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    Ideas for Bored Kids on the Homestead

    March 16, 2020 by Tamara 4 Comments

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    Today we will be sharing over 90 ideas for bored kids and things for them to do - a list to have on hand might really be needed during this time of social isolation!

    Activities for Kids

    Today we will touch on many different activities and ideas for bored kids to do. Unplugging from technology is a must, and many kids are lost and don't know what to do with themselves if they are not plugged into video games, social media, or binge watching the latest series or watching YouTube videos. This article will hopefully help find some fun things for them to do.

    When thinking of things for them to do, start a list of things that they enjoy doing, so that they can refer to it in the future. It will be great to have on hand when you hear that "I'm so bored...." comment next time!

    table full of arts and crafts with childs hands printed in paint on papers

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    Homesteading Kids Activities

    young boy planting garlic in the garden

    1. Help them Winter Sow some seeds if it is winter time or early spring! I love to plant a large assortment of flowers this way but you can also start many vegetable seeds this way!
    2. Let them start a garden all their own! Teach them how to plant tomato seeds, pepper seeds, onion seeds, peas, potatoes, blue pumpkins or whatever the kids are inspired to want to grow! See more in my article Vegetable Gardening with Kids!
    3. If your kids enjoy growing things from seed, grow extra, and have them set up a driveway stand selling veggie starts and some perennials and annuals and later in the season they can sell cut flowers or vegetables!
    4. Get some chickens! Keeping chickens teaches kids responsibility, provides food for the family and they make great pets!
    5. Get a few extra chickens and have the kiddos start an egg selling business or chick hatching business!
    6. Make crushed eggshells to use in the garden, or feed back to the chickens!
    7. Learn how to can together! Make some jam from your frozen berries or tomato sauce from frozen tomatoes!
    8. Bake some cupcakes or muffins or other yummy treats like this apple pie! Sell them at your driveway stand too!
    9. Make some smoothies together! They are tasty treats and good for you too! Use up that frozen fruit you have in the freezer!
    10. Learn how to make soap or bath bombs or this Peppermint Scrub! Or try making this Lavender Epsom Salt Bath Soak or Lavender Bath Melts or Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub. Use Youtube for how to videos! Sell them at your driveway stand too, or set up an Etsy store to sell them!
    11. Learn how to sew using Youtube! I taught myself how to quilt by watching video's and this might be fun for both kids and parents! Learn to sew clothes, stuffed animals, quilt or home decor like these velvet pumpkins!

    little girl feeding chickens


    Creative & Indoor Activities for Kids

    2 little girls with smocks on doing arts and crafts at the table

     

    1. Paint some rocks! Create fun patterns or paint insects or animals on them, or use them as garden markers! Give them as gifts or sell them or just start your own collection displayed in the yard or around the house! Follow this cute and Easy Painted Bumble Bee Rocks Tutorial or this Easy Painted Strawberry Rocks Tutorial!
    2. Make these fun and cute Snowman Wood Bead Ornaments or these Gnome Christmas Ornaments! Super cute and easy too!
    3. Learn how to paint! Use Youtube videos for this, watch videos on water color, acrylic painting, fluid painting, or even finger painting!
    4. Draw! Keep a sketch book and sketch something new everyday! Consider a theme for your sketchbook, animals, plants, cartoons, portraits, etc.
    5. Write stories or poems, and work on them a little bit each day.
    6. Create videos or short movies Use your smart phone or your parents smart phone! You may even want to go as far as creating a Youtube channel to share them!
    7. Take photographs! Practice practice practice! Perhaps you can show your favorites at your local county fair this summer.
    8. Build a fort or a tree house or chicken coop! Sketch up ideas first to get the creative juices flowing! Ask your neighbors for scrap wood for trade for some odd jobs like walking their dog for them.
    9. Write your own play, get some friends to act out the parts and put a show on for your neighborhood.
    10. Dance and sing! Listen to your favorite music or make your own!
    11. Make your own jewelry or keychains! Another item you could consider selling! Try to think outside the box and use odd bits around the house! Old buttons, paper clips, dads nuts and washers from his tool box!
    12. Paint your bedroom, or a mural on one of your walls! Create a new cozy space in your room and let your creativity flow!
    13. Make puppets and put on a puppet show!
    14. Coloring pages or coloring books! Make your own or swap with friends! Download free coloring pages from the internet!
    15. Origami or folded airplanes! Practice folding paper and creating unique paper wonders!
    16. Work on your Halloween costume
    17. Work on a puzzle
    18. Make playdough
    19. Make these fun and easy Patriotic White Chocolate Dipped Strawberries with Sprinkles, or one of the other many variations of dipped strawberries I have listed in that post!
    20. Making Christmas decorations, ornaments or gifts
    21. Teach them to cook and/or bake and have them plan an entire meal
    22. Board games, or have them create their own!
    23. See how big of a card house you can make!
    24. Build a fort with boxes
    25. Fingerprint art
    26. Play with Legos or Duplos - make a whole town! Check out these awesome gifts for lego lovers!
    27. Make your own marble run with toilet paper rolls-Rube Goldberg style! Use dominoes too!
    28. Finger knitting
    29. Making things with perler beads
    30. Make a road way system through the house using masking tape for their match box cars
    31. Switch rooms with a sibling just to mix things up!
    32. Make these fun Painted Pumpkin Mason Jars!
    33. Learn all about ceramic painting ideas and paint your own pottery!

