Got some free time you’re not sure how to spend? Don’t waste another night of your life scrolling through social media or binge-watching a show you’re only half-interested in. Check out one of our 100 most unhinged whimsy-filled activities instead!
(This is for entertainment purposes only. Silly Goose Magazine does not assume responsibility for complete chaos, mild trauma, trouble with the law, or injury caused by completing items on this list.)
Challenge a stranger to a footrace and then legit go race them.
Propose to someone in public with a ringpop but be completely dead-serious.
Dress up in the most problematic fit you own and go bowling.
Start a standing ovation in public. Bonus points if nobody else claps.
Lead one a friend into the woods blindfolded, spin them ten times and make them find their way back out.
Write a Wikipedia page about yourself.
Make a terrible movie and then premiere it.
Hide a framed photo of yourself in public somewhere.
Get in the car and drive until you find windmills.
Fill a briefcase with loose goldfish and carry it around until someone asks about it.
Create a secret handshake with a stranger.
Go to the thrift store with a friend, find criminally terrible outfits, and then wear them to dinner.
Forage.
Surprise someone with a custom cake with their face on it.
Go petitioning with a friend for made up causes and see who can get more signatures.
Play guess who but it's with people you know.
Become a local legend.
Go to a real-life shindig.
Strap a pool floaty to a skateboard and take it down hills.
Play tennis with branches or sticks you find in the park.
Go hide 100 frog stickers out in the world.
Go interview a random stranger about the greatest story of their life.
Tag (see how many random people you can recruit to play).
Solve a crime.
Dress up as a penguin and challenge strangers to waddle races.
Ride tricycles or razor scooters anywhere you gotta go for a day.
Freeze ice blocks to the bottom of shoes and slide around.
Buy a pogo stick and become a pro at it.
Make up a criminally obscure list of 20 items and go take a picture with each one within 24 hours.
Find 26 signs, each that starts with a different letter of the alphabet. Take a picture with each one.
Find a public piano and perform the most dramatic rendition of a song you know.
Design an incredibly complicated, elaborate multiplayer game and then play it.
Compete to see who can (or will) do the most cartwheels in a night but they only count if someone other than your competition witnesses them.
Learn how to play the padiddle car game and with a friend, see who can get the most points in an hour.
Drive twenty minutes in a random direction and then try to make it to a destination without a map.
Visit a restaurant depot.
Have a blind taste test of five different brands of the same snack.
Find a bug, name it, and take it on adventures until it leaves or dies.
Paint a canvas and see if a local art gallery will display it.
Thumb wrestling. Best of 101.
Watch a horror movie outside after dark.
Meet a stranger who teaches you the meaning of Christmas.
Do nothing for an entire day but study one specific subject and see how much you can learn.
Ungodly public break up.
Compete with a friend to see who can make the most strangers smile within an hour. Bonus points if you make them laugh. Even more bonus points if they are laughing at your expense.
Mary Poppins off roofs or trees.
Hide and seek at IKEA.
Buy an inflatable costume and go through as many drive throughs as possible ordering only one thing off the menu at a time.
Kazoo + Bugzapper. (IYKYK).
Make a bingo sheet of things you think you’ll see at the zoo (kid crying, adult crying, etc.) and go see how many boxes you can check off.
Make a tiny motorized vehicle.
Go stargazing on a roof.
Go to a bookstore, pick a book, pick a page, and live the first sentence on that page.
Write a letter and go hide it somewhere random.
Save the world from apocalypse.
Make a five minute documentary about anything.
Ask a stranger to judge a competition between you and a friend but it's something you’re both really really bad at or have literally never tried.
Find the highest point in your town and get to the top of it.
Go to a thrift store and buy something haunted.
Go to Walmart and put googly eyes on anything with a face.
The woods.
Take a tiny toy on a day trip and photograph it experiencing everything a human tourist would.
Play tag with fake knives.
Buy a children's science kid and spend the afternoon conducting elaborate experiments.
Participate in a rap battle.
Go to a single couples counseling session with a friend and just explore increasingly problematic arguments.
Find a creek and follow it for as long as the path goes.
Tape a box to two skateboards and ride it down hills.
Go swimming somewhere that isn’t a pool.
Go camping in your backyard.
Find a public spot where you can see planes taking off and landing. Stay long enough to count 50.
Go trashbagging.
Locate the oldest gravestone in a historic cemetery that's open to visitors.
Find a street named after an animal, then find streets named after five more animals. No using maps or Google!
Make a mortal enemy.
Build a functional Rube Goldberg machine that completes one simple task.
Find out whether the five closest grocery stores have the same price for a specific basket of 10 items.
Visit every single public library within a 20-mile radius of your house and ask a librarian at each of them if they have a strangely specific book that nobody else has probably checked out before.
Locate and watch Shrek 3D.
Find the closest waterfall to your house and go see it in person.
Ride skateboards down slides.
Go to the park and stay for as long as it takes for you to learn a handstand.
Become the mascot at a minor league or hometown sports game (even for just one game).
Hold a seance.
Go get ice cream at midnight
Go trick-or-treating.
Dress up as Spider-Man and go do flips in public. Even if you don’t know how to do flips.
Go to an animal shelter and pet as many dogs as you can.
Find a stage and sing a kid’s TV show theme song in public.
Make problematic t-shirts for your friends.
Play chess with strangers in the park.
Run a marathon throughout your town.
Commit yourself to a highly impractical, convoluted, and way-too-time-consuming project.
Watch a movie at the same time as your friend who lives far away. Have them on the phone to discuss as the movie plays.
Create something taller / bigger than you out of cardboard.
Film a vlog of your full day.
Search neighborhoods for kids lemonade stands and if you find any, go ask them if they have any grapes.
Give a speech to at least 25 people.
Find and try as many flavors of Icees, Oreos, or Kit Kats as you possibly can within 90 minutes.
Purchase a shopping cart and take it on adventures like it’s your golden chariot to mildly traumatic memories and epic stories.
