I'm bored. So I looked for things to do so as to not be bored. Some of these actually look pretty fun.
Enjoy!
Fun
1. Pretend you've never met, then loudly try out lame pickup lines in a swanky bar. Act like they worked.
2. Go on a walking journey and every fifteen feet draw a chalk arrow in the direction you're going. At the end of the trip, leave a big pile of chalk.
3. Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn't really happen
4. Go for a drive. You can only make right-hand turns. When you finally get stuck, turn around and then you can only make left-hand turns. Repeat until you find something interesting. Take pictures along the way!
5. Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airplanes.
6. Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books
7. Write a piece of fiction together. Outside at a cafe. Ask strangers when you get stuck.
8. Try and visit as many people as you can in one night, and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as you can, without them noticing.
9. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever. Have an unabashed good time!
10. Hide and seek in the park
11. Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things
12. Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you've never been to. With fake names.
13. Go for a drive with the passenger blindfolded, choosing directions at random. see where you end up
14. Dress up as pirates, commandeer shopping carts, and have a war upon the high seas.. er, parking lot.
15. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence
16. Rent a movie you've never seen before. Set on mute and improvise dialogue.
17. Dress up as pirates and go parrot shopping at local pet stores
18. Go to the airport, get the cheapest, soonest departing flight to anywhere when you show up, and stay there for a weekend.
19. Walk around a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras
20. In the middle of the night, drive to the beach, so you arrive just as the sun is rising. Have a breakfast picnic, then fall asleep together. Bring a sun umbrella.
Become a ham radio operator
Bike ride down the steepest hill you can find
Bodysurfing
Build a raft like Tom Sawyer and float down the river
Build or fly an ultra light
Canoe at dawn
Canoeing downhill (must be attempted on snow before attempting on dirt, and even then dirt is not really recommended)
Complete a fire walk
Dune buggy riding
Feel the wind with a naked bungee jump
Fencing (the sport, not the act of building one)
Fly a kite attached to your bike
Get a tattoo
Give someone a piggyback ride or vice versa
Go bushwhacking while blindfolded through the forest with a pal. Make sure you don't bushwhack your pal
Go four-wheel driving
Go hang gliding
Go to a nude beach
Go to your local scuba diving shop and learn how to dive, go for a dive in the first water you can find
Heli-hiking, Heli-skiing, Heli-anything
Hot-air balloon ride
Ice Climbing
Kayaking
Land luge
Learn how to use a compass then go and use your skills
Make a boat and see if it floats with you in it
Mountain biking
Paintball
Paragliding
Play Frisbee at night
Play underwater hockey
Practice stilt walking
Quit your job because it sucks
Ride a horse bareback
Ride a horse on the beach
Ride a tandem bike
Rock climbing
Rock skiing (that's downhill skiing without snow)
Sandboarding (snowboarding on sand)
Sea kayaking
Ski/golf/sail all in one day
Skydiving
Try to break a world record
Unicycle
Whitewater canoeing
Whitewater rafting
"Paint" a snowman using Windex bottles filled with water colored with food coloring.
Bobsledding
Build a skating rink
Build an igloo
Build snow furniture
Catch a snowflake with your tongue
Cross country ski to work during the next big snowstorm
Curling (don't knock it till you try it)
Dog sledding
Go for a sleigh ride
Go Ice camping
Go tobogganing
Have a barbecue in the middle of a snowstorm
Have a fire and roast marshmallows
Have a winter hoedown
Hold a tops Olympics(you know like those spinning top things) but do it on ice
Ice blocking (slide down a hill sitting on a block of ice)
Ice-skate on a lake
If you're going to wear a toque, might as well be a toque with ears (not earflaps... ears!)
Join in a polar bear swim
Lie on your back in a snowy field
Make a snow fort
Make a snowman
Make snow angels
Slather on suntan lotion in the middle of winter. The scent will win you friends and admirers
Snow animals or statues
Snow biking
Snow cave
Snow skiing
Snow tubing
Snowboarding
Snowmobiling
Snowshoeing
Take your pooch to the park or open field after a fresh snowfall. Proceed to make people and doggie snow angels.
