DIY “I’m Bored” Bucket~Pinterest inspired blog hop

“Mom, I’m bored.”

Have you been hearing that around your house lately? Well, I found this idea, not on Pinterest but in a magazine. Made a mental note to do it, and I did. And it just feels very “Pinterest-y” doesn’t it?

Here are the supplies I used, most I had on hand, some I needed to buy.

You don’t need fancy stuff.

Shopping List (or hunt around the house list)

I chose both wooden and plastic clothes pins. I had to buy them, so I grabbed a pack of each.

Steps:

You and/or the kids decorate your bucket. Mine is pictured below.

On the clothespins, you write down different activities. Brainstorm together as a family. You can color-code your clothespins if you want. You can be as broad in your descriptions (ie-park) or as specific as you want (ie-name the parks). Some of ours include:

• parks (and we used names)
• swingset in backyard
• puzzles
• making brownies
• making s’mores
• coloring
• stickers
• water table & water play
• bike ride
• walk into town
• dog park
• movie-DVD
• movie-theatre
• go for water ice

Some items we put in more than once. My 3-year-old doesn’t really say “I’m bored” just yet, but he does often come to me and say “Mom, what can I do now?” which is sort of the same thing. Sigh.

Using your bucket:

When kids say they’re bored. They pick a clothespin from the bucket and they do that activity. The ground rules are though, that mom & dad agree to do it. Let that be your guide in deciding what you put on your pins. May also be a nudge to color code them, and perhaps only put A-list activities (like amusement parks) on certain colors and they can only pick that color once a week or something.

Once they pick that activity, you clip it on to the side of the bucket, so as to prevent picking the same one all the time.

This can be a lot of fun. You can have indoor vs outdoor, summer vs winter. You could make one just for outdoorsy stuff or day trips, and just name places and once a week they pick one or however often you can do it. I am adapting this for my son with special needs and making one for just his therapeutic “work” so that I am working on everything equally.

Make sure you visit all of the other blogs in the hop! I’m sure you’ll find other cool things to do and make.

Bloggers-please note that I am having trouble with the InLinkz button, but when I clicked the “having trouble please click here” link, I was able to enter the linkup. Hopefully this will be fixed soon!