Information On Fun things to do when your bored

Simple Boredom Fighters

1. THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

• Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show

See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out shapes and see if your subconscious is trying to send you a message (perhaps that funny shape is saying, 'send all your money to urban75.com'?)

• See how long you can hold a note

(Amusement Potential: 4-20 minutes)
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Inhale deeply and then try and make a noise for as long as you can. Earn extra points for making your partner laugh or ending on an amusing note.

• Try to not think about penguins

(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.

• Use your secret mind power

(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.

• Pretend you're a robot

(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Walk down the street with mechanical movements, adding 'zzzzzt' sounds with each motion. Pretending to have a motor broken in, say, your left hand can add at least 30 seconds more entertainment.

• Scratch yourself

(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty good?

• Rate passers by

(Amusement Potential: 10-15 minutes)
Secretly award passers by marks out of ten as you go along, offering (unsaid) expert criticism over their clothing, hairstyle and footwear choices.


Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a meaningless set of noises.

• .Pinch yourself

(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.
• Blow bubbles with bubble gum
• Blow on a beer bottle
• Blow on a blade of grass
• Crank up some music
• Cut out photos and paste them on Popsicle sticks and have a puppet show

• Eat
• Eat 6 spoon full of sugar, a soda, and another think that makes you hyper and then you won't be bored anymore, you will end up finding something to do... trust us
• Experiment with makeup
• Get a bubble blower and then blow some
• Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop
• Laugh out loud
• Learn how to fake an accent
• Make a humorous crank phone call
• Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
• Make up poems or songs about your boredom
• Nap
• Play cards
• Play Dead
• Play house with yourself
• Play with marbles
• Pop zits and blackheads, clean lint out of belly button, q-tips, and find those hidden treasures of the nose
• Practice your arm pit farting skills (Advanced participants try with your hand cupped on the back of your knee)
• Pretend that you are not bored
• Read some comic books
• See how long you can hold your breath
• Send a tune with keypad numbers on the phone
• Sing even if you can't
• Spin until you're dizzy
• Stand on your head
• Stare at the ceiling and try to make something out of the dots
• Write your name in permanent marker on all your underwear
Inside Boredom Fighters
• Break into a friend's house and clean it
Call a wrong number and talk to whoever answers.
• Catch a fly, then put in a jar and stick in the fridge (this cools their metabolism down), then tie the fly to the end of a thread 15in. and hold the other end of the thread while you watch it fly around (We have tested this and it works - a lot of patience is involved)
• Chase your best friend round the sofa
• Dance
around your living room naked
• Doodle or cartoon
• Dress in something silly and laugh at yourself
• Fiddle around with a Ouija board
• Figure out how to get yourself on TV
• Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter. See if they write you back
• Flip a coin 500 times to see who wins
• Get on the radio
• Give names to your body parts
• Go shop for a really cool book
• Go through the English dictionary looking up really long words like discombobulated.
• Have a carpet picnic
• Have a staring contest with yourself in the mirror.
• Kiss your elbow, if you can.
• Lay a long straight line of masking tape on the floor. Now spin around really fast then try walking on the masking tape.
• Learn a new word in the dictionary
• Learn to Juggle
• Learn to peel a banana with your feet
• Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it
• Listen to a type of music that you don't normally listen to
• Listen to really hard music and head bang
• Listen to some polka music and eat sausages
• Make a list of the fun things you've already done, then admire how long your list is.
• Make a trash can a basketball hoop and throw crumpled up paper for baskets
• Patch some clothing
• Phone your local government rep and see if you can convince him or her to have lunch with you
• Plan a journey
• Play bottle cap hockey...with pens as the sticks and a bottle cap as the puck
• Play dress-up with all the clothes you have in your closet
• Pronounce your friends names.backwards
• Put doll clothes on your cat and play dress up
• Rent a movie, 2 hours later go back to the same movie store and rent the sequel, 2 hours after that go back and get the third movie
• Rent some fun movies
• Roll your change
• Run around your house as fast as you can and, count how many times you can go without getting tired.
• Shave your head
• Sit at your desk with your left arm sticking out until it goes numb
• Snap your fingers as if suddenly you have a bright idea and see if you get any
• Take a company that has been getting on your nerves - find out who the person is that you should write complaints too. Write a letter to them with the most trivial or confusing complaint. Ensure you talk in circles so that the letter is well written but extremely confusing
• Take one hundred dollars out of the bank and spend it all on yourself
• Throw a huge party for no reason at all
• Turn on the T.V., put it on mute and make up dialogue
• Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends
• Watch 101 Dalmatians and see if they really show 101 Dalmatians
• Watch a foreign film
• Watch cartoons (preferably funny stupid ones)
• Write a big list of fun things to do
• Write a limerick or twelve
• Write a rant letter to the paper
• Write out ten things that make you happy - then do one of them
• You and a friend pick your noses and see who has the biggest