In addition to our fabulous summer bucket list and activity list, we have a Bored Jar that I made last summer and that Cass has updated using lolly sticks. So here is our ultimate bored jar list, over 110 ideas to keep the children occupied and busy this summer.
- Let’s play – Read a book
- Go on your DS for 30 minutes
- Research the Romans on the computer
- Let’s cook – Biscuits
- Let’s cook – make pizza
- Tidy your room
- Pick a flower and paint a picture of it
- Go swimming
- Call on a friend
- Do the washing up
- Make music
- Go to the library
- Make rocky road or fridge cake
- Hopscotch
- Make an obstacle course
- Groom the dog
- Colour in a book
- Clean your bedroom
- Learn how to skip
- Help pair socks
- Draw around your sibling or parent
- Write 5 things you love about each member of your family
- Play with Lego
- Do a jigsaw
- Paint rocks
- Scoot around the block
- Make fingerprint animals
- Feed the ducks
- Put up the play tent
- Play with the toy cars
- No electronics for the rest of the Day
- Make cards
- Have a bath

- Write a story starting with “David had to find out where Rocky had gone…………………”
- Draw a map of our house
- Find out how many bones are in the human body
- Have a shower
- Draw a robot and label all its parts
- Pretend you are a knight
- Sort the laundry
- Make paper aeroplanes
- Have a tea party with your friends
- Empty the dishwasher
- Jump up and down 20 times
- Let’s cook – cupcakes
- Let’s cook – you choose
- Put on a DVD
- Go out on your Bike
- Get the paint out
- Go to a park
- Water the plants
- Make homemade bubbles
- Have an ice-cream
- Make hot chocolate
- Vacuum the stairs
- Craft with Mum
- Set the table
- 1 chore of Mums choice
- Draw a comic
- Play with Playmobil
- 30 minutes on the Wii
- Make Jelly
- Feed the ducks
- Make a bird feeder
- Build a den
- Science time
- Draw a picture of our house from the outside
- Time for a Science Experiment
- Make a rainwater collector
- Climb a tree
- Make wooden spoon people
- Spend 30 minutes on Moshi Monsters
- Let’s cook – muffins
- Make’/fly a kite
- Let’s cook – Make popcorn
- Go out on your Scooter
- Board game
- Roll down a hill
- Go to the beach
- Sort out your shoes
- Borrow the camera
- Find five toys to give away
- Go for a walk
- Sweep the ground floor
- Do some stitching
- 30 mins with Mum
- Wash the car
- Football match upstairs
- 30 Minutes on the Xbox
- Go to a Museum
- Make a volcano
- Make a bottle rocket
- Plan dinner, write a menu, help cook and serve
- Have a race
- Build Sandcastles
- Wash the pots
- Plan a bean in a jar
- Make finger puppets
- Find shapes, animals and objects in clouds
- Write a poem
- Watch Phineas and Ferb
- Pretend you are a cowboy
- Make a family tree
- Empty the dishwasher
- Make a treasure map
- Make a paper plate monster mask
- Pretend you are a pirate
- Learn how to use the washing machine
- Go to soft play
- Steam mop the bathrooms
- Steam mop the kitchen
- Make a paper boat
- Take dog for a walk
- Write to your penpal
- Make a card
- Prepare dinner

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Wow, what a great list. I am definitely going to have to use some of these 🙂
Great list!! What a great idea the Bored Jar is! May have to give it a try 🙂
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I love this idea! I think we will definitely try it at home.
This list is fab, you have done all the hard work and now I can print it off and summer is sorted, thanks.
No excuse to be bored at all 😉
We use our lolly stick one all the time now – I’m going to add some of these to it too x x