10 Ways to Add Play to Your Day
Here are 10 quick ways to add play to your day:
1) Keep a wind-up toy on your desk. Wind it up and watch it go.
2) Can you roll your tongue, cross your eyes, wiggle your ears? Do it!
3) Hum “Zippity Do-Da” as you skip down the hall. Better yet, sing it out loud.
4) Drink from a silly straw.
5) Keep a small bottle of bubbles on your desk or in your car. Every now and then, blow bubbles.
6) Remember the funniest thing that ever happened to you? Think of it now.
7) Buy a pinwheel. Keep it in your pencil cup. Wave it around occasionally and make it spin.
8) Buy bubble gum. Blow bubbles. Pop them.
9) Add sprinkles to your ice cream cones.
10) Act like you are eight-years-old.
Have an idea to add to the list? Please share it.
At the end of my freshman in college a senior friend gave me her beloved bucket of wind-up toys. I kept them on my desk, and throughout college as the stress would mount, I would take them out and play - see if I could keep them going all at once. My favorite was the penguin that did flips.
I wish I hadn’t given that bucket away my senior year.
Spread Joy. Shred Fear. Have Fun.
My daughter and I do improv. We think we’re funny. We laugh hysterically.