Livin’ it up – summer shenanigans

Hey you! Has summer boredom gotten to you lately? Know people who are bored to death and don’t know what to do with themselves? Fear no more! Here is a list of ways to keep yourself busy collected from many online sources and people. Looking for more serious things to do? Check out these 10 pro-life ways to keep busy (or scroll to the end for specifically Catholic things to do).

1. Go out for ice cream or frozen yogurt
2. Makeovers (maybe even blinded)
3. Have a paint fight
4. Chubby Bunny
5. Dramatic Hamster Reenactment
6. Learn how to do each others hair
7. Go to the beach
8. Get your nails done at the salon
9. Have a photoshoot
10. Make or decorate T-shirts
11. Draw (and fingerpaint!)
12. Cook
13. Ride your bikes
14. Take a day hike
15. Have a picnic lunch at a park
16. Dance party!
17. Karaoke
18. Make up an ultimate handshake
19. Go caroling to people’s houses (even after Christmas)
20. Play Truth or Dare
21. Play Would You Rather
22. Skype people
23. Have a race on your street
24. Walk around your town
25. Make friendship bracelets
26. Mod podge something
27. Just Dance
28. Make a music video
29. Go mini golfing
30. Have a fashion show
31. Mall Scavenger Hunt
32. Pull pranks
33. Dye your hair
34. Call someone to tell them you can’t talk right now
35. Fill water balloons with soap and water and wash your car
36. Go to McDonalds and ask for a happy meal with extra happy.
37. Put a Walkie-Talkie in a gnome and shout at people when they walk by!
38. Put a dora doll in the middle of Walmart. When someone tries to pick it up yell “SWIPER NO SWIPING”.
39. Put a walkie talkie in your mailbox and shout at everyone who walks by.
40. Super glue a quarter to the floor and see how many people try to pick it up.
41. Draw crazy faces on all the eggs in the fridge and make them look scared.
42. With a serious face, order diet water when you go out to eat
43. Hide a walkie talkie in your tree and scream when people walk by.
44. Fill 100 water balloons and put them all on a trampoline see how wet you get
45. Go into the middle of a crowd and call out a random name and see who replies.
46. Stand in the middle of a crowded place and point up. Everyone will look.
47. Empty out a stapler. Then go up to someone and fake staple their chest…watch the result!
48. In the middle of a serious conversation, announce what color your toothbrush is.
49. Put plastic wrap on a doorway and wait for people to walk into it.
50. Put a stickynote on a drive thru microphone that says “Speaker broken. Please yell.” Wait and watch…
51. Get friends and fill up balloons with paint and have a war.
52. Give as many high fives to people at WalMart as possible. (Keep track and make high scores!).
53. Point into the sky and say “Look a dead bird”. See how many people look up.
54. Go to Burger King and ask them for directions to McDonalds.
55. Walk through a store calling out marco and see how many polos you get back.
56. Write, “I know where you live!” and put it on peoples mailboxes.
57. Wrap each other in bubble wrap them run into each other
58. Dress up like a secret service agent and follow random people around.
59. Smile at random people passing by and when they smile back, frown.
60. Sit on both of your legs. When both legs go entirely numb, RUN. You won’t make it.
61. Go up to a person and ask “Can I ask you a question?” When they say sure say thanks and walk away.
62. Run around the city tagging people saying “you’re it” and run away…see if they chase you.
63. Make home-made ice cream and sorbet.
64. Do summer twister by spray painting the spots on grass.
65. Play water balloon sports (baseball, volleyball…)
66. Water balloon piñata
67. Beach bonfire
68. Sleep under the stars
69. Go camping.
70. Play in the sprinklers
71. Thumb wrestle
72. Go to the library
73. Learn how to fold origami
74. Hopscotch
75. Go fishing.
76. Go Geocaching.
77. Learn fancy jump-roping moves.
78. Feed ducks
79. Learn a line dance
80. Go berry picking
81. Game night!
82. Read
83. Finish that around-the-house project you’ve been meaning to do forever
84. Make popcorn
85. Color with crayons in a coloring book
86. Drive-in movie
87. Bob for apples
88. Make some ideas from Pinterest
89. Do game shows at home
90. Go vader-ing
91. Organize family photos
92. Make an obstacle course
93. Play in the mud
94. Visit a nursing home and sing for them
95. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
96. Start an exercise program
97. Go swimming
98. Play Frisbee
99. Send a hand-written letter to someone who could use a thoughtful note

Catholic things to do…

1. Pray a novena
2. Make a “Things Catholic ______’s Say” video and post it on YouTube
3. Go to adoration
4. Read a Catholic book (Here is a free copy of an MUST READ)
5. Watch YouTube videos of Archbishop Fulton Sheen (He is a BEAST speaker)
6. Volunteer at your church
7. Go to Mass during the week
8. Learn about saints
9. Like Catholic Memes on Facebook and share the Catholic humor 🙂
10. Pick a book of the Bible and use a guide to read it in depth
11. Go to confession on a regular basis
12. Call Catholic Answers Live with that burning question you have about Catholicism

Have any other suggestions? Let me know in the comment section, and I’ll add them to the list!