At times you may feel that life is moving too fast and you need to slow down and take a pause. But, it’s a fact that when you get that much awaited downtime, you struggle to find out ways to keep yourself busy. Nothing looks interesting and boredom sets in. You are clueless of what to do next and make those moments meaningful and productive. There are plenty of things to do when bored; if you really wish to say a goodbye to boredom.
Let’s get started and check those 500 ways to keep yourself occupied and let go of weariness and timeout.
What to do when you are bored?
Moments of boredom can feel difficult to escape when you do not know what to do. You may feel helpless and confused to find ways to come out of this state of mind. If you are spending your days indoors, you must be tired of the same old routine and struggling to get engaged in new things and fun activities.
You can consider this time as an opportunity to learn new things that you have put off for a long time now. Moreover, this spare time is a good way to connect with old friends, develop social bonding, recreate moments of happiness with close family ties.
You can actually make this time the best time of your life. We recommend many relaxing and enjoyable activities to do when you are bored.
So, let’s get started
500 things to do when bored
You can bust your boredom and lift your spirits by engaging in 500 different activities that give happiness and an absolute delight. You won’t even realize how time went off without being noticed. Sometimes you might run out of ideas to keep yourself engaged, you are cooped up in the four walls of your room and searching for ways aimlessly to move out of it. The below checklist mentions the various categories that will give you many ideas to work on and keep yourself busy.
Things to do when bored at home
We remain busy doing so many things at home but sometimes we run out of ways to keep ourselves engaged at home; especially after months of stay at home, isolation and quarantine due to social isolation norms set for the Covid 19 pandemic. Most of the free time is spent aimlessly without doing anything joyful and productive. Few ways to keep yourself busy at home are:
- Learn a new language that was on the cards for long
- Watch your favorite movie again and again
- Enjoy a warm sunbath early in the morning
- Make a playlist of your favorite songs from last year
- Get into a cleaning spree around the house
- Play video game with your child
- Embark on a new fitness regime to be followed every day
- Write a letter to your pen friend
- Do self-care as much as you can such as manicures, trendy haircuts, and fruit facials
- Have a guided meditation session to relax and rejuvenate
- Play with your pet and experience cuddling from your furry friend
- Make a cocktail with fresh fruits and yummy whipped cream
- Arrange a barbeque party at the house lawn and spend time with your loved ones
- Bake designer chocolate cakes and cookies
- Play hide and seek with your toddler
- Learn a new dance form
- Binge watch a new web series that your friend was talking about
- Brew a hot cappuccino and relax on the couch
- Take in nature and go for a walk
- Organizing your closet
- Rearrange the furniture of the house
- Buy new curtains for your living room
- Call your friend and indulge in guilt-free talking for hours
- Do some tricky puzzle and word search
- Clean your walking shoes and polish the rest in the shoe rack
- Buy a Feng Shui wall hanging for the front door
- Order a restaurant meal and satisfy your craving
- Shop provisions for your kitchen
- Plan a theme party with your friends
- Write love notes to your spouse
- Color your hair with bright shades, brown, burgundy, copper, black, or whatever you may feel like
- Change the wallpapers of the bedroom. It looks old indeed.
Things to do when bored with friends
Sometimes boredom may set in; even if you are with your near and dear ones. It can be with friends as well. Few dull moments and monotony always looks for some simple diversions and way out of it. Check out these simple ideas to incorporate while you are with your friends to eliminate feelings of weariness completely.
