1. Make your own webpage for free at http://freewebspace.com (4-5 hours)
2. Push your eyes for an interesting light show.(4-5 minutes)
3. See how long you can hold your breath.(6 minutes)
4. Try to touch your nose with your tongue.(10 minutes)
5. Watch TV muted, or watch a Spanish soap opera, and insert dialogue yourself. (30 minutes-1 hour)
6. Try to juggle rolled-up socks and don't stop until you can do it with two.(45 minutes)
7. Find some different people, and in 'casual' conversation with them, try to use words like "cookie dough" and "Mr. Snuffles" and "slinky" and "titanium" as everyday-ly as possible. (one hour)
8. Email the help person for your internet provider or computer brand and say, if it's a link to email, "I can't use e-mail links!" or if it's an email program like Yahoo or AOL say "My email won't let me send messages!" (ten minutes)
9. Build a tower of legos with all the legos in your house. Then ask your neighbors to borrow their legos, and then your friends.(three hours)
10. Make a rubber band ball.(one hour)
11. Find a yo-yo and see how long you can do a gravity pull without stopping. (20 minutes)
12. Get your newspaper, and only read every third word. Then every fourth, and every fifth, etc. until you realize that there is a secret message in the FYI and the winning brackets are hidden in the sports....(4-5 hours)
13. Take a few minutes to wonder how an aardvark spends its days.(15 minutes)
14. Dwell a moment on why Eggo Waffles are Eggo Waffles since eggs aren't really a huge special part of waffles, there is only one or two in the batter. And then why not call them Milko or Flouro? Dwell on this. (ten minutes)
15. Make a strobe light: blink very rapidly for a few minutes.(1-5 minutes)
16. Find a box of popsicle sticks and construct a log house, an Eiffel tower, or an Epcot Center ball. (2-3 hours)
17. Drop your cat and see if it really does land on all fours. (five minutes)
18. Paint each one of your nails a different color. This goes for guys too. (45 minutes)
19. You know those pencils that come with your name printed on them? Find an old protractor (the older ones are pointier) and etch your name in a few normal pencils. (half an hour per pencil)
20. Paint your computer mouse Day-Glo orange.(thirty minutes)
21. When someone gets mad at you, scratch it off. (45 minutes)
22. Make origami out of everything origami-able. (one hour)
23. Take your toaster hostage under your bed and create a ransom not by cutting words out of a magazine. (two hours)
24. Find some magazines, teen ones especially, and in all the ads where the models are skinny with straight, shiny teeth and perfect skin and skimpy excuses for clothing, get a Sharpie and give them zits, orthodontial headgear, more clothes, and a double chin.( one hour)
25. Gather all of your DVDs and hunt for Easter Eggs on them. (ten minutes per DVD)
26. Build a fort out of sheets and pillows, crawl in, and refuse to come out until your parents increase your allowance. (until your parents do or until you get bored with that)
27. Make a cootie catcher.( ten minutes)
28. Go to the mall, buy a pair of shoes, leave the plastic string on and walk around taking two-inch steps.(45 minutes)
29. Make a PowerPoint about making a PowerPoint.(thirty minutes)
30. Make a webpage about making a webpage.(one hour)
31. Get a whole bunch of those three-outlets-from-one-outlet expansion plug thingies and plug them into each other.(ten minutes)
32. Find all of your books and alphabetize them( four hours)
33. Re-arrange EVERYTHING in your room. Not just furniture but the stuff on your bulletin board and your CDs in their case. (all day)
34. Learn to say "Would you accompany me in tie-dying these fourteen pairs of underwear?" in five languages. (one hour)
35. Tie-dye your underwear and socks.(five-six hours)
36. Trace something out of a magazine or book, and spend a few hours learning to draw it without tracing. (three-four hours)
37. Find one of those kits that shows you how to make beady animals and make a herd of beady lizards, or whatever you call a group of lizards. (3-4 hours)
38. Make one big smoothie out of everything possible to put in a smoothie in your house. (ten minutes)
39. Find a wood or tile floor, whip on some socks, and slide around. (fifteen minutes)
40. Meow at your dog or bark at your cat, and see what they do. (five minutes)
41. Tape your fingers together and try to open a door, pour a glass of water, and change the channel on TV. (fifteen minutes)
42. Tape your hands together and repeat #41. (twenty minutes)
43. Imagine what it would be like if everyone in the world died except the people in the room with you. (ten minutes)
44. Spin around really fast for a few minutes, and then either look up suddenly or look at your feet suddenly and notice how disoriented you get. (ten minutes)
45. Wonder why. (five minutes)
46. Make a homeade, pretty rope. Braid embroidery floss together until is is quite long, then make three more of those and braid them together. Make three more of those and braid them together. Make three more of THOSE and braid THEM together. Wala! A pretty rope! (four hours)
47. See how many pounds your rope will hold. (ten minutes)
48. Grab a video camera and make your own version of the Blair Witch Project. (three hours)
49. Find your old Barbies or action figures and make them have a soap opera. Heck, film it if you want to. (one hour)
50. Find an old T-shirt and knot the sides. (one hour)
51. Grab a poster board and make your own board game. (two hours)
52. Learn to play chess. (thirty minutes)
53. Then teach someone else how to. (thirty minutes)
54. Learn HTML and make a simple webpage using the basics. (three hours)
55. Read a classic, like Jane Eyre or To Kill a Mockingbird. Hey, you'll never know when you'll be required to read it for school. Same goes for Shakespeare. (three-ten months)
56. Grab a harmonica and teach yourself to play the national anthem. (one hour)
57. Do a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. (two hours)
58. Find a superball and a wood/tile floor. You know what to do. (ten minutes)
59. Watch classic kid's movies that you haven't seen in a million years. Like Lion King and stuff. (1 hour 30 minutes per movie)
60. Watch a show you've never seen before. (30 minutes - one hour)
61. Get another person and have a "who-is-less-competetive" contest. You can't win. (ten minutes)
62. Try to hypnotize your sibling. (ten minutes)
63. Find all of the spare change in your house, see how much it's worth, and then go to the dollar store and spend it all. (one hour)
64. See how many different words you can make out of this phrase: I am extremely bored to therefore I am doing number sixty four of Claire's banish boredom list. Words that are already in the sentence, i.e. four, bored, list, etc don't count. (one hour)
65. Pretend you're on Full House: Hug everyone in your house and tell them it's gonna be okay because you have each other. (twenty minutes)
67. Teach your pet a trick. Anything from sitting to doing the hokey-pokey works. (ten minutes for a smart pet, one hour for a slow pet)
68. Teach yourself how to crochet or knit and make a ten-foot-long scarf. ( ten months)
69. Try to make reservations at McDonald's. (ten minutes)
70. See how many different Internet Explorer/Netscape windows your computer will let you open at one time. (fifteen minutes)
71. Create your own comic book character and draw an adventure for him/her/it. (thirty minutes)
72. Make some jello using a bit of every flavor of jello powder you can find. See what color it is and what it tastes like. (one hour)
73. Wear a tie-dye shirt and act like you are at Woodstock. All day. Even in public.(24 hours)
74. Get a walkie-talkie, tape the on/off button in the on position, and put it in a bush at a park and say random things. Example: "I am the waffle beast of the park!" "I demand three pounds of Dr. Pepper jellybeans or the swingset gets it!" etc. (thirty minutes or until someone realizes it's a walkie-talkie)
75. Take something hostage (a phone book, a floppy disc, a kleenex box, a relative) and hold it ransom for 4.5 lbs of Tropical Starbursts. (one hour)
