Mom I'm BOREDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
The ClubHouse: General Archives: June - July Archives:
Mom I'm BOREDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:19 am  1st East Coaster awake. I don't know how long I have before my husband kicks me off! Boy you guys came up w/ a lot of ideas! I don't know if I'll be repeating but I'm trying to remember what we did as kids. Here I go: Make newspaper boats and float then in the pond or puddles. Take diiferent shape macaroni noodles and glue them to paper (cardboard, or in the old days the package the styrofoam trays that meat cam in) to make pictures. You can even spay paint the noodles different color. Make the kids look for four leaf clovers and give the $ to whoever finds the most if you want to. We had a lot of woods by us w/ brambles in them. We wood cut out a hole in the center of the brambles and make a fort. We would cut some long grass in the field and dry it to cover the outside of the brambles w/ it. We would try to learn how to walk silently in the woods w/out making any noise so we could try to walk up to animals (like the deer)to watch them and and they wouldn't see us. We never were able to, but we spent a lot of time trying. Pick different flowers and press them in books. Afterwards you can make pictures w/ them. Remember the old God's eyes (is that the name of them) that you would make with wrapping yarn around two sticks. Tess already said mud pies, but I feel like repeating it here. Start a butterfly garden so you can watch the different stages of the butterfly. (This can be stated w/ a package of milkweed seed. Collect tadpoles and watch them grow. Get a birdbird and learn to identify all the different birds. (You can get the book at the library, it doesn't have to cost money.) Keep a list of all the different birds you've see. This way if you travel you can keep looking for different birds that don't live in your garden. Start a hummingbird garden. Collect popsicle sticks and glue them together make houses or different things. Do the same thing w/ a box of toothpicks. Make paper chains out of construction paper Make paper flowers out of tissue paper. Let me post now before I get kicked off. Won't post, having computer difficulties. Sigh. |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:26 am  I got diconnected, but the computer doesn't tell me. How strange. Anyway, collect clothes, hats, shoes, gloves etc to make a dressup box, and the kids can get dressed up and play makebelieve. Have tea parties and get dressed up for them. Get waterguns and play cops and robbers Get chalk and play chalk games like hopsotch and animals, animals, out. The jumprope idea was good. Get the long one where you need two people to turn it and practise jumping in when it's already turning, see how many kids you can get at the same time. Practise breakdancing w/ music. Practise standing on your head, walking on your hands etc. make up your own gymnastics routines and if you have more than one kid, put on a show. Collect empty food boxes and cans, play store. |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:27 am  Grooch I'm still awake and watching - |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:29 am  Play games like hide-and-seek or kick the can. There must be other games also. Make paper airplanes Fly kites. If you buy the kites it will cost money, but it will be free after that whenever you want to go. Or you can make your own kites out of tissue paper. Build sandcastles Have a scavenger hunt. |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:29 am  Ahh me and my brotherin the 70's had mass fun playing cops and robbers and cowboy and indians askids in the 70's - but betger are politically correcct now I guess - my how times change .. eh |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:30 am  Your still awake???? |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:33 am  LOL Ya I was sooooo not done but the only other poster went to bed and I didnt want to have 20 post in a row so I've been <twiddling thumbs> |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:36 am  $ Jigsaw puzzles for rainy days. You can work together on the 500 or 1000 piece ones. (My mother had 4 kids) Get empty paint cans, puch holes through the lids and run string through them. Then you put your feet on the paint cans and walk around w/ them. I don't remember what you call them, but you get the idea right? Play hangman. Give the kid a dictionary if the adult is playing against the kid to make it fair. |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:36 am  Grooch you do have to elaborate on this scavenger hunt thingy.... OL |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:41 am  Good girls don't hunt |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:44 am  Huhh? I thought everyone knew what one was. (I'm assuming you have more than one kid to play with) Scavanger Hunt Make a list of items to find (Prepare the list based on either inside or outside playing) For outside things like a purple flower, an empty soda can etc. They have to find the items and whoever finds them first wins. The game has to be adjusted to where you live. Growing up we had plenty of land and didn't have to worry about strange people, etc. If your playing in the city you can look for hyperdermic needles, empty wine bottles in a paper bag, etc. (That is a joke!!!!)  |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:51 am  Ok after having to restrain MYSELF for over a year here now.. I'm about to start a petition A 21+ thread.... Dammit shutting up again |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:52 am  Make musical intruments. get a bunch of glasses and fill them up w/ differnt levels of water and give them a spoon to tap them with. Each glass should sound diffent. Get a comb w/ a piece of tissue paper and blow on it. Get a blade of grass, fold it tight between two fingers and blow. You should be able to get a whistling sound w/ it. Play the spoons. (Take two spoons put them back to back and whack them between your leg and palm of your hand.) (Schoolmarm, I need your help in explaining these better! And I'm sure you have more musical ideas!) Pots and pans upside down and bang them w/ wooden spoons. Take the maccaroni boxes to shake like a morocco. |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:58 am  Whit, I'm just joking. When I was growing up and we'd go to the beach, there was a time when you go and they were having all the medical waste, etc washing up on the shore and we'd say, Mommy what's that? That's what brought it to mind. Nowadays here in Miami, people don't even want to let their kids play outside. It's to dangerous between the traffic and all the very strange people and the drugs and gangs. They are happy to have the kids play video games and watching tv. They live w/ bars covering their windows and doors. Like a prison. Boy, have times changed. This is the reality a lot of people have. I didn't mean to offend. |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:03 am  On the jigsaw puzzles (this is coming from someone with over 1000+ puzzles in her house) a good place to check sometimes is the local goodwill. You can get puzzles at the goodwill for under $1 and at the DAV Store here in Co Springs, you can get 2 for 30 cents. I have gotten some of the really nice old Springboks there as well as puzzles that are still unopened. When it comes to making a cookbook or some other kind of home made book, for something like $2.50, you can get it spiral bound at someplace like Office Max or Office Depot. I made my own cook book last year and gave it to my friends for Christmas with a jar of homemade chocolate sauce, tomato dressing and the makings for beer bread (plus those recipes were in the book too). I used our binding machine at work to bind and put everything in baskets I that got from the good will. Get removable stickers and write down words in a foreign language for some common household items and learn those words - like door = port en francais, or do them in german as well. I just got some computer CDs to brush up on my french and german at best buy last week for under $20 each. Learn the alphabet in sign language. I did that in 8th grade and have never forgotten it. Learn morse code or braille. Or read the biography of someone like Louis Braille to learn how he invented braille. |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:20 am  LOL you didn't offend I just have some comments I can't quite chance here LOL! Not at all to do with you it's just about the - um .....No seriously it isnt anything to do with you - it's just I'm a very open person and I've always struggled to keep within my perceived boundries here...and that is NOT easy  |
Grooch | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:26 am  LOL! |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:27 am  I am soooooo oo zipping lip........ Neil we gotta talk...email me I so need to talk to enb and HER toy... before BB2 starts LOL I can only behave so long and ..... I'm stugglingnow with it anyone wanna giveme enb's email addy?  |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:39 am  Just click on his name to see his profile or go to the tvclub home page under "contact us". |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:19 am  LOL Thanks Gail - I was just struggling out loud - I struggle often here .. but for better or for worse I do love it here.. I try so darn hard to not be me here.. to not try and take charge or run things or make changes - cause frankly it's AS GOOD AS IT GETS - without me having to take the time and trouble to run things... I have alot to say... um I'm just gonna go asy it in my "profile" if you care to read it .. go there if not ... back to the discussion at hand....
|
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:55 am  WOOHOO I have a profile now LOL |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 08:12 am  OK now - back to the topic at hand now that some folks are awake LOL The idea here is to suggest fun things for your kids to do - or you to do with them - anything a buck or less list .. anything that'd cost someone without the materials at hand over a buck just toss s $ sogn before the idea ok Here's a few examples Write a TOP TEN list (top 10 reasons I love my dad - or hmm top 10 things I'd like to do this summer... I could go on and on you get the idea) $ Play scrabble (This I put a $ sign before becuase unless you own a scrabble board this could cost ya 12 bucks - worth every dime and THEN some but if you don't ahve the 12 bucks ya don't have it Ok here's a biggie for me I used to buy for 25 to 50 cents at yard sales all the RISK / Monopoly games I could find - any games as long as alot of peices were there for 25 to 50 cents sheesh why not? Me and my X his 2 kids and mine had the coolest risk game ever But we'd take the pieces from the games we bought that were half there for .25 cents or .50 cents and make up our own games - we often used the back of those boards from those games we bought to draw our OWN boards (gawd I could go on about this for days LOL Anyone tired of me yet - well don't say yes - I am getting tired sooooooooooo |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 08:30 am  You can become as successful as the most successful person ever the only thing stopping you are your obstacles. Overcome them. Helen Keller couldn't see... and couldn't hear. Close your eyes and try to imagine describing to your child - BLUE - Close your eyes again for a moment and try and describe to your child - FUNNY - no words - not motions - no facial expresions. Try to imagine describing to your child a FUNNY blue color. YOU couldn't. Now close your eyes again and try to imagine teaching your child about "bragging" - if that child couldn't hear - and couldn't see. Imagine teaching that child about failure - try teaching that child - he/she CAN NOT do something - whent hat child doesn't understand the words CAN NOT - can not see you trying to physically stop them from doing something. Helen Keller succeeded for one simple reason - NOBODY could tell her she COULD NOT succeed - she was not aware she had handicaps because nobody could tell her she had them. Unfortunately - society teaches children to say "i'm fat" "I'm stupid" "I'm an idiot" - without hesitation.. but to say "I'm pretty" "I'm smart" is a BAD BAD thing - it's "BRAGGING" and bragging is a bad bad thing - put yourself down - that's