"I'm bored." When you hear that, it's time to think up some fun. Here are some starters!

 

• Inside...

• Play a card game, or learn a new one

• Do a watercolor painting together

• Draw portraits — it doesn't matter how rudimentary!

• Build a birdhouse

• Make a fort with your furniture and blankets

• Bake cookies, or muffins

• Write a song or poem

• Dance to your favorite music

• Teach your child to sew, knit, or crochet

• Take some wild and crazy pictures of each other, and you and your child(ren) together

• Play a board game or card game; learn a new one!

• Do a puzzle

• Make an origami creature

 

Outside...

• Play a yard game

• Race around the block

• Take cookies to a neighbor

• Make chalk drawings on the sidewalk

• Fly a kite

• Get out your binoculars (if you have them), and watch birds

• Jump rope

• Go bike riding / triking / strollering

• Walk on a trail (can be a math lesson: count steps, count trees, count flowers)

• Shoot baskets

• Make the world cleaner and greener and pick up trash at a nearby park or trail

• Plant flower seeds and watch for the miracle

• Take a board game along and play a game at a picnic shelter, or in the sunshine

• Kick a ball

• Go to a playground

• Go fishing

• Go sledding or skating

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What else? Be creative and think outside the box...