quarantine activities for kids
Put a hooded sweatshirt on the dog and spend an hour laughing hysterically at everything he does because everything a dog does in a hooded sweatshirt is hilarious
Tease your sister
Sit in the yard and pull grass
Make a huge pile of the grass and bury the dog and then take videos of him emerging from his grass bed
Then take turns burying each other with the grass
Tease your sister
Play a thousand rounds of Around the world
Pick up sticks, literally, from the yard and earn a pack of Now and Laters from your dad
Make face prints on the windows
Hide pieces of meat in the yard and see which dog finds it first
Avoid your mom because if she senses boredom she will find you a job
See how many of the jobs your mom assigns you can be done while seated in the wheelchair you bought off Craigslist for $20 (to practice wheelies in)
Tease your sister
Claim to be hungry and raid the pantry every half hour
Go through as many art and craft supplies as humanly possible
Invent reasons to be on an electronic
Get denied by electronic headquarters
Bag and plead to electronic headquarters to no avail
Tease your sister
Build a play barn out of scrap wood (I always thought scrapwood was one word, but the computer is underlining it in red)
Read the last of your library books over and over (cuz who knows when they’ll open again)
Ride your bike
Push it up the driveway when the chain falls off
Put your little brother’s chain back on 10x in a day
Organize a game of kickball
Get so mad because someone misplaced the ball pumper upper and you really need it
Ask mom to order a new one on Amazon, and add ten more items to the list while you have her attention
‘Accidentally’ land a frisbee on the porch roof so someone will have to go up to get it
Toss the cat up there too to make it worth the trip
Scare the beejeepers outta your mom by dropping from the gutter right in front of her and laugh hysterically because that is even funnier than a dog in a hooded sweatshirt
Quarantine activities for moms:
Make food
Clean it up
Repeat