500 things to do for fun

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Adventurous
1. Rock climbing
2. Ice climbing
3. Do a twenty-five-mile bike ride
4. Get yourself into a dune buggy
5. Enjoy the awesome power of a big storm
6. Fencing (the sport, not the act of building one)
7. Go four-wheel driving
8. Get a tattoo
9. Do a round of speed golf (golfing as fast as you can)
10. Go hang gliding
11. Heli-hiking, Heli-skiing, Heli-anything
12. Go for that hot-air balloon ride
13. Sea kayaking
14. Land luge
15. Mountain biking
16. Next time it hails, put a bucket over your head and test how big the hailstones are
17. Paintball
18. Paragliding
19. Ski/golf/sail all in one day
20. Skydiving
21. Go to the airport and take a plane to anywhere
22. Practice stilt walking
23. Quit your job
24. Go whitewater rafting
25. Build a raft like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and float down the river
26. Train for and enter a triathlon
27. Build and fly an ultra light
28. Whitewater canoeing
29. Do a fire walk
30. Go to a nude beach
31. Scuba Diving

Childlike
1. Blow bubbles with bubble gum
2. Have a water fight with the garden hose
3. Have a pajama party
4. Get a bubble blower and then blow some
5. Learn some magic tricks
6. Get yourself the coolest lunch box money can buy
7. Buy some crazy socks
8. Play with some children’s toys
9. Draw with chalk on the road
10. Put on some big rubber boots and go puddle-jumping
11. Climb a tree
12. Start a pillow fight
13. Buy some comic books
14. Do some crayon art
15. Cut out photos and paste them on popsicle sticks and have a puppet show
16. Experiment with makeup
17. Go buy a whack of firecrackers
18. Flip some coins into a fountain
19. Give balloons to people
20. Wade for minnows
21. Do some hula-hooping
22. Go fly a kite
23. Play kick the can
24. Iddy Biddy Indy (buy some remote-control cars, set up a track, call your friends & have your own darn Indy Race)
25. Play with marbles
26. Paint your car with stripes or polka dots (just make sure you use paint that will wash off)
27. Play-doh
28. Ride a Pogo stick
29. Roll down a hill
30. Get a Slinky and play with it
31. Spin until you’re dizzy
32. Take off your shoes and splash your feet in a fountain
33. Set up a treasure hunt
34. Have a water balloon fight
35. Racing mini motorized boats or planes
36. Partake in some yo-yoing
37. Stand on your head
38. Have a lemonade stand
39. Put a bell on your bicycle
40. Play hide-and-go-seek
41. Get some chalk and play hop-scotch
42. Ride the kiddy rides, especially the ones in the mall
43. Run a model train

Creative
1. Be a weaver and take up basketry
2. Take up calligraphy
3. Play a harmonica
4. Make some candles
5. Build a float for a parade
6. Carve a pumpkin
7. Cut up a magazine and make a collage
8. Sketch or draw a landscape
9. Start a diary full of dreams
10. Make some stained-glass artwork
11. Get your handwriting analyzed
12. Take an improvisation class
13. Learn to play the bagpipes
14. Learn to play the bongos
15. Write some poetry
16. Join a pottery class
17. Refinish an antique
18. Start a photo scrapbook
19. Make a sculpture
20. Start quilting
21. Build a model rocket
22. Make soap
23. Make a trophy or certificate to represent a great feat that you have or have not done
24. Do some woodwork
25. Paint a canvas
26. Go the mall just to admire creativity
27. Learn to play an exotic instrument like the Didgeridoo
28. Paper Mache
Expensive

1. Take yourself for an expensive lunch in a fine restaurant
2. Take your lover to stay in the fanciest hotel in town
3. Hire a pilot and airplane to take you somewhere exciting
4. Play horse polo
5. Rent an amazing car for a day
6. Get your pilot’s license

Family
1. Make a documentary video about your family
2. Forgive somebody
3. Hang a bird feeder
4. Have a bonfire and roast marshmallows
5. Play family Twister
6. Take you lawn chairs blankets and junk food to the all night drive in

