107 Crazy Ideas to Kick Off Your Teacher Summer Holidays

Summer is here (for the Northern Hemisphere at least).

In case you hadn’t realised it yet, this is the biggest reason to be a teacher 😉

Try these ideas for your teacher summer holidays – suggested by teachers I am connected with.

Some of them are crazy, some silly, some indulgent ..

.. and some highly inadvisable!

1. Go to the toilet .. just for fun (because you can)
2. Wake up with a classroom to do list item in your head .. and then laugh at it
3. Do a drive by of your school .. (and get seen ‘in your civvies’ by students who live nearby)
4. Break as many school rules as you can in one day
5. Experiment with a gin for breakfast
6. Eat healthy food that takes most of the day to make
7. Take your phone OFF silent for a whole month
8. Go through at least one day wearing only your pyjamas
9. Have a duvet day in front of your favourite box set
10. Refuse to do your homework .. repeatedly
11. Wear a shocking outfit and hang around in an area where your kids will definitely see you
12. Go swimming and practise your star float
13. Seek the sun like a caveman who hasn’t seen it for months
14. Sit in your garden .. even though it’s raining
15. Plant something and then watch it grow
16. Create an online course and earn some cash to save for early retirement
17. Become a regular in your nearest bar, pub or coffee shop for a week
18. Watch the sunrise – knowing you can go back to bed again afterwards
19. Write something naughty on the board in your classroom
20. Meditate .. and increase the peace baby 😉
21. Go for daytime walks that end in a nice meal somewhere – followed by a taxi home
22. Send a postcard to yourself from a beautiful place
23. Kidnap a friends stuffed toy and send photographs of it on holiday
24. Adopt an unexpected animal
25. Make some lemonade or popsicles and sell them in your street
26. Try not to laugh (too loudly) at people who have to wake up and go to work each day
27. Try out Great Aunt Eileen’s chocolate cake recipe
28. Finally have the time to clean your house – then spend a day wallowing in the clean feeling
29. Smile broadly as you finally catch up on the washing pile
30. Get arrested for a picketing a business who doesn’t pay their taxes
31. Learn something new
32. Take a local business by surprise and volunteer your time
33. Start a blog
34. RELAX!
35. Make a coffee without having to smell the milk first
36. Enter an eating competition
37. Watch daytime TV to see how the other half lives
38. Talk to a policeman
39. Update your Resume or CV and put it on a job site, to see what calls you get
40. Tell your children a lie about buried treasure in your garden and watch them try and dig it up
41. Drive somewhere unexpected
42. Listen to the birds
43. Plant a sunflower seed
44. Go to the garden centre
45. Have a BBQ or cook out
46. Do a juice fast, knowing you won’t lose your job if your hunger gets the better of you
47. Have an all-day bath
48. Clean your classroom whiteboard – and then draw an enormous penis on it
49. Create a playlist of summer music
50. Dye your hair a colour which would get you sent home from school
51. Pierce your own ears
52. Discover what a lay in feels like
53. Get so used to getting up late, that September will REALLY hurt
54. Watch a late night film .. and then start another at 1am – knowing it doesn’t matter
55. Learn a new recipe for your abandoned slow cooker
56. Read a great book for pleasure
57. Rediscover your hobbies and interests .. and remind yourself that you DO have a life
58. Grow an experimental moustache
59. Ignore every bell you hear .. the door bell, the phone .. everything.
60. Go for the weekday special menu at your favourite restaurant
61. Search for something really high – and then climb it
62. Tie dye your whitest bed sheets and sleep like a hippy for a week
63. Paint something
64. Put your teacher alter ego in a box
65. Sit on the naughty step, giggling madly
66. Buy a big persons trampoline or scooter
67. Make a model of your house with breadsticks
68. Hide behind an upstairs curtain and beep your car remote every time someone walks past it
69. Go to town dressed as a famous person, and be that person who stands like a statue to earn gin money
70. Join a protest movement
71. Whistle or sing as you walk round the shops
72. Smile at each person you see, making them think you’re crazy (or fancy them)
73. Cook for your non-teaching partner every day for a week
74. Write to your political representatives giving them 99 reasons funding to education needs to be doubled
75. Get bored
76. Ride a horse
77. Set your house alarm off and see who comes to check you are okay
78. Pretend to be a mystery shopper
79. Get a funky new haircut
80. Lose 20 pounds so you can shock your colleagues when you return in September
81. Stay properly hydrated – knowing that you won’t need the bladder of an elephant to do it
82. Get to know your neighbours
83. Hire a gorgeous car
84. Paint or decorate a room in your house
85. See the sun
86. Do some gardening and have time to sit out into the evening
87. Book a table at a local restaurant in the name of a celebrity
88. Swear uncontrollably, using your favourite swear words with impunity
89. Forget all your students names
90. Open your kitchen cupboard to find CLEAN cups for tea and coffee!
91. Find a cafe where one of your ex-pupils works and have them run rings around you
92. Spend a day at Sofa World sampling a range of chairs that nurse your tender glutes and help return your back and neck to a more natural form
93. Take a toy cat to a sofa shop – and pretend to be a James Bond villain on the contemporary swivel chairs
94. Book an appointment with the doctor, bank, optician, dentist and a kitchen design company – not because you need to, simply because you can
95. Forget what day, week and month it is
96. Go out on a school night (getting arrested is optional)
97. Clean out the bottom of the school bag of … long forgotten to do lists, post it notes, paper clips, a dusty sweet, and a wrinkled apple that you didn’t get time to eat
98. Do something creative, whether painting, drawing – or even that dot to dot thing you used to do when you had time when you were younger
99. Remove your work email notifications from your mobile phone and all computing devices
100. Stick your toes in the sea
101. Eat lunch outside
102. Enjoy Sundays like the new school year doesn’t exist!
103. Wear shorts and sandals every day
104. Put away the portable Anadin you carry for stress induced headaches
105. Complete the ‘Release your Anger’ colouring book which colleagues bought you last term
106. Experiment with breakfast .. and enjoy eating it sitting down, rather than on the run
107. Take off your watch and go through a whole week with no idea what the time is

Whatever you do – enjoy your teacher summer holidays!

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