There’s always something to do, something fun, something that your kids will learn from. Here’s a list I’m compiling for “I’m bored” moments and activity planning.
Indoor Activities
- Clear the coffee table
- Design a quiz type game show on history
- Study cartooning
- Make a food pyramid from old magazines
- Grow an indoor terrarium
- Learn to play an instrument
- Learn origami
- Enter all kinds of contests
- Solve word problems
- Solve rebus puzzles
- Obedience train your dog
- Learn a foreign language
- Learn to sew
- Do low cost science projects
- Do science experiments
Writing, Drawing, Creating
- Keep a nature journal of your own backyard
- Write to an email pen pal
- Keep a diary
- Draw original mazes
- Create a birthday card
- Make a quilt from recycled materials
- Invent something
- Observe your pet and record your findings
- Compose new, science-based lyrics for popular tunes
- Write a script for a puppet show
- Learn to paint with watercolors
- Create paper mache bowls from old newspapers
- Make handmade paper
- Buy and learn to play the recorder of harmonica
Outdoor Activities
- Make nature crafts - painted rock, wreathes, dried flowers
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Participate in a nature scavenger hunt
- Make and observe a bird feeder
Building
- Build from cardboard
- Create a historically accurate diorama from scrap materials
- Build with scrap materials
- Make a simple pulley
In the Kitchen
- Cook an authentic Chinese dinner
- Practice cake decorating
Reading
In your Neighborhood
- Arrange a neighborhood yard sale
- Get a job walking dogs, cleaning or doing errands for a neighbor
- Learn to comparison shop for groceries
- Volunteer at the library
On the Computer
For the Holidays
- Make your own holiday presents
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Go Out and Explore
Watch Something
- Borrow educational videos from the library
Play a Board Game
Ideas from this list scrounged from the internet, including The Homeschooling Journey.
