80 ideas for your bored jar….

Do you have a Bored Jar?

I’ve seen a few posts lately (like this one from Jen) about people making ‘I’m bored’ jars filled with ideas that are randomly chosen whenever anyone mentions the dreaded bored word and a quick search on Pinterest tells me that the makeshift jam jar filled with bits of folded paper is woefully inadequate* – just have a look at this little lot.

(*only joking, it’s the ideas that count not the presentation although there are some works of art on there aren’t there?)

We decided to update our I’m bored jar and make our own version using coloured lolly sticks instead of paper – partly because we have about a thousand of these things in our craft cupboard and partly because Miss Frugal started writing our ideas out on bits of paper and I was irrationally irritated by the fact that all of her pieces of paper were different sizes and folded in different ways!

Here’s some of the things I wrote on our lolly sticks for our bored jar:

1. Read a book
2. Write in your holiday book
3. Tidy your bedroom
4. Do one job
5. Draw something
6. Draw an animal
7. Draw our house
8. Paint something
9. Watch a movie
10. Make a gift for someone
11. Tidy your desk
12. Make homemade bubbles
13. Have a bubble bath
14. Make cupcakes
15. Play on Moshi Monsters
16. Go on Youtube and search funny things
17. Make homemade Bubbles
18. Make Gloop
19. Make a treasure hunt
20. Make something with a box
21. Story starting – There is a monster in my garden….
22. Story starting – Yesterday I went in a spaceship to….
23. Story starting  – There once was a little girl who liked to skip….
24. Write a story about you.
25. Go to the park
26. Go to the beach
27. Find shapes in clouds
28. Create a family flag
29. Make a musical instrument
30. Do the recycling
31. Build a time capsule
32. Find something in your house that starts with every letter of the alphabet
33. Have a picnic – indoor or outdoor. Teddies allowed.
34. Have a scooter race.
35. Play with a toy you haven’t played with in a while.
36. Learn ten words in a different language
37. Play on the trampoline
38. Make homemade play dough
39. Make and decorate paper airplanes
40. Let Dad choose something to do
41. Let Mam choose something to do
42. Walk the dog
43. Make an animal out of the things in the craft cupboard
44. Make something with a box
45. Make a den
46. Play guitar
47. Tidy under your bed
48. Look through the cook books and choose something you can cook us all for tea
49. Build something out of Lego.
50. Make a list of black and white animals.
51. Write three things about every
52. Paint your nails
53. Make a sock puppet
54. Have a bubble bath
55. Play a board game
56. Make a board game of your own
57. Customise your clothes
58. Make something with your buttons
59. Play on the Xbox
60. Play on the wii
61. Draw a picture blindfolded
62. Draw a picture with your feet
63. Make a video
64. Write a poem
65. Google something to make
66. Make a card pyramid
67. Go and collect some stones and make them into bugs
68. Dance to loud music
69. Play on the trampoline
70. Start a club with your friends
71. Tidy craft cupboard
72. Sew something
73. Bake cookies
74. Play out with friends
75. Ride your bike
76. Water balloon fight
77. Wash the car
78. Play with the chalks outside
79. Make a bookmark
80. Make some homemade ice lollies

I wrote them all on a coloured lolly stick, stuck them in a jar and voila, we have our own version of the I’m bored Jar!  The top four ideas are in there about four times each I think as they’re the things I really want to make sure that they do throughout the holidays.

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