Ultimate Blog Challenge Day 10 July 2018 today’s post was to create a Top 10 List or a Top ever how much you would like to share list. So as I sat here thinking about putting together a Top 10 List I knew it might not happen as Charlie is here telling me he is bored and we should go to the park.
Now mind you it is close to 100 degrees here and even though I agree I need to get up and take my son to the park the thought of the heat isn’t something I want to deal with today. So I have been looking for ways to keep Charlie busy and not drive me up a wall. So I decided to share a Top 5 List for Bored Children who are driving their parents up a wall.
- Build a Fort and grab your favorite blanket and pillows and a book or to and shut out the world for a while.
- Turn on YouTube to your favorite Music and start a dance party.
- Comb the Pantry for items to make cookies with and if you want to know what kind of cookies I think you should make they would be Peanut Butter Cookies. My all-time favorite cookies.
- Grab your favorite movies and Legos or Lincoln Logs and let’s do a Movie Fest. Let your children pick out the first movie and you pick out the second movie. Pop some popcorn and once the movie finishes start a discussion of what would happen next. As it allows our children to use there imagination.
- Have a Board Game Challenge and grab all the Board Games in the house and have a contest to see who wins the most games. The loser has to make dinner if your children are old enough to cook.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
Great ideas. Not sure how legos and Lincoln Logs go with movie fest though. If your child isn’t old enough to cook, winner gets to choose supper (assuming you can trust child not to say “gummy bears.”) There is also the old-fashioned idea of giving a child a job every time they are bored, a favorite of my mom’s. When I visit my grandchildren we write a story, so there’s an idea for you.
I am between “children” (mine is in his 20’s) and grandchildren (hopefully, one day). I didn’t have You Tube but I did some of these things with my then-young son. They are all great suggestions. For #3 – hopefully, no bake on a hot day. (I loved to bake brownies with my son once he was old enough). Other fun things? Making homemade playdough and making “cookie” cutouts or freeform art. Making macaroni necklaces. Thanks for the memories!