6 boredom busters when waiting for food to arrive

April 16th, 2010

Posted by Melitsa in Cooking, play activities, Thought of the week

When you go out to eat what do you do between ordering and food arriving?

Here are our top 6 boredom busters when waiting for food to arrive when we’re eating out.

Stack the packet condiments
Dump and fill the sugar/salt packets container ( Who can be the fastest?)
Count the packets ( sort the colours/size/ shape etc)
Kim’s game- hide things and guess what’s missing
I spy ( aka People watching )
Make a small pile of salt/sugar and draw letters shapes)

Things we have brought with us that has worked

book
paper
crayons
small toy

Photo credit: greenkozi

We’d love to extend this list. What do you do? We try not to bring too much and use what we see around us?

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Mary-Frances Main Says:
April 16th, 2010 at 9:44 am
One I just heard recently was to have someone start a silly story and each person add a paragraph to it. You know, starting with something like “It was a dark and stormy night”. Great idea when stuck in the car too!
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Melitsa Says:
April 16th, 2010 at 9:45 am
I like it!
kelly@ In everything Says:
April 17th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
We have brought Crazy 8 card game or played a verbal “rhyme” game (like what rhymes with “cat”… great for pre-readers learning to rhyme!).

Or fav is “I spy” though… it’s great! you can do colors, letters (what starts with “B”), shapes and rhymes!

Oh, and another GREAT toy is the bendaroos… not sticky and they make all sorts of stuff with them:) Even better when it’s a special toy that ONLY comes out when we need to wait;)
Melitsa Says:
April 17th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I love the cards idea. That’s something new to add into the rotation.
All great ideas. I’ll look out for the bendaroos- not heard of those before.

We have such magic bags. We can pull so many things out. Is your bag like that too?

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