The Fun List

Here it is... The Fun List that I've been telling you about! Whether you are trying to fill 10 minutes or a whole day I'm sure you'll find some great ideas to help you stay excited about life and to avoid eating due to boredom.

(Many thanks to Wanda for sharing the bulk of the list and to the members of my meetings this week for brainstorming several additions.)

Physical

• Archery
  
• Balance Ball
• Basketball
• Backpacking
• Bike around your local university campus
• Bike ride
• Billiards
• Bodysurfing
• Bouldering
• Bowling
• Bungee jumping
• Canoeing
• Croquet
• Cross country skiing
• Dance lessons
• DDR dance off
• Dog – walk, play fetch, etc
• Double Dutch jump rope
• Downhill skiing
• Enter an adventure race
• Fencing (the sport, not the act of building one)
• Firing range
• Fishing
• Fly a kite
• Frisbee golf
• Go hang gliding
• Go to a waterslide
• Go to the playground
• Golf
• Handball
• Hiking
• Hockey
• Hot-air balloon ride
• Ice skating
• Jet Skiing
• Jog at sunset
• Jumping off sand dunes
• Jumping rope
• Kayaking
• Kickboxing
• Kitchen Dancing
• Lacrosse
• Laser tag
• Learn a new sport
• Mall Walking
• Marathon
• Master’s swim practice
• Motorcycling
• Mountain biking
• Mud football
• Night Swimming
• Organize a flag football game
• Paintball
• Paragliding
• Pick up Basketball game
• Pilates
• Ping Pong game!
• Platform diving
• Play Frisbee at night
• Play hopscotch
• Play in Waterfall
• Play on the beach
• Race in a regatta
• Racquetball
• Repelling
• Ride a horse
• River rafting
• Rock climbing
• Roller skating, roller blading
• Rowing
• Running
• Sailing
• Samurai sword fighting
• Scuba diving
• Sculling
• Skeet shooting
• Skydiving
• Sledding
• Snow shoeing
• Snowboarding
• Soccer
• Softball
• Spelunking
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Swing on a swing
• Tai Chi in the park
• Take a moonlight bike ride, cross-country ski or walk
• Tap dancing
• Team sports
• Tennis
• Tobogganing
• Toilet Paper Dancing
• Train for and enter a triathlon
• Treadmill
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Volleyball
• Walking – Trails, Neighborhood, Mt.Bay Trail
• Water-skiing
• Weight lifting
• Windsurfing
• Yoga
• Ziplining
  
• Zumba
  

Alone

• Baking Bread
  
• Bubble bath
• Build a fire and watch the flames
• Build something
• Call a friend
• Chat rooms and IMs
• Color hair
• Crank up some music
• Crochet or knit
• Curl up with small book that you can read in an hour
• Dance
• Daydream
• Do some woodwork
• Embroider
• Garden
• Go for a walk
• Great music to groove to/ clean to
• Hang a bird feeder & watch
• Have breakfast in the morning sunshine
• Keep a sketchbook
• Learn to knit
• Leather tooling
• Listen to Christmas music
• Listen to music outdoors
• Make a “100 things I want to do” list
• Make Jewelry
• Makeover
• Manicure
• Meditation
• Nap
• Nap outside
• Online puzzles
• Origami
• Paint
• Pedicure
• Pet your pet
• Photography
• Play an instrument
• Play the piano
• Play Wii
• Prepare a great salad
• Read
• Refinish an antique
• Rent a great movie
• Research your family tree
• Scrapbook
• Sew
• Sing
• Sketch or draw a landscape
• Star gazing
• Start quilting
• Take a mud bath
• Take photos
• Watch a comedy
• Watch a foreign film
• Write
• Write a letter
• Write a movie script or book
• Write some poetry
• Write songs

With another

• Ask a grandparent about their wedding day or some of their most favorite fun moments
• Attack a household chore as a team then go out and celebrate as a team
• Board games with friends you haven’t seen recently
• Bunko night with friends
• Family games: Tag, hide and seek, kick the can
• Film a movie short
• Fly a kite with a kid
• Fondue Dinner Party
• Geocaching
• Go for a walk
• Go to breakfast or lunch with a friend
• Have a bonfire and roast marshmallows with friends
• Have dinner with old people you know
• Hugs from people you love
• Ice Cream Party
• Meet someone for a picnic
• Murder Mystery Party
• Play cards
• Play in a Band
• Play Twister
• Play Wii
• Puppet show
• Scavenger hunt
• Sex
• Sing in a small group or chorus
• Stage a gallery show
• Teach a class
• Teach a skill to someone else
• Throw a huge party
• Water Balloon fight

Purchases

• Buy new towels or sheets
• Get some flowers for yourself
• Jewelry
• New clothing
• New lipstick or perfume
• Paint something in your house
• Replace socks and underthings
• Visit a new restaurant

Service

• Babysit someone you love
• Family History Research
• Missionary Splits
• Read to children in the hospital
• Take lunch to a friend at work or an older relative or neighbor
• Volunteer: Red Cross, museum, 10K, etc.
• Worship
  

Out of the house

• Antique shopping
• Attend a concert
• Attend a lecture or book signing
• Attend a musical
• Attend a sporting event
• Audition for a play
• Bird watching
• Botanical Garden
• Celebrate an unusual holiday
• Eat your dinner on the beach or by a lake
• Escape to a Bed & Breakfast
• Feed the ducks at the park
• Foot massage
• Get a book on tape to keep in your car
• Get a great book list and check out 3 books from the library
• Get a haircut
• Get a massage
• Go camping
• Go on a trip
• Go out to dinner
• Go rummage sale shopping
• Go sketching downtown
• Go to a comedy improve
• Go to an Oprah taping
• Go to the all night drive in
• Go to the museum
• Gourmet cooking class
• Historical Tour
• Karaoke
• Oxygen Bar
• Pick a favorite place to watch the sunset or sunrise and go there often
• Planetarium
• Play Chess in the park
• Poetry reading (presenter or attendee)
• Read the newspaper at a park
• Rest under your favorite tree
• Road trip!
• Send a message in a bottle
• Shop for new foods
• Spa day
• Take a dance class
• Take a home improvement class
• Take a new class at the Y
• Take a pottery class or other university class
• Travel to a new state or country
• Visit a circus
• Visit a park or conservancy
• Visit a rodeo
• Visit the zoo
• Volunteer for a charity
• Walk the trails at the nearest state park
• Watch a race (regatta, etc.)
• Waterfall Tour