Ideas for a bored jar

indigo91804

Ok... this week the kids (boys ages 8 and 5) have nothing planned and I want to make them a bored jar where they can pick something and go do it. If not, they will sit in front of the TV all day long. So far I have:

go to the beach, go to a park, build a lego city, make a book, bake, call a friend for a playdate,

Any other easy, free suggestions I could put in there.  

heather318

Puzzle? Board game? Ride bikes?

WatchPot

my kid likes to go for "treasure hunt" around the neighborhood and then use tempra paints to paint his rocks and sticks and things.  That's a good few hours worth of activity there!

TwinMommy09

I just blogged about what I made for the boys! With our list of activities found here:

https://mommybrained.blogspot.com/2011/06/activity-jars.html

clineak

Build a fort, make their own movie (if you have a video camera), do a science experiment (first, take a trip to the library to check out an experiment book), do a puppet show.

pinktulips

wash their bikes

make homemade bubbles and giant string bubble wands

scavenger hunt

letterbox - or create a letterbox to hide

make mudpies

get an old sheet, hang it outside and let them paint it. Or let them paint themselves (you can make pudding paint) and have them body paint the sheet.

 I have seen in the land of pinterest where they cut out a giant star from a piece of cardboard, used it as a stencil, and then sprinkled flour over it, decorating the yard with stars. You could do the same thing and make a giant maze, or checkerboard.

Make masking tape roads through the house to drive the cars.

Make towns out of cereal boxes, etc, for towns around the roads.

Get some large refrigerator boxes and let them turn them into rockets, houses, trains, or cars. Another pinterest idea I have saved is that they turn the boxes into cars, add pillows, and clip on snack trays, then watch a movie - so it is their own drive in.