100+ Productive and Engaging Activities When You’re Bored

Getting bored? here are 100 productive activities to use your time wisely and keep yourself engaged and ultimately improve your life.

Most of us have a routine life – work, study, eat, sleep and repeat.

If we don’t find the scope to break this predictable cycle, our lives would become terribly boring.

This is why getting engaged in productive activities is necessary to keep boredom at bay and your mind active.  

If you have no idea where to start here is my gigantic list of over 100 productive activities keep yourself engaged and prevent getting bored.

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Mindful and Productive Activities to Do When Bored

Learn Tai Chi

Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese martial art form, it involves slow physical movements and body stretches to release your stress.

Do Some Guided Meditation

Meditation is a great stress-buster it helps you gain control of your breath and flow of your thoughts. Here is a wonderful DVD containing 75 Essential Meditations.

Try Mandala Art Therapy

Mandalas are meditative and mindful drawing techniques involving drawing patterns in a circular form. I love making mandalas because they are so calming, if you are an art enthusiast, do follow my Insta art account where I share a lot of my mandala art work.

Use Color Therapy For Stress

Color therapy is recommended to adults for stress and anxiety. If you are bored get some adult coloring books, crayons and get down to coloring.

Watch Sunset and Sunrise – Everyday phenomenon but still amazing.

Observing little wonders of nature like the birds chirping, wind rustling the leaves, clouds flying by does so much to relax the mind and of course cure boredom.

Visit a New Park for Walking – a regular short walk around nature or in your local park or perhaps a new area can be so refreshing.

Motivational Activities to be Productive

Write Some Affirmations

Affirmations are positive statements that you repeat to yourself to cultivate a more optimistic mindset. They are often used as a tool for self-improvement, confidence and motivation.

Practice Gratitude

There are too many unfortunate events happening each day which makes it all the more important to be grateful for everything we have.

Practice some random act of kindness, like paying for the meal of any homeless person.

Practice Few Minutes of Deep Breathing Daily.

Undertake a Digital Detox Challenge

If you’re perturbed by all the digital media overload in your life perhaps now is the time to do a digital media detox.

Start Journaling

The purpose of journaling is to liberate your thoughts and discover any mental blocks you might be experiencing. If you don’t know how to begin use my massive list of journal prompts.

Write about all your accomplishments to motivate yourself.

Self-Caring Productive Activities

Plan a Weekly Manicure and Pedicure.

Pamper Your Skin by developing a DIY skincare routine.

Try Some Aromatherapy: Use Some essential oils to manage your stress.

Plan a luxurious bath for yourself with some bath-bombs, wines and candles.

Adopt a Pet

Looking after a pet is such an engaging activity, you’ll have no time to get bored.

Rest and Sleep

Focus on getting 7-8 hours of sleep every day, to heal your body muscles, tissues and skin.

Interesting Productive Activities To Try When Bored

Watch some Inspiring TEDx Videos to lift your mood when you feel bored.

Subscribe to Some Blogs

Read and subscribe to some helpful blogs which inspire and motivate you, check out these two wonderful lifestyle blogs by two amazing women – Shinesheets by Amber and Afamuche by Afamefune Uchechukwu.

Read Books

There are so many benefits of reading, it inspires your creativity, makes you more aware and it is certainly a productive use of your time. Here are my best book recommendations for beginners.

Listen to audiobooks.

Read graphic novels.

Read old scrapbooks, magazines and comic books

Flip through your old photos and then make a DIY collage of your best memories.

Make a Playlist of Your Favorite 100 Songs and Listen on a Loop.

Listen and Watch Operas and Musical Concerts online.

Visit online museums and learn about the history of various artifacts.

Life-Changing Productive Activities to Prevent Being Bored

Create a vision board which is basically a collage of images or words representing your aspirations and life goals.

Develop a Routine to get tasks done in a chronological manner like making your bed, brewing your own coffee and so on it will help you in being productive the entire day.

Make a life binder containing your 5-year and 10-year plans or your bucket-list. Your future self will thank you for it.

Take an Online Course through sites like Udemy or Skillshare which have courses on practically everything like writing, social media marketing, graphic designing etc.

Learn a New Language with the Duolingo app that teaches you foreign languages for free you can of course upgrade later if you wish.

Hone Your Communication Skills

Practice speaking in front of a mirror to improve your communication skills. I have a post especially for introverts who can be better at their speaking skills.

Update Your Resume because this productive activity is almost always overlooked.

Organizational Productive Things To Do When Bored

Make a basic medicine box with bandages, scissors, and over the counter meds for flu, cough and cold.

Put together an emergency bag by keeping some cash, essential clothes, copies of important documents and IDs etc.

Check Your Finances by making a monthly budget, setting some saving goals and doing a thorough financial audit.

Don’t Procrastinate on Your Due Payments and Income Taxes.

Color Code Your Closet to have a better functionality. Here are some ideas by Instyle on how to color-coordinate your wardrobe.

