Find care now<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The next time your preteen starts complaining about not having anything to do, try out some of these fun activities for tweens<\/p>
- Set up easels and paint pictures outdoors. <\/li>
- Visit your local science museum. <\/li>
- Learn how to knot friendship bracelets<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>
- Go to a coffee shop and write poetry. <\/li>
- Put on an impromptu play. <\/li>
- Put together a scavenger hunt<\/a>.<\/span> <\/li>
- Bake a loaf of homemade bread. <\/li>
- Build and launch a model rocket. <\/li>
- Go on a camping trip<\/a> at a campground.<\/span> <\/li>
- Wash the family car together. <\/li>
- Go apple picking. <\/li>
- Go on a bike ride together. <\/li>
- Sprout beans in a jar that you can plant in the garden. <\/li>
- Weave on a loom. <\/li>
- Learn how to play musical instruments together. <\/li>
- Make paper spinners<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>
- Look at slides through a microscope. <\/li>
- Create a nature journal. <\/li>
- Embroider cloth handkerchiefs to give as gifts. <\/li>
- Dye cotton cloth using berries and tea. <\/li>
- Go rollerskating. <\/li>
- Make homemade candles<\/a> out of beeswax.<\/span><\/li>
- Toast s’mores over the fireplace, which you can eat while sharing stories. <\/li>
- Have a water balloon fight in the backyard. <\/li>
- Look at the moon with a telescope or binoculars. <\/li>
- Play 20 Questions. <\/li>
- Teach them a card trick to amaze their friends. <\/li>
- Draw a map of your neighborhood using graph paper. <\/li>
- Put together a homemade kite<\/a> using newspaper and sticks.<\/span><\/li>
- Knit scarves. <\/li>
- Learn Double Dutch jump rope<\/a>. <\/li>
- Visit a corn maze and get lost. <\/li>
- Make homemade popcorn. <\/li>
- Build unusual snowmen and take pictures. <\/li>
- Go bowling. <\/li>
- Make foliage faces<\/a> together.<\/span><\/li>
- Carve a pumpkin. <\/li>
- Give each other facials. <\/li>
- Put together a time capsule and bury it in the backyard. <\/li>
- Rake leaves into a pile and jump in. <\/li>
- Create a homemade papier-mâché globe with a balloon. <\/li>
- Build an igloo out of snow. <\/li>
- Turn a shoe box into a diorama. <\/li>
- Visit a nursing home. <\/li>
- Make a birdhouse out of wood. <\/li>
- Teach the tween how to make dinner from a recipe, suggests Trachtenberg. <\/li>
- Make beads out of clay and string them into jewelry. <\/li>
- Learn to surf. <\/li>
- Make homemade candy together. <\/li>
- Tie dye T-shirts<\/a>.<\/span> <\/li>
- Skip stones at a local pond or lake. <\/li>
- Paint each other’s portraits. <\/li>
- Set up an outdoor obstacle course<\/a>.<\/span> <\/li>
- Learn how to fold different types of paper airplanes <\/li>
- Have a room-cleaning competition! <\/li>
- Put on a talent show together. <\/li>
- Go fishing together and then cook the fish for dinner. <\/li>
- Teach them to play chess (or learn with them). <\/li>
- Use a video camera to create stop-frame animations. <\/li>
- Learn to fold origami. <\/li>
- Play Hangman. <\/li>
- Learn to juggle together. <\/li>
- Try to memorize favorite poems<\/a> or verses.<\/span> <\/li>
- Learn a few yoga moves. <\/li>
- Fill a balloon with baby powder to create a homemade stress ball. <\/li>
- Have a bake sale to raise money for charity. <\/li>
- Make a salt dough volcano<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>
- Learn how to quilt together. <\/li>
- Make sculptures out of soap. <\/li>
- Each-tay em-thay Ig-pay Atin-lay. <\/li>
- Take a train somewhere. <\/li>
- Learn to play tennis. <\/li>
- Make your own bows and arrows<\/a>, and practice archery in the backyard.<\/span><\/li>
- Host a dance-off in the living room. <\/li>
- Make something out of recycled materials. <\/li>
- Make homemade bath fizzies<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>
- Take old appliances apart to see how they work. <\/li>
- Work on a puzzle together. <\/li>
- See how many different clothespin animals<\/a> you can create.<\/li>
- Go geocaching together. <\/span><\/li>
- Set up a domino track on a large table. <\/li>
- Teach them how to do laundry. <\/li>
- Collect clothes and toys for charity. <\/li>
- Make a duct tape wallet<\/a> or purse.<\/span><\/li>
- Go get ice cream cones. <\/li>
- Play ping pong. <\/li>
- Make pom pom flowers<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>
- Play flashlight tag. <\/li>
- Go on a hike at a national park. <\/li>
- Learn Morse Code together. <\/li>
- Find a walking stick and paint it. <\/li>
- Play charades. <\/li>
- Go to the zoo. <\/li>
- Learn cup stacking<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>
- Make marionette puppets and put on a puppet show. <\/li>
- Roll a pine cone in peanut butter and bird seed to create a bird feeder. <\/li>
- Set up a lemonade stand<\/a>.<\/span> <\/li>
- Shoot baskets at a gymnasium. <\/li>
- Decorate hats and shoes with paint pens. <\/li>
- Put on a magic show<\/a> for friends and family.<\/span> <\/li>
- Turn a lemon into a battery<\/a>.<\/span><\/li><\/ol>
Once you and the kids get started on this list, you’ll probably never hear that they’re bored again! Or you will, and that’s OK, too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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