For Teens

Ideas for fun with your friends

By Life Complete
March 31, 2026

Check out these ideas for fun with your friends.

Are you running out of ideas for what to do in your leisure time? Here are some ideas you can surprise your friends with:

  1. Have a water balloon fight (just pick up all the pieces).
  2. Form teams and challenge each other to games like scrabble, tennis or cards (try to avoid computer network games because there is little interaction with each other).
  3. Do bargain hunting at the local mall.
  4. Try out new recipes or create your own recipes.
  5. Play soccer backwards.
  6. Listen to two songs at the same time and try to figure out the words.
  7. Play bicycle polo.
  8. See who can dress up the weirdest.
  9. Let the guys put make-up on the girls.
  10. Write and then sing a song.
  11. Share with each other all the funny things that has happened to you in your life.
  12. See who can make and eat a triple layered sandwich the fastest.
  13. Go and mow the lawn of a neighbour or wash their car (with their permission of course).
  14. Go and read to some elderly people.
  15. Form a jogging club (or get people together who also like to do something you like).
  16. Let each friend select his / her five or ten favourite songs and then listen to these.
  17. Make your own comedy video.
  18. Arrange a sleep over or an all-night stay-awake (ask your parents nicely).
  19. Plan a barbeque.
  20. See who can keep a straight face the longest when all of you tell jokes.
  21. Offer to help out at an animal welfare centre.

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