Things to Do at Home

Ways to annoy your siblings, parents, and/or pets while trying not to get hurt.

Make a fort out of furniture.

Your dog will like you less, but your cat probably never really liked you in the first place. Your mom and dad will probably just be disappointed. A lot of these include pillows and blankets, so be sure to have those available, especially if you're looking for things to do at a sleepover.

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Quirky Solo Challenges

  1. Pop bubble wrap.
  2. Find a stupid photo of yourself at age 6, then laugh at how much of an idiot you were.
  3. Use Socks As Nunchucks.
  4. Go through your room and find something from when you were little.
  5. Tell your parent(s) something funny. BAM!! 2 hour lecture.
  6. Drink out of a spray bottle because you ran out of clean cups.
  7. Stare at one petal on your ceiling fan while on.
  8. Take selfies with unappealing objects in your house.
  9. Try to hold the light switch between "On' and "Off".
  10. Water your siblings; see if they grows.
  11. Look at a ceiling fan (For a Few Minutes).
  12. Take a bubble bath and put the bubbles on your chin to make a beard.
  13. Throw pancakes at the wall.
  14. Close every door in your house.
  15. Sit upside down on your couch.
  16. Put on a blindfold and walk around your house until you know your way around the house.
  17. Give yourself a pat on the back, then compliment yourself on how good the pat was.
  18. Cry because there is nothing to do.
  19. Put money under your pillow every night. Then it will feel like the tooth fairy visits every night.
  20. Physical activity.............just kidding.
  21. Map out places to hide if a murderer comes.
  22. Put 10 potatoes in 10 different places in your home. Ex: Teacup, Bookshelf.
  23. Stay in your room, laughing like a maniac.
  24. Throw socks at your ceiling fan.
  25. Wack yourself with a pillow.
  26. Walk in circles for hours.
  27. Organize your sock drawer by the seven colors of the color spectrum.
  28. Try to take bath without water.
  29. Put googly eyes on a light switch.
  30. Hang something stupid on the wall, like a paper you got a C+ on.
  31. Hide in your basement. Stay there until someone finds you.
  32. Wash a spoon. Fun.
  33. Be a neat freak for a day.
  34. Take a selfie using only your feet.
  35. Take a shower just because.
  36. Play Rock Paper Scissors with your reflection.
  37. Organize your bedroom so you can walk in there with bare feet again.
  38. Put a Skittle in water and watch the s float to the top (may not work but mine did).
  39. Hit someone with a stuffed animal, then apologize to the stuffed animal.
  40. Back up your files! Hurry!
  41. Redecorate your room so it's exactly the same but mirrored.
  42. With your eyes closed, attempt to walk to your bedroom without bumping into things to see how well you know your house or apartment!
  43. Babysit a cactus. Then fail because you got bored and watered it too much. Poor cactus.
  44. Cup your hands in the shower to collect water, then let go and see the water splash down on the floor. See how loud you can make it.
  45. Floss your teeth more, ya doofus. It's good for ya. You're bored anyway so you might as well fight bacteria.
  46. Gamble with candy, so even if you lose, you can at least still feel healthy.
  47. Have a competition to see who can stay up the longest.
  48. Set up a treasure hunt with clues hidden around the house.

