How to Entertain Yourself

Last Updated: September 15, 2021

Nothing is on TV, your friends are busy, and you're straight-up bored? You can learn to occupy your own time, whether you're inside, outside, or on the Internet. Learn to entertain yourself and you'll never have to be bored.

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Going Outside

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Find a local labyrinth and explore it. Want to find an outdoor maze to explore? The Worldwide Labyrinth locator can be found by clicking here. Wherever you are in the world, you can find the closest local labyrinth to you. Plan an expedition with your friends and bring supplies.
- If you can't find a close enough labyrinth, go exploring a part of your town you're unfamiliar with, or explore the woods, or walk around your own neighborhood and look for birdhouses, funny dogs, or dumb mailboxes.
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Become a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society. It's a real thing and it's not boring. According to the manifesto of the Cloud Appreciation Society, members pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever it is found. If you think life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day, consider linking up with your kindred spirits by clicking here.
- You can learn to distinguish between the specific types of clouds, form stories about the different cloud shapes, or just relax sitting in the grass and gazing up at them.
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Train for the Backyard Olympics. Tired of hearing your parents tell you to go outside and play? Spice it up a bit. You don't have to sit, idly playing in the dirt. Treat your backyard like an Epic Arena for Ultra Athletic Sport. To the Backyard Olympics!
- The first event, solo tree climbing, features a field of one. Race the clock and climb the limbs of your favorite climbing tree. Make it your personal best.
- For the next event, you have to complete a magic trick that involves throwing a spherical rubber ball behind your head and making it fly through a hoop that's 12 feet (3.7 m) in the air. You get ten tries. In some cultures, this is called "basketball."
- For the third event, you have to defy physics. Make a Frisbee disc fly through the air and strike a variety of targets, including trees, upside down cans, a deck chair, and no windows whatsoever. You get ten throws. Best score wins.
- For the final round, it's a parkour for the ages. That means you run around like crazy and jump off stuff and under stuff and over stuff. Style points are all that counts. To the winner goes the popsicle.
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Look for four-leaf clovers. If you've got a big yard or field nearby, check out the grass in a close way, looking for the white whale of foliage. The four-leaf clover. If you do, press it into your favorite book and keep it for good luck. Or give it to your crush. Or just look at it and leave it there.

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Entertaining Yourself Online

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Start a fake social networking account. Is your dog Biscuit on Facebook? Does Vilos Cohaagen, the Mars Administrator villain from the movie Total Recall have a Pinterest presence? If you're feeling bored online, all you need is a free email account to start a new Facebook fan page or some other kind of social networking account. As long as you're not using it to slander, there's nothing wrong with starting a tribute or fan page.
- Try to make it as accurate as possible. Update your dog's Twitter account regularly, every time he seems to be thinking something ridiculous: "who's foot is that oh yeah it's mine. #four is a confusing number of feet"
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Make a video and put it on YouTube. Got a YouTube account and access to a webcam? Think of a cool video to put on YouTube and start making one. Rummage through your purse and record a "What's in my purse" video, or review a recent candy that you brought, or a television show you watched, or a trailer you saw. Or start vlogging and vent to the camera.
- Be sure that the camera isn’t shaky and offers good clarity.
- Don’t forget to edit the video that you're going to make for the right effect that you need.
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Write Amazon or Yelp reviews. Do you have opinions? Even if you don't, there's an outlet for venting them online. Open a Yelp account and review something absurd, like Walmart. How many stars is the local Gas Station out of five stars? What about that recent used DVD copy of Jean Claude Van Damme's "Bloodsport" you got? Write up a serious review and post it on Amazon.
- From Gummy Bears to Banana Slicers, there are viral review topics on a regular basis. Find something that's getting trolled currently and chip in.
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Skype an old friend. Have a conversation with an old friend online if you're feeling bored. In all seriousness, this can be a great way to
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"Window" shop. If you're stuck at home and have an itch to go shopping, you can window shop just as you might at the mall. Check out your favorite clothes retailers, record stores, or other retailers online and just never click "buy." It can be a fun way to daydream.
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Rock out. Easy way to pass the time? Cue up some of your favorite tunes and start banging your head. Cue some of the latest up on iTunes or YouTube or start a Pandora account to listen to new sounds that you might not have heard yet.

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Productive Entertainment

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Make play dough. Want to try a fun project at home? Mix up your own play dough, with some help from your parents. Mixing up some flour and water and food coloring, you can have your own varieties of customizable colors to play with. Get your parents to help you if you need to use the stove. All you need to mix together to make play dough is:
- 2 cups of white flour
- 2 cups of water
- 1 Tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons of canola oil
- 1 cup of salt
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Erase things from an old book. You can always read, or you can that an old book you're tired of to make an art project. If you've got a ratty old magazine or school textbook that you're done with, go through it and cross everything out but a couple of words to make new sentences, or color on the pictures and give everyone a mustache. Make a new story.
- Always make sure you get permission to cut up or color on any old books, to make sure you won't get in trouble after the fact.
- Take a bunch of different magazines and cut out a variety of pictures, making collages for fun. Stick the pope next to a chicken McNugget and a bunch of flamingoes. Weird is fun.
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Try cooking something new. If you're allowed to be in the kitchen, try experimenting with some new recipes. If you're bored, a batch of cookies is a great result. Check out these wikiHow resources for great cooking projects:
- Pie from scratch
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Vegan pudding
- Sauerkraut
- Toast
- Scrambled Eggs
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Dance. There's no better way to spend time than cranking up some tunes and flailing around for fun. You don't have to be a great dancer to have fun dancing in your room by yourself. It's good exercise, quick, and easy.
- You don't even have to annoy your parents or your neighbors if you've got some headphones. Put your earbuds in and listen in private. Have a dance party of one.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I make slime?

Community Answer

Use glue, borax and water. That's the basics. If you want to do fluffy slime, add shaving cream and/or eye-contact solution.
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What productive stuff can I do at home? I'm only 10. I want to have a productive day with no electronics, do you know what I can do?

Community Answer

You could do some exercise, choreograph a dance to your favorite music, do your house chores, or try learning a new hobby. I recommend knitting.
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How do I contact friends without devices?

Community Answer

Write them a letter or, if you know where they live, go to their house. If you're grounded, perhaps you could send a sibling to your friend with a message.