Things To Do When There’s Nothing To Do

Collect items for a collage    play sardines    go on a trash hunt    blow  bubbles    play charades

people watch    have a widest grin contest    sing    wheelbarrow races    adopt a tree

make up a secret language or code    categories    plan an imaginary vacation    have a sock fight

do a lap sit    interview someone in your group    make shadow figures    play human tic tac toe

face paint    make up a group handshake    talk    decide how you would spend one million dollars

write a letter to yourself    count ants or birds or clouds    have a potato bug race

make up a group cheer using everyone’s name    make a group pyramid    make up a continuous story

try to guess everyone’s middle name    try to make each other laugh    DANCE    play balloon volleyball

see how many jumping jacks you can do in 60 seconds    make silly faces    play electricity

design a scavenger hunt for another group    act out different machines    make journals    do aerobics

make up a skit    spell words using the letters of your name    go on a trust walk    aerobics

think of all the positive things you can say about each other, then say them    baseball

make up a nonsense work using the first letter of everyone’s name    make up a camp trivia game

walk backwards    try to name all fifty states    make a group banner    make up your own top 40 song list

make predictions-where will each person be in 10 years    sing every TV theme song you can think of

around the world BBX     bingo    dodge ball    duck, duck, goose    five senses    Frisbee competition

Frisbee golf    fruit salad    hackey sock competition    have a birthday party    hot potato    human machine

human obstacle course    jump rope games    knots    London bridge    mingle    recite poetry    

red light, green light    red rover with hankercheifs    blob    bop    charades    concentration    Simon says

soccer    spud    start a pen pal program    steal the bacon    what’s missing