- Plan for a potluck party, a real fun and frolic time with friends with good food and wine on the table
- Visit an art gallery or magic show
- Have a movie night at home
- Do some bottle painting with acrylic colors
- Visit a vineyard and do a local wine tasting
- Play court games like badminton or lawn tennis
- Invite friends for an afternoon tea and snacks party
- Have a karaoke night with your best friends
- Create a collage with old pictures of college mates
- Make a to-do list for the next vacation with family
- Arrange a sleepover with best pals at home
- Have a cooking contest amongst friends and declare the winner
- Go for swimming and river rafting
- Create a photo frame together to put on some crazy pictures of you all
- Play a computer game together and announce the winner
- Make a spontaneous road trip
- Arrange a fashion show at home
- Visit a local event happening nearby
- Have a poetry writing competition
- Plan for some other friend’s surprise birthday party
- Make paper airplanes and throw them on each other
- Color an old T-shirt together with some crazy shades
- Do tongue twister exercise and see who wins
- Get into a movie marathon one after the other
- Wash the house backyard and parked cars in the garage
- Get into guilt-free chocolate eating and wine drinking; maybe till you drop
- Use sign language to communicate with each other
- Play word games
- Make prank calls to unknown number (sure you won’t get caught)
- Watch horror movies and do not sleep at night
- Make friendship bands for each other
Fun things to do when you are bored
Here is a bucket list of the various fun things to do when you are bored and confined at home.
- Search the refrigerator at the middle of the night and see what’s there to eat
- Start with a fake laugh and continue until you get a real one
- Imagine that you are talking to an alien
- Try out magic tricks on your own
- Go and ring the bell in somebody else’s house and hide behind the sidewall. Nobody is watching. Right!
- Make a large imaginary word of your own and search it’s meaning in the dictionary
- Read joke books and text weird jokes to your friends.
- Compose a song in a different language. Try out if you can
- Take funny online quizzes
- Call a friend and talk to them in a different voice
- Paint your nails with poster color
- Make a paper clipart; click photos and post it in Instagram
- Make your own sketch or self-portrait and see how you look
- Cut your old and shabby clothes with a scissor
- Get into a provision store and start shouting ‘rats around, rats around’. Note how others watch and react. You will laugh wild
- Become a detective for one day and move around in the community
- Walk on the road and try to follow your own shadow
- Learn the language of a parrot or scarlet macaw
- Slap on your face 10 times and feel how much it hurts
- Make a sudden shout in your friend’s ears
- Light a candle and blow it off. Repeat these as many times as you can
- Play spoon and lemon race 50 times in front of the mirror
- Take a nap on the dining table
- Call your friends at the middle of the night
- Go and play in the beach mud, create sand castles
- Have a pillow fight with your friend until all the pillows die
- Make emoticons with play dough
- Give funny names to your friends and tag those in their Facebook profiles
- Make a collage with white stripes of paper and color it (it’s like better to do something than doing nothing)
- Listen to a music online when bored
- Try to charge your phone with a laptop charger
Things to do when bored for kids
The quarantine norms have kept kids at home for months now. Parents are finding it hard to keep their children engaged in productive activities. Children are getting a lot of screen time that is harmful for physical health. Nobody wants to sit idle for hours. So let’s see few of the ways to eliminate boredom and feel good about doing something great and spending a perfect time together.
- A simple idea is to play some outdoor games
- Older kids love to go for a walk or bike ride along with a parent around the neighborhood
- To help mom or dad in household chores such as re-arranging the garden or cleaning the house
- Color and paint your old tees
- Play with Lego blocks
- Bake a cake with mummy
- Engage in an art challenge by inviting few friends at home
- Learn to play a musical instrument
- Create a large poster depicting the various things that the child is grateful for
- Engage them in a rock collecting activity and later color them all
- Play board games classics such as chess, scrabble, or carom with best pals around
- Arrange a tea and snacks party at home
- Plan an outing in the nearby spot with some outdoor games
- Write a letter to your grandparent
- Complete a jigsaw puzzle
- Complete a mind boggling math’s puzzle
- Learn and solve online worksheets and printed booklets
- Read story books
- Play scavenger hunt with mom and dad
- Join an online course on language learning
- Go for taekwondo
- Practice handwriting at home
- Do yoga to increase concentration
- Do some random acts of kindness by giving food and essentials to poor children
- Water the garden plants
- Play tent house and camping in the backyard lawn
- Do some funny science experiment at home
- Play bowling at home with plastic bottles and a ball
- Make a pizza
- Bake a garlic bread
- Play computer games
Things to do when bored at night
We have so much passive entertainment like browsing google pages, watching funny YouTube videos, or looking into Instagram posts but these no longer seem as attractive as before; simply because we do it every day. Night times are quiet moments of solitude when we can actually do something very productive. Let’s get some great ideas of how to bust boredom at night.
