175 Fun Things to Do When Bored (Updated 100+ List of Fun Things to Do)
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Go to the movies with your friends/family.
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Go shopping at the mall with your friends.
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Have a picnic with your friends at a local park or in your backyard.
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Have an 80’s movie marathon. Rent as many 80’s movies as you can find and watch them all weekend. Do the same thing for other decades.
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Make a scrapbook.
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Make a collage that represents you or a topic you enjoy. Include magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, ticket stubs, etc.
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Have a potluck dinner. Assign a food category to each of your friends and set a date.
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Read a book or magazine.
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Play a game of flag or touch football.
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Play capture the flag.
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Make a home movie with your parents’ video camera.
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Paint a picture.
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Go on a scavenger hunt in your neighborhood.
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Go to a sporting event for your school.
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Start a collection.
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Play a game of ultimate Frisbee
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Make a mix CD or tape.
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Organize a bake sale or car wash in your neighborhood and donate the proceeds to a school or community project.
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Play card games, dominoes, or do a puzzle.
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Plan and make a meal for your family.
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Make your own waterslide. Put a plastic tarp down on the grass and wet it down with a water hose. Keep the hose running as you and your friends run and slide on it.
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Fly a kite in your backyard or at a local park.
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Create your own street-hockey team or play for fun.
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Ride your bike. Try to find new trails.
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Write poetry or short stories.
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Make homemade cookies.
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Go on a photography hunt and find interesting themes to shoot.
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Exercise. Try new exercise routines with your friends, such as yoga or Pilates.
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Rent a canoe or paddle boat. Go canoing or paddling.
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Go to a concert.
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Start your own band.
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Get a part-time job.
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Go out to eat at a local restaurant.
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Go to an ice cream shop with your friends.
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Go star-gazing.
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Go see a play at your local theater or a school production.
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Participate in after-school activities, such as the drama club, football, basketball, community service clubs, student council, cheerleading, etc.
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Go to a museum.
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Go to the zoo.
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Volunteer at the local animal shelter.
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Volunteer at a hospital.
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Volunteer at a nursing home.
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Volunteer at a place you’ve never thought of volunteering at.
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Plant your own garden or terrarium.
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Make a time capsule with all your friends with notes and objects you want to remember this time in history. Set a date to open it far in the future.
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Design and make your own T-shirts.
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Go horseback riding.
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Go rock climbing or hiking.
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Go to an amusement park.
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Go to a water park.
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Have dinner outside while watching the sunset.
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Groom your pet then take it to the park to it show off.
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Play paintball.
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Go to the beach or lake.
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Play laser tag.
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Play miniature golf.
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Ride go-carts.
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Go bowling.
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Study for SATs.
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Go to a flea market to search for cool stuff.
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Order a pizza and rent a movie with your friends.
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Attend a professional sporting event.
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Go ice-skating.
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Visit public gardens.
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Play board games with your little brother or sister or with your friends.
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Learn how to play a musical instrument.
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Take your kid sisters or brothers to the playground or circus.
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Visit the historical sites of your city.
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Start a recycling program in your school/community.
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Make a music video.
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Make a present for your boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Make a quilt out of your old T-shirts and blankets.
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Go roller-skating or roller-blading at the local skating rink or around the neighborhood.
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Go to the batting cages or play baseball in a local park.
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Take a blanket and some snacks to a park and look at cloud formations in the sky.
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Start a daily journal.
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Put together a play production with your friends.
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Roast marshmallows.
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Play catch with water balloons in the yard.
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Have a water balloon fight.
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Visit your family.
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Do a puzzle. Glue the pieces together and frame it.
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Organize a garage sale with your friends. Donate the proceeds to a local charity or throw a party.
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Build your own website.
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Go fishing.
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Take dance lessons. Learn how to swing dance.
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Take dance lessons. Learn how to waltz.
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Take dance lessons. Learn how to salsa.
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Organize a day to pick up litter in your neighborhood and in the community.
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Go to the library.
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Study something new.
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Write a letter to a friend or family member.
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Rearrange your room.
