ABSTRACT
Casual leisure, which in comparison with serious leisure is considerably less substantial and offers no career. One lasting benefit of casual leisure is the creativity and discovery it sometimes engenders. In casual leisure, as elsewhere, serendipity can lead to highly varied results, including a new understanding of a home gadget or government policy, a sudden realization that a particular plant or bird exists in the neighborhood, or a different way of making artistic sounds on a musical instrument. Casual leisure can preserve or restore a sense of self. Project-based leisure is a short-term, moderately complicated, either one-shot or occasional, though infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time. Motivationally speaking, project-based leisure may be attractive in substantial part because it does not demand long-term commitment, as serious leisure does. The family may turn out to be one of the more fruitful areas to study project-based leisure. Some parents create projects for their children to undertake in the children's free time.