Food
1. Eat a fruit you have never tried before
2. Go to the Yellow Pages and pick the seventh restaurant – eat the seventh entree and order the seventh dessert
3. Enter a grape stomping contest
4. Have a potluck block party
5. Have an egg toss
6. Whip up some home brew
7. Leave an outrageous tip for your food server
8. Make French toast two inches thick
9. Make wine
10. Make your own banana split
11. Have a picnic with checkered tablecloth and fine wine and yummy cheese
12. Go to a pinball arcade and eat three hot dogs
13. Slurp your spaghetti really loud when you eat it
14. Eat a huge piece of watermelon
15. Throw popcorn at a theatre
16. Start a food fight
17. Make gingerbread men and decorate them

Free
1. Study the stars
2. Sing even if you can’t
3. Believe in magic
4. Have a paper airplane distance contest
5. Ever try bird watching – what about bird listening?
6. Do your own thing all day
7. Dream the afternoon away on a riverbank
8. Enjoy a memory from the past
9. Fall asleep on the lawn
10. Get up early to watch the sunrise
11. Have a picnic with some squirrels
12. Laugh out loud
13. Listen to the language of the frogs or locusts
14. Watch the moonrise
15. Next time you see a rainbow, stop and really admire it
16. Positive daydreaming
17. Get on the radio
18. Say hello to cows
19. Take a ten-minute walk
20. Test drive a really expensive car
21. Watch others play
22. The next time it’s really windy, find a safe place to lean into the wind
23. Set up the tent in the backyard

Friends
1. Sneak your friends into a drive-in movie
2. Use humor to cheer up a sick friend
3. Write a long letter to an old friend
4. Make friends with a cop
5. Have dinner with the old people you know
6. Shoot a whole roll of film in one day
7. Talk among friends about your favorite childhood injuries
8. Visit someone you haven’t seen in a long time
9. Kidnap some friends/family and go out for breakfast in your pajamas
10. Share a book by reading out loud to one another
11. Buy a kiddy pool for your backyard and invite everyone over for a pool party
12. Taking digital pictures of your friends and adding funny captions to them
bring some friends and some life jackets - go out in two canoes on a lake and try to sink each other's canoe
13. Have an armpit fart contest with your friends
14. Make an audio tape letter and send to a friend

General
1. Get someone to paint your toenails
2. Take one hundred dollars out of the bank and spend it all on yourself
3. Take an acting class
4. Join the ranks of your local garage sale fan club
5. Read a children’s story
6. Dress up and have a play
7. Throw a huge party for no reason at all
8. Put a crazy bumper sticker on your car
9. Put an even crazier bumper sticker on your best friend’s car
10. Coach a community sports team
11. Take a few silly photos and send them to your friends
12. Learn to salsa dance from a boy named Juan or a girl named Passion
13. Go to a disco music night and dance the night away
14. Go to a fashion show
15. Voice your opinion at a city council meeting
16. Become a ham radio operator
17. Go to the highest lookout point and look
18. Join a flying club
19. Juggling
20. Karaoke
21. Get a makeover
22. Go moon dancing
23. Go a whole day without music, TV, newspapers or phone calls
24. Phone your local government rep and see if you can convince him or her to have lunch with you
25. Host a piñata party
26. Play hooky from work
27. Get a Polaroid camera and a bunch of film and go into a frenzy
28. Listen to some polka music and eat sausages
29. Put on some music and lip sync
30. Go roller skating with a pillow on your butt
31. Slide down a fireman’s pole
32. Buy the craziest, most comfortable slippers you can find
33. Buy a telescope
34. Wash your hair in rainwater
35. Write a rant letter to the paper
36. Laser tag
37. Watch a foreign film
38. Listen to Jimmy Buffet music
39. Love your life and have a great time.
40. Mail an anonymous joke-of–the-week to someone on a regular basis
41. Get into your pajamas and stay up all night playing risk
42. Collecting all bad news from newspapers and making a ritual campfire to burn them

Good Will
1. Put coins in expired parking meters
2. Send some flowers anonymously to the grouchiest person you know
3. Smile at someone who never smiles at you
4. Sneak cookies into people’s pockets
5. Become an animal hospital volunteer
6. Send flowers or cards to someone for no special reason
7. Bake something for your neighbors, by way of introduction
8. Pay the toll booth for someone behind you
9. Wink at a stranger
10. Tell someone you don't know, when you really like their hair, clothes, or whatever
11. Throw a surprise birthday party for someone when it's not their birthday
12. Send a get-well package to someone who's ailing, be sure to include crayons and coloring book regardless of age
13. Take a grandparent out dancing
14. Go volunteer at an elementary school class
15. Buy the coffee or meal of someone near you in a cafe. Watch the fun when they go to pay
16. Bring dog treats to the park and meet 25 new dogs
17. Give flowers
18. Give Hershey’s Kisses to people
19. Spend ten minutes holding the door open for people

