a guide to finding your whimsy again
IMPORTANT: not all of these are original thoughts— but most are. HEAVY credits to: @deminetly as some of these ideas are hers!! her tiktok: corpseprize
Behold my list of silly things to do (when you’re bored,) 100+ ideas, all creative, all crafted to help you find your whimsy again.
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go outside, find a trail of ants and follow it. see where it leads you to
start collecting stuff (buttons, soda caps etc)
make a potion out of things you find on the ground (lake water, mud, grass, sticks, flower petals etc)
listen to music and create fake scenarios for each song
lay down on the grass and look for shapes in clouds
go outside and find a secret hangout spot
take a walk but go on a random pathway you have never been on before
go to a park and play on all the equipment
go to a pond and feed ducks
befriend a crow
go to the mall just because
have a mini fashion show in your room
learn the lore of your favourite singer
learn to crochet
draw scenes from your dreams
try to crack an unsolved crime case
organise your spotify playlists
plan out your dream life on paper, top to bottom
meditate
sleep
go on wikipedia and read a random article
experiment with makeup
write down the longest midwest emo song titles you can find
make kandi bracelets/necklaces
go to the city/a busy place and walk into a random public building that you’ve never been in before
write a letter to your future self
research on a random animal/insect you’ve never heard of before
make out with your neighbours
open a random door (not to somebody’s house tho...)
go to a garage sale
start a new religion
worldbuild your own fantasy world from scratch
go outside after it rains and collect snails
read about creepypastas on the internet
go on a bus/train and dont get off until the final stop
make little trinkets out of clay
discover new music/artists
start your own garden
go for a walk, but you can only go back after you’ve complimented 5 people
create a new word for a feeling you’ve had but can’t describe
create a new language
do random buzzfeed quizzes
zine making
start vlogging your life— just for fun
make your own paint from natural ingredients
do wordsearches/crosswords in magazines
draw your emotions as people
make earrings out of random items
drink alcohol
craft a doll, take it to cute places and have photo shoots
go through your shed or a cupboard etc that has old stuff in it and look through everything
try to come up with a few totally useless powers for superheros
make an altoid wallet
collect barbie heads cs why not
make a picture frame out of random things around your house
plan your next birthday
go through an old gallery/photo book from years ago
research on something really cool like black holes and/or tornadoes and quiz yourself on it
nap on a bed of moss and be absorbed back into the earth
research the deeper meaning of children cartoons (an interesting one to look into is the teletubbies)
research witchcraft (trust me)
try to break a random world record
make your own fairytale
watch that one movie in your list that you’ve never gotten around to watching
learn to sew
design movie posters
have a picnic in the woods by yourself
go to an outside event (like a party or a concert) or place (like a park) and people watch
goon (deadass)
draw carpets
find abandoned websites and research on what happened to them
paint something
join a random voice chat on discord
paint your nails
light a candle and stare at it
decorate your phone case
write an essay on why unicorns are real
try to find a rock with a geode inside it (its alot easier than u think)
bake
origami
make a time capsule
goon
find the best spot to hide in for hide and seek even if you aren’t gonna play it
talk to your family members
decorate your bag with homemade patches
make your plushie a dollhouse/bed or give them clothes to wear from the baby section at the mall
go out just for the sake of collecting things for junk journaling
take a warm bath
listen to asmr
try something you think you’re not gonna like and write down how you felt about it
have a deep conversation with your mom
style your least favourite peice of clothing into a cute outfit
do makeup inspired by random pictures
learn to bake
make a spam or a private account for one of your social medias
count how many stars you can see in the sky
paint your nails
make up a movie plot, design and print posters, then leave them around town/ur suburb or street
go to a cosmetics store and try on makeup, then leave with it still on
watch an old childhood show
watch analysation vidoes on your favourite movies/tv shows
watch celebrity interviews on youtube
catch up on news
make a spacehey profile
play would you rather
cry on a swing in the park and wonder why
rank which rainbow magic fairy has the best outfits
learn to draw/find your artstyle or a new artstyle
play online chess
make your own planet with all kinds of different creatures and lore
go on a rollercoaster just for the sake of screaming
learn morse code
go ice skating
go to a thrift store
thrift flip ties
make an edit of your favorite tv show/movie character
start a cult (as a joke) and see how far it goes
prank call a fast food place
make a trinket box
watch cringy youtubers like the norris nuts or something
find out what your personality type is
go to a mall and explore the fire escape doors
goon
make an altoid wallet
watch the full class of 09 gameplay on youtube
apply for jobs
write a poem about pomegranates
draw something on the ground with chalk
play in the rain
go to a photo booth
play io games (slither.io, aquapark.io etc)
check what your old favourite youtuber is up to now
study
make a pinterest board for your future house
eat your comfort food
read a book
eat every type of cheese you can find in the supermarket
make a fake tinder account lol
paint your own design on a T-shirt
find the ugliest thing at the thrift shop and try to style it to make it look good. u can do this for any other “ugly” or “untrendy” thing like galaxy leggings
make spotify playlists dedicated to your favorite tv show/movie characters
watch a movie and write a review of it on letterboxd
scrapbook
read AITAH reddit posts
research different religions and the beliefs that come with it
follow the diet of a victorias secret model top to bottom and see what happens after a week
thrift old magazines and cut out letters/pictures from them to make into a collage
research paradoxes
experiment with different styles/aesthetics and try to see which one suits you best
play subway surfers
download chatacter ai and just fuck around with the bots
rank studio ghibli words you would live in
discover who your celebrity-look-a-like is
challenge yourself to eat every single food and fruit item in the emoji panel everyday until you finish it all
learn a tongue twister
become a vampire lol
goon (i'm so serious)
join a petition/movement that you strongly agree with
try lucid dreaming guided meditations
make foil art
learn every country in the world and their flags
use a random word generator to generate a word. then, do a ridiculous amount of research on that certain word
make a tunnel book
journal. here's a few prompts to get started:
journal prompts
“what to put in a love potion for me”
my fig tree
the loot i would drop if i died in a video game
things that would fix me
“maybe i was born to…”
my life story as a playlist
favourite quotes from movies and/or songs
write down all of the lives you would be happy living
small things worth living for
if you had a kid what would you do differently than your parents?
think of the coolest most interesting person yk. what makes them so cool and interesting?
best feelings in the world
if you could change lives with anyone for a week, who would it be? why?
journal prompts- fin.
write down things you were interested in as a child and go do these things again
find a penpal and write them a letter
go to a real (or online) escape room
go on a walk and only go back once you get to a house that you’d like to live in in the future
feed pigeons and give them names and personalities
go to a graveyard and find your birthday
go out and choose where you would live if you were a fairy
make a list on inatimate objects that look like they would taste good (a very common example is orbeez or chalk)
watch a movie on mute and improvise the dialogue
watch ur favourite shows and record the timestamps of your favourite parts
make sea creatures out of cardboard
make a star garland
make an eraser stamp
DIY badges/pins/patches
create your own crime case and make someone try to solve it
makes rings out of fabric
make your own list of things to do when you’re bored
write a song
find out what scent of perfume matches your personality
find out how to survive animal attacks
research on a disease from ancient times
That's all! Hope this helped <3
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