Summer Fun: 99+ Way to Conquer Summer Boredom {Guest Post by Laura}
{edit from Gina: My daughter and I realized on a re-read of this list that some ideas on this list are less fun and more like pranks, so I am revising to highlight my favorites from the list, and will maintain the link to the original post at the bottom.}
Hey you! Has summer boredom gotten to you lately? Know people who are bored to death and don’t know what to do with themselves? Fear no more! Here is a list of ways to keep yourself busy collected from many online sources and people. Looking for more serious things to do? Check out these 10 pro-life ways to keep busy (or scroll to the end for specifically Catholic things to do).
- Go out for ice cream or frozen yogurt
- Makeovers (maybe even blinded)
- Have a paint fight
- Chubby Bunny
- Dramatic Hamster Reenactment
- Learn how to do each others hair
- Go to the beach
- Get your nails done at the salon
- Have a photoshoot
- Make or decorate T-shirts
- Draw (and fingerpaint!)
- Cook
- Ride your bikes
- Take a day hike
- Have a picnic lunch at a park
- Dance party!
- Karaoke
- Make up an ultimate handshake
- Skype people
- Have a race on your street
- Walk around your town
- Make friendship bracelets
- Mod podge something
- Just Dance
- Make a music video
- Go mini golfing
- Have a fashion show
- Mall Scavenger Hunt
- Dye your hair
- Fill water balloons with soap and water and wash your car
- Fill 100 water balloons and put them all on a trampoline see how wet you get
- Get friends and fill up balloons with paint and have a war.
- Give as many high fives to people at WalMart as possible. (Keep track and make high scores!).
- Make home-made ice cream and sorbet.
- Do summer twister by spray painting the spots on grass.
- Play water balloon sports (baseball, volleyball…)
- Water balloon piñata
- Beach bonfire
- Sleep under the stars
- Go camping.
- Play in the sprinklers
- Thumb wrestle
- Go to the library
- Learn how to fold origami
- Hopscotch
- Go fishing.
- Go Geocaching.
- Learn fancy jump-roping moves.
- Feed ducks
- Learn a line dance
- Go berry picking
- Game night!
- Read
- Finish that around-the-house project you’ve been meaning to do forever
- Make popcorn
- Color with crayons in a coloring book
- Drive-in movie
- Bob for apples
- Make some ideas from Pinterest
- Do game shows at home
- Organize family photos
- Make an obstacle course
- Play in the mud
- Visit a nursing home and sing for them
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- Start an exercise program
- Go swimming
- Play Frisbee
- Send a hand-written letter to someone who could use a thoughtful note
Catholic things to do…
- Pray a novena
- Make a “Things Catholic ______’s Say” video and post it on YouTube
- Go to adoration
- Read a Catholic book (Here is a free copy of an MUST READ)
- Watch YouTube videos of Archbishop Fulton Sheen (He is a BEAST speaker)
- Volunteer at your church
- Go to Mass during the week
- Learn about saints
- Like Catholic Memes on Facebook and share the Catholic humor
- Pick a book of the Bible and use a guide to read it in depth
- Go to confession on a regular basis
- Call Catholic Answers Live with that burning question you have about Catholicism
(This post originally was published on Laura’s on blog.)
Bio: Laura, a junior Business Management major at Benedictine College, joined the pro-life movement a few years ago, and has been actively defending life ever since. In her ‘free time’ she enjoys reading about current life and faith issues, writing about them, and having debates about them. She loves her big family, summertime, blogging, Catholic memes, babies, and inspiring stories about people who defy the odds against them. Follow her blog at: asingledropintheocean.com