Label your accessories into sections such as earrings, neckpieces, bracelet, etc. and put them in different boxes. Arrange your handbags and shoes as well.

Arrange Your Bookshelf Alphabetically

Is it a struggle always searching for your favorite books? Then you must arrange them in an alphabetical order. 

Clean your kitchen; by arranging all jars, containers and utensils in specific sections.

Arrange your Fridge – Clean and label different sections of your refrigerator before putting food items.

Digital Declutter

Organize your mail, drives and folders, your phone, laptop and desktop. Keep softcopies of important documents, IDs and papers.

Arrange all old pictures on your phone and laptop/desktop in separate folders year wise.

Rearrange Your Furniture

If you bored the way you house looks take on a DIY home improvement project to give it a fresh vibe. 

Clean your vehicle instead of opting for service

Engaging Productive Activities and Ideas

Start a Part-Time Business/Freelancing Gig like coding, graphic designing or creative photography.

Start a Podcast.

Listen to some popular podcasts.

Start Your Youtube Channel like a Daily Vlog

Make Videos on Tik Tok and Instagram.

Create an Instagram challenge related to fitness, movies and so on.

Scroll Pinterest to get some inspiration on home renovations, flower arrangement, knitting, cooking and just about everything.

Plant indoor plants like succulents to brighten up your indoors.

Donate/Sell Your Old Clothes to local charities or sell online.

Give your bedroom a make-over with some fairy lights.

Change the look of your backyard, porch and balconies.

Make a list of all things around your home that need fixing and go around doing them.

Make your travel bucket list with all places, museums, monuments, adventure parks you wish to visit.

Plan a random get together with your dear ones.

Surprise someone.

Creative Activities to Stop Getting Bored

Sip that Wine while You Paint

Attend some online painting classes or create your own artwork, if you like your creation frame it. Meanwhile don’t forget to sip that wine.

Start Hand-Lettering

There is a huge demand for hand-lettered artwork and if you are creative it’s certainly worth trying.

Try Haiku

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry usually consisting of three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables that are unrhymed. If you are absolutely bored, wreck your brains to create a good haiku, because the process isn’t that easy.

Try composing your own poems.

Begin Writing

Always wanted to be a writer but never got around to doing it. Now is the time to tell your story.

Write Letters to your past and future self, friends and family.

Make a scrap book – list your favorite memories, photos and mementos.

Create Your Personal Style

Mix and match your clothes and have some fun with different styles.

Try New Make-Up Techniques

Learn a Dance Form – like zumba, belly-dancing, salsa you name it. So dance your blues away!

Try the French Braid and New Hairstyles

Color your hair, try a new hairstyle like the French braid and other complicated braids and buns.

DIY Productive Activities To Do When Bored

Be Innovative with Your Cooking Style

Make Your Signature Mocktails and Cocktails

Do Your Meal Planning and Prep For the Week

Create an Interesting and Healthy Diet

Healthy doesn’t have to be bland, create a diet that would boost your immune system and keep your taste buds happy.

Start Baking – watch some easy recipes to try later.

Get Creative with Crafts

Try doing some cool 5-minute craft that are definitely more than difficult than they look in videos.

Make a box for your jewelry items and scrunchies, because these get misplaced all the time.

Learn Orgami to make some paper boats and planes.

Try knitting and embroidery.

Create some doodles.

Learn flower arrangement.

Practice juggling. Do you find juggling cool then you must definitely try it out.

Try Beat-Boxing, the art of playing musical instruments with vocal chords.

Learn to Play a Musical Instrument

Always wanted to play the ukulele, well now is the time. If you know how to play a musical instrument, but have been out of practice, take this time to brush up on your musical skills.

Make Your own Music Online.

Use Your Non-Dominant Hand for Writing.

Try Photography

Experiment with your smartphone camera, play with light, shadows and different angles. Practice indoor photography, still life, nature photography.

Entertaining Activities to Keep Boredom at Bay

Play Classic Board Games like the good old Scrabbles, Monopoly or Poker.

Connect with Long Lost Friends through a virtual get together.

Indoor Camping with Loved Ones

When you are bored try to spruce up things by indoor camping. Built a blanket fortress with bed sheets and light it up with some fairy lights.

Plan a nice outdoor picnic with your family

Plan a movie marathon with your family.

Make a digital scrap book and ask all your friends and family to contribute.

Try playing some tongue twisters. Like ‘she sells, seashells on the sea shore.’

Binge watch good movies – including all romantic/underdog/thrillers/apocalypse and Oscar winning movies.

Take Refuge in Streaming Services like Netflix and watch all the underrated and best shows.

Watch Your Favorite Childhood Television Shows.

Play some video games, don’t overdo it though.

Solve some jigsaw puzzles online.

Watch some baby and puppy videos. Aren’t those the best?

Over 100 Productive Activities

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