sarah peachey's List: sumer 2012

• Build a home for you gerbil or small pet
• Have a back yard talent show
• Make a slip and slide in your back yard
• Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
• Stop phone solicitors from calling you by acting like a total wingnut when they call
• Put a water slide out your bed room window
• Set up the tent in the backyard like it is a campground in the wilderness
• Tie ribbons to anything that doesn't move.
• Use window markers and draw rainbows on your windows.
• Play wacky golf - use strange clubs like a shovel or a baseball bat and strange golf balls too
• Make a mini golf game in the backyard
• Get a gazpacho recipe or some other kind of strange dish and make it. More food and drink ideas
• Make a happiness shrine
• Write a postcard to someone even if they are in the same city
• Make your own comic book
• Get your digital camera and take pictures of crazy items in your house.
• Set up a beauty salon day at your house and have your friends bring one beauty tip or you can all change your hair color
• Crank up the music and dance in your pajamas
• Get a blanket or sheet, and go somewhere you probably won't hurt yourself if you fall. Then have your friend hold one end of the sheet and start spinning so the blanket twists around you, then get your friend to pull his end of the blanket really hard and you should spin around till u run out of sheet.
• Have a carpet picnic
• Have a limbo contest
• Invent a new dance
• Listen to classical music, lights off, lying on the floor, and take turns saying what it sounds like
• Start a pillow fight
• Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends

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• Challenge your friends to a marble tournament.
• Adopt a word.
• Play classic video games in your backyard.
• Sculpt with old books.
• Host a movie marathon
• Improve your vocabulary and help to end world hunger.
• Prepare some jiggly finger jello. Or rainbow jello. Have a jello eating contest and eat with your hands behind your back!
• Build paper models.
• Organize an improvised sports day. Play ping pong on a table with 2 books and a rubber ball. Use plastic bottles as bowling pins. Play basketball or volleyball with a crumpled up piece of paper. Use pens as hockey sticks and a bottle cap as a puck. Or bend wire hangers to make croquet wickets .. and use toilet plungers for the mallets!
• . Direct a mini movie starring your friends or members of your family. Write a script (or use your favorite book), make costumes, design sets and props. It doesn't even have to be very long — try making a one-minute movie!
• Or assemble an old puzzle and paint your own picture onto the surface. Or cut up magazines and glue a collage onto it. Then separate the pieces (you may need to cut them apart) and see if you can put your puzzle back together again.
   Or build puzzles online.
• Give some old clothes a new life. Tie-dye a t-shirt or repurpose some jeans.
• Paint a room in your house
• Write a letter to someone using only letters cut from newspapers and magazines
• Go for a whole day without speaking
• Or, collaborate on a story with a friend, each of you taking turns writing the chapters.
• Challenge yourself to write a story that's only 100 words long (it's not as easy as you think!)
• Illustrate an entire story (maybe your autobiography!) with stick people.
• Invent your own board game. Use a board and pieces from an old game you don't use anymore
• Host a treasure hunt or scavenger hunt. For younger kids, create a wordless hunt, leaving only pictures (or photos) as clues. One clue will lead to the next, which will lead to the next, and so on. For teens and adults, try some of these ideas.
• Whip up some homemade sidewalk chalk.
   
   50. Use your chalk to write something encouraging on the sidewalk — in 10 different places.
• Design funky cushions
• Construct a Rube Goldberg device
• Build robots using items found around the house
• Engage in an epic waterhose battle (in the yard, not the house). Or how about a shaving cream fight? Or pelt each other with pudding!
• Build edible cookie houses with cookie wafers, candy and frosting. Customize them for upcoming holidays. Christmas has gingerbread houses, so why shouldn't Labor Day or Thanksgiving have houses too?
• Create a life-sized self portrait. Get a big roll of paper, lie down on it, and get someone to trace around your body
• Become a mad scientist.
• Blow gigantic bubbles.
• Break or set a world record.
• Doodle on anything BUT a piece of paper. Try doodling on a leaf or a shoe ... or even a My Little Pony
• Write a letter to your favorite famous person
• Use crayons and wax paper to create faux stained glass.
• Declare a backwards day! Wear your clothes backward and start the day off right with a nutritious supper — dessert first!
• Put together a time capsule and bury it in your yard. Or hide it in your attic or basement.
  
• Construct fairy houses in your yard.
• Insert encouraging messages into helium-filled balloons and release them. Be sure to include your email address so people can contact you if they find one!
  
• Whip up some homemade smoothies. Or slurpees.
• Start a summer snowball fight.
• Learn Morse Code.
• Put together a silly survival kit or make a pocket anti-boredom kit.
• Make your own 3D glasses.
• Go on an alphabet walk. Pick a letter of the alphabet and find as many things as you can that begin with that letter. Or, try to find something that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
• Take photos of the letters you see. Or, snap pictures of things that look like letters of the alphabet.

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