Watch the snow fall
Winter luge
Yodel, especially on the chair lift
Blow bubbles with bubble gum
Blow on a beer bottle
Blow on a blade of grass
Crank up some music
Cut out photos and paste them on Popsicle sticks and have a puppet show
Eat
Eat 6 spoon full of sugar, a soda, and another think that makes you hyper and then you won't be bored anymore, you will end up finding something to do... trust us
Experiment with makeup
Get a bubble blower and then blow some
Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop
Laugh out loud
Learn how to fake an accent
Make a humorous crank phone call
Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
Make up poems or songs about your boredom
Nap
Play cards
Play Dead
Play house with yourself
Play with marbles
Pop zits and blackheads, clean lint out of belly button, q-tips, and find those hidden treasures of the nose
Practice your arm pit farting skills (Advanced participants try with your hand cupped on the back of your knee)
Pretend that you are not bored
Read some comic books
See how long you can hold your breath
Send a tune with keypad numbers on the phone
Sing even if you can't
Spin until you're dizzy
Stand on your head
Stare at the ceiling and try to make something out of the dots
Write your name in permanent marker on all your underwear
Break into a friend's house and clean it Call a wrong number and talk to whoever answers.
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)
Chase your best friend round the sofa
Dance around your living room naked
Doodle or cartoon
Dress in something silly and laugh at yourself
Figure out how to get yourself on TV
Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter. See if they write you back
Flip a coin 500 times to see who wins
Get on the radio
Give names to your body parts
Go shop for a really cool book
Go through the English dictionary looking up really long words like discombobulated.
Have a carpet picnic
Have a staring contest with yourself in the mirror.
Kiss your elbow, if you can.
Lay a long straight line of masking tape on the floor. Now spin around really fast then try walking on the masking tape.
Learn a new word in the dictionary
Learn to Juggle
Learn to peel a banana with your feet
Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it
Listen to a type of music that you don't normally listen to
Listen to really hard music and head bang
Listen to some polka music and eat sausages
Make a list of the fun things you've already done, then admire how long your list is.
Make a trash can a basketball hoop and throw crumpled up paper for baskets
Patch some clothing
Phone your local government rep and see if you can convince him or her to have lunch with you
Plan a journey
Play bottle cap hockey...with pens as the sticks and a bottle cap as the puck
Play dress-up with all the clothes you have in your closet
Pronounce your friends names.backwards
Put doll clothes on your cat and play dress up
Rent a movie, 2 hours later go back to the same movie store and rent the sequel, 2 hours after that go back and get the third movie
Rent some fun movies
Roll your change
Run around your house as fast as you can and, count how many times you can go without getting tired.
Shave your head
Sit at your desk with your left arm sticking out until it goes numb
Snap your fingers as if suddenly you have a bright idea and see if you get any
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
Take one hundred dollars out of the bank and spend it all on yourself
Throw a huge party for no reason at all
Turn on the T.V., put it on mute and make up dialogue
Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends
Watch 101 Dalmatians and see if they really show 101 Dalmatians
Watch a foreign film
Watch cartoons (preferably funny stupid ones)
Write a big list of fun things to do
Write a limerick or twelve
Write a rant letter to the paper
Write out ten things that make you happy - then do one of them
You and a friend pick your noses and see who has the biggest boogers
Bring dog treats to the park and meet 25 new dogs
Burn things with a magnifying glass
Buy the craziest, most comfortable slippers you can find
Climb a tree
Find some crutches and pretend to have a broken leg
Flip some coins into a fountain
Flirt with people
Go dumpster diving and see what you can find
Go out and get your motorcycle license
Go to a candy store and buy a ton of candy. Eat all day
Go to the 24 hr grocery at 1 a.m.
Have an egg toss
Make a rope swing
Make faces at strangers to make them laugh
Play Frisbee
Play knicky knicky nine doors leaving freaky anonymous notes behind
Put bunny ears on people you don't know (the two finger kind you know, like a peace sign)
Skip rope
Take your TV outside
Try to stay up for 24 hours
Volunteer for a charity
Walk around a public park, every so often pretend to trip on a 'invisible' wire.
Watch kids play - and then join in
Be a weaver and take up basketry
Build a float for a parade
Build a model railroad.
Build a model rocket
Carve a pumpkin
Collage your car into like the coolest most outrageous thing on the road
Collect bulrushes and spray with hairspray
Cut up a magazine and make a collage
Design your own tattoo
Do a crayon drawing and put in on your fridge (Especially if you are a parent or grandparent)
Do some woodwork
Draw an entire story (maybe your autobiography!) with stick-people
Draw pictures of yourself as a barbarian.
Find a creative place for a collage. Use things that mean something to you.
Find an 8 year old to write songs with
Get a plain shirt for target and decorate it with ribbons and rhinestones etc.
Get some glitter glue
Get your handwriting analyzed
Go the mall just to admire creativity
Have a business card made with your name number and a fake vocation: Like astronaut, race car driver, etc.