- Set up a karaoke party with friends
- Arrange a house party with barbeque, old wine, and great conversations
- Reorganize your Facebook posts and delete the old ones
- Plan for the upcoming week by organizing your calendar. This also helps to avoid the last-minute rush
- Watch the stars in the night sky
- Play online games such as Sudoku, spot the difference, and math’s maze, etc.
- Make a wish list of 20 things that you want to accomplish in a year
- Make a collage with your childhood photographs
- Sort your dresses and donate the old ones to a charity
- Take a soothing moon bath and fulfill your deepest wishes
- Go out and offer food to the beggars
- Decorate and re-pot your house plants
- Clean your bedroom drawer that is looking messy and full of useless stuff
- Knit a pullover and enjoy doing it
- Draw cartoon characters and let your child color it
- Watch a horror movie
- Prepare a nice and yummy meal for the family
- Re-arrange your kitchen cabinet and remove the unwanted things
- Watch cooking videos on YouTube
- Relax on the bed and listen to old and classic musical hits
- Draw a self-portrait
- Write a letter to yourself and see how you feel about it
- Eat ice cream with your family
- Make a list of the things that you need to finish in the next three days
- Create a social media page and engage in conversations with others
- Try night meditation to get a good sleep
- Enroll in an online personal growth program or take a personality test
- Do your homework for the official presentation to be placed the next morning
- Iron your clothes that you are going to wear tomorrow
- Get a warm shower with herbs and essential oils
- You can drive around the town seeing all the things on a moonlit night
- Visit a local carnival with rides, yummy food, music videos, and dance
Things to do when bored for guys
Sometimes busy men can also experience downtime when they are confused about what to do next. Maybe you are back from work a little early or you have taken a day off from work; you want to spend your time well but nothing seems appealing. Here are a few good ideas to try out to knock out weariness.
- Practice playing the guitar that you have not touched for years
- Try out a new recipe and hone your cooking skills
- Play basketball or cricket with your friends
- Write a love note to your girlfriend
- Make homemade ice cream and surprise your spouse
- Try out a new hairstyle
- Brew hot coffee and watch a crime-based web series
- Watch a nail-biting cricket match
- Workout in the gym
- Do some laundry and help your wife
- Babysit your little one
- Go for some kickboxing
- Surprise your girlfriend with a romantic date
- Watch the recent movies that you have missed
- Make a fruit salad for your family
- Create a YouTube channel
- Update your LinkedIn account
- Post vacation pictures on Instagram
- Shop provisions for the home
- Learn to play golf
- Buy a surprise gift for your wife
- Plan good health insurance for your family
- Play water balloons with your child
- Go for a walk with your dog
- Watch a baseball; or tennis game
- Visit a men’s grooming center
- Indulge in guilt-free drinking with friends
- Take your pet for a health check
- Play Ukulele sitting around a campfire with your friends
- Set up a home gymnasium
- Visit a magic show with your friend or family and spend the weekend even better
Things to do when bored for girls
Do you have a daughter at home who keeps on telling you ‘I’m bored, what can I do now? There are many fun-filled activities that can bust boredom and engage her in happy ways.
