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2. sports (ball (volley-, basket-, base-, foot-, rugby,...) golf, tennis, ...)

3. nature hike

4. go on a star constellation hike

5. water canal or railroad hike

6. improvise olympics

7. pet walk

8. jog

9. ultimate frisbee

10. barbed wire collecting

11. tie bricks to your shoes and go for a walk

12. bounce a potato

13. find a bug and chase it

14. roll down hill

15. play i-ball (make up some rules first)

16. treasure hunt

17. build a snowman (or snow-couch potato, snow-Buddha, -pink dinosaur, -dead rhino, etc,)

18. sand sculptures

19. snow/mud fight

20. rubber band war (dress up in costume for the occasion (safety goggles))

21. hold a tree climbers meeting

22. tennis

23. camping

24. water fight

25. water balloons

26. look for a rainbow

27. creek stomp

28. visit a farm

29. pick up pollution

30. ride a Bigwheel

31. explore industrial area

32. try to fly

33. nocturnal orienteering

34. attach a light stick to a kite and fly it at night

35. shaving cream fight

36. jello wrestling

37. paint ball

38. war games

39. demolition derby

40. archery

41. make a water slide with a hose and plastic sheet

42. swim

43. scavenger hunt

44. play games you remember from elementary school (bombardment, ghost in the grave yard, hide-and-seek, tag, hopscotch, jumprope)

45. diving

46. catch fireflies

47. catch critters and have a race

48. "extreme sledding" i.e. off cliffs into snowdrifts

49. dive into piles of leaves and snowdrifts

50. as much as possible, skip rather than walk

51. string up Christmas lights

52. mow your lawn with scissors

53. go to a place where there are street performers and become one, put out a dish to accept money, but just sing "I'm Henry the Eighth" or "99 bottles of beer on the wall" etc. over and over again

54. dry clothes in the sun

55. play in sandbox

56. have a campfire with singing and stories

57. cook banana /chocolate boats in a campfire or smoores

58. blow bubbles

59. build a castle of readily available materials

60. float walnut shell candles

61. seed spitting

62. oral grape catching

63. critter crawl

64. yell contest

65. swing

66. plant a tree (etc)

67. plant stuff (cereal, pens, brother's socks, the whole tree ...)

68. be a character in a movie

69. see pictures in the clouds

70. go to a graveyard

71. look for a 4 leaf clover

72. make flower necklaces

73. play with fire

74. picnic somewhere really weird (deep in a forest, downtown, at a wreckyard, in a parking lot)

75. pick flowers

76. bathe pet

77. go fishing

78. build a monument to yourself

79. model hardware (try on pipe elbows, hats, etc.)

80. binoculars

81. car painting

82. visit parks

83. boat

84. at a national park, pull of to the roadside and point up a hill, oohing and gawking. When other people start pulling over to see what it is, leave them and see from a distance how many join

85. pick strawberries (or other fruit)

86. tree fort

87. whipped cream pie throwing contest (at people)

88. lawn games (lawn darts, croquet, bocce, horseshoes)

89. wear PJ's to a drive-in

90. launch model rockets

91. attend state/county fair

92. sacrifice spam

93. magnifying glass

94. follow

95. follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol

96. stuff people in a telephone booth

97. aerobics

98. road rally

99. powder puff football

100. crab-walk up 3 flights of stairs loudly singing happy birthday to yourself

101. try to set a record for hugging the highest number of fast food fry cooks in a day

102. horizontal rock climbing on street or floor (act)

103. hold an overdramatization day

104. skate

105. plant a hedge in strange places, (around cubicles at a business)

106. put up "no trespassing" signs around someone's house so they have a surprise when they get home

107. hang loose in rubber boots & sunglasses, and a trench coat, and dance

108. rescue domesticated plants

109. encase large items in saran wrap

110. set alarms for random times in random places

111. buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets

112. go to an airport to watch families reunite

113. show and tell

114. foreign language

115. current affairs discussion

116. turn things upside-down

117. name everything you see

118. start a rumor and listen for it (or something remotely similar) to return

119. tell people things like "blow it up through your mule" and "are you twisted up?"

120. drive in reverse

121. browse in a used book store

122. give a "difficult person" in your life a sincere compliment

123. make friends with unusual people

124. be cool

125. find parents and ask to borrow their son/daughter

126. exchange

127. science fiction club

128. visit people at a nursing home

129. white elephant gift exchange

130. gate crash a formal party and walk around with toilet paper on your shoe ...

