Holidays are weird. There is one big event than endless hours of free time in between. On Christmas, there's a lot of hours between morning present-opening and dinner. If you are my family, with a 10-year-old cousin, present opening starts around 7 a.m. and ends promptly at, say, 8:15. That's nearly 10 hours until dinner and 10 hours in a house with your entire extended family.

Here are some crafty solutions to pass the time:

1. Teach your grandparents how to use their phone

It's lit, fam.

2. Have your relatives grill you with questions about college

It’s like 21 questions except stressful and exhausting! A new drinking game should be to take a shot every time a relative asks you “do you like your roommate?”

3. Get rejected to hang out with your siblings

Now that my brother has a PS4 and an iPhone, I didn’t really make the cut this year.

4. Play with all the toys your younger cousins got that really you wish you got

Remember when you were younger, and you got to play with all your gifts for the rest of the day? My little cousin materialized on my arts-and-crafts dream with every DIY craft possible. I was feeling not only nostalgic but straight-up jealous.

As much as I like my new boots, its kind of hard to create a day's worth of activities with a shoe...

5. Listen to one of the many political arguments happening at any given moment

Try to peg which aunt is secretly a racist!

7. Pretend you are sick and take a nap

When all else fails, just sleep.