Food, Snacks, and Baking

  1. Eat chocolate.
  2. Eat cake.
  3. Drink some water! Too many people are dehydrated these days.
  4. Eat some chips. -Your average everyday human.
  5. Microwave marshmallows. they blow up big and then deflate and they're sticky and tasty.
  6. Bake a cake and decorate it with the first thing that comes to mind.
  7. Try to bake something, because why wouldn't you want to eat?
  8. Eat a banana as fast as you can.
  9. Eat some pie! Or doughnuts! Or ice cream! Or cake!
  10. Cook chicken nuggets.
  11. Eat the nearest food item.
  12. Eat a midnight snack. Or a daytime snack. Or a 4am snack. You deserve it and snacks are good.
  13. Learn to make homemade ice cream.
  14. Eat all your ice cream.
  15. Make yourself a really good sandwich. You deserve it.
  16. Slowly eat all the food in your house until your parents notice.
  17. Cook a banana.
  18. Eat a cheesepuff without making any sound.
  19. Bake a cake but leave out one ingredient, just to see what would happen.
  20. Eat a cheese.
  21. Find the biggest bowl in your house and use it for a giant bowl of cereal.
  22. Buy a potato, cut it with a cheese grater, and use potatoes as cheese when you are making stuff.
  23. Cook 1 spaghetti noodle.
  24. Eat two or three kinds of cereal combined.
  25. Watermelon in a boat
  26. Burn some toast and scrape it off with a butter knife. It's pretty relaxing.
  27. Eat cake that is delicious.
  28. Eat pizza. Then eat another. And then eat another.
  29. Drink bananas and eat Pepsi.
  30. Eat some pasta.
  31. Eat lots of stuff for breakfast to make sure it's "complete".
  32. Bake one huge giant cookie in a pizza pan. That way you can eat all of it and still say you only had one cookie.
  33. Invent a new type of pizza, like cantaloupe pizza or whatever. Not that one though because it's not very good.
  34. Put ice in iced tea to make it double iced tea.
  35. Keep ripping apart a marshmallow until it feels more like a cooked marshmallow.
  36. Connect a whole bunch of straws together, then drink a soda from across the room.
  37. See how many times you can cut a watermelon in half.
  38. Eat 2 pieces of fruit in a row like a badass. (Watermelons are especially hardcore, though not recommended.)
  39. Slap some Jell-O. It's more fun than it sounds.

Active and Physical Play

  1. Put pillows or blankets in your shirt and sumo wrestle.
  2. Put on socks and run and slide on your hard wood floors.
  3. Ride down your staircase on a mattress.
  4. Slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag.
  5. Play a game where you have to get around your house without touching the ground.
  6. See how fast you can run around your house without bumping into something.
  7. Put on one or more pairs of socks and glide on a hardwood floor.
  8. Get a large, stuffed giraffe, then have fights with it or whatever.
  9. Pile pillows and blankets on the ground and jump onto the pillows.
  10. Slide down a big stuffed animal, I did it a few days ago and it was so much fun!
  11. See if you can bounce a stressball on carpet.
  12. Put slippery socks on and slide across your kitchen floor.
  13. Put oil on your hard wood floor put socks on (duh) then slide around.
  14. Run around the house without anyone noticing and see how long it goes for.
  15. Create play stations with whatever you have.
  16. See how far you can get in your house on one leg.
  17. Move all your furniture around so you can jump on them across your house, pretending the floor is lava.
  18. Put cardboard boxes on your stairs and make a slide! This is really fun and safe!
  19. Pretend the floor is lava and keep your cat or dog off the floor to.
  20. Slide down the stairs on a pillow or a giant teddy (it's a great way to pass the time).
  21. Run and jump on your bed.
  22. Get a GIANT suitcase and have your friend push you around in it.
  23. YEET your siblings across the room.
  24. Jump up and down on one leg while patting your head and rubbing your stomach. It's fun.
  25. Take three steps in 5 seconds.
  26. Run around the house like monkey.
  27. Take six steps in 10 seconds.
  28. Press the keyboard keys down extra hard to gain finger strength.
  29. Do some bicep curls, using the heaviest small object you have as the dumbbell.
  30. Sit up straight. That'll put you in the upper half of fitness these days.
  31. Put sleeping bags over your heads, turn off the lights and play tag. Note: Remove sharp objects first.
  32. Balance as many objects as you can on your head.
  33. Learn to juggle. Socks work well for beginners.