131. dress up like a blueberry for a day

132. gently smash an egg on your head

133. palm reading

134. wear something unusual

135. shoot a roll of pictures without film in your camera

136. pretend you're one of Pavlov's dogs and drool (slobber) whenever you hear a phone ring

137. salute or sing whenever you hear certain words

137. misnumber a list and pass it out to lots of people

138. check under chairs for chewing gum

139. set your watch back 40 min so people can just come up and look at what time it is

140. take a chair everywhere you go

141. talk to an invisible friend

142. grease doorknobs

143. attend a religious service of a different faith or culture

144. introduce yourself to people you don't know

145. attend a meeting of a randomly chosen club

146. take a survey

147. hold hands publicly with someone of different race/ same sex

148. take photographs

149. black and white photos

150. classical music

151. library

152. church

153. sharpen pencils and trade them

154. sharpen pens

155. play tourist in your own town

156. ask friends to come out and play

157. turn tables upside-down

158. stamp friends

159. pick up some vacation travel information

160. visit a pet store

161. attend a Pentecostal /gospel church to hear the music

162. apply for / ask about jobs you never seriously considered

163. hang corn stalks, food, and other brightly colored items from trees

164. create awards for friends

165. put on clothes backwards

166. dress up

167. hold a seance

168. present teaching /lectures

169. fun with photo booths

170. go shopping and try on everything; buy some things and return them; test drive a car

171. get a new haircut

172. buy a set of foreign language tapes

173. attend a concert or monster truck rally

174. drop a "lucky" dollar on the street and make someone's day

175. distribute funny cartoons

176. change toothpastes

177. buy a magazine you've never bought before

178. toss watermelons and televisions from high places

179. learn cosmetics for a different skin color

180. take a city tour on the bus

181. wander a fleamarket

182. tour a factory

183. buy an old electronic/ mechanical thing at a garage sale, take it totally apart and put it back together

184. attend a musical

185. play w/ tape or video recorder

186. develop film

187. museum

188. explore family owned restaurants

189. hold a gift exchange

190. buy something cheap and give it a new function (alter it?) e.g. a rain poncho, cat litter, shower cap

191. use practical joke gags (browse the toy store)

192. hide smiley face stickers in people's possessions

193. throw glitter around

194. make photocopy art (strange objects, body parts, move the object with the machine ...)

195. race pineapple boats

196. the U.S. Postal Service will mail just about anything with stamps, try an old shoe, tree bark, a coaster, etc.

197. decorate a car like it's from a wedding and drive around honking

198. go to a computer lab and watch to see what comes out of the printers

199. every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign a wavier

200. every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that

201. page yourself over the intercom of a business, department store

(do or don't disguise your voice)

202. come to work in your pajamas

203. schedule meetings for odd times (2:37 pm)

204. "Hi-lite" your shoes. Tell people you haven't lost your shoes since you did this.

205. learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."

206. order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon

207. publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise

208. honk and wave to strangers

209. begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"

210. repeat everything someone says, as a question

211. finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy"

212. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing

awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment

213. write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's

roadmaps

214. leave tips in Bolivian currency

215. wear a cape that says "Magnificent One"

216. routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes"

217. go to the spaghetti factory, watch them make pasta

218. money splurge with a small amount ($5 is hours on a ten cent ride, whole box of surgical gloves, surplus candles or lots of gumballs)

219. lift weights

220. throw a sponge at a window

221. darkness (no sight)

222. start a band (perhaps improvise instruments)

223. magic marker fight

224. make a circus

225. play leapfrog

226. safe sex

227. juggle

228. stuffed animal party

229. nostalgia night

230. eggroll party

231. tea party

232. book party

233. bubble gum party

234. hold a purple party (each person must wear purple, bring a purple food, and a purple activity)

235. hold a clear party

236. toga party

237. hold a midnight beach party in a sandbox (beach ball, lounge chairs, swimsuit, towels, music, moontan lotion ...)

238. slumber party

239. paranoid party

240. light road flares on a birthday cake

241. story telling

242. play with toys in the tub

243. rub lemon

244. play with colloids (liquid that's a solid under pressure) (corn starch and water)

245. write a short story using alphabet soup

246. polish your car (etc) with earwax (etc)

247. leaf through National Geographic and draw underwear on the people

248. make a list of things you've already done (make sure to cross them all off)

249. jam 39 tiny marshmallows up your nose and try to sneeze them out

250. fill out official (e.g. tax) forms in Roman numerals

251. use a piece of child's artwork as a cover page for a report

252. pop some popcorn without putting the lid on

253. take a bath or shower by candlelight

254. put the toilet paper so that it rolls the other way

255. rearrange

256. don't follow the news for 7 days

257. send a silly card to someone

258. look through a mail order catalog and send yourself (or someone else) a present

259. chug Dr. Pepper

260. boxer shorts

261. dump fall leaves on the living room floor

262. see how many pieces of bubblegum you can chew at one time

263. radio

264. purple toenails

265. go to bed and wake up and hour earlier

266. paint windows

267. design paper airplanes

268. leave for work 10 minutes early and ...

