Are you and your family practicing social distancing? Already feel like you’ve been quarantined? Help is here!
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highly advised to avoid gatherings over 50 people for a minimum of eight weeks. Across the world, restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls, churches and more businesses are shutting down. In an effort to contain the current virus, it is recommended to practice social distancing (or even quarantined).
During this time, here is a list of interesting, fun and productive things that you can do to keep yourself (and your kids) busy.
Feeling isolated during this time of social distancing or quarantines may be the hardest part. But I hope this list shows you how much we can do right in our own homes.
103 Things to Do
While Practicing Social Distancing
- Go back to school and earn your degree online
- Watch a documentary.
- Become an herbalist online. I recommend Herbal Academy.
- Watch a Ted Talk.
- Plan your spring garden and order your seeds.
- Listen to Podcasts.
- Build a fort and camp out in the living room.
- Read a non-fiction book or try something from classic literature.
- Listening to books on Audible is great too!
- If you’re in school, get ahead on homework.
- Learn how to knit or sew or another Vintage Skill.
- Go on a hike or nature walk.
- Take your dog for a walk.
- Fly a kite.
- Watch a Disney movie.
- Binge read the Harry Potter series, then watch all the movies.
- Learn the dance to a song.
- Do some online shopping.
- Take a bike ride.
- Rearrange a room in your house.
- Start spring cleaning early.
- Paint
- Color
- Watch home videos.
- Put together a scrapbook.
- Start your own blog or YouTube channel.
- Take a bubble bath.
- Give yourself a mani/pedi.
- Have a movie marathon.
- Tell funny stories from when everyone was little.
- Learn a new language.
- Work on 5000 piece puzzle. I highly recommend the White Mountain Puzzles!
- Do a crossword puzzle.
- Play Sudoku.
- Learn to play an instrument.
- Work on a DIY project.
- Download new apps to play on your phone or tablet.
- Learn how to write poetry or songs.
- Make a list of places you want to travel.
- Work out at home – Amazon and YouTube have great “classes” you can try (Zumba is a family fav).
- Make a bucket list.
- Call friends or family members and catch up.
- Learn how to do origami.
- Play Xbox or another gaming console.
- Make a new music playlist.
- Sketch
- Play with Play-doh.
- Make slime.
- Play a board or card game.
- Listen to new musicals.
- Put on a face mask.
- Mediate
- Binge-watch a new series on a streaming service.
- Organize closets and cabinets.
- Try on all your clothes and see what you want to keep and what you want to donate.
- Try new recipes.
- Analyze a film or pieces of art and find their meanings.
- Plant an herb garden. See 10 Herbs to Grow in Pots.
- Plant some flowers. Flowers to Plant in Your Vegetable Garden.
- Start seeds for your vegetable garden.
- Make a bird feeder.
- Do yoga.
- Write a short story.
- Learn how to braid or French braid.
- Watch makeup tutorials on YouTube and try to recreate them.
- Go through and delete photos on your camera roll.
- Make a list of things you’re grateful for and keep it handy.
- Pray and read your Bible.
- Try to hula-hoop, roller skate, jump rope or play hopscotch.
- Do an indoor scavenger hunt.
- Dye your hair a new color.
- Review your budget.
- Bring out your old Legos and build something.
- Watch every Star Wars film.
- Attempt things with your non-dominant hand.
- Get some extra sleep.
- Watch the sunrise or sunset.
- Cuddle with your pets or significant other.
- Find new inspirational quotes, share them on your social media to encourage others.
- Make soap. See all my soap “recipes”.
- Update your resume.
- Meal prep. Real Plans is VERY helpful with that!
- Do your laundry and actually put it away. Up can even make your own DIY laundry detergent.
- Improve your photography skills.
- Start a journal.
- Karaoke at home.
- Organize your jewelry.
- Build a first-aid kit.
- Try to recreate a movie theater at home.
- Watch old cartoons or movies from your childhood and laugh at how silly they were.
- Build an at-home coffee bar.
- Make lotion or a salve
- Make candles.
- Tie-dye shirts.
- Research the flora and fauna in your area.
- Watch comedies.
- Clean your email box.
- Do car maintenance that you’ve been putting off.
- Get out in the sun for some vitamin D.
- Make a handmade card.
- Get some yard work done if the weather is nice.
- Perform a random act of kindness.
- Write and send old fashioned, handwritten letters.
See the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Social distancing activities are going to be very important over the next few weeks.
Hopefully, you can do one or many of these things from this list over the next few weeks. Times may be overwhelming lately, but staying busy and working on productive things can help the time go by faster and get your mind off of what’s going on. Try your best to stay off of social media if it stresses you out, and stay positive and healthy!
Avoid large gatherings and wash your hands.
