200 Boredom Busters!

200 Boredom Busters!
Author: Paul Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999
Genre: Amusements
ISBN: 9780751358919

Play bicycle polo, build a tepee, shoot a video, invent a code - all this and more.

The Ultimate Indoor Games Book

The Ultimate Indoor Games Book
Author: Veronika Alice Gunter
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600591983

More than 150 games, from quiet games to energy-burning activities that need minimal set-up time and supplies found around the house.

Boredom Busters

Boredom Busters
Author: Tommy Donbavand
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781857037951

Veteran children's entertainer Tommy Donbavand gives tips on keeping children entertained, whether it's a single child or an entire playscheme. The book is full of activities that will keep parents from tearing their hair out.

Where's Waldo? The Boredom Buster Book: 5-Minute Challenges

Where's Waldo? The Boredom Buster Book: 5-Minute Challenges
Author: Martin Handford
Publisher: Candlewick
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536211451

Waldo’s ultimate antidote to “there’s nothing to do” brims with searches, puzzles, and games of all stripes — plus a five-minute challenge on each page. Flying off on vacation or taking a long car ride? Stuck inside for hours on a rainy day? Fend off boredom with this hefty compendium of searches and activities featuring everyone’s favorite wanderer and his wily friends. You’ll find mazes, matching games, connect-the-dots, coloring pages, word searches, quizzes, and more, all guaranteed to occupy sharp-eyed fans.

Gotcha for Guys!

Gotcha for Guys!
Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0313090580

Research indicates boys are interested in reading nonfiction materials, yet most children's librarians prefer to booktalk fiction. Offering citations for more than 1,100 books, Gotcha for Guys! deals specifically with books to pique the interest of middle grade boys. A series of booktalks are grouped within chapters with like titles such as: Creepy-Crawly Creatures, Disasters and Unsolved Mysteries, Action and Innovation, and All Things Gross. Complete booktalks are presented in a beginning section of chapters 1-9. A second section in each of these chapters contains short annotations and talks for other books of interest, and a third section offers lists of well-reviewed titles to consider for boys. The book is enhanced with book cover art and reproducible lists for teachers and librarians.

Brain Games

Brain Games
Author: Stephanie Drimmer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018
Genre: Games
ISBN: 1426330170

An activity book that acts as a companion to the TV series Brain games.

Boredom-Busting Fun Stuff

Boredom-Busting Fun Stuff
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426321066

With this super huge, super fun, write-in activity book, kids will never be bored again! We've compiled our funniest jokes, most mind-boggling and outrageous puzzles, mazes, games, and quizzes into one giant entertaining volume. Full of eye-catching photographs and hours of learning adventures, they'll be laughing and exploring for hours.

Family Fun Home

Family Fun Home
Author: Deanna F. Cook
Publisher: Disney Editions
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-04-28
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780786853991

In FamilyFun Home, the editors of FamilyFun magazine show how to bring order and more fun to the hardest-working rooms in the house-namely, the kitchen and bathroom-as well as create a family-friendly computer zone, build a loft bed, craft a glow-in-the-dark lampshade, or make a picnic table or sandbox for the backyard. This volume is further proof that there is no greater authority on new and fun ways to spend time together than the experts at FamilyFun.

Classroom Boredom Busters

Classroom Boredom Busters
Author: Donna Malone
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1478785322

Classroom Boredom Busters is a blast of activities and creative ideas that will shatter tedium and inject excitement into ho-hum lessons that often cause students to complain that school is boring. This unique collection of strategies is the wake-up siren that many students need to get excited about learning and to motivate them to participate in the classroom. Activities in this book are designed to appeal to students while offering teachers a variety of detours to deadly dull test reviews, tricky note-taking sessions, awkward class discussions, and many other common classroom potholes. This book is organized into eight parts, each complete with a menu of original ideas that evolved from the author’s experience in the classroom at the elementary, middle, and high-school levels. Busy teachers will appreciate the convenience of pulling this collection off the shelf and turning to activities that require little or no planning and no elaborate school supplies. All ideas have been teacher-tested with real students from fourth grade through high school and across subject areas. Benefit from the imagination and expertise of author Donna Malone, who has won many awards—including 2011 Georgia Master Teacher, Henry County System-wide Teacher of the Year, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Honor Teacher—and has been a speaker at numerous educator conferences. Ready to energize your students? Pick up Classroom Boredom Busters and reinvent your classroom today!