Fun Things to do in the Backyard for Adults


Welcome to the "Fun Things to Do When Your Bored" Backyard Activities List for Adults. Most of these fun suggestions cost next to nothing and will fit anybodies budget. All these activities are dangerous and shouldn’t be attempted at all and are not recommended at all...ever. These are for entertainment purposes only.



Backyard Fun Things to do When Bored


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NOTICE: Laws differ from area to area. Depending on how overbearing your parents or your spouse is. You may need approval to do some of these activites. That is if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch or be left out of the will.


Fun Games to Play in the Backyard


Play Some Croquet with Party Beverages

Play Some Boccie Ball

Play Some Frisbee

Bounce on the Trampoline

Play badminton or volleyball

How about horseshoes pardner?

Play catch with a football, baseball or nerf ball

Have a scavenger hunt - with adult prizes

Olympics - Set up a series of events or obstacles courses.

Play mini golf and make up your own course. Lots of fun when there are plenty of people obstacles to play around


Childlike and Totally Immature

Have a water fight with waterguns, the garden hose or with water balloons

Set up a slip and slide

Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest

Play Hackeysack

Do a Headstand

Camp out in the Backyard

Have an Egg Toss

Try Stilt Walking

Borrow an Ugly Ornament from your Neighbor

Get Some Firecrackers - Remember Safety First

Eat a meal with just your hands, spaghetti is especially fun.

Have a food fight

Build a Potato Gun

Pie Someone

Play Spin the Bottle

Get some rotten tomatoes and make a target. If it is a human target - put some swim googles on so that target.

Get a group picture and ask everyone to express the same emotion in a picture. Anger, confusion, glee, uneasiness, seduction etc..

Have a talent show or make a lip sync video

Snowball Fight - go to your local ice arena with some coolers and fill them with the ice shaving they leave in the parking lot

Burn the Bad News - Collect up pink slips, job loss papers or any other negative propaganda - have a fire and burn them


More Fun Things to Do in the Backyard

  • Hire a band for a party or a violinist to play for dinner
  • Play Hopscotch - with real scotch
  • Learn to Juggle
  • Paint a Canvas
  • Make a video documentary about your family
  • Make fake commercials on video
  • Build a Tree House
  • Learn to Ride a Unicycle
  • Do a favor for a neighbor
  • Invite someone over who needs a laugh


When you are Just Hanging Out in the Backyard

Have a theme party

Make a blender drink

Paint your toenails with friends

Lay on the grass and look for shapes in the clouds

Play board games by a fire

Get some hammock time

Hang a bird feeder

Multitask - tan and lounge at the same time

Drink coffee in the Morning Sunshine

Play fun questions with your friends

Have a Bonfire and Roast Marshmallows or have a chocolate fondue

Set up a projector on a sheet and have outside movie night or slide show with some friends

Open a bottle of vintage wine

Give each other shoulder massages

Make a ice cream sundae with Baileys or Kahlua as a topping

Have a no technology day - with no exceptions

Plant a window box., herb garden or vegetable garden

Start a diary full of dreams or a sketchbook


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