ok - but confidnce and talking good about yourself is a BAD BAD thing... I can't change society - but I can and will continue to say this. I don't know that soceity will ever change - but you can teach your child the difference between braggng at home and bragging at school at the very least. Start a brag - journal everyday when your lil one comes home from school - have them write down one god thing they did.. one good thought they had.. one good thing the learned... help them the first year or two - to think of them... (I will go on with suggestions for this journal if anyone needs them) But anyhow - in 3rd grad ...4th grade..5th grade they will have hundreds of postives about themselves to look back on and read I wish I could be Samantha on bewitched and change society so it'd be ok to say "I'm sooo smart" rather then it being ok to say "I'm soooo stupid" but I cant... but you can change it within your OWN household. Start tommmorow ??? |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 08:42 am  I'm just one person what can I do??? Your lil one is gonna grow up with the same syndrome you have and I have - the "I'm just one person, what can I do" syndrome. It's a very valid syndrome - it is so true and makes sense... howevever every major change in society - end of slaery - end of women not being able to vote - and so on and so no - started with just ONE person - who felt the same way. What made THAT person differeent.. ?? Watch the movie with karen skilkwood - when your lil one is in 4th or 5th grade and TALK about it. Read a book about Booker T Washington and talk about it. Be open and honest and admit that .. just one person...making a difference is an uphill battle - but the thousands of people who've made a difference - who go down in history - had an uphill battle. They can make a difference - maybe not on a global scale but don't discount that - but they can make a difference if it is something thay believe in and want to achieve. Bottm line is what I am saying is - teach your children to believe in themselves an their ablities allow them to totally brag about them and go off on tangents of things they'd like to do to change the world Till society changes I guess you might have to teach them how to pretend to "degrade" themselves in school - cause taachers / parents and so o .. think it's a-ok for a gal to say .. "I'm so ugly" but to say "I'l soooo prety" is not .. to say "I'm going to change this cause I don't agree with it " Is not ok to say "there's nothign I can do about it" Is ok. I'm gonna finish with this once again Hellen Keller achieved something few could ever hope to achieve - for ONE reason only - because NOBODY could tell her or show her that she couldn't. |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:28 pm  Whit, I told you others would find you here...I emailed you back...have been having trouble with my aol today. Now I'm going to take a little stroll around the board and put my thinking cap back on. I'll be back... |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 12:12 am  take buckets of water and old paint brushes and let the kids "paint the house" (outside, I mean) our kids love to do this at preschool |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 12:42 am  lol or paint themselves with finger paints?
|
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 12:42 am  I'm off to bed now I think - |
Grooch | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:45 am  If kids start complaining they're bored and they don't like any of these ideas, do what my mother did. Make them go outside and weed the patio. They'll never complain about being bored again. Also works as a variation for the old "Time Out" method of punishment (depends on the kid's age). Instead of weeding, you can subsitute things like raking, etc. |
Grooch | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 08:03 am  Some more ideas. I don't know if anyone posted these or not. Dandalion bouquets. Have the kids go out and pick you the largest dandilion bouquet they can. Tell them you think they are the most beautiful flower in the world. Put them in water in a glass where they can see it. (This way, the weeds are picked, and won't go to seed in the yard, and the kids are doing something nice and are having fun.) They can also make dandilion necklaces w/ the flowers. (I think Tess might have already brought that up.) We use to pick violets and thread them on a string to make Leis and wear them. And then cut the long grass from the fields and dry it to make hula skirts and pretend we were from Hawaii. Make terrariums. Find a large clear glass bottle or use an old aquarium. Put pebbles in the bottom, then dirt and then small plants and moss. keep covered to keep the humidity in and watch them grow. You can get a book at the library to get better instructions on how to do it. Boxes. Get any large boxes you can find. They can be refrigerator boxes, computer boxes, etc. Give the kids crayons, and they can make the box whatever they want to. It can be a fort, a rocket ship, a car, etc. Kids spend forever in their boxes. $$Go to the you pick it farms in the summer. You have to pay for the food, but the kids have fun spending time picking strawberries, tomatoes, etc., you are probably going to be buying it anyway, and it's a cheap way to spend the afternoon and they are proud of what they did. Make corn husk dolls after you peel your corn, make apple dolls. I remember seeing this on Zoom. You peel an apple and then you carve a face into the apple. You let it dry in the sun for a few days and it shrivels and then you can decorate it. It's for older kids. Ours never really came out, but it was a lot of fun trying. At the end of summer, collect seeds from your garden from your favorite plants and package and label them for next year's garden. Take all the clay flowerpots from the garage and let the kids paint and decorate them. (See, plant a garden for the kids. There's so much that needs to be done that will keep them busy. Nature seems to be a very cheap and long lasting source of entertainment). |
Whit4you | Monday, July 02, 2001 - 04:40 pm  It's summer time thought I'd pop this back up to the top in case anyone needs some things to keep their lil ones busy |
|