Cool little bite-sized moments that require 15 minutes—or less.
- Make the dog yawn.
- Stand in front of your dog and open your mouth really wide.
- Repeat until your dog catches on.
- Walk funny.
- Your funny walk should be uniquely yours.
- Count how many people laugh.
- Set the world record in coin flipping.
- Flip a coin until you get either heads or tails 5 times straight. The world record is 72 seconds—set by Californian Mary Pat Plottner.
- Make grass shriek.
- Hold a blade of grass between your thumbs—hold it tight now.
- Press it to your mouth and blow through it hard.
- With any luck, you will make a very loud and irritating noise.
- Make a cloud.
- You need a gallon jug with a rubber stopper.
- Mom: make a hole in the stopper using a nail and hammer.
- Rinse the jug with warm tap water and stick the stopper into the jug.
- Blow as much air as you can through the stopper and put your finger over the hole—don’t let any air escape.
- Pull the stopper out. What do you see?
- Find the North Star.
- Find the Big Dipper.
- Trace a straight line up from the two stars that form the edge of the cup of the Dipper away from the handle.
- The first star the line hits is the North Star.
- Do cartwheels.
- Find a soft patch of grass or sand.
- Make sure you have enough room.
- Take a deep breath and go for it.
- Put on some music and dance. Try:
- Swan Lake
- Hip-Hop
- Singin’ In The Rain
- Put a blanket over a table to make a tent. Don’t forget:
- A flashlight
- Your imagination
- Make a soda gusher.
- Drop 3-6 Mentos®* mints rapidly in a 2-liter bottle of diet soda.
- Run
- This is an outdoor trick. Obviously.
*Mentos® is a registered trademark of its respective owner.