We are over half way through summer here and I'm gonna tell you, the summer started off SO amazing! My children were so happy playing together nicely, they would come up with games and play together nicely for hours! It was amazing! It was bliss! But now that we are over half way through summer, and it's not always quite as smooth.

So just in case my children decide that they are "bored" I came up with a plan. A little jar that they can reach into and pull out something to do! An I'm Bored Jar!

If they say they are bored, they have to pull a slip of paper from the jar. And no matter what is on the slip of paper, that have to do it.

The catch? Some of the slips of paper have fun activities on it like "go get ice cream" or "make a yummy treat," some are a bit more quiet like "do a puzzle," or "read a book." And a few of them...heeheehee...are chores :) Yup. It is about 50/50 fun and work.

You can fill your jar however you see fit for your family. But I heard a mom once say that if she had a child who was bored, she had a toilet for them to scrub. This jar gives my kids a 50% chance of doing something fun and a 50% chance of doing something not as fun. My kids' odds are better. Plus even though there are fun activities in the jar, I hope my children will eventually learn that they can come up with fun activities to do without saying "I'm bored."

To decorate this jar, I decided to use a bit of really fun vinyl!

First you will cut a circle out of decorative vinyl of choice (I love their new houndstooth vinyl!) and adhere it to the lid. With a simple circle you can just peel and stick it on like a sticker, but if you prefer you can use transfer tape as well.

Next you will cut a smaller circle out of a plain colored vinyl and adhere that to the top of the decorative vinyl.

Then cut and (using transfer tape this time) adhere "I'm bored" onto your jar using a contrasting color of vinyl.

Now if you want to use transfer tape for the whole thing, I would suggest working from the top up. So using one pieces of transfer tape, pick up "I'm bored," then the plain circle, then the decorative circle all on top of each other. Then you can transfer everything onto the lid top in one step, using only one pieces of transfer tape.

So next time the kids are bored, there will be plenty of things for them to do without even having to think about it!