50 Things to Do When You Are Bored This Summer

50 Things to Do When You Are Bored This Summer
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Alissa_E_Carter]Alissa E Carter

-Go berry picking at a local pick-your-own fruit farm, and then make a delicious summer pudding from all the goodies you collected
-Find a nearby village play park and go on the swings
-Share a bag of cherries with your best friend
-Visit a National Trust property, walk around the grounds and marvel at the architecture
-Check out local artists, stop to appreciate the beauty of their work and decide which is your favorite
-Fly a kite on a nearby green
-Spend a day reading all the books on your bookshelf, feel the pure satisfaction of completing a whole book in a day


-Rent a beach cruiser bicycle and cycle along the beachfront
-Go out with a camera and take photos of things you find beautiful and interesting
-Make a collage of inspiring photographs, pictures and magazine cut-outs
-Make daisy-chains and lie on the grass
-Pack a picnic, take it to your nearest, most picturesque and scenic spot and enjoy
-Write a letter using cut out words from a newspaper, and send it to someone
-Create a beautiful chalk pavement drawing
-Eat an ice-cream with a flake
-Paint something, anything, in any way - put some of your favourite music on to help you relax
-Write a summer reading list, and get the books out of your hometown library
-Go to a market with �10 and see how much you can buy
-Start a blog about something you find interesting: food, fashion, beauty
-Buy flowers for someone
-Go to the seaside, breathe in the smell of salt water and chip shops, skim stones, make sandcastles and -walk barefoot through the sand
-Get on your bike and cycle in the sunshine, take a snack and a drink for a little halfway refuelling
-Braid your hair
-Have a barbeque and invite some friends
-Go vintage shopping for cute pastel floral dresses and Granddad hats
-Make a video
-Learn a new word from the dictionary, and try to use it in a sentence
-Figure out how you would spend one million pounds, write it down and be as realistic as you can
-Go to a local river and paddle in the water
-Send a message in a bottle, spend time thinking of the most inspirational and poetic message
-Write a letter of appreciation to something/one you like, a favourite program or product
-Head to your nearest bookstore or library and leave 'you are beautiful' notes inside the pages
-Go for a drive and stop off at any fetes, car boot sales, farm shops or antique markets to have a browse
-Find a pub that's about five miles from your house and walk there for lunch or a glass of water
-Put music on loudly in your garden and dance when no-one is watching you, feel free
-Take one photograph every hour of one day, from the moment you wake up to when you go to sleep
-Go crabbing
-Start writing a book
-Get dressed up, go to your nearest, busiest pub and have a tall lemonade with ice
-Sing loudly to your favourite songs, whilst you make meringue nests covered in whipped cream and strawberries
-Have a water fight with your friends or plan a huge waterfight with your whole class
-Watch Amelie and be inspired to commit random acts of kindness
-Camp out for a night in your garden, and enjoy the smell of an English summer night and morning
-Pick wildflowers and arrange them in a pretty vase at home
-Go rollerblading
-Make interesting icecubes with petals and berries frozen inside them
-Phone a family relative you haven't spoken to in a while
-Get out the paddling pool and splash
-Sew a patchwork pillowcase with old fabric or clothes, and embroider your name or initials on it
-Try and do everything on this list for a truly memorable summer this year!

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This article was submitted by Alissa Carter, she is also owner of the Beach Cruisers Bicycles [http://www.beachcruisersbicycles.com] website.

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