- Make homemade Christmas lights for the festive season
- Have a swimming competition with friends
- Learn to make grilled chicken and sausages from you mother
- Make a fruit punch with ice cream and surprise your parents with a treat
- Make origami craft and create an album
- Prepare your future goals and plan how to accomplish them
- Have an overnight movie marathon with girl gang
- Make a birthday card for your grandmother
- Do some mandala art and nurture your creativity
- Attend a musical concert in town
- Pay a surprise visit to your grandparent’s house
- Make a cloth bag with recycled clothes
- Fly paper rockets and airplanes and relive your childhood fun
- Start a blog and share your personal experiences with others
- Listen to motivational podcasts
- Browse the internet and find out amazing facts about various countries
- Read a book
- Make a friendship band for your best friend
- Make chocolate waffles and donate to poor kids living in the locality
- Help your mom and dad to plan for a family outing
- Go for nail art in the nearby gallery
- Watch the sunrise for three consecutive days and click pictures
- Learn how to play a musical instrument
- Make a collage of important monuments of the world
- Get a new hairstyle and facial massage
- Make hot chicken corn soup for your family
- Clean your room and get praised by your mother
- Make a vision board for future use
- Pick some food item that you have never tasted before
- Play mini-golf and amaze your friends
- Do some craft with the art paper folding
Creative things to do when bored
Have you ever tried to spark your creativity during the lockdown? If not, let’s take a look of the various simple things that you can do to make the maximum use of the available time
- Make a charcoal painting
- Try a short story with amazing characters
- Make a photo frame with the best out of waste materials
- Bake smiley cookies at home
- Do some origami craftwork
- Build an online community of like-minded individuals
- Make homemade soaps and perfumes
- Learn knitting and sewing
- Make chocolates at home and sell them in nearby shops
- Paint your room with bright colors
- Bring cactuses and orchids to decorate your home garden
- Decorate your house for a thanksgiving party
- Create a gratitude journal and write about the things you are grateful for
- Join an online math club and solve number games
- Cut color papers of various shapes and make post-it notes’ at home
- Redesign your old beaded bracelets in a new way
- Make a flower vase with a kitchen glass jar
- Create a pen stand to organize the pens lying here and there
- Go for a beach getaway and engage in watersports
- Learn fruit and vegetable sculpting to amaze your friends when they visit you next time
- Re-design paper clips in a new way. You can take a guided help from YouTube tutorials
- Make a magazine stand to organize newspaper and magazines
- Paint an empty wine bottle and use it as a flower vase
- Make new earrings from broken stuff in the drawer
- Learn to make folders and files from online videos
- Décor your bedroom walls with cool wallpapers
- Write 50 affirmations every day and live by it
- Learn to juggle a ball
- Improve your memory power by playing games and crossword puzzles
- Learn towel origami
- Start writing a romantic novel
Productive things to do when bored
Are you feeling bored right now? Thinking of how to utilize your time productively. Here’s the list of productive things that you can do to reduce boredom that can affect your mental health badly.
- Learn cake decoration such as frosting, icing, and fondant making. Online classes are easily available that meet your requirements.
- Make paper roses at home and use it for home décor
- If you feel like thanking someone for their kind act, write a thank you note
- Make a to-do list for the coming weekend
- Prepare fruit smoothies for your kids
- Reschedule your timeline by organizing the calendar. It can be holiday plans, plans for some upcoming office meetups
- Hone your typing skills
- It’s time to learn speed reading so that you can read faster and clearer
- Set up a bird feeder in your backyard garden
- Organize your Gmail and delete the junk ones
- Clean and organize your work desk by keeping all the things in the right place
- Go for a foot spa
- Wash the dishes lying in the kitchen washbasin
- Clean the dirty clothes lying in the dressing room cabinet
- Watch a Ted talk show and learn something useful
- Babysit for a colleague who needs a break
- Improve your recall by playing memory games with your children
- Make new investment plans to secure your future
- Schedule coffee with an old friend
- Join a prayer class
- Make a list of quick household tasks that you need to do today