Pretend, Dress-Up, and Role-Play

  1. Wrap yourself up in a blanket and pretend to be a caterpillar.
  2. Act like spider man and jump from furniture to furniture.
  3. Go up to your mom and just stare at her and then crawl away like the kids in scary movies.
  4. Talk to your stuffed animals.
  5. Run into a big mirror and scream " Narnia".
  6. Act like a dog and see if your dog notices.
  7. Run around your house and tried to advertise an imaginary hot dog.
  8. HAVE A SLEEPOVER WITH YOUR STUFFED ANIMALS.
  9. Sneak around the house and if someone sees you, pretend to be dead.
  10. Annoying your cat by act like a cat (see what it does).
  11. Go around the house acting like an agent off mission impossible.
  12. Wear your pants like a scarf instead to balance your body temperature out.
  13. Have a conversation with something on your wall when you are lonely.
  14. Pick your favorite anime and put yourself in it and how you would change some things.
  15. Get the biggest stuffed animal you have and have a conversation with it.
  16. Reenact a baking show with your friends.
  17. Turn your house into a giant board game with you as the character.
  18. Make a TV show with useless props and have a friend film on their phone.
  19. Dress up like you are in the 1800s and have a tea party.
  20. Try on every single pair of shoes in your house.
  21. Paint your toe nails the worst possible color so that when it starts wearing off it'll start looking better.
  22. Look at boring videos on the internet and say to yourself, "I can do a video way better than these people." Then do it.
  23. Do a video job interview with only the top half of your body dressed up in a nice suit.
  24. Find your least worn hat and put it on. No more hat neglect.
  25. Wear a bathrobe backwards so it's a Snuggie (or wear a Snuggie backwards so it's a bathrobe).
  26. When you have to do chores, do them like you're a ninja.
  27. If you're the host, when someone enters your house, act like its a hotel.
  28. Dress up in Halloween costumes and pretend to be superheroes.
  29. Wrap yourselves up in blankets and pretend to be caterpillars.
  30. Pretend to sleep walk. Then, while still sleep walking, make yourself a sandwich and eat it in front of your friend.
  31. Follow someone around the house like a spy without them noticing.

Arts, Crafts, and Making Things

  1. Draw with your eyes closed for 30 seconds, see what you create.
  2. Learn to knit. Then knit a blanket big enough to cover your entire apartment.
  3. Make stressballs with playdoh and crazsand.
  4. Write your own story about something funny.
  5. Color a picture of pets doing yoga with experimental outfits.
  6. Make things with paper.
  7. Play with playdough.
  8. Design your dream home on a piece of paper.
  9. Make play dough with flour and water. if it is too wet add more flour. Too dry? Add water.
  10. Paint your pants to make them look like your legs.
  11. Draw pictures of your family members and replace pictures in your house with them.
  12. Go And Read A Book Or Something, It Makes You Smarter You Dummy.
  13. Write a comic book of your favorite characters.
  14. Make a fairy house in a tin or box.
  15. Read all the books in your house.
  16. Make a game about a walrus with nuclear powers.
  17. Make a monster out of paper.
  18. Modify a nerf gun so it looks like a llama that's spitting the darts.
  19. Read first aid wikihows.
  20. Make a miniature mini-golf course for Lego people.
  21. Start an anime journal.
  22. Make pixel art in Minecraft.
  23. Make a collage out of people's faces in old magazines.
  24. Grab a cardboard box and decorate it like a car or something. Cut out a door that can open and close. Have fun and get creative!
  25. Learn how to make an origami walrus. The world could use more.
  26. Make a paper airport full of paper airplanes and overpriced paper food.
  27. Make a terrible portrait of your pet since they'll probably like it anyway.
  28. Try to find a typo in a book so you can feel like a champion. How did you see that and the author and editors didn't? You win.
  29. Fill the room with so much glow in the dark stuff that you can easily read a book.
  30. Fold a paper airplane and see how far it flies.
  31. Organize your books by color.

Brain Teasers and Deep Thoughts

  1. Search your name and see if it means anything.
  2. Lick your tongue. It's actually really easy.
  3. Realize Santa Claus is a jerk because he gives more expensive gifts to the wealthier kids.
  4. A million quarters is worth a quarter million. Think about it.
  5. Imagine a world without fast food.
  6. Look up broccoli treehouses.
  7. Figure out the point where a cupcake becomes a muffin.
  8. Figure out the true color of a mirror.
  9. Do research to discover who was the first person to milk a cow.
  10. Add ".com" to the end of everything you search and see if any website pops up. I did it and found this website.
  11. Look up pictures of moths.
  12. Count how many corners there are around you.
  13. Count all the red things in your house. It's quite amusing
  14. Count the number of tiles on the floor. Exhilarating.
  15. Think about how the earth is rotating at 800 mph, and if it stopped, you would fly at 800 mph.
  16. Learn how to say and write pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis.
  17. Think of a word. No seriously do it, think of a word. Now try and sound it out backwards. Do that with a bunch of different words!
  18. Type the phrase "I think there is something wrong with my messages." into an online language translator and flip the translation back and forth.
  19. Have a full conversation by yourself contemplating why we call this yellow crescent shaped food a "banana".
  20. Search up the significance of what your recent dreams have been about. For example, "Why was there cheese in my dream?"
  21. Try to find a new pattern of the alphabet, such as "qwaszxopklnmerdfcvbrtfyugh", then try to sing the new version.
  22. Check to make sure your legs are actually symmetrical.
  23. Find a way to do the knee tap reflex thing that doctors do, but on yourself.
  24. Put your arm by your leg and figure out how many of your arms it would take to make a leg.
  25. Have a rant about crayons. Does any kid really need 120 colors?
  26. Snap your fingers and concentrate on how when you snap, the noise comes from your middle finger hitting your palm, not the friction of the two fingers moving apart. Crazy stuff.
  27. Look at a word until it doesn't make sense. Like the word "sense", what's up with that word?
  28. Record yourself saying your name, then play it backwards to reveal your secret alter ego.
  29. Try to spell racecar backwards. Gonna blow your mind, man.

