Fridge List

Make a list of things to do that require little or no supervision from mom or dad and put it on the fridge.  When one of your children starts whining and moans “I’m b-o-r-e-d!” He or she can choose from the list.  The trick or rule is: Once they are referred to the list, they HAVE to do something on the list before they bother mom or dad again.  The last item on the list should always be "Take a nap".  Sometimes children just don't realize they are tired until they see this!

Here’s a list to get you started (I found part of this list on the internet but it had no name associated with it to give credit.):

1.  Decorate the back patio with sidewalk chalk
2.  Make a daisy chain (or dandelions)
3.  Take some blank paper and envelopes and decorate your own stationary
4.  Get some magazines out of recycling and make a collage
5.  Get out your Faith in God book/Duty to God and check something off
6.  Paint the dog's toenails
7.  Make a border for your room with continuous paper
8.  Play with Barbies/Airplanes
9.  Measure 10 things with a ruler
10.  Get out your last year's school things and play school
11.  Make a calendar
12.  Decorate bookmarks, "laminate" with clear packing tape
13.  Write a poem about something in the yard
14.  Blow bubbles or take a bubble bath
15.  Make a key tag to hang on your backpack - bead animal, letter beads with your name,or a scripture verse on construction paper then laminated with tape and a hole poked through
16.  Make cookies (from a mix, with easy-bake oven, or from scratch). Share them with a neighbor
17.  Organize sock drawer
18.  Write a play and produce it
19.  Make a castle from toilet paper tubes and boxes in recycling
20.  Write a letter to a cousin or grandma
21.  Write a talk, color pictures to go with it
22.  Find a scripture verse you like and type it on the computer/typewriter or write with fancy letters and color
23.  Make 9 Bees and write Gordon B. Hinckley's "Be's" on them, hide them for Family Home Evening
24.  Play with toy soldiers outside
25.  Make a snack with fruit and vegetables
26.  Take pictures with digital camera (with permission)
27.  Call a friend
28.  Look up your favorite animal in the encyclopedia or dictionary
29.  Find your house on a map
30.  Make a boredom kit for the car or for a friend.  Include word searches, "mad libs", drawings to color, and supplies if you have them 
31.  Fluff up all the pillows in the house
32.  Make a birthday card for a friend
33.  Play with legos/duplos/building sets/Lincoln logs/Tinkertoy
34.  Play a game (Chutes and Ladders, Checkers)
35.  Make a list of movies/books you own.  Put them in alphabetical order. Make a list of movies/books you would like to own.
36.  Make a Christmas/Birthday list
37.  Make animals out of pipe cleaners
38.  Change your bed
39.  Have a picnic
40.  Read a book
41.  Make something with Origami paper
42.  Pick some flowers in the yard, put in vase
43.  Do a secret good deed :)
44.  Look in your Scout book and decide on something you can finish today/Work on your collection
45.  Decorate old socks for a puppet show
46.  Sing a song 
47.  Clean out a drawer; give items to someone in need 
48.  Play a musical instrument in the house or outside. 
49.  look at old pictures or scrapbooks
50.  Visit an elderly neighbor or someone that is ill
51. Make up a recipe and share it with the family
52. Lay on the grass and look at the clouds and make a list of all the items you can find in the clouds
53. Go for a bicycle ride
54. Take a bath
55. Take a nap

Now, consider your children's interests and add to this list. I think I'll go take a bath.