So, your parents took away your phone? It can be a tough time in a teen’s life. How are you going to keep up with your friends without your phone?? Besides that, you are going to be SO BORED, AMIRIGHT? Well, fear not, grounded teenagers. We have the ultimate list of things to do when your parents take away your phone, or maybe just when you run out of time on Boomerang.

1. Go for a walk
2. Put together a puzzle
3. Write a story (something about how horrible life is without a phone would be appropriate)
4. Complain endlessly about how your friends never get their phones taken away, and how your parents are making you a social pariah
5. Look up the word pariah in an … UGH …ACTUAL DICTIONARY
6. Create a phone out of paper and markers
7. Play a video game (ever heard of Fortnite?)
8. Learn how to fold origami
9. Create an obstacle course in your house
10. Draw a picture
11. Paint a painting
12. Improve your photography skills with an actual camera
13. Bake treats for your friends
14. Help your parents cook dinner
15. Offer to babysit your siblings (a little bribery never hurt anyone!)
16. Play board games
17. Twiddle your thumbs
18. Do your homework
19. Ask your teachers for extra credit assignments because you are SO BORED at home!
20. Learn to quilt
21. Learn to sew
22. Clean the house (remember the thing I said about bribery?)
23. Binge watch a TV show
24. Organize your closet
25. Make lists of the things you will do when you get your phone back
26. Learn the first 50 digits of pi
27. Make a pie
28. Have a lemonade stand
29. Find service projects you can do, like plant flowers at a city building
30. Read a book
31. Write down all of your favorite movie quotes
32. Watch a pot boil and time it
33. Learn morse code
34. See how many of your clothes you can wear all at the same time
35. Iron all of your clothes
36. See how many marshmallows you can stuff in your mouth and still say “Fluffy Bunny”
37. Do some Yoga
38. See how long you can do a plank
39. Pick out a card and write a note to your grandparents
40. Create a vision board for your goals
41. Color a picture (like from one of those adult coloring books)
42. Just dance around your room
43. Plan a staycation for your family
44. Do the trading game, start with a small thing from your house, and go around your neighborhood trying to trade what you have for something better. Continue trading until you have something awesome.
45. Start putting together next year’s Halloween costume
46. Learn how to make candy
47. Rearrange the furniture in your room
48. Paint your room a different color
49. Go for a run
50. Ask your neighbors if you can walk their dogs (might even make a few bucks!)
51. Take a nap and contemplate a world without technology

Honestly, the truth is you will survive this time of your life, and maybe someday you might even be grateful your parents cared enough about you to make sure you were staying safe online and learning how to become a successful adult.