
In looking around online, I found some great sites that had also compiled lists of things for kids to do over the summer. Check these out:
***Do you have ideas that I can add
to my Boredom-Busting Jar?***
5 comments:
Write and act out your own play.
Read up on the history of Albuquerque (or one of your favorite places) and tell someone about it.
Make a collage from objects you find in the yard (house, other specified area).
Find a picture (in a magazine, book, online) and make up a story about what's happening in the picture. (This is also a good activity if you're out and have to wait in line...you can make up stories about the people around you while you wait)
Rename the colors of your crayons. Make the names as creative as possible.
Design your dream car. Or, if you have a specific car in mind that already exists, learn as much about it as you can. (when and where it was designed, who builds it, what options are available, etc.)
Make a pet rock.
Go on a texture scavenger hunt. Put a paper on a surface and use a crayon to rub over different textures.
Some of these are dumb, others might be fun. Hope it's helpful...you have a great idea!
I really like this idea Windy! You can also have them call pr write their Aunt (or Uncle). Play games with a deck of cards. Do a jigsaw puzzle.
Mom you have a problem. Are you really going to take us to the library just because we pulled a piece of paper and your so busy do you have time to help us make pretzels?
Come up with a self philosophy (motto)
Make a little home and back round for for a stuffed animal
Work in the library( we have a fake Solis Family Library)
Turn you room into some native place
Research an unusual hobby of sport
Find a painting, learn about the artist and the time they lived in
Make a piece of art out of scrap paper
Test you family and see how much they know about you
Change one of your favorite stories around
Become a newspaper report come up with the big story interview family about it(this can be fake or true)
Make a true or false quiz
Call an old friend and ask how they are doing
Hope these work!
Em
Create a fairy land in the backyard.
Write a letter to your favorite ex-teacher (hint,hint,Emily).
Put on a sock puppet musical.
Do some yoga.
Play the role of Sleeping Beauty and take a nap.
Set up a pedicure business with Mom as your first customer ~ free, of course.
Offer to do something nice for a neighbor.
Record a picture book, be creative with sound effects.
Come up with a secret language
Build something
Invent a game(like triple fury)
Pretend to be someone you don't know
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