There are googols of things to do. Here are some ideas families have shared so far. Print our Creative Idea Activity sheet to get your family started! Send us an email with your own ideas for us to share after you have completed you challenge.

Ideas from kids who have taken the challenge

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Our math club's ideas

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Creative Idea Activity List

• Go to the library and pick out five new books to read
• Learn how to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the recorder or harmonica
• Memorize the words to a new song
• Learn to do tricks with a yo-yo
• Take up domino toppling
• Build something out of popsicle sticks
• Make a gift for your best friend out of origami
• Write a story and illustrate it
• Write a play, make costumes, build props and act it out
• Build a kite and fly it
• Go to the library and pick out a children's music CD or audio book
• Make the best paper airplane in the world
• Try to get ten baskets in a row by throwing a paper ball into a garbage can
• Learn how to play Cribbage
• Build a card house
• See how many dominos you can stack with only one on the bottom
• Make up your own card, dice or board game
• Make up a treasure hunt for your family
• Set up a home carnival with games and activities
• Bake a giant cookie (with the help of an adult)
• Learn about kitchen chemistry (adult supervision required)
• Choreograph a dance to your favorite song
• Try to roll 10 heads in a row with a penny
• Make up your own television show to act out
• Learn to knit, sew or crochet
• Learn how to use a new medium of art such as charcoal, acrylic, oil paint, pastel or ink
• Learn calligraphy and write a letter to your grandparents
• Learn how to say hello in 10 different languages
• Play a game of hide-n-seek
• Phone a friend or relative you haven't seen in awhile
• Learn yoga with your mom
• Try to make someone laugh
• Learn how to use the hula hoop
• Make up an obstacle course
• Play a game of Nim
• Make up your own clapping song
• Learn a new skipping song
• Get a large cardboard box and make it into a house, car or spaceship
• Play a game of hot and cold
• Learn a new language with your dad
• Build a sundial
• Make up a survey and find out how many people are left handed
• Go for a walk, hike or run
• Play a game of tag
• Learn how to tie a bowline knot
• Try to say the alphabet backwards quickly
• Invent your own product to sell and make up a "jingle" and commercial
• Learn how to ride a bike
• Find a new playground to go to (with an adult)
• Plant some herbs, bean sprouts or flowers
• Draw out four cartoon characters, name them and make up funny voices for them
• Make some home-made bread (with the help of an adult)
• Create your own secret code and write a letter to your friend
• Make a drum out of an ice-cream pail, cloth and elastic
• Learn how to lace new shoelaces onto your runners
• Learn all the names of the numbers up to a quindecillion
• Make a bracelet out of beads to give your aunt
• Learn how to juggle
• Learn how to say SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS and FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION and test your parents!
• Learn to spell 10 other hard words from the dictionary
• Find out which letter in the dictionary has the most words
• Make up a scavenger hunt
• Write a song or poem about creativity
• Learn how to do calligraphy
• Learn how to do the laundry
• Read some jokes and make up your own
• Learn your favorite song in sign language
• Learn how to skip count backwards by twos and thirteens
• Set up a pretend store with price tags
• Translate a short story into another language
• Learn how to use a siphon
• Set up a restaurant using a menu you've designed and food items you've crafted.
• Learn how to skip rope backwards
• Make a folding, paper fortune teller
• Learn how to play cribbage
• Start your own music band
• Blow bubbles and look for rainbows
• Try to blow a square bubble
• Make a giant bubble using a hula hoop (do this outside!)
• Learn how to set the table correctly
• Learn how to tie your shoelaces with your eyes closed
• Make up your own musical and perform it
• Learn 20 words in Greek and/or Latin
• Try to mix red, blue and yellow paint to get all the colors of the rainbow
• Learn how to eat with chopsticks
• Learn how to do a French braid
• Start your own Crazy 4 Math Club!

Many thanks to all the challengers (and their parents) who have sent in their ideas so far. Let us know what your family did during your challenge. Send us an e-mail or better yet, send in a picture or drawing of your favorite activity!