Home
1. Get some pink flamingos for your lawn
2. Plant some tulips
3. Put a rock-climbing wall in your house
4. Sing in the shower with all your might
5. Stay home on New Year’s Eve to be with friends and family
6. Host a yard sale
7. Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
8. Paint your hardwood floors like a gym floor
9. Ask a grandparent about their wedding day
10. Make a lip sync video
11. Get all the grandchildren to perform a skit at a family gathering
12. Put a pond in your yard – with fish
13. Make Home made ice cream

Inside
1. Invent a new dance
2. Have a carpet picnic
3. Either take lessons or hire a belly dancer for your next party
4. Drink your favorite beverage and play billiards
5. Go shop for a really cool book
6. Go to disco night at your local bowling alley
7. Build a mini weather station at home
8. Build a model car
9. Build a time capsule
10. Buy a tabloid
11. Do crossword puzzles
12. Have a dinner that is focused around laughter
13. Make your absolute favorite dish for dinner tonight
14. Play foosball
15. Board games by a toasty fire
16. Jigsaw puzzles
17. Origami
18. Scrabble

Love and Dating
1. Have a chocolate fondue date
2. Drink a bottle of Dom Perignon
3. Go to a movie with the most letters or the least letters
4. Have a candlelit supper under the stars
5. Hide candies and chocolates for lovers and friends
6. Leave secret love notes
7. Kiss someone you really like who doesn’t know it yet
8. Make breakfast in bed for your lover
9. Make love
10. Take a romantic holiday
11. Make love in a barn
12. Take a second honeymoon
13. Wrestling with someone you love
14. Try a dating service
15. Do some Viagra experiments
16. Play adult Twister
17. Go into your partner's closet and hide little notes in the pockets of clothing they don't wear often
18. When your partner's traveling without you, sneak their favorite stuffed animal, picture, candy or childhood book in their suitcase
19. Put your lover on your to do list
20. Send anonymous secret admirer notes to someone
21. Get Married in Vegas
22. Stand about 3 feet apart and try to toss popcorn into your lovers mouth

Naughty
1. Go to a multiplex cinema and see how many movies you can go to on one ticket before you get kicked out
2. Find a natural hot springs and go for a skinny dip
3. Make a humorous crank phone call
4. Play spin the bottle
5. Read a dirty book
6. Pursue a sexual fantasy
7. Shower with a friend
8. Take toilet paper from the pub bathroom and go crazy
9. Hot tub tour (seek out and visit as many hot tubs in your area as you can in one evening)
10. Water balloon or pie someone
11. Break into a friend’s house and clean it
12. Go get some chocolate sauce, pour it on a friend and clean it up according to the relationship you have with the friend.
13. Play knicky knicky nine door (where you knock on someone's door and run away)
14. Moon someone as you drive-by
15. Stick your tongue out at someone
16. Play strip poker
17. Flirt with people
18. Get your num nums rubbed

Offbeat
1. Figure out how to get yourself on TV
2. Take a baseball bat to your alarm clock
3. Feel the wind with a naked bungee jump
4. Canoeing downhill (must be attempted on snow before attempting on dirt, and even then dirt is not really recommended)
5. Buy a Chia Pet and call it Chia Charlie
6. Buffet climbing
7. Color your hair green
8. Take your couch to the beach or park
9. Do a fake fall – falling down is funny
10. Go dumpster diving and see what you can find
11. When a phone solicitor calls, say “I’m on my tractor” or “I wear a helmet”
12. Figure out how to defy gravity
13. Set some lobster traps (even if you live inland)
14. The next time you get fortune cookies – add “in bed” to the end of every fortune
15. Play Frisbee at night
16. Gather a list of people’s ideas of what cheap thrills are
17. Leave your watch at home for a whole week
18. Fiddle around with a Ouija board
19. Visit a palm reader
20. Rock skiing (that’s downhill skiing without snow)
21. Sand boarding (snowboarding on sand)
22. Send a gift in an unused air sickness bag
23. Shave your head
24. Three-legged softball or soccer (players are paired off, then each player has one leg tied to their partner’s)
25. Run frantically down the beach
26. Go out on the town dressed in drag
27. Square dance in water
28. Stuff a phone booth with people
29. Swim in the buff
30. Get your tea leaves read
31. Take your TV outside
32. Have a wheelbarrow race
33. Underwater running (carrying heavy objects underwater so that you can run along the bottom)
34. Voice your opinion where no one can hear you
35. Get some water guns
36. Visit a numerologist
37. Ask a stranger if you can try their ice cream cone
38. When you see someone picking their nose, pick your nose too
39. Make faces at strangers to make them laugh
40. Play underwater hockey
41. Balance something on a cat (not anything heavy or sharp)
42. Take a nap in a stranger's hammock

