How can children be bored? PUT THEM TO WORK. Paint their rooms. Help in the kitchen, preparing dinner. Show them how to clean, mop, dust. Cut grass, sweep the walk. They need SOME CHORES. Teach them to wash clothes. Oh, my gosh. Whatever the parent does...THEY NEED TO HELP. I was never bored as a kid nor adult! We would play outside. Like Libetybelle said. We did have chores to do though. Both my parents worked outside the home. Toys were NOT BOUGHT for us.
In the summer time, when it got so hot, we played in the basement. There was an old table, that I drew on with white chalk. I made a house. Then used catalogs, to cut out 'dolls' and make clothes for them. KIDS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CREATE. Age 11, I was already sewing some of my dresses. I was taught to crochet at age 4! I am not impressed with 'today's" kids.