101 FREE THINGS TO DO!

Sometimes boredom can lead to bad decisions. We join others to "party" or get involved in "crimes" for the "thrill." Here are 101 Free Things To Do to avoid getting into trouble! Have FUN, not headaches and consequences of bad choices.

1.) A walk around the block or through the park
2.) Bicycle Riding
3.) Board games; Risk, Monopoly, Yahtzee
4.) Chess or checkers
5.) Card games, Crazy 8's, Poker, Blackjack
6.) Shoot pool (if you have a pool table at home)
7.) Shoot Darts (if you have a dart board at home)
8.) Play air hockey ( if you have an air hockey table at home)
9.) Swimming (if you have a pool at home), playing Marco Polo, diving competitions
10.) Kayaking at nearby lake or stream (if you own a kayak)
11.) Tag Outside
12.) Flashlight tag, indoors or outdoors
13.) Hide-N-Seek
14.) Scavenger Hunt
15.) Jogging or running
16.) Play Frisbee
17.) Toss the football around
18.) Play catch with mitts and baseball
19.) Shoot hoops, or basketball game
20.) Slip-N-Slide (if you have one at home)
21.) Water fights
22.) Watch a movie on t.v.
23.) Volunteering at a mission, Rehab, Youth program or church function
24.) Attend church
25.) Hiking
26.) Local Library
27.) Bible study and prayers
28.) Dancing at home
29.) Cook a special meal together (Kids choice)
30.) Horseshoes (if you have a horseshoe pit at home)
31.) Twister game (if you have one at home)
32.) Hop Scotch
33.) Jump rope competition
34,) Write a letter or card to a friend or relative
35.) Volleyball (if you have the area and net at home)
36.) Badminton (if you have one at home)
37.) Do homework (together)
38.) Play tennis
39.) Croquet (if you have a set at home)
40.) Make or tend to a garden or flower bed
41.) Rollerblading (if you have roller blades at home)
42.) Star Watching, looking for shooting stars or indefinite planets
43.) Watch a Sunset or Sunrise, talk together
44.) Marshmallow roast
45.) Plan a vacation trip, make arrangements
46.) Pay your bills together, teach the kids about budgeting
47.) Talk around the table or fireplace
48.) Roller hockey (if you have roller blades and equipment at home)
49.) Tell ghost stories
50.) Camp out in the backyard
51.) Stand-up comedy night at home with jokes from the internet
52.) Karaoke night at home
53.) Charades
54.) Dodge Ball
55.) Read a story or book together
56.) Kickball
57.) Learn sign language
58.) Electronic games:
• Nintendo
• X Box
• GameBoy
• Super Nintendo
• Sega Dream Cast
• Game Gear
• PlayStation
• Pin Ball
• Game Cube
• Wii
59.) Play old albums, teach kids about old school music
60.) Window shop on E-Bay
61.) Compete with each other on TV game shows
62.) Walk the dog, or play with the pet
63.) Dominoes
64.) Archery/BB Gun Target shooting
65.) Learn to play a musical instrument
66.) Just sitting along a stream, river or at the beach and watch nature
67.) Learn Mediation techniques and do them as a family
68.) Help an elderly neighbor with their yard or chores
69.) Plan landscaping for the yard
70.) Weeding together, make a challenge or incentive for the kids
71.) Drawing or painting
72.) Pillow fights
73.) Dice, 10,000 or Craps
74.) Call a local relative you haven't spoken with recently
75.) Read a good book
76.) Learn a new word out of the dictionary or encyclopedia
77.) Catch and study a butterfly or insect
78.) Pick wildflowers for Mom or a friend or teacher
79.) A walk on the beach or a trail
80.) Pick up trash around your neighborhood
81.) Look up your family tree on the internet
82.) Help an elderly person with their yard work
83.) Help elderly people with their groceries to their car or home
84.) Pick up trash at a cemetery
85.) Read horoscopes with a friend
86.) Re-arrange the furniture in your room or a siblings room for fun
87.) Cook a new recipe
88.) Learn a Bible verse
89.) Write a poem to a friend of relative
90.) Build a puzzle
91.) Read a story to a younger child or an elderly person
92.) Read a story to a patient in a hospital or a rest home
93.) Clean the family pet
94.) Learn to braid hair
95.) Brush a friend's or an elderly person's hair and chat
96.) Play "Make-Up Artist" with a friend
97.) Play games on the internet
98.) Chat room on the internet (take care to be on a YOUTH site to avoid creepy strangers who wish to hurt kids!)
99.) Do a helpful chore to surprise a parent or an elderly neighbor
100.) Create a card online and email it to a friend
101.) Create an origami design!

Have fun and share your experiences with a friend or a family member, or even the elderly!