Places to Go
1. Go to the local fish jail (the aquarium)
2. Go to the flea market
3. Go-karting
4. Visit your local science center
5. Go watch a lacrosse game
6. Have dinner at your local murder mystery theater
7. Go to the observatory on a star-filled night
8. Go see a first-class pyrotechnics show
9. Check out a rock concert
10. Watch a live rugby game
11. Ride your nearest roller coaster
12. Hang out at the local roller rink
13. Go to the symphony
14. Tour a TV studio
15. Visit your closest Aboriginal arts display
16. Visit a beekeeper
17. Go to local children's sporting events and cheer loudly
18. B-I-N-G-O and bingo was the game-o
19. Go to a lecture or panel discussion
20. The library
21. Garage sale and see who can get the best deal for a dollar

Public
1. Play the keyboard at the organ store
2. Order a pizza while you’re at the beach
3. Keep a squirt gun in your vehicle and have it loaded at all times

Relax
1. Find a quiet place for a rocking chair ride
2. Drink coffee in the morning sunshine
3. Feed the ducks at the park
4. Get a blanket and a book and find a place to park it
5. Get a therapeutic massage
6. Give shoulder massages
7. Spend some quality time with a hammock
8. Eat your dinner on the beach or by a lake
9. Hire a foot masseuse
10. Go lounge on the deck
11. Have a mud bath
12. Nap
13. Pick a favorite place to watch the sunset or sunrise and go there often
14. Read the newspaper at a park
15. Rest under your favorite tree
16. Watch the Saturday morning cartoons
17. Read all night and sleep all day
18. Sit and think somewhere
19. Sleep in a tree house
20. Smell the roses
21. Snuggle with gentle creatures
22. Spend the entire morning in bed
23. Visit a steam room
24. Unplug the phone and take a bubble bath
25. Walk barefoot in the park
26. Watch the clouds drift by
27. Get some flowers for yourself
28. Wear your pajamas all day

Specific Days
1. Celebrate Chinese New Year
2. Go for a fall foliage driving tour
3. Pile leaves into a huge pile and jump into them
4. Watch a meteor shower
5. At Christmas time plan an anonymous gift exchange where everyone pulls a name out of a hat, but only have your name on every piece of paper

Sporty
1. Organize a flag football game
2. Play hackeysack
3. Gymnastics
4. Handball
5. Ice hockey, Field hockey, Street hockey
6. Skip rope
7. Jog at sunset
8. Join a health club
9. Lawn bowling
10. Take a moonlight bike ride, cross-country ski or walk
11. Go out and get your motorcycle license
12. Paddleball
13. Play indoor golf
14. Hang on your local monkey bars
15. Go to the playground and play on the slides and teeter totter
16. Play ringette
17. Play cricket
18. Racquetball
19. Rowing
20. In-line skating on the freshest piece of pavement in the area
21. Skateboarding
22. Skeet shooting
23. Sleep in a field
24. Soccer
25. Softball
26. Squash
27. Surfing
28. Swing on a swing
29. Play table tennis
30. Tennis
31. Volleyball
32. Wakeboarding
33. Check out the nearest waterslide
34. Waterpolo
35. Water-skiing
36. Weightlifting
37. Windsurfing
38. Yachting
39. Jet ski
40. Dirt bike
41. Make a rope swing
42. Climb a tree
43. Have a picnic on top of a mountain
44. Play a pick up rugby game in the rain, in the mud and in bare feet