269. meditation

270. kazoo band

271. make crossword puzzles

272. sleep on the other side of the bed

273. breakfast in bed

274. beard growing contest

275. body painting

276. massage

277. scrap book

278. mix new stuff in a blender

279. invent a new way to blink your eyes

280. dance with a toaster to Barry Manilow records

281. stick things between your toes

282. take a bath/shower with your clothes on

283. put on as many shirts, pants, socks, as you can

284. turn the radio just a little off station

285. count your teeth with your tongue

286. fold a banana

287. squish a loaf of bread

288. make little people out of your squished bread and eat them

289. go on a cleaning binge

290. go to an invisible party

291. unplug everything

292. measure your hair

293. stuff your pockets

294. throw a tomato at a fan

295. tell your feet a joke

296. listen to music you never have before, or not often

297. watch TV with the sound off

298. write comics

299. unscrew

300. oil a squeak

301. computer

302. look at old pictures

303. new hairdo

304. gurgle

305. make secret code

306. write letters in lemon juice (when dry, expose them with hot light bulb)

307. shave

308. build a snowman with mashed potatoes

309. go through saved junk

310. speak with an accent

311. watch an old movie

312. watch a cult classic (B) movie

313. build card houses

314. create a new religion

315. masturbate

316. plan adventures

317. tell jokes

318. remember

319. make up a solemn holiday and send out cards

320. start a reverse chain letter: each person mails out a present to 10 friends and sends 1 thank you card to their mailer saying the others have gone out

321. cook with a clothes iron

322. tarot cards

323. make faces

324. face painting

325. start a political debate

326. be a disc jockey

327. celebrate a holiday from another part of the year (e.g. Christmas)

328. read poetry (or read song lyrics like poetry)

329. read aloud

330. learn magic tricks

331. examine new points on a philosophical issue

332. learn new words

333. hang your pictures crooked

334. memorize quotes from your favorite movies and songs

335. make a haunted house

336. lip synch

337. karioki

338. adjust the tint on your television so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way"

339. tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies

340. explore new colors for writing letters

341. write a resume for an imaginary job

342. send a letter or card to yourself

343. write your own newspaper

344. write poetry

345. letter writing to friends, congress, pen-pal, Amnesty International, the editor, etc

346. calligraphy

347. call 800 numbers and get start interesting conversations with the operators

348. make sculptures from lint (raid a clothes dryer)(colors)

349. tie dye

350. sew

351. jello painting

352. finger painting

353. make warm fuzzies

354. make creatures with pipe cleaners (and candy canes, etc.)

355. graffiti

356. paint Easter eggs

357. paint or draw from life

358. build models

359. create tactile art

360. draw pictures

361. make paint from rose petals

362. make /play with finger puppets

363. puppets from nylons and cotton

364. make personality poster collages

365. straw paint blowing

366. sand painting (dye sand and pour on glue lines)

367. decorate water melon or squash

368. cut potatoes to make ink stamps

369. make stained glass windows from melted crayons

370. make stationary

371. make solstice /equinox cards

372. origami

373. use an ink pad to make thumb prints and then turn them into people and pictures

374. oil based clay

375. playdough

376. build with wood

377. make candles

378. knit

379. make jewelry

380. model rocket building

381. t-shirt design with fabric paints

382. create an elaborate costume

383. make cards by pasting in comic strips

384. bookmarks out of dried flowers

385. play a food tasting guessing game

386. play a food feeling guessing game (without hands)

387. create a game using rubber bands

388. jacks, marbles

389. pick-up sticks

390. dictionary game

391. learn a new card game

392. Dungeons & Dragons game

393. board games

394. make up a role playing /fantasy game

395. make new rules for chess

396. eat mangos naked

397. play catch with food, catching with mouth

398. try food from a different culture

399. eat with chopsticks

400. try a new food

401. bake creatively

402. eat messy food without utensils

403. have a formal dinner at an exotic location (in the woods, a cave, etc)

404. barbecue

405. invent recipes

406. race to eat 5 crackers then whistle

407. make wine

408. lie on your back eating celery and using your naval as a salt cellar

409. gourmet cooking

410. chocolate fondue

411. cheese fondue

412. food fight

413. cookie decorating

414. ice cream sundae gorge

415. make your own tea (flower petals (hibiscus, rose), orange peels, spices)

416. ...