Pranks and Annoying Family

  1. Walk into a room where a family member is sitting, and throw a pillow at them.
  2. Draw faces on the eggs in the fridge and then watch your mum open the egg carton.
  3. Annoy your fellow siblings with a theme song you made up.
  4. Hide in your siblings closet @ 6Am & make noises.
  5. Hide all the underwear of a roommate or parents and see if they notice.
  6. Text your friend at 2:30 am and ask them how to make homemade chicken.
  7. Make a smoothie with stuff in the kitchen then get the other team to drink it.
  8. Go and scare your siblings or parents.
  9. Put baby oil on the toilet seat to prank your sibling.
  10. Give your sibling their favorite chips, when it is actually beans inside.
  11. Follow your siblings around the house until they get super irritated.
  12. Next time your alone in the house, draw faces on all the eggs.
  13. Throw banana that your sister.
  14. Spy on your family members until they look at you.
  15. Hide somewhere in the house and when you hear someone coming do an evil laugh.
  16. Tickle people while they sleep.
  17. Play pranks on your siblings.
  18. Cover Your sibling floors with legos.
  19. Steal all the forks from your kitchen. See if anyone notices.
  20. Take a bottle of mayo and hide it under your sibling's pillow. See what happens
  21. Label everything in your room and see how long it takes your parents to notice.
  22. Go to your Sibling Take something and leave.
  23. Print out a ton of pictures of Mr. Bean and place them all around the house.
  24. Annoy your siblings (if you have any).
  25. Draw faces on all of the eggs in your fridge.
  26. Draw smiley faces on all the things in your fridge.
  27. Put a sign at the front of your house that says "free sign" and see how long it will take for someone to take the sign.
  28. Whoever falls asleep first, draw on their face with scented markers so they will be forced to smell their grape or licorice scented mustache until they finally wash it off.

TV, Movies, Games, and Internet

  1. Mute a TV show you have never seen and make up the dialog.
  2. Waste time on YouTube.
  3. Watch Bambi and live by all the wise words of Thumper's dad.
  4. Turn on your Tv and have an argument with the person talking on the Tv.
  5. Sit in the dark eating popcorn and watch anime.
  6. Watch your favorite TV show from when you were a kid.
  7. Waste your time looking at this website and end up not doing anything.
  8. Watch a movie and insult it.
  9. Have a tv or movie marathon.
  10. Binge watch your favorite TV show/Movie series.
  11. Choose a video game you haven't beaten and beat it as fast as possible.
  12. Go on useless websites.
  13. Search up 'Chibird Memes'.
  14. Watch/Play VideoGames.
  15. Watch YouTube till 5am.
  16. Skip Duolingo lessons and see what happens.
  17. Search up "aesthetic tik toks" on YouTube. Yeah. Just make fun of them.
  18. Play Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3.
  19. Play a video game and say what your doing for the whole time your playing.
  20. Watch every single movie you have and don't look away.
  21. Do a "try not to laugh challenge": 20 clips, 5 lives.
  22. Watch the first minute of 10 different movies and see which one has the best first minute.
  23. Put a T.V. show on, then mute it and try to guess what they are saying (or just sit there watching a muted show).
  24. Send a screenshot from a show to friend who doesn't know the show and make them describe what they think is happening.
  25. Type the middle auto-complete option on your phone to create a run-on sentence that makes no sense, then send it to people and see what they reply with.
  26. Play a 2 player game with yourself. If you need to use two controllers at once, you can always try using your feet.

