Get off the bus a few blocks early and walk the rest of the way home

Take the dog for a walk around your neighborhood

Go for a bike ride with your friends

Join a recreational sports team

Go outside and search for four-leaf clovers

Rollerblade to the mall instead of getting a ride in the car

Offer to help a neighbor by raking leaves

Help around the house by vacuuming

Take up dance lessons

Practice your musical instrument

Write a letter to a pen-pal or a friend from camp

Plan a picnic and help to pack the lunch basket

Explore your green thumb and start a garden

Be the first one to play in the snow and grab a shovel to help clear the sidewalks

Walk to the local pool and swim laps or practice your high dive

Make a treasure hunt to play with your friends

Have a family night withy your favorite board game

Help to do the laundry

Have an arm wrestling contest

Be creative!  Try writing a poem

Look for loose change under the couch cushions

Take up juggling

Learn to play a song on the guitar

Make a fort to play in with couch cushions and blankets

Take a flashlight and read scary stories in the dark

Try a new recipe and help to make dinner for the family

Collect twigs outside and build a miniature log cabin

Use rubber stamps, construction paper, and glitter to make a birthday card

Make paper airplanes and see whose will fly the farthest

Try catching lightning bugs when it stars to get dark

Help out with the local carwash

Offer to baby-sit a younger sibling

Take a hike on a nature trail at a  local park

Go to the library and search for a book you've never read before

Color or draw a new picture for the refrigerator

Turn up the radio and learn the words to a new song

Get some friends together for a game of kickball

Get out your jump rope and try to set a new record

Use sidewalk chalk to draw a mural outside

Make a snowman or snow angel as soon as the ground is covered

Head to the lanes to beat your old bowling score

Help at the local bake sale to raise money for a good cause

Practice flying a kite on a windy day

Send a thank you card to someone who has done something nice for you

Create hand puppets with old socks and put on a puppet show

Read the comic strips in the newspaper

Head to a sporting event and cheer for your team

Grab a blanket and lay outside to count the stars when it gets dark

Try to draw your own comic strip

Spend time playing with your pet

Try to do 10 pushups in  a row.  Practice if you can't do it on the first try

Help with the dishes after dinner

Visit a local museum to look at the exhibits

Do some bird watching with a pair of binoculars

Play hide and seek

Visit the batting cages to practice your swing

Put together a jigsaw puzzle with the family

Help blow up balloons for a birthday party

Take a walk outside and count how many different animals you see

 Take a trip to the zoo

Volunteer at the YMCA

Try one new fruit for a snack

Join a Girl Scout or Boy Scout troop

Head outside to start a rock collection

Learn 10 new works in Spanish

Find 5 new countries on a map or glove

Find two friends and play monkey in the middle

Try making a sculpture out of play-dough

Head outside to blow bubbles

Paint a picture using watercolor pr paint-by-numbers

Cut snowflakes out of paper to make holiday oraments

Go for a walk and play a game of I Spy with a friend

Try one new vegetable for a snack

Learn how to make origami

Color a new bookmark with crayons or colored pencils

String beads together to make a colorful necklace

On a hot day, run through the sprinkler

Play Simon Says with some friends

Build a sandcastle at the beach or in a sandbox

Teach your dog to catch or play Frisbee

Make a birdfeeder by rolling a pinecone in peanut butter and covering it with birdseed

Volunteer to clean up the neighborhood and help collect trash or litter

Clean out your closet to find clothes you don't wear anymore.  Donate them to a shelter

Start keeping a journal

Help put family photographs in an album

Help to make homemade pizza and then have a pizza party

Camp out tin the backyard.  Set up a tent and spend the night outside

Try to beat the family with racing go karts

Learn about the history of your hometown

Help give the dog a bath

Play with a hula hoop

Help decorate the house for the upcoming holiday

Start brainstorming your next Halloween costumes.  Then draw a picture of it.

Plan some bulbs outside and wait for the flowers to grow

Have fun Tye Dying a tee shirt

Throw a tea party

Plan a fishing trip

Try to master skateboarding

Use a book of butterflies to identify the species you see flying in your backyard

Jump in puddles on a rainy day

Watch the clouds float by and say what shapes or animals you think they look like

Keep your car in a singe line.

Please pull up as far as you can.

Never attempt to pass another car.

Your child should be ready to leave the car quickly.

He/she must close the door before you proceed and walk directly into the building.