1. Ask other dads online questions about recovering.
2. Attach a camera to your crutches or head to film things from your perspective.
3. Be adventurous and try a new restaurant.
4. Become a great air guitarist.
5. Become an expert on current events.
6. Become our Facebook friend.
7. Begin a fantasy team.
8. Be thankful that your injury wasn’t worse.
9. Brew your own beer.
10. Build a massive Lego creation.
11. Build a model (plane, train, automobile, etc).
12. Build something using only toothpicks.
13. Buy a lottery ticket.
14. Buy some new tools online.
15. Catch up on some Bible reading and work on memorizing.
16. Check to see if you can get a temporary handicap sticker.
17. Clean your gun while waiting for your teenage daughter’s date to come over.
18. Count how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
19. Create your own comic strip.
20. Design and create a birdhouse for your kids.
21. Do brain teasers.
22. Doodle.
23. Draw cartoons for your kids using an online tutorial.
24. Drive somewhere you’ve never been before.
25. Fill in your family tree/trace your genealogy.
26. Find an interesting documentary to watch.
27. Find blogs about dads on crutches.
28. Find out how much your old toys are worth online. 
29. Fish off a dock.
30. Forget crutches, get a modern crutch alternative like a knee scooter.
31. Fly or drive a remote controlled vehicle.
32. Get a book about the constellations and try to find them at night.
33. Get a supportive/comfortable pair of shoes for your good foot.
34. Get your favorite childhood TV series and watch the whole thing.
35. Glue a quarter to the floor and see how many people try to pick it up.
36. Go on a virtual tour.
37. Go through your paperwork and shred the old stuff.
38. Go to a movie in the middle of the day so you have the whole theater to yourself.
39. Have your kids or wife decorate your cast or crutches.
40. Have your kids rip your music off your CDs for you (feel free to ask them what this means first…I had to).
41. “Hire” your kids as “personal assistants”.
42. Host a Euchre tournament.
43. If you are a smoker: quit or cut down to help improve healing time.
44. Impress your kids by reading some of their favorite books.
45. Introduce your kids to your favorite movies when you were their age.
46. Join an online community for other dads on crutches.
47. Leatherwork: make a wallet or belt.
48. Learn origami.
49. Learn to ask for help.
50. Learn to whittle.
51. Learn to play the guitar.
52. Listen to an audio book.
53. Listen to your body and tell your doctor about anything unusual.
54. Look for funny YouTube videos.
55. Look up what happened in history on the day you were born.
56. Laugh at yourself (they say it’s the best medicine and kinder than laughing at others).
57. Make a list of 25 random things about yourself and see how many your kids (or wife!) knew.
58. Make a time capsule with your family.
59. Make paper airplanes.
60. Master the Rubiks cube.
61. Move any loose rugs, cords, or furniture that might get in your way.
62. Pester your wife.
63. Play hockey using your crutches as a stick and a tennis ball as a puck.
64. Play Wii or video games.
65. Play with your kids toys while they’re at school.
66. Practice juggling.
67. Practice knot tying.
68. Put a mirror, chair and TV tray next to each other for shaving.
69. Put on a puppet show for your kids.
70. Randomly pick a word out of the dictionary and use it as much as possible.
71. Read magazines about your favorite hobbies.
72. Remind your wife about the “for better or worse, in sickness and in health” part.
73. Rent a TV series you’ve always wanted to watch.
74. Review your family budget and see what changes can be made.
75. Roll loose change you find around the house.
76. Sculpt something out of tin foil.
77. See how many circles your cat (or kid) will run trying to catch a laser.
78. Send a thank you note to your doctor for fixing you.
79. Share tips you’ve learned about being a dad on crutches.
80. Share your baseball cards with your kids and look up their value.
81. Shoot rubber bands at people.
82. Sign up to get paid to critique web sites.
83. Surprise your wife by writing out the family Christmas cards.
84. Take an online class.
85. Take your family to an amusement park and you will all get to jump to the front of the line.
86. Teach your kids how to play paper football.
87. Think up some really good April Fools pranks to pull.
88. Turn your TV on and off with your crutch if your remote is broken.
89. Tutor a student in your favorite subject.
90. Use the extra time to pray for people.
91. Use your crutches to get your kid’s ball out of the tree.
92. Use your crutch to scratch your back.
93. Use your non-dominant hand for the day.
94. Watch all those movies you never have time to see.
95. Watch Saturday morning cartoons with your kids and complain about how “they just don’t make them like they used to”.
96. Watch your kids try to kiss their elbow.
97. Workout your upper body muscles.
98. Write down all the things you have to be thankful for.
99. Write down/record memories of your children for them to have years from now.
100. Write out a bucket list.
101. Help us with other ideas for our list!