- Create a fragrant flower garden on the window sill
- Join an online reading community where you can discuss and review the latest good reads and best sellers
- Fix the wardrobe latch that got broken a month ago
- Plan your meal for tomorrow and get yourself organized
- Grow herbs such as celery, basil, caraway, cilantro, lemongrass in your kitchen garden
- Organize important papers and bills and put them in a folder
- Start doing regular freehand stretching exercise at home
- Re-visit your curriculum vitae and update it with your current skills
- Pick up an old hobby and kick start from where you left
- Make some SMART goals for the next 3 months and review them periodically
Things to do on computer when bored
We all get hooked to the computer and internet whenever we feel bored because it is easily accessible and we can actually spend hours in front of it. We love to play and scroll through our social media pages and see new updates given by others. But can we do anything meaningful on the internet? Yes we can. Few fun things to do online are:
- Google information about anything and everything that you want to know
- Take online quizzes and learn new things
- Learn online painting and craft activities
- Join an online cooking forum and share your recipes with others
- Do online jobs and earn money
- Use Instagram and Facebook for promoting your startup business
- Spend time by creating your own memes
- Do online shopping for even the tiniest thing that you might need
- Learn digital marketing and analytics
- Read product reviews of different consumer commodities
- Make online friends in chat rooms
- Visit a dating website and meet like-minded people
- Watch online magic shows
- Find the best deals on everything that you may need and save money
- Love the idea of playing an online game
- Find the love of your life through matrimony websites
- Get involved through online charitable trusts and help people in need
- Join a writer’s community and learn the skills of blog writing
- Find out interesting answers to tricky questions on the web
- Read online astrological predictions and see what your stars tell about you
- Organize the files and folders of your laptop
- Change passwords of your bank account
- Do online recharge and pay the utility bills
- Make a weekend video call to your distant living relatives
- Search for new job opportunities
- Browse YouTube to see exciting videos of your choice
- Delete unwanted programs from the laptop
- Install a new anti-virus on your computer
- Learn all the keyboard shortcuts to speed up your daily work
- Practice typing and increase speed
- Change the wallpapers and screensavers of your laptop. Give it a new look
Random things to do when bored
Have you ever tried doing some random stuff when you feel bored? Hope you enjoyed doing it. Few random ideas to keep yourself engaged are as follows:
- Plugin the hands-free in your ears and start listening to music
- Go to a park and start talking to unknown people
- Grab an ice cream of your choice by making a sudden visit to a parlor
- Sort out your clothes according to color codes. Keep same color clothes in one particular rack of your wardrobe
- Pick up some random hobby and start doing it
- Pay a surprise visit to your best friend’s house
- Do some online random shopping; no matter you need it or not
- Go for a fashion photoshoot and develop your personal portfolio
- Bring home a dog and play with it
- Prepare a chocolate dessert and gift this to your neighbor who doesn’t like you at all
- Call your old classmates and catch up with them to know about what they are doing now
- Make a pledge to donate your organs in an organ donation forum
- Donate old magazines and journals to an old age home or a hospital
- See 10 virtual places of some famous iconic city
- Make scented candles at home
- Start having organic food and grow some in your kitchen garden
- Join a beginner’s online yoga session to stay fit and healthy
- Plan to have a sleepover in a haunted house with few friends
- Plan a long cycle ride to a far off countryside and enjoy the beauty of nature
- Take a stupid online challenge and see how you perform on it
- Wear a t-shirt that says ‘My life is beautiful’
- Blow a few balloons and pop one by one to enjoy that amazing sound
- Play balance race with newspaper on your head with your neighbor’s naughty child
- Make a prank call to unknown people and see how they react to it
- Answer some weird questions on Quora
- Write 10 good things and 10 bad things about yourself
- Take a random IQ test to find out your intelligence levels
- Stand in front of the mirror and make weird faces
- Do some random repairing in your home that you have overlooked for a long time
- Make a crazy signboard and put it in front of the main door.