Join a pottery class
Keep a journal of the fun things you do from the list
Keep a sketchbook
Learn to knit if only to create the longest scarf you can imagine
Learn to play an exotic instrument like the Didgeridoo
Learn to play tangos on the accordion to serenade under someone's window
Learn to play the bagpipes
Learn to play the bongos
Make a flag for your bike
Make a sculpture
Make a trophy or certificate to represent a great feat that you have or have not done
Make hand puppets
Make paper chains
Make soap
Make sock puppets
Make some candles
Make some stained-glass artwork
Make your own clothing line
Paint a canvas
Paint the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet and make a pictureor decorate a wall
Paper Mache
Pick fresh roses and hang upside down to dry then create a design
Play a harmonica
Press flowers between wax paper and place in book to dry
Refinish an antique
Sketch or draw a landscape
Start a diary full of dreams
Start quilting
Take an improvisation or acting class
Take pencil crayons and color a picture that you have drawn
Take up calligraphy
Work on an impression of your favorite actor.
Write a movie script or book
Write some poetry
Write songs and go outside and sing them so everyone can hear
Believe in magic
Do your own thing all day
Dream the afternoon away on a riverbank
Enjoy a memory from the past
Ever try bird watching - what about bird listening?
Fall asleep on the lawn
Get up early to watch the sunrise
Have a paper airplane distance contest
Have a picnic with some squirrels
Hold a piece of Butterfly bush and let an Admiral land on your hand.
Listen to the language of the frogs or locusts
Make a house out of card board boxes
Take a ten-minute walk
Next time you see a rainbow, stop and really admire it
Play jacks or pickup sticks
Positive daydreaming
Say hello to cows
Sing even if you can't
Study the stars
Test drive a really expensive car
The next time it's really windy, find a safe place to lean into the wind
Watch an ant at work
Watch others play
Watch the moonrise
Ways to make money: Car Wash, Yard sale (get the whole block involved), lemonade stand, bake sale, rub sun tan lotion or tanning oil on people at the beach
Bake a cake, and eat the whole thing
Bake something for your neighbors
Buy your favorite ice cream and some plastic spoons and it at the park.
Change sandwich meat with a friend at lunchtime
Chuck random amounts of ingredients like sugar and eggs, into a bowl, mix it all up, cook it, then see what it tastes like you never know it could be really nice! Use garnishes when cooking
Cook something you have never cooked before
Cut potatoes into stencils and blot out designs with ink
Cut the crusts off of your sandwiches.
Decorate a cake with "Happy Tuesday" ( or any other day of the week on it!)
Decorate an outrageous cake
Decorate your food then eat it, eg. a smiley face sandwich made from chocolate spread, silver balls, sprinkles, etc.
Eat a fruit you have never tried before
Eat a huge piece of watermelon then have a watermelon spitting contest
Eat exotic foods
Enter a grape stomping contest
Get a large group of people and throw tomatoes at a target( people it always fun)
Go bowling in the grocery store with pineapples as bowling pins and cantaloupe for bowling balls.
Go for drinks at one place, appetizers in another, main course at another, dessert, than drinks again (of course)
Go to "The Chocolate Buffet"
Go to a pinball arcade and eat hot dogs
Go to the grocery store and buy one of every fruit
Have a cabbage kicking contest
Have a picnic with checkered tablecloth and fine wine and yummy cheese
Have dinner with the old people you know
Leave an outrageous tip for your food server
Leave copious amounts of jujubes with your tip at an upscale dining establishment
Make a sandwich with everything in your fridge
Make Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Make food sculptures.
Make French toast two inches thick
Make gingerbread men and decorate them so they look dangerous
Make home made ice cream
Make margaritas and hang out on the deck
Make pancakes in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
Make traditional food the wrong color like Shepard's pie with blue mashed potatoes.
Make beer or wine
Make your absolute favorite dish for dinner tonight
Make your own banana split
Make yourself a 'smore', microwave and eat it.
Name all your food creations with the terms "World Famous" and add your name too.
Open a package of chocolate chip s and eat them
Put your fork aside and eat with your fingers especially if it is spaghetti
Raid your kids' dress up clothes box and "dress up" for dinner.....it amazing how much better food tastes when you're a princess or a wizard.
Slurp your spaghetti really loud when you eat it
Start a food fight
Throw popcorn at a theatre
Use a straw to drink everything - extra points for silly straws.
With your hands behind your back eat jello out of a bowl.
Play flash light tag in a crowded place at night
Print up a bunch of "lost pet" signs, instead make signs for a missing grilled cheese sandwich. Tape them up in lots of public places, and make sure people see you doing it. Be sure to look very sad.
Put on a business suit and walk around a toy store playing with the toys really enthusiastically.
When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, " I Won! I Won! Third time this week!"
Dress up like a flight attendant and stand in an elevator, when people get on hand them peanuts and tell them to enjoy their flight.
