A - Z Boredom Busters for Kids

Has the novelty of lockdown worn off in your bubble?  

You've probably exhausted your usual ideas for keeping the kids busy and entertained.  So here's some fun and interesting ideas to help kick boredom out of the door in your household.  Bonus: some of these are educational as well!
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A 

Create some ​art

Arts and crafts activities for nature enthusiasts

Crafts for teens and tweens

B

Rustle up some baking

Make a bird feeder

Build a website
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C

​Create a camp in your lounge or garage

Try coding for free

Check the couch for loose change
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D

Decorate your bedroom, move things around and while you are there check out what is lurking under your bed!

Learn to draw with Captain Underpants 
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E

Do some exercise

Eat a food you have never tried before 
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F

Hold a paper flying competition 

Study free online Teenagers courses and MOOCs from top universities and colleges 
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G

Play some board  games for kids  and teens
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H

​Check out those holidays you have always dreamed about in New Zealand and overseas 
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I

Make ice-cream!
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J

Get creative and make some jewellery

Do a jigsaw puzzle
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K

Try finger knitting
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L

Get your Lego out and create some mosaics or models

Listen to audio books

Do some letter mazes
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M

Make some spelling mnemonics

Make some home made pizzas 

Listen to music and make a playlist of your favourite songs

Make a lava lamp

N

Awesome Nerf gun games
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O

Reach out and offer to help someone

Learn how to do origami 
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P

Take some photos of your time in “lock-down”, create a photo book

Practice your times-tables

Q

Make up a quiz, and test your friends online.  Need some help with questions?  Ask Jeeves!
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R

Take time out to relax and chill

Read or listen to a book 
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S

Skype with your friends and family 

At night, star-gaze find the Southern Star 
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T

Well you could tidy your bedroom, that would keep your parents happy!

Or improve your typing speed
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U

Find your Uno set, rack up those points!
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V

Visit a virtual museum,  art gallery or NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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W

Watch some of your favourite movies again (and again)

Write a letter, poem or song,

Create a website,

Wash a vehicle, that too will keep your parents happy!
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X

Conduct an eXperiment
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Y

Yoga  with Adrienne 
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Z

Visit a Zoo:

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World zoo virtual tours

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