Stuck at home, or have to stay away from people becuase of a virus, or maybe have other reasons cash, electric outages and so on. I recently went through chemo and had a very poor immune system so I couldn't really be around people so I thought I would share some ideas to stay busy and not get so bored. I bet after reading you will be on a roll with some of your own ideas this is just some thoughts to get started.
Things you can do inside or really do not forget things outside as well like walks in woods and such and your back yards are ok and fun, be sure to get fresh air if you can.
-Dig out those old board games for family fun
-Make scrapbooks with the family or photo books tell stories from old photos
-Make photo collages on a wall.
-Lookup tutorials or inspirations of things you like doing on youtube Gosh I have spent hours and get nothing done. I file away tutorials and ideas in my youtube favorites examples art, painting, drawing, knitting, sewing, cooking, holiday crafts, DIYs, scrapbooks, photography, photoshop, there are videos about everything
-Watch some live cams of animals like Decorah eagles some very cool places to find so many live cams are
-Explore
-Earth cam
-Decorah bald eagle cams
-April the giraffe
-Wildlife research bears in the wild bear study
Not always having live cams but has blogs, photos, videos and more I live the bear study site.
-Another great place to explore is google earth.
-Take virtual tours of museums and old castles
here is one it is bran castle yup from Dracula story click here to take a video tour and learn about it
-Teach each other to dance what a fun afternoon teaching old and new dances to family members let kids teach you and you teach them or a couple teaches each other then take videos for memories.
-Again get outside bring that laptop or tablet outside to the picnic table or blanket under a tree to do some online reading, searches, watching youtube ideas watching or crafts, if you can do yard work, play yard games, practice photography skills. How about identify birds, lookup bird sounds on youtube. I have a bird blog if you want to check out RI birds, or let's make a bird feeder, collect pine cones and leaves or if near the ocean collect some shells and make projects just look for areas you can walk alone or with family, here is my pine cone crafts ideas and seashell ideas another idea paint or color flat rocks, collect for a garden or if you are family who takes trips people leave them around for others to find, you can look up ideas for rock painting online.. make a fairy garden you can find crafts and ideas on Pinterest and youtube.. check out all these fairy garden ideas big to small use little sticks to make a ladder or campfire use popsicle sticks to make a picnic table you can also make star wars worlds and have adventures.........
DYI candles fun projects with recycling wax, melt down that wax you can't seem to use from the bottom of your jar candles.
-Bake together, or look up recipes online omg so many you could spend half a day on casseroles alone or pasta dishes, or Asian and so on. If you can not make it becuase you do not have items then make a list of favorites you want to try and shopping lists for the future.
-Web sites to explore how to project ideas and more
-nifty ,
-Pinterest,
-instructables
-100 amazing how to sites,
-60 productive websites spend time when bored ,
-Life hacks ,
-80 awesome websites didn't know about
-5-minute crafts youtube link
5 minute crafts - a little cement many ideas
More ideas
- Spring cleaning yup even the kids can get involved I mean looking for stuff to do it is like do now what you were going to do in the future months fix up stuff build something in yard fix a fence. get your plant starter seeds going in a room with a warm lamp or sunny window.
-Go for car rides. remember how your parents, well mine and my husbands would go looking at homes well you can do that in your car or watch shows like an escape to the country I believe we have some USA shows like it now or like I said to drive around looking you can also go house hunting online all over the USA we have done that as well. OMG ideas are endless. watch house fixing shows and try your hand at a project.
-Wash your car inside and out
-Give the dog that bath he so needs. play extra with the dog teach him some new tricks
-Clean basement shed or garage or get boxes ready for a yard sale or goodwill.
-Help a sick or elderly neighbor with yard work (just do it do not go to the door and get sick) shovel snow rake leaves take the trash to the road.
-Binge-watch that show you like or find old shows from when you were young.
-Get out the popcorn for those old and new movies, oh it also might be a good time for that free trial of service you might not own.
-Adult coloring today is very popular you can print out pages online you can find printouts for kids as well.
-Write beautiful emails with pics to family and neighbors checking on them and seeing if they are ok check on Facebook and other social media friends elderly could die becuase of lack of care or being checked on.
youtube day you can spend hours watching videos that interest you
the best football passes
baseball home runs
cutest animal videos
football fumbles
best hockey plays
tennis players yell at refs
funny videos of kids
funny animal videos
inspiring videos
after the dentist videos
bloopers
beautiful scenes or places
event videos
top basketball shots
best of NASCAR
makeup and nail art videos
and so on and so and so on
Well that's is it for today back soon with more hugs and have a beautiful day.
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