    young girl smiling while working at sewing machine

    Kid Business Ideas

    Helping your kids create a small business doesn't have to be complicated. Find something they are passionate about, that they love doing, and teach them how to make money doing it! Whether it is as small as selling at the end of your driveway, or taking it bigger online, there are so many options!

    Running a business, even on a small scale, will teach your kids so many things! Math, planning, marketing, and hard work! It will also teach them how to love something they are passionate about and how to grow a career that they love.

    2 girls selling lemonade at their home made lemonade stand

    Things for kids to sell:

    1. lemonade
    2. hot cocoa
    3. kool aid
    4. popsicles
    5. baked goods: cookies, muffins, rice krispy treats, brownies, quick breads, popcorn balls, etc
    6. home grown fruit and vegetables
    7. fresh eggs
    8. cut flowers
    9. plant starts
    10. jewelry
    11. personal care items: bath bombs, soaps, lotions, salves, lip balms, etc
    12. home sewn items: pot holders, kitchen towels, aprons, quilts, decorated t-shirts, pajama pants, etc
    13. home made jewelry or key chains
    14. painted rocks
    15. paintings and drawings
    16. photographs
    17. collages or other multi-media art
    18. jams and jellies
    19. pickles or other pickled veggies
    20. make your own coloring pages to sell or other printables or stickers

    Services kids can offer:

    2 girls walking dogs in the park

    1. walking the dog
    2. cleaning up dog poop
    3. bathing a dog
    4. weeding
    5. raking
    6. lawn mowing
    7. babysitting
    8. dog sitting
    9. visiting with elderly
    10. watering plants
    11. collecting mail
    12. collecting eggs
    13. cleaning chicken coops
    14. checking on animals
    15. washing cars


    Outdoor Activities

    a really large bubble with colorful reflections created using 2 sticks with strings between them