Summer
1. Ride every ride at the carnival
2. Go to an outdoor café
3. Start a herb garden
4. Go on a rock find
5. Go to your nearest trampoline and bounce
6. Play croquet with party beverages
7. Play backgammon outdoors somewhere
8. That old favorite – badminton
9. Go to an afternoon baseball game
10. Put up a basketball hoop
11. Go to the beach with sandwiches and a fantastic friend
12. Enter a running race
13. Bike around your local university campus
14. Go boating
15. Dig out an old washtub and fill ’er up on a hot day
16. Bodysurfing
17. Learn to throw a boomerang
18. Canoe at dawn
19. Have a classic movie night outside with friends
20. Play with some children’s toys
21. Go to a classical concert outdoors
22. Cook your breakfast on an outdoor fire
23. Swim at the pool
24. Yee-ha – take a hayride
25. Build a sandcastle
26. Summer snowball fight (if you have an indoor ice arena close by, there should always be a big pile of snow at the side of the building – just take a couple of coolers and fill them up with snow, then go to the beach when it’s 90 degrees and have a snowball fight)
27. Learn a new water dive
28. Float down a slow river on a tube
29. Watch fireflies light their bums up
30. On a super hot day, get a kiddy wading pool – fill it up – then sit in it for most of the afternoon
31. Swim in a lake or a river

Travel
1. Go to Hawaii
2. Go to the Grand Canyon
3. Go prospecting for gold
4. Take a jeep tour in Arizona
5. Just go out the door and start meandering
6. Fill your tank with gas – drive till it’s half gone and come back
7. Take a bus to a small town just to spend a few hours exploring
8. Go explore caves for an entire holiday
9. Go to a cricket match in a country where cricket matters
10. Take a ride on a dinner train
11. Figure how to get your butt to Disneyland in the next six months
12. Swim with dolphins
13. Drive up and down main street blaring your favorite tunes
14. Escape to a Bed & Breakfast
15. Extend your vacation by staying at friends and hostels
16. Visit a farm
17. Find a peaceful countryside and stay there for a while
18. Find some sand dunes to run down
19. Go stream fishing
20. Go for a glass-bottom boat ride
21. Try Alaska during summer solstice
22. Go beachcombing for driftwood and cool stones
23. Take a spontaneous road trip
24. Hike to a waterfall
25. Rent a houseboat for a week
26. Get a hovercraft ride
27. Get a ride in a Hummer
28. Look at your city through tourists’ eyes
29. Take an orienteering class
30. Get a ride on a paddle wheeler
31. Go to your nearest national park
32. Play in the waves
33. Take an RV trip
34. Sailing
35. Take a train ride
36. Go scuba diving in a place where God wanted to show the world just how beautiful it can be
37. Collect some sea shells from the seashore
38. Shower in a waterfall
39. Snorkel
40. Urban exploration – explore your own area
41. Take a weekend trip by yourself
42. Whale watching
43. Next time you go to the airport, take a limo
44. Stay in a hostel
45. When stopped at a red light in your car when the light turns green everyone jump out of the vehicle, run around it, jump back in and take off

When Severely Bored
1. Join in a polar bear swim
2. Make a trash can a basketball hoop and throw crumpled up paper for baskets
3. Patch some clothing
4. Phone somebody and tell them how great they are
5. Pretend there is a power failure so that you can pull out all the candles
6. Put perfume or cologne on your sneakers
7. Raid the refrigerator
8. Play 20 questions
9. Roll your change

Winter
1. Join in a polar bear swim
2. Have a barbecue in the middle of a snowstorm
3. Bobsledding
4. Cross country ski to work during the next big snowstorm
5. Curling (don’t knock it till you try it)
6. Dog sledding
7. Have a winter hoedown
8. Lie on your back in a snowy field
9. Ice-skate on a lake
10. Winter luge
11. Snow biking
12. Snow skiing
13. Snowboarding
14. Watch the snow fall
15. Make a snowman
16. Make a snow fort
17. Snowmobiling
18. Snowshoeing
19. Go tobogganing
20. Snow tubing
21. Go for a sleigh ride
22. Yodel, especially on the chair lift
23. Snow fort
24. Snow animals or statues

Work
1. Play Nerf Frisbee in the office
2. At the office, make your garbage can into your in-tray

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