Pets and Animals

  1. Cuddle with your pet.
  2. Narrate your dog for a day.
  3. Put peanut butter on your dogs nose, and watch them lick it off...
  4. Buy a kitten and a laser point pen. You know what to do.
  5. Give your pet a big hug! If you don't have a pet, feel lonely
  6. Get in a hissing contest with one of your cats. See if they hiss back
  7. Take your dog for a walk and talk to them like they are a real person. See how many people notice
  8. Chase your dog around your house and see who gets tired faster.
  9. Put water and a fish into a hamster ball and let it swim around your house.
  10. Follow your pet around until they notice you.
  11. Play with your pet chase them around or let them chase you around.
  12. Play with your pet such as parrot or something else.
  13. Have a staring contest with your pet.
  14. Touch your cat's paw.
  15. If you have a cat, start meowing in different pitches/voices right next to it and wait for a response.
  16. Bribe your cat with treats to get them to sing.
  17. See how many cheez-its you can put on a cat before it wakes up.
  18. Look out your window and wait for a bird to show up. Birds are cool.
  19. Pick 5 TV shows and see which one your cat stares at the most.
  20. Pet your cat, if you have a cat. Otherwise just sit there wishing you had a cat to pet, because that would be nice.
  21. If you have a dog, go outside of your house for 5 seconds then walk back again to see how happy they are to see you.

Blanket Forts and Pillow Play

  1. Make a fort out of furniture.
  2. Get all the mattresses, pillows, and blankets in your house, pile them up, then go to sleep on it.
  3. Build a fort in your living room.
  4. Make a pillow fortress.
  5. Make a cave out of pillows and blankets.
  6. Build a blanket fort in your bedroom and watch a movie in there.
  7. Make a blanket fort.
  8. Build a fort big enough to sleep and do things in and act like it is your house evesleepin it!
  9. Make a Blanket fort and rule your own kingdom.
  10. Get all the cushions in the house and make a fort.
  11. Build a base out of pillows or cardboard.
  12. Make a big fort with blankets and chairs.
  13. Build a fort in your closet and live in it all day.
  14. Make a fort out of blankets and chairs tall enough that you can stand in it.
  15. ADD ANOTHER PART TO THE BEST FORT EVER.
  16. Build a blanket fort and make it your stuffed animal kingdom!
  17. Find a ton of pillows and put them in one chair, then make a secret hole and hide in it.
  18. Make an awesome fort and have a movie marathon with friends or family.
  19. Hold an important meeting inside your blanket fort.
  20. Make a blanket fort. If you already have one, make either an add-on to your current fort, or a back-up fort in another location.

Music, Dancing, and Singing

  1. Have a crazy dance party with balloons and stuffed animals alone!
  2. Make your own beats or songs out of materials in your house.
  3. Listen to favourite song until you physically sick of it.
  4. Listen to music while dancing and singing.
  5. Turn on music and go crazy.
  6. Play acoustic guitar in the park or something wholesome like that.
  7. Learn how to do the billy bounce dance.
  8. Lip-sync and jam to songs you've never heard before or are in another language.
  9. Play drums with empty soda bottles.
  10. Dance on your counter. Maybe remove the knives first though.
  11. Play drums with two empty soda bottles.
  12. Translate song lyrics into Google translate into a bunch of languages and sing the song in your head with those lyrics.
  13. Move a zipper on something up and down really fast so you sound like a DJ.
  14. Sing the most annoying song you can think of in the mirror while making weird/ugly faces. It's good for stress relief.
  15. Write a song parody. For example, you could sing "I tried to pet you, then you went crazy, oh what a bummer, now I have rabies." to the tune of Call Me Maybe.
  16. Dance. Dance like you've never danced before.
  17. Dance around like an idiot. You are your only judge.
  18. Make a song and rhyme the word orange with Blorenge (a place in southeast Wales).

Sleeping and Lazing Around

  1. Lay in bed watch tv and eat food.
  2. Wander around the house aimlessly.
  3. Go to sleep then your day will go without you knowing!
  4. Be a couch potato.
  5. Eat or sleep all day.
  6. Go to sleep. Its what I should be doing.
  7. Take a nap with a soft pillow.
  8. Sleep until noon, or one, or two, or three, or four, or eight...
  9. Lay over on your sofa and think about your life.
  10. Just take a nap so your brain resets and stops being so stupid.

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