PLAY List
25 Ways to Add Some Silly, Fun, and Imagination to Your Day!
As part of our JUNE CHALLENGE to Add More Play to Your Day, we made up this list of fun things to try to get the silly ball rolling. Being silly is best for having fun with friends and family, and can be a mood lightener for the office, but be sure to choose your silly actions appropriately for your co-workers.
What is your favorite silly activity? Tell us in the comments below and we will add to our list, and have a party when we hit 100!
- Make up a silly song about your favorite food or person
- Dance in high heels just for the fun of it
- Do something backwards, like eating dinner starting with dessert
- Talk in a funny voice
- Prank call your relatives
- Make your fingers into puppets and talk to them
- Start laughing for no reason
- Arrive in a costume for dinner
- Give yourself and your friends nick names
- Juggle- or try to
- Take silly face self portraits and email them to your friends
- Make up a funny poem
- Act like a mime, and don’t talk when someone asks what you are doing
- Put clothes on your pet
- Paint or draw a silly picture
- Walk barefoot in the grass
- Play a game… not a video game
- Keep a piece of chalk in your bag and make sidewalk art wherever you are
- Make up a ridiculous story and tell it to your best friend with a straight face
- Take your lunch outside and blow bubbles
- Tell a stranger they are beautiful, smile and walk away
- Play in the dirt, talk to the flowers
- Have a pillow fight
- Go to the playground, swing, slide, play tag
- Prepare a meal with surprise ingredients
Drive 190 miles, just to eat in my favorite seafood place.
Take a pail and shovel and play in the sand.
Buy all the flowers from the man selling them on the corner, and then give them out to passing cars…Lots and Lots of smiles.
Paint your face like a clown to a friend’s party
Kiss your husband, or friend with your mouth full of Marshmallows
But I already do so many of these things regularly!…just to keep young.
1. Do impersonations of your significant other.
2. Write down funny moments and read them at a later date
Rent, purchase, or check out from the library funny movie videos. Pop some popcorn, watch the movies and laugh. I highly recommend any Jerry Lewis or Abbott & Costello titles.
You know, I live like this everyday of my life, and I am so happy that Glen Ivy is spreading the word. Here is one of my favourites: have your girlfriends put on their wedding dresses, prom dresses, or some Goodwill frills and go to McDonalds for a salad and bring your best china for a nice place setting. Have a wonderful life!
Find a stream of running water and drop a leaf in it. Follow the leaf as far as you can. If it gets stuck on a rock or twig, just pry it lose and let it continue to float down stream. Having someone else drop their leaf in as well, and racing them down stream is fun too.
I had the best laughs going on a virtual tour of the Weiner Mobile, with a friend.
Play “Gross-Out Queen” with my sister…Who ever says…”Ewh! Gross” first looses.
Make sand castle with the kids make it like a contest!!!
Play tourist in your own city. Check out the smaller museums, art galleries, experimental theaters. Play hooky from work and sneak in an afternoon movie… preferably a childs movie… without kids.
Go to the beach with your kids and make sandcastles and enjoy the day in sun
Start the day getting up on the other side of the bed. Use the opposite hand to eat. Start the toilet paper role from the other side. Try and find other things to switch up through out the day.
Roll down a soft grassy hill
Kick one of those big, rubber balls around a park, Laugh, Repeat.
Spontaneusly call out a chinese fire drill with your friends in the car!