Start hitting yourself in the head and say, SHUT up all of you - SHUT UP especially you Lawrence
Stick blueberries up your nose and see how far you can shoot them
Strut like John Wayne for a day.
Stuff a phone booth with people
Swim in the buff
Take an invisible dog for a walk.
Take your couch to the beach or park
Verbally Abuse your patio furniture
Voice your opinion where no one can hear you
When you see someone picking their nose, pick your nose too
Board games by a toasty fire
Build a mini weather station at home
Build a model car
Build a time capsule
Buy a tabloid
Crank up the music and dance in your pajamas
Do crossword puzzles
Either take lessons or hire a belly dancer for your next party
Get a blanket or sheet, and go somewhere you probably won't hurt yourself if you fall. Then have your friend hold one end of the sheet and start spinning so the blanket twists around you, then get your friend to pull his end of the blanket really hard and you should spin around till u run out of sheet.
Go to disco night at your local bowling alley
Have a carpet picnic
Have a dinner that is focused around laughter
Have a limbo contest
Invent a new dance
Have a scary movie marathon
Listen to classical music, lights off, lying on the floor, and take turns saying what it sounds like
Jigsaw puzzle
Nothing beats a Bollywood movie
OrigamiPlay
Cluedo
Play foosball
Play video games
Scrabble
Start a pillow fight
Tell scary stories to each other
Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends
Write "sexual favors" in the memo space on your checks
Write to your high school French teacher and reveal the crush that you once had on them. Remind them that you are now legal
Be the first to jump in the freezing cold swimming pool
Blow bubbles on a child's belly
Buy some comic books
Buy some crazy socks
Chase the ice cream truck
Design and build a time machine with friends. The wackier the better.
Do some crayon art
Do some hula-hooping
Draw with chalk on the road
Dress up and have a play
Experiment with makeup
Finger painting
Gentle put a ladybug on your hand and recite "Fly away, fly away.....
Get a Slinky and play with it
Get some chalk and play hop-scotch
Get yourself the coolest lunch box money can buy
Give balloons to people
Go buy a whack of firecrackers
Go fly a kite
Go to the park and play with the kids
Have a party
Have a water balloon fight
Have a water fight with the garden hose
Hold a baby chicken and gently place against your cheek to feel the fuzz
Iddy Biddy Indy (buy some remote-control cars, set up a track, call your friends and have your own darn I ndy Race)
Learn some magic tricks
Look for shapes in the clouds
Make a bridge across a stream or river. Be creative.
Make a tent over your bed with sheets and pegs and whenever you feel cold go inside and get cozy.
Paint the front door with purple polka-dots
Paint your car with stripes or polka dots (just make sure you use paint that will wash off)
Partake in some yo-yoing
Play Barbie's
Play cops and robbers
Play hide-and-go-seek
Play kick the can
Play Tag
Play with some children's toys
Play-doh
Put a bell on your bicycle
Put on some big rubber boots and go puddle-jumping
Racing mini motorized boats or planes
Read a children's story
Ride a Pogo stick
Ride a tricycle as if you were 4 years old again
Ride the kiddy rides, especially the ones in the mall
Roll down a hill
Run a model train
Set up a treasure hunt
Spin until you're dizzy
Stand on your head
Take off your shoes and splash your feet in a fountain
Wade for minnows
Wear your hair in pigtails.
Write down wishes in a book and call it "my wish list" check periodically to see how many come true.
Blindfold yourself then feed your date messy food like strawberries dipped in chocolate sauce
Canoe into the middle of the lake and snuggle up under a blanket.
Drink a bottle of Dom Perignon
Get dressed up, order in Chinese food, and eat it in front of a fire.
Go moon dancing
Go to a movie with the most letters or the least letters
Have a candlelit supper under the stars
Have a chocolate fondue date
Have a tickle party only for you and someone "special"
Pretend not to like the person you really like
Try a dating service
Carve your names in a place where lots of people will see (John luvs Julia)
Get Married in Vegas
Go into your partner's closet and hide little notes in the pockets of clothing they don't wear often
Have a Lady & the Tramp dinner. Buy super-long spaghetti noodles, set the table with a red-checkered cloth and don't forget the candle in the raffia-wrapped wine bottle. Have the video playing while you eat.
Hide candies and chocolates for lovers and friends
If you're going to get married, make sure there's a tuba player in the wedding band
Lay out in a field with a loved one and just look at the stars
Leave secret love notes
Make breakfast in bed for your lover
Stand about 3 feet apart and try to toss popcorn into your lover's mouth
Take a romantic holiday
Take a second honeymoon
Wake up and stay in bed (Wink, wink) until you are so tired you have to go back to bed
When your partner's traveling without you, sneak their favorite stuffed animal, picture, candy or childhood book in their suitcase
