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Fun things to do!

  • Be a weaver and take up basketry
  • Build a float for a parade
  • Build a model railroad.
  • Build a model rocket
  • Carve a pumpkin
  • Collage your car into like the coolest most outrageous thing on the road
  • Collect bulrushes and spray with hairspray
  • Cut up a magazine and make a collage
  • Design your own tattoo
  • Do a crayon drawing and put in on your fridge (Especially if you are a parent or grandparent)
  • Do some woodwork
  • Draw an entire story (maybe your autobiography!) with stick-people
  • Draw pictures of yourself as a barbarian.
  • Find a creative place for a collage. Use things that mean something to you.
  • Find an 8 year old to write songs with
  • Get a plain shirt for target and decorate it with ribbons and rhinestones etc.
  • Get some glitter glue
  • Get your handwriting analyzed
  • Go the mall just to admire creativity
  • Have a business card made with your name number and a fake vocation: Like astronaut, race car driver, etc.
  • Join a pottery class
  • Keep a journal of the fun things you do from the list
  • Keep a sketchbook
  • Learn to knit if only to create the longest scarf you can imagine
  • Learn to play an exotic instrument like the Didgeridoo
  • Learn to play tangos on the accordion to serenade under someone's window
  • Learn to play the bagpipes
  • Learn to play the bongos
  • Make a flag for your bike
  • Make a sculpture
  • Make a trophy or certificate to represent a great feat that you have or have not done
  • Make hand puppets
  • Make paper chains
  • Make soap
  • Make sock puppets
  • Make some candles
  • Make some stained-glass artwork
  • Make your own clothing line
  • Paint a canvas
  • Paint the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet and make a pictureor decorate a wall
  • Paper Mache
  • Pick fresh roses and hang upside down to dry then create a design
  • Play a harmonica
  • Press flowers between wax paper and place in book to dry
  • Refinish an antique
  • Sketch or draw a landscape
  • Start a diary full of dreams
  • Start quilting
  • Take an improvisation or acting class
  • Take pencil crayons and color a picture that you have drawn
  • Take up calligraphy
  • Work on an impression of your favorite actor.
  • Write a movie script or book
  • Write some poetry
  • Write songs and go outside and sing them so everyone can hear
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 04:37PM by Registered Commenterecomama | CommentsPost a Comment

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