    1. Go hiking or for a long walk
    2. Throw a frisbee
    3. Play ball
    4. Play Tag
    5. Play Hide and Seek
    6. Ride bikes
    7. Camp out in the backyard or even inside under a home made tent in the living room
    8. Go on a picnic
    9. Gaze at the stars at night
    10. Give them a place in the yard to plant their very own garden
    11. Pick vegetables
    12. Go fishing
    13. Throw the ball for the dog
    14. Take the dog for a walk
    15. Visit a farm or petting zoo
    16. Fly a kite
    17. Have a bon fire and roast marshmallows
    18. Have a movie in the backyard
    19. Listen to an audio book outside or read a book outside
    20. Play in the sprinkler
    21. Make a slip and slide
    22. Go Geocaching
    23. Go bird watching
    24. Jump rope
    25. Draw on the driveway or sidewalk with chalk
    26. Help wash the car
    27. Give the dog a bath outside
    28. Have a potato sack race
    29. Blow bubbles
    30. Play with hula hoops
    31. Play hopscotch
    32. Learn how to do a cartwheel
    33. Search for a four leaf clover
    34. Set up a sand or water table
    35. Build a tire swing with them
    36. Have them create or participate in a scavenger hunt
    37. Go berry picking or to an apple orchard
    38. Go to the beach or lake to swim
    39. Ride a horse
    40. Go to a pumpkin patch
    41. Make mud pies
    42. Make water balloons
    43. Have a water gun fight
    44. Make a scarecrow
    45. Go to a corn maze
    46. Build an outside giant Jenga game and play it!
    47. Hunt for bugs
    48. Make a list of parks to visit and check them all off the list
    49. Create a backyard obstacle course
    50. Melt some crayons in the sun
    51. Catch and release some frogs or polywogs
    52. Collect leaves and make a scrapbook of them
    53. Make a treasure map and find treasure!
    54. Pick flowers and press them
    55. Watch the clouds and find shapes in them
    56. Play in the rain
    57. Backyard bowling with things from the recycle bin
    58. Play Mother may I? or Simon Says
    59. Crayon rubbings
    60. Create an agility course for the dog
    61. Play Tug of War or Limbo
    62. Install a zip line
    63. Skip rocks
    64. Swing in a hammock
    65. Have quiet play on a blanket
    66. Make ice cream in a bag
    67. Have a clothes line art show
    68. Have a neigborhood parade
    69. Play Frisbee Tic Tac Toe
    70. Play parachute with a large sheet
    71. Launch home made rockets
    72. Make daisy chains
    73. Watch the sun set or the sun rise
    74. Tell stories under the stars
    75. Sing camp fire songs

    the backside of a boy fishing in a lake


    My Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop Featured Posts this Week:

    I found a couple of articles in last weeks blog hop, that were activities that kids can do, so I will be featuring all 3 of them this week!

    Easter Rag Wreath Tutorial

    This would be fun  for the kids to do for all the holidays, not just Easter! Do a red, white and blue one for Memorial Day and July 4th! One fall colors for fall, a Halloween themed one, a Christmas themed one and even one for Valentines Day! Now I want to make a couple!

    an easter rag wreath with text overlay Happy Easter Rag Wreath

    Easter Rag Wreath from Comfort Spring Station

     

    Paint a Flower Pot

    This article painted a flower pot to coordinate with their dinnerware, but your kids could paint what ever they choose on the flower pots using this simple tutorial.

    a painted flower pot with a rooster on it

    Paint a Flower Pot to Coordinate with Your Dinnerware from Love My Little Cottage

    St Patrick's Day Rice Krispie Treats

    This tutorial added a fun green die for St Patrick's Day, but you could skip it or add any color you like! What kid doesn't like Rice Krispie Treats?

    st patricks day rice krispie treat with a clover cookie cutter

    St Patrick's Day Rice Krispie Treats from Clover House

    Want to Remember This?

    Do you need ideas for bored kids? Please pin this article so you can easily find it when you need it!

    Please pin "100+ Ideas for Bored Kids" to your favorite Parenting or Kids Activities board on Pinterest!

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    1. kristie

      March 17, 2020 at 7:43 am

      Thanks for featuring my flowerpot, Tamara!

      Reply
    2. Carol

      March 17, 2020 at 8:43 am

      Thanks for featuring my Easter Rag Wreath. It was a great way to start the day. Sending you positive thoughts and wishing you a Happy St. Valentine's Day!

      Reply
    3. Kiran

      March 28, 2020 at 1:19 am

      Thanks for sharing such excellent ideas here, Tamara. I was exploring for indoor activities for my toddler and found fascinating ideas for kids I could share with other mommies. I would encourage my daughter to paint the rocks to create a small home garden or a pot with colored rocks.

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      • Tamara

        March 30, 2020 at 1:09 pm

        Hi Kiran! Glad you could find some things here to entertain the kiddos! Feel free to check the list often or pin the article for future reference. Hope your daughter makes some beautiful rocks for the garden! πŸ™‚

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