Brainstorming 100+ Sober and Fun Activities

Here are 150+ ideas for your weekend. It’s always helpful to get some ideas, a place to start, when you’re just not sure what to do. So here you go, Print this out and Check them off as you go and most importantly have FUN!!

1. Read a book about a place you’d like to visit
2. Tour a historical site
3. Play a musical instrument
4. Knit or learn to knit or crochet
5. Clean your closets and donate to a charity
6. Research your genealogy
7. Cook a gourmet dinner
8. Take a Segway tour of your city (Groupon usually has these)
9. Go take some close up pictures of nature
10. Go to the Zoo


11. Start writing your autobiography
12. Plan a garden
13. redecorate a room for under $100
14. Play with a pet
15. listen to a book on tape
16. Visit someone in a retirement home
17. Watch the weather channel
18. Set up a budget
19. Make a web site or start a blog
20. Take up archery
21. Exercise
22. Go to an online recovery meeting
23. Surf the internet
24. Call your mom or Dad
25. Learn a foreign language
26. Write a children’s book


27. Play miniature golf
28. Take a bubble bath
29. Draw
30. Teach a cat to play fetch
31. Take a nap
32. Listen to music and dance!
33. Paint on a canvas
34. Clean your desk


35. Start a stamp collection
36. Go window shopping
37. Browse in a book store
38. Go to an art gallery
39. Go for a drive
40. Paint a room
41. Watch the clouds go by laying on your hammock
42. Play darts
43. Do target shooting
44. Get a new color shower curtain and hang it
45. Clean your garage or basement
46. Sort your photographs
47. Make a scrapbook
48. Climb a tree
49. Plant a tree


50. Make homemade apple sauce
51. Make a list of things to do
52. Write a letter to your senator about something you are passionate about
53. Volunteer somewhere
54. Take a hike
55. Take a college class, there are even free ones online
56. Try yoga
57. Meditate
58. Get a massage
59. Make fruit smoothies
60. make candy
61. Do a crossword puzzle
62. Go to the gym


63. Go to a paint your own pottery studio
64. Sharpen your pruning tools
65. Change your engine oil
66. Sew a blanket
67. Groom your dog or cat, if you don’t have one maybe get one
68. Go see a play
69. Write a poem
70. Sort your recipes
71. Play solitaire
72. Go bird watching
73. Write a letter to a friend
74. Read a poetry book
75. Repot your houseplants with new pots to match your decor
76. Go to a movie
77. Mow your lawn
78. Put up (or take down) your Christmas decorations
79. Make pickles
80. Go jogging
81. Watch sitcoms
82. Plan menus for a diet


83. Do a jigsaw puzzle
84. Play chess or learn chess
85. Write a country-western song
86. Watch an animated movie that you loved as a child
87. Go for a bike ride
88. Plant an herb garden
89. Start an online journal or blog
90. try a new hairstyle
91. Go to a new restaurant
92. Lift weights
93. Bake loaves of bread for your neighbors
94. Learn a martial art
95. Polish the furniture
96. Make a flower arrangement
97. Read the newspaper


98. Plant some succulents, they’re harder to kill
99. Look for new recipes
100. Do some laundry.
111. Take a nature walk
112. Play frisbee
113. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
114. Volunteer at a school
115. Pick up garbage in a park
116. watch the comedy channel
117. Play basketball
118. Volunteer at an animal shelter
119. Shampoo your carpets
120. Sign up for obedience training with your dog
121. Take a walk and pick up litter you see on the way
122. Spend time at the library
123. Sort all your digital photos and make an album to print for holiday gifts to family (this could take all day for me).
124. Help your friend organize his closet.
125. learn to play the piano
126. Practice your holiday candy recipes
127. Make bread from scratch
128. Make cookies from scratch
129. Reread a book you haven’t read for years.


130. Watch a you-tube video and learn to dance
131. Learn about someone else’s religion or culture.
132. Reread one of your college textbooks.

133. Go out and pick flowers
134. Do your nails.
135. Do Sudoko puzzles.
136. Play a board game.
137. Burn CD’s of some of your favorite music for a friend.
138. Wash your curtains


139. Go to a museum that you’ve never been to
140. Find a new comic book to remind you of childhood
141. Read poetry online.
142. Ride a stationary bicycle.
143. Set up a domino topple.


144. Play backgammon.
145. Build a house of cards
146. Make an entry in Wikipedia.
147. Read a world almanac.
148. Publish a family newsletter.
149. play cornhole

150. Have a water balloon fight

151. Have a Monopoly Game with a bunch of friends

152. Go to bed.

Ok, so it’s time to get busy! There’s a lot to do!