That's a hard one
If you don't have that desire to automate, or produce small utilities, thne all I can suggest is you pick something something that interests you and evolve it.
One of the biggest things I did off my own bat early on was an arithmetic trainers for my kids.
Started off as pick a couple of random numbers , display and ask for the sum, ended up as a step by step on screen interactive break down of the working out including multiplication of numbers with decimal parts and long division.
as in
1234 x 346
=
1234
x 346
_____
?00 (3 x 4 = 12 making ? 2 and carrying 1
Ended up being a lot more interesting and challenging than I' originally thought. I got as much out of learning how to do it as they did from learning from it.
