Boredom Busters

 

Start your Snowdown Costumes
Snowdown starts next Wednesday with all sorts of fun activities for folks of all ages and this year's theme is STEAMPUNK! Add gears and cogs to a top hat, throw on some goggles and boots and get ready to celebrate Durango's most anticipated winter event!



 
Start doing a "Word of the Day"
Need to expand your vocabulary? Try doing a word of the day! Pick out a word from the dictionary and memorize the definition, then throughout the day, try to use the word in at least one conversation. You will undoubtedly make your vocabulary grow exponentially!


 

Start a dice collection
Have you ever lost dice from a board game? If you have a dice collection, you would never have to worry about misplaced dice again. You could even make up your own dice games!

Word of the Day

Swivet

noun

(SWIV-it)

A state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter.

I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak!

Word of the Day

Pixilated

[pik-suh-ley-tid]

adjective

 

 

1. slightly eccentric

2. amusingly whimsical, prankish, silly, or the like.

 

Pretty much everything at Durango Toy Depot is Pixilated.

 

 Just look at that pixilated mustache!

 

Word of the Day

Bushwa: noun

[BOOSH-wah]

Rubbishy nonsense; baloney

Sometimes the things you hear at Durango Toy Depot is all bushwa!

Word of the Day

Googli-ified

[goo-glee-iff-eyed]

adjective

when googly eyes have been added to something to give it a face and a personality.

That stapler has been googli-ified! Now he can see what he is stapling.

Word of the Day

Boom-Diggity

(boom-DIG-it-ee)

1. The feeling of excitement when when everything feels awesome!

Boom Diggity! today is a great day!

2. Exclaimation when you shoot marshmallows out of a home-made marshmallow launcher!

BOOOOOM DIGGITY!! Did you see that marshmallow fly?!

Word of the Day

Flea Market

Flee-Mar-kit

noun

a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.

Did you know that Durango Toy Depot is hosting a flea market on the Fourth of July?

Its true! We are hold a Kids to Kids flea market! Just show up at buckley park from 12-3 and buy, sell or trade your goods! Hope to see you there!

Word of the Day

ZOOINK!

[zoo-oink]

 1. The silly sound that a gravity tube makes when you flip it over or shake it.

       Did you hear that zooink that came from the gravity tube?!

2. An exclamation.

      ZOOINKS! That was a great birthday party!

Word of the Day

Aim

[eym]

1. To position or direct (ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.

Woah! Check out Lou aim that faux bow at the Strater Hotel window! Go Lou!

Word of the Day

Pie-Licious!

py-li-shus

Something that is almost as good as pie!

"That graph is pie-licious!"

What is your favorite kind of pie?

Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for today is...

looney.... lu:ni

" Looney" comes from the word luner meaning moon.

1. foolish or ridiculous

2. lunatic, insane

3. extremely silly. 

 

Back in the day, people believed that psychological disorders were triggered by cycles of the moon.

Will you do a looney dance in the light of the moon?

Don't forget there's also a Canadian loonie which is really a coin.

Dictionary.com helped us with this

Word of the Day!

                                       Cool as a cucumber!

sang-froid \sang-FRWAH\ , noun;
also sangfroid:
Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; calmness, composure

 

  They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.

 

Almost sounds like a song huh? I sang froid! 

 Or would a psychology student sing that? Bah-boom-ching!

 

from our friends at Dictionary.com 

 

Word of the day!

Hoopla: hoop-lah

There was a lot of this last week during Snowdown!

1. commotion, bustling with excitement

2. sensational publicity, ballyhoo

3. (brit) a game in which someone tries to toss a hoop over an object to win it.

Now I'm going to see what all the hoopla is about!

We're also going to try to use the word "hoopla" in as many sentences as we can today!