101 INEXPENSIVE THINGS TO DO!

Sometimes boredom can lead to bad decisions. We join others to "party" or get involved in "crimes" for the "thrill." Here are 101 Inexpensive Things To Do to avoid getting into trouble! Have FUN, not headaches and consequences of bad choices.

1. A picnic with a friend or family
2. Marshmallow s'mores at a campfire or fireplace
3. Go to a coffeehouse for coffee/drinks and conversation
4. Roller rink, wheeled or ice skates
5. Wienie roast
6. Go to a comedy club! Laughing relieves stress and is good for your soul
7. Camp at a nearby lake or campground
8. Toilet paper a friends house
9. Karaoke club or at home
10. Take a dance class
11. Rent a DVD and watch with popcorn and a friend
12. Hunt at garage sales with a $20 budget
13. Rent an electronic game
14. Buy a used album or CD or DVD
15. Download or buy a ring tone
16. Buy a new face plate for your cell phone
17. Buy a new case for your cell phone
18. Bid and buy a $20 item on eBay or Craigslist
19. Buy a board game and play it with a friend
20. Rent a tandem bike at the beach and ride with a friend or family member
21. Shoot a game of pool at the pool hall
22. Shoot darts at a pool hall or other place WITHOUT ALCOHOL!!
23. Go to the movies with a friend or family member
24. Splurge $20 at the video game arcade
25. Play laser tag
26. Go bowling
27. Go to a minor league baseball game
28. Buy a Frisbee and play with a friend or family member
29. Buy a comic book to read and then trade with a friend
30. Buy a trading card game starter set
31. Buy a magazine of your favorite subject
32. Buy a pair of funky cheap sunglasses
33. Go to a BMX race
34. Go to a skate park and watch the stunts
35. Go to a motorcycle show
36. Go to a custom hot rod show
37. Buy two kites and fly them with a friend
38. Buy a baseball hat with your favorite team logo
39. Buy a hat with your favorite college team logo
40. Go to a local high school football game
41. Go to a local high school baseball game
42. Go to a local high school basketball game
43. Go to a local high school track meet
44. Buy a Ceaser's pizza and share it with a friend
45. Go Karts!
46. Buy a jig saw puzzle and do it with a friend
47. Buy a book of crossword puzzles and do them with a friend
48. Create or buy a few "Get Well" cards and take to a senior center or a hospital or hospice
49. Buy a slice of pie and share it with a friend
50. Go to a college football game
51. Go to a college track meet
52. Go to a college baseball game
53. Go to a college basketball game
54. Go to a college cross country meet
55. Swim at the community pool
56. Buy boxes of crayons for the local preschool
57. Buy a flowering plant to plant at home
58. Buy some tree saplings and plant in the local forest or park or community
59. Buy some tree saplings to plant at home
60. Buy a small potted plant and donate to the local hospital or senior center
61. Have a small dinner party, or cook for a friend
62. Have a BBQ with family and/or friends
63. Do an oil change on your car or a friend/family members car
64. Buy seed/feed and go feed the birds or ducks at a park
65. Buy a magic trick set and put on a show for kids at a hospital
66. Buy a flower/plant for an anonymous grave
67. Buy a friendship card for a friend
68. Buy a football to toss with friends
69. Go rollerskating
70. Buy a dictionary and learn a word a day!
71. Give an extra $20 at church
72. Buy a prayer or spiritual reflections book and read daily
73. Go to a CRA race
74. Buy a hymn book and donate to a church or sing with family and/or friends
75. Go Luge boarding on a good downhill road
76. Mountain bike trail riding with a friend
77. Take photographs of nature and print for friends, or reflect on God's Gifts, the beauty and peace of nature
78. Take posed photographs of family members and/or friends
79. Buy a bicycle at a police auction, fix it up and donate it to a needy child at a homeless shelter or other organization
80. Buy material and make a dress or shirt
81. Go dirt bike riding, or quad riding
82. Buy some collector stamps at the post office
83. Dress up with a friend and go to a photo studio at the mall
84. Buy knitting needles and yarn, learn to knit and darn
85. Buy or make jump ropes and learn to double dutch with friends
86. Play a round of golf
87. Buy a can of tennis balls and play a set with friends
88. Go to a golf range and hit a bucket of balls
89. Get a bottle of glitter and some glue and make sparkle shoe laces for a friend
90. Buy new hair accessories and do a new "hairdo"
91. Get a weave added to your hair
92. Go on a $20 shopping spree at the 99cent store
93. Buy a poster for your room
94. Buy a prayer candle, say prayers for family and friends
95. Treat the family for a dinner out, or cook for them at home
96. Download some MP3s
97. Get a new style haircut
98. Buy some earrings or get a new piercing
99. Get a bellybutton piercing (with your parents permission, of course!)
100. Get a temporary tattoo or Henna
101. Go horseback riding


101 EXPENSIVE THINGS TO DO!

Sometimes boredom can be our worst enemy. Boredom can lead to hanging around the wrong people, getting involved in gangs, bowing down to peer pressure and doing drugs and/or alcohol and getting involved in crimes for the "thrill" of it. Of course, all that leads to is bad consequences for bad decisions, pain, shame, and guilt. Here are 101 ideas to avoid trouble! Do something positive and enjoy life's pleasures!