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Clean out the basement or garage for your parents.
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Mow the lawn or wash car for your parents.
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Mentor a younger child.
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Join a club or group.
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Take cooking classes.
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Visit a nursing home.
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Blow on a blade of grass.
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Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop.
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Read some comic books.
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Call a wrong number and talk to whoever answers.
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Catch a fly, then put in a jar and stick in the fridge (this cools their metabolism down), then tie the fly to the end of a thread 15in. and hold the other end of the thread while you watch it fly around (We have tested this and it works - a lot of patience is involved).
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Figure out how to get yourself on TV.
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Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter. See if they write you back.
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Get on the radio.
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Go shop for really cool books.
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Have a picnic.
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Lay a long straight line of masking tape on the floor. Now spin around really fast then try walking on the masking tape.
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Learn to Juggle, tectonic, shuffle or break dance.
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Learn to peel a banana with your feet.
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Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it.
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Listen to a type of music that you don’t normally listen to.
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Listen to really hard music and head bang.
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Make a list of the fun things you’ve already done, then admire how long your list is
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Patch some clothing.
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Phone your local government rep and see if you can convince him or her to have lunch with you.
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Plan a journey.
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Play bottle cap hockey…with pens as the sticks and a bottle cap as the puck.
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Rent a movie, 1 hours later go back to the same movie store and rent the sequel, 1 hours after that go back and get the third movie.
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Roll your change.
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Sit at your desk with your left arm sticking out until it goes numb.
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Snap your fingers as if suddenly you have a bright idea and see if you get any.
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Take a company that has been getting on your nerves - find out who the person is that you should write complaints too. Write a letter to them with the most trivial or confusing complaint. Ensure you talk in circles so that the letter is well written but extremely confusing.
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Take one hundred dollars out of the bank and spend it all on yourself.
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Throw a huge party for no reason at all.
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Turn on the T.V., put it on mute and make up dialogue.
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Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends.
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Watch a foreign film.
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Write a big list of fun things to do.
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Write out ten things that make you happy - then do one of them.
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Bring dog treats to the park and meet 25 new dogs.
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Buy the craziest, most comfortable slippers you can find.
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Climb a tree.
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Find some crutches and pretend to have a broken leg.
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Go dumpster diving and see what you can find.
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Go out and get your motorcycle license.
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Go to a candy store and buy a ton of candy.
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Go to the 24 hr grocery at 1 a.m.
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Have an egg toss.
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Make a rope swing.
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Make faces at strangers to make them laugh.
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Play Frisbee.
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Ding dong ditch leaving freaky anonymous notes behind.
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Put bunny ears on people you don’t know (the two finger kind you know, like a peace sign).
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Skip rope.
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Take your TV outside.
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Volunteer for a charity.
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Walk around a public park, every so often pretend to trip on a ‘invisible’ wire.
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Watch kids play - and then join in. :)
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Get yourself a roll of quarters and find a video arcade.
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Go geocaching.
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Choose a movie to see based on the roll of the dice. Open a newspaper or web browser to your local movie listings. Roll the dice. If, for example, you roll a three, go see the third movie in the listings.
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Sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
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Make lemonade from lemons.
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Set up a hammock in your yard. Use it!
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Make your own ice cream.
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Create a masterpiece on your driveway with sidewalk chalk.
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Build a campfire and make s’mores.
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Build a campfire and make banana boats.
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Decorate a pair of flip flops.
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Gather some old dry bread crusts and feed the birds. Or go to a lake or pond and feed the ducks.
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Learn to crochet. Or knit.
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Plant a tree.
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Rent a projector, hang a white sheet in your backyard and have a backyard movie night.
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Clean up trash in a local park. Or pick up trash on your block.
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Glue money to the floor and watch people try to pick it up.
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Watch a familiar DVD dubbed in a foreign language.
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Clean out your closet.
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Learn how to make raspberry jam.
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Learn how to make fortune cookies.
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Learn how to fix a bicycle chain.
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Learn how to start a small business.
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Mute the TV and play music. It’s funny to see how the music “matches up” with what’s happening on-screen.
