Summer Boredom Jar

I am dreading the summer days when I am going to hear, "I'm bored!" So, this year, I have invented the "Boredom Jar". I have been thinking about this for the past couple of months. Whenever I come up with an idea, I write it down. My goal is to fill the "Boredom Jar" with so many ideas and things to do that it will make the cry, "I'm bored" a little less daunting for me.

Here are some of the things I have come up with so far:

• Make a tent
• Play hide and seek
• Make costumes or put on dress up clothes and put on a play
• Write a menu for what you want for dinner
• Make a fairy house outside
• Search for fossils in the rocks around our plants
• Write a story about a summer vacation
• Draw an ocean picture
• Make a Lego creation
• Find 10 different leaves
• Set up a tea party
• Make up a dance
• Read a book
• Sidewalk chalk
• Play a board game
• Come up with an art project (or ask me for one to do)
• Find things that start with the letter "t"
• Play restaurant (design menus, set the tables, name your restaurant, etc.)
• Play beauty shop
• Write a summer letter to Santa (he is not so busy right now)
• Find your way through a maze (I have a book of mazes)
• Do a worksheet (I have plenty of these on hand for the kids to do over summer)
• Make a rock sculpture
• Invent and design a new toy
• Invent your own game
• Ride your bike
• See if mommy needs help with anything (I am thinking about adding this a few times so it gets picked more than once)
• Find five different bugs
• Make a crazy hat
• Clean your room
• Try to catch a butterfly
• Go to the creek (near our house)
• Play a card game
• Play a computer game
• Write a story about your favorite toy
• Design an obstacle course
• Find something outside for each color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, gray, white)
• Shoot 50 baskets
• Water the plants
• Write a scary story
• Pick up sticks and put in fire pit
• Measure the following items: blade of grass, stick, leaf, flower petal, your thumb, rock, your foot, three items of your choice
• Look and see what the clouds are shaped as - what do you see?

I will still be coming up with ideas until the summer months and beyond. I think I have a good start, but you never can be too prepared! I hope this list helps you this summer!! I would love to hear what your ideas are and how this works for you!