Mom's Boredom Busters
1. Make paper airplanes and test them in the plane launcher. See which style of plane flies the best.
2. Build something out of Legos, the bigger and more complicated (read: takes a long time) the better
3. Build something out of Keva planks, preferably something large and complicated (see #2)
4. Make a card for someone, possibly one for everyone you know
5. Paint-suncatchers, pictures, rocks, sticks, yourself, just not my furniture
6. Play with plasma cars/roller skates/scooters in basement
7. Play outside-sledding at Grandmas, in the woods, shoveling the driveway
8. Read a book-Yes, the whole thing
9. Play-doh
10. Do a puzzle
11. Play a game-Let your little sister win occasionally
12. Climb the walls-I'm still not sure if it was a good or bad idea to show Lizzy how I used to climb the walls when I was a kid.
13. Write a story-Is that too much like school?
14. Play the Toy Game-as the name implies, this is when they play with toys and make up stories
15. Help mom cook dinner-sometimes this involves free samples
16. Snuggle with mom-which usually turns into a tickle fight
17. Research, design, and then execute making a pinewood derby car-we are starting to have a large collection of these in our house
18. Watch the birds at the bird feeder-even when you're supposed to be doing math
19. Practice your "death" scene-This is one of Joy's favorite things to do
20. Have a nerf gun war-just don't hit mom or your gun will go in time out
21. Go to Grandma's house and do chores-because chores done somewhere else are much more fun than chores down at home
22. Make random things out of paper
23. Play hot lava-you have to walk around the room without your feet touching the ground using the furniture
24. Follow mom around saying "I'm bored. I'm bored. I'm bored." (Which leads to #25)
25. Do a chore (see #24)
Do your kids like to play "School"? I mean, I know your kids are homeschooled, but my used to like to play school or doctor's office. Give them some binders, clipboards, pencils and lined paper, and they would go to town. Ask your father-in-law for some old medical forms that they can fill out. We invested in some portable intercoms a few years back, and the kids LOVE using them to play doctor's office - Dr. Hope, you have a patient waiting...very fun stuff! :)
ReplyDeleteThe girls like to play school, but it's been a while. Doctor is a good idea. I'm not sure if they've every really played that before.
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