What alternative activities could you undertake instead of drinking alcohol? Check out some of the thirst for life team’s suggestions below!
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Alternative Activities
- Office chair racing grab a couple of chairs with wheels (or your couch and your skateboard wheels?) and take them down the park for what could become the new Olympic sport.
- Spend some time working on that all time classic of a practical joke.
- Learn to break dance – splash out a tenner on a piece of lino, grab some polish and your Run DMC CD. Check out some moves on the web and nail the windmill.
- Movie night with some home made popcorn and all your mates round Or you could try an all day session with Lord of the Rings , 2 and 3 or perhaps for the ladies a sponsored Johny Depp-a-thon?
- Gamesfest get out the Twister, the Risk or the old school legend Monopoly.
- Fondue party melt up your fave chocolate and dip in your own best ingredients, from banana to marsh mallow to fish fingers.
- Can’t cook, won’t cook challenge each other with an obscure concoction of ingredients to chef up something beautiful.
- How far can you get for £5 game? By public transport, bike or foot and a fiver, see how far you can get from a certain point by 5pm. (Try and find someone with a car to collect you though afterwards!)
- Cheese Rolling – Climb a mountain/ hill of some sort and then roll a round of cheese off the top and try and beat it to the bottom.
- Rotational meals have a six course meal at six different houses in one evening.
- Try and beat a world record.
- Become an origami legend. Go on-line (or go to Japan) and learn how to become a paper wizard!
- Put something back into your community litter pick, clear away graffiti or if you have mastered idea 3, you could break dance for an Old People’s home.
- Have a bingo night and have fun saying things like legs and two fat ladies 8
- Club together with your mates and hire a bouncy castle.
- Alcohol-free cocktails Why not set up your own alcohol free bar and mix up a storm.
- Learn to fly a kite. There are some amazingly beautiful ones- angel fish, parots etc. Find a windy place and laugh!!!!
- Ask an elderly neighbour how to knit and make a scarf for someone you love, or who has helped you, or even the lady who taught you in the first place!
- – 7 & 8 Submitted by Lydia Varley.
- I suggest playing or making up a tune on the mouth organ.- Submitted by Rekha Sharma.
- Learn to skate board. Preferably wear lots of padding and finding a friend to learn with makes it much more fun because you can laugh at each others mistakes and also learn from them. – Submitted by Anna Todd