Here are some things that will require working and saving for. Things that we can set as goals and accomplish by reaping the rewards of doing what's right.

1. Buy a new bicycle for commuting
2. Buy a car when you turn 16 and get your license
3. Plan a vacation
4. Buy a dirt bike or quad
5. Buy a new computer
6. Buy a Wii game console
7. A Freestyle trick bike
8. A street motorcycle
9. A new bedroom set
10. A new Blackberry
11. A new iPhone
12. A new iPod
13. A new flat screen t.v.
14. Take flying lessons
15. Take hang gliding lessons
16. Parachuting
17. The Flyaway in Las Vegas (fake parachuting in a building)
18. Go to NASCAR school. Take laps at 160 MPH!!
19. Go to Drag Racing school
20. Buy a racing go kart
21. Buy a set of golf clubs
22. Take golfing lessons
23. Take lessons to learn a musical instrument
24. Buy a new musical instrument
25. Singing/Voice lessons
26. Martial Arts lessons
27. A digital camera
28. A new pet and accessories
29. A cross country train ride
30. A cross country bus ride
31. A cross country bike ride
32. A cross country motorcycle ride
33. Camping gear
34. A travel trailer or toy hauler
35. A vacation to Disneyland
36. A vacation cruise on Disney Cruise Lines to the Bahamas
37. A vacation to Disney World in Orlando, FL.
38. A vacation to Catalina
39. Scuba diving lessons
40. A kayak adventure (buying the kayak, too!)
41. White water rafting trip
42. Mountain bike trip to Moab, Utah
43. Mountain bike trip to Mammoth Mountain in the summer
44. Restore a classic car
45. Restore an old motorcycle
46. A sailboat
47. A fishing boat
48. A water ski boat
49. A personal watercraft/Waverunner/Ski-Doo
50. A fishing trip
51. A family portrait by a painter
52. A Movado or other expensive watch
53. A nice ring or necklaces
54. An African Safari vacation
55. A European vacation
56. An Australian vacation
57. A Polynesian vacation
58. Lead an expedition to top of Mt. Fuji, Mt. Rainer, Mt. Whitney, etc.....
59. A camel-back journey through Saudi Arabia
60. A roller coaster marathon across the country
61. A cross country Rodeo marathon tour!
62. Get season tickets to your favorite professional sports team
63. Enter an off-road race with your own dune buggy
64. Follow your favorite band on 10 U.S. tour stops!
65. Buy a signed piece of artwork by your favorite artist!
66. Hire a band for a private party
67. Go to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
68. Go to Hitsville, U.S.A., home of Motown in Detroit!
69. Go Deep Sea fishing off the coast of Florida
70. Go to Central America and see ancient Aztec ruins
71. Go to South America and see the Inca ruins
72. Go to Egypt and see the Great Pyramids
73. Go to Rio and see the Cristo Redentor statue on the hill
74. Go see the Great Wall of China
75. Go to Washington, D.C. and see the capitol and the monuments
76. Go to Philadelphia and see where they wrote the Declaration of Independence
77. Go to the NA World Conference wherever it is that year!
78. Go to the AA World Convention
79. Go to Las Vegas and see the Blue Men performance
80. Take your Mother anywhere in the world for a week long vacation
81. Go see the Olympic Games, Summer or Winter
82. Produce a documentary on a pet project/subject
83. Pay an attorney to expunge all your felony records
84. Learn poker and enter a big tournament with a $10,000 entry
85. Buy a collector book signed by the author
86. Take a ride in a submarine
87. Stay in an underwater hotel in the Pacific Islands
88. Go to the Balloon Festival in New Mexico
89. Research your family tree and go to your ancestor's country
90. Donate $10 bills to 1000 homeless people in Los Angeles
91. Race a Legends car in road race event
92. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
93. Go to Pamplona, Spain and "run with the bulls"
94. Put the down payment on a home for your kids
95. Build bicycles for all of your kids and grand kids
96. Donate to a hospital wing
97. Buy a spa or jacuzzi for the house
98. Buy a sail plane/glider
99. Build a volleyball court at home
100. Build an extra room at the house
101. Build an outdoor BBQ and furniture set for backyard