- Plan your budget for this year
Things to do on your phone while you were bored
Sometimes you just wish to kill the time somehow; no matter where you are or what you do. You just pull out your cell phone and start scrolling through it. Smartphones have become widely popular because you can do so much with it. Few ways to bust your boredom by using your phone are:
- Listen to a podcast
- To play online quizzes
- Take an online class via Zoom or Google Duo
- Brush your language skills by taking an online English test
- To check Whatsapp messages
- You can check out Instagram posts
- Follow people over LinkedIn
- See your friend’s wedding pics over Facebook
- Browse web pages to gather information about an object
- Read emails and reply to the important ones
- Take an online class on foreign language
- Do free 10 minutes meditation from online communities
- You can do online chatting with your old colleague
- Search the web to find an interesting fact about human beings
- Click as many selfies as you wish
- Delete unnecessary apps from your phone
- Put a new lock screen picture
- Write an email to an old friend who is no longer in touch with you now
- Share funny jokes with your friend
- Download and watch English classics
- Read online news from leading dailies
- Learn to make an apple pie from your nearby baker
- Research unknown topics to get more information on it
- Live stream a Netflix or Hot star web series
- Order an online meal from reputed restaurants
- Listen to a spiritual leader
- Buy movie tickets for the next available show
- Write an online test given by your school
- Join a public speaking forum and hone your skills
- Appear for a virtual interview session
- Attend a virtual parent-teacher meeting of your child
Things for couples to do when bored
Couples always look for boredom busters to remove their weary moments. They cherish excitement and happiness in their life; never a dull moment at all. The good news is you can always look for some interesting and fun activities to do with each other and spend quality time together.
- Cook together a new recipe
- Plan your fantasy getaway
- Play a piece of high spirit music and dance together
- Buy new furniture and furnishings for your new apartment
- Have a couple spa to feel fresh and rejuvenated
- Walk or jog in the nearby park
- Choose a healthy diet and follow it without fail
- Watch an old romantic classic together
- Go for some adventure sports such as scuba diving, rock climbing, paragliding, or bungee jumping
- Just chill on the couch and engage in productive conversations
- Participate in online challenges and see who wins
- Move around in the city vicinity in a motorbike
- Spend time together in a coffee shop
- Visit a bowling alley and play
- Go for a night walk together amidst nature’s wilderness
- Reading a book together and discussing the plot of the story, analyzing the character flaws, and anticipating the climax is a good way to stay connected
- Go for a date night
- Play card games at home
- Plan for tomorrow’s breakfast and do the necessary shopping
- Catch a sunrise or sunset for 3 consecutive days and enjoy the beauty of Mother Nature we live in
- Visit a bookstore together and buy few best sellers
- List your spouse’s favorite things
- Play indoor games such as chess or scrabble.
- Make a yummy pizza together for the dinner
- Make investment plans to secure your future
- Visit a wine shop and get into wine tasting
- Tell weird jokes to each other and laugh together
- Have some intimate moments of pure love and bonding
- Plan surprises for each other, however small they may be
- Organize a dress-up night and entertain each other in the house backyard or living room
- Learn a foreign language together
- Go for a couple game or a yoga class
- Visit a gynecologist together before you plan to have a baby
- Take a bubble bath
- Create a green kitchen garden together by planting herbs, seasonal fruits, and other seasoning plants
- Swimming together and enjoy being with each other
- Play with Lego blocks or jigsaw puzzles to unwind
- Have a standup comedy night at the house backyard with few friends to grand the occasion
- Write love letters to each other
- Confess the deepest and darkest secrets to each other
Cool things to do when you are bored
Few of the cool stuff to bust boredom are as follows:
- Go for antique shopping to décor the living room
- Change the battery of your remote
- Clean the refrigerator
- Re-organize the kitchen cabinet
- Make some online friends
- Take a video of your new recipe and make it viral over social media
- Start an online garment business
- Do a hair spa and try out a new hairstyle
- Teach your pet a few cool tricks
- Clean the backyard and car garage
- List down the names of the people who have motivated you to become who you are today
- Help your child to complete a word game
- Edit your old photographs using Adobe Photoshop and save them in a new folder
- Look into some funny pet videos
- See an old film that was really old, maybe before you were born
- Watch videos of a Charlie Chaplin muted show and laugh wild
- Make a list of gifts that you wish to give your family members for the Christmas festival
- Make greeting cards for Mother’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
- Go for a health checkup
- Try doing some woodwork at home, maybe a small kitchen stool
- Play a remote control racing car game with your toddler
- Make a family tree and find which generation do you belong to
- Start collecting antiques, coins, stamps, and baby photographs, etc.
