23 Boredom-Busting Fun Things To Do At Home With Kids, Friends, and Family!
Updated: Mar 29, 2026
Whenever you feel uninspired around the house, checking out some entertaining indoor activities can easily turn things around. If you are searching for quarantine boredom survival, you are in the right place. After wrapping up your remote work duties for the afternoon, pick up a fresh skill to share online or use it down the road to craft incredible presents for your loved ones. When the weekend rolls around, transform your living space into a safe hangout spot to enjoy virtual activities with your pals. You can host an online game night or a digital wine tasting event, which makes an excellent quarantine birthday celebration. Children can also join the excitement by discovering tabletop games that transport them across famous nature reserves, or by constructing epic indoor forts without ruining the sofa cushions. It is completely normal if your imagination for solo indoor projects has faded after spending so much time inside. Thankfully, this collection is packed with brilliant ideas you will enjoy doing long after the lockdown ends.
Play Dangerous Games In The Dark
Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark goes waaaay beyond Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board. This introduces you to new games, like Answer Man, where you call The Beyond and a sinister dude on the other line tells you your future.
Learn How To Play The Guitar
All it takes is a few weeks with the Chord Buddy on your acoustic or electric guitar to develop the skills that'll impress the ladies (or net you a few bucks busking). With the help of a book full of 60 songs, it teaches you some of guitar playing's most popular chords.
Go Camping In Your Backyard
Rain, shine, even snow, with this bubble in your backyard you can have lunch or even a sleepover in complete comfort. It's got clear walls, so you've got a perfect view of the nature around you and the skies above you, while simultaneously being protected from the elements.
Play Laser Tag In Your House
Playing laser tag at home is better than playing at the arena for one reason: you already know all the good hiding places at your house. There's enough equipment in this set for everyone to get in on the fun, so plan those hiding places ahead of time.
Make A Time Capsule
Many years from now, you'll be saying you wish you had made a time capsule unless you buy this one right now and start filling it. The stainless steel cylinder is available in 4 sizes and has silicone gaskets that make it waterproof.
Complete This 100 Must See Movies Scratch Off Poster
Start knocking some classics off that To-Watch list with this scratch-off poster. There are 100 movies to choose from, ranging from modern blockbusters to classics that you should've watched in Film 101 class but fell asleep in (but they're awesome, watch them!).
Learn How to Skateboard
In addition to making you look really rad, learning how to skateboard is a great way to get around. It's a workout that keeps you young and cool. Can going to the gym do that? Nope.
Become a Polymer Clay Sculptor
Polymer clay is one of the most versatile you'll find. From miniatures to jewelry, polymer clay can make it all. This kit comes with a ton of color of clay and tools for you to shape it with along with accessories like keyrings and earrings for you to make on-the-go creations.
Host an At-Home Film Festival
With 20 films in this boxed set, you'll have more than enough to host your very own week-long film festival. Call it the Backyard Best Picture Show, every one of these films has earned that Oscar, and every flick is one you need to have on your bucket list.
Box Away Your Boredom
Build muscles and strengthen your cardiovascular system by beating the crap out of this innocent white box. It's ok, it doesn't mind, and neither will your neighbors. The apparatus it's attached to ensure that it stays quiet while you punch it, unlike a heavy bag would.
Relax in a Hot Tub
You, too, can walk among the elite and have a hot tub in your own home. Except, yours will be better than theirs because it's inflatable and can be set up inside or outside your house. This 77" spa tub has a 4 person capacity and reaches temps of 104 degrees.
Build a Lego Roller Coaster
Take a trip to the amusement park in the comfort of your own home with this insane Lego Roller Coaster. The set is more than your ordinary Lego, with thousands of pieces and a mechanical apparatus with cranks that make the roller coaster ACTUALLY WORK.
Have a Mini Nerf Gun War
Pit the family against each other by arming everyone with mini Nerf guns. Create your own rules and arm everyone with one or two (there are six in this set of minis). You get hit, you gotta quit, who will be the last family member standing?
Have Family Homemade Pizza Night
It's not delivery, it's dad-giorno when you and the fam are using this circular oven to cook up your own pie. The device ensures an even cook on all parts of the pizza, so no one ends up with a cold slice.
Attract Birds To Your Windows With A Bird Feeder
Enjoy nature's television (it's called a window) by sticking this bird feeder out there with some suction cups. Add a little bit of seed and watch the feathered friends flock to your yard. As soon as they hear your spot is the go-to for tasty food, you'll see all sorts of colorful fliers you've never seen before.
Get Artistic With Paint By Numbers
Painting might seem intimidating, but you can Van Gogh Gogh Gogh with a paint by numbers kit. There's no shame in some guided artistic game and the designs you'll make using this kit, which has a ton of different options for things to paint, will have you making something beautiful in no time.
Set Up the Ultimate Puzzle Station
When you're tacklng larger puzzles, it's gonna take a little extra time to get stuff done. Rather than put the dining room table off-limits for weeks, use this puzzle station. It's massive, big enough for those 2000 piece puzzles, and has drawers you can use to sort and store pieces you don't need yet.
Make Ice Cream by Playing
Get in a good workout and really earn that ice cream you want so badly with this clever ice cream maker. It's a ball with a soft exterior, so you and the fam can kick it around and the ice surrounding the quart size container will freeze your mix into a nice soft serve.


