- Join a public talk show and contribute your valuable opinions
- Take a virtual tour of the world’s best museums
- Watch a historical free documentary online
- Draw a landscape drawing
- Go for bird watching in a National park or a bird sanctuary
- Declutter and remove the excessive things you have then you might ever need. Donate those in a charity
- Find better deals for buying a new handset
- Buy a health insurance plan with the best premium options
Stupid things to do when bored
We try out silly and stupid things when feel bored, just to get some happiness and joy. It also reduces the monotony that has set in.
- Take a cool nap, time flies without being noticed
- Call a friend and spend hours talking
- Read the latest news of the day
- Ask a neighbor if they require any help or assistance
- Look at your childhood photos and get nostalgic
- Juggle with your kitchen knives (be careful, not for kids after all!)
- Purchase a stupid item that you will never need
- Make weird noises while you walk down a street.
- Join a laughing club
- Make stupid funny memes that no one dared to make before
- Pull your boyfriend’s beard to check whether it’s real
- Throw plastic balls in the swimming pool and tell your dog to get them back
- Give your pet a funny makeover and post the photos in pet forums
- List down the names of foods that you wish to eat in the next 3 months
- Play your favorite music, or a rock song and dance to its tune standing in front of the mirror
- Dress up as a superhero or superwoman and visit the kids in the community. Record their reactions and responses
- Pick up your makeup brushes and color your brother’s and dad’s nails when they are asleep
- Enjoy playing with play dough and slime with your tiny toddlers
- Make puppets with colorful socks and play with your children
- Practice a math puzzle and brush up your calculation speed
- Talk like your favorite cartoon character
Things to do when bored with family
Family time has to be enriching and fulfilling and we all try to make it happen. It has to be joyful that fosters good bonding and adds meaning to our life and living. Few awesome ideas to spend your spare time with family members are
- Arrange a puppet show at home
- Do sidewalk chalk drawing in and around your front yard to create great outdoors
- Arrange the cups and spoons in the kitchen cabinet in their respective places
- Start your day with a morning meditation session with all the family members
- Draw and color in an adult coloring book with your spouse
- Offer free deep breathing classes to your neighbors and ask them to join your family every morning
- Play jumping ropes with your kids
- Make physical activity and exercises a regular morning routine for all the family members
- Visit a craft store to buy essentials for a DIY project
- Share the various ways of time management with your teenager
- Make hot chocolate sauce together
- Watch the sunset and click the beautiful pictures of the dusk
- Give a random call to your spouse and talk in someone else’s voice
- Play hula hoop for 15 minutes on the lawn to stay fit and fine
- You can play the soap bubble game in the house backyard
- Create a dollhouse with cardboard and let kids enjoy doing it together
- Play cricket in the living room
- Teach your child to make a pair of binoculars using paper rolls
- Keep a talking pet bird and enjoy its company
- Play memory games with the entire family
- Moms and girls can make colorful headbands and bracelets with beads
- Throw a disco night in the house garden with great food and loving friends
- Prepare a yummy banana milkshake with daddy
- Clean your sneakers
- Change the furnishings of the house together
- Record 10 different sounds that you hear around in the next one hour
- Visit a zoo
- Make colorful tattoos at home
- Arrange a family activity outdoors in the local park
- Play a prank with your sibling and enjoy yourself together
- Go for a boat ride in the nearby lake and enjoy family time
- Teach your kids how to wash their own clothes
- Plan for an upcoming birthday in the family
- Get into the kitchen and help mummy to prepare the day’s meal
Parting words from ‘TheMindFool’
There are numerous ways to beat boredom and find fun, happiness in the little moments of life. Do things that keep you busy and increase your productivity. You can do so many things even from the comfort of your own home to stay engaged and bust boredom.
Needless to say, few twists and turns in your daily life and doing the same stuff in a different way can help to overcome weariness and make a dull moment more engaging and entertaining.
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