Things to cure boredom:

• Complete a puzzle! Complete a Rubik’s Cube, or even do a Crossword puzzle to challenge your brain!

•  Start a journal or blog about something important to you.

• Dust off that old instrument and practice, or learn a new musical instrument.

• Write poetry about your feelings.

• Watch all the really long movies you haven’t seen!

• Teach yourself a foreign language, You can watch tutorials or use a app or take a language class here at SWIC!

• look at pictures of baby animals!

• Write real hand-written letters to family and friends and write thank-you notes to service people during this hard time.

• Learn calligraphy! YouTube or skill share can help.

• Play a board game together with your family

• Coloring books: They’re not just for kids.

• Learn a new skill that you’ve always wanted to learn!

• Work on your financial planning, try and find some ways to save more money. 

• Indoor scavenger hunt.

• if you have hair dye dye your hair a new color. Life is too short not to!

• Rearrange your sock drawer.

• Register to vote or get a application for a mail in ballot!

• Rearrange your furniture to make it seem like your home is a totally different space. 

• Make someone a Quarantine care package and donate it to the local hospitals or homeless shelters!

• Learn origami. Make cranes for your loved ones.

Self care practices to help your mood:

• Meditate try too get around 10 minutes of mediation in a day, to uplift your mood and improve clarity.

• Take a bubble bath you can add music or candles or even do a whole spa day!

• Make a vision board! Think of where you want to be 5 years from now and build your dreams!

• Exercise! Get your blood pumping and do a at home work out! Try and get 30 minutes or more a week!

• Clean! Do a deep clean and get rid of all the old items that don’t suit your life style anymore.

• Cook something new for you and your family!

• Go outside and go for a walk with out going on your phone. You can take a friend or the family dog!

• Do a calming facial

• Go for a bike ride

• Do yoga it can improve your flexibility and help calm any nerves or stress you might be holding in.

• Buy yourself some pretty flowers or buy a friend or family member some!

• Journal your feelings or what you did in the day. Just write!

• Read self-help books!

•  Make a list of things for which you are grateful.

• Been meaning to get some new glasses? Try on new frames virtually!

Safe Date idea’s:

• Clear out the family room and camp indoors with blankets, popcorn and favorite snacks, cuddle and watch scary movies together!

• Cook a sperate meal for each other and eat each others meal.

• Make art together, you can paint outdoors or even draw each other!

• Play 20 questions with each other!

• Clean your place together! Believe it or not it can be fun if you play some music and have a good time!

• Take a peaceful walk together and look at the trees and clouds, collect flowers or leaves together! You can even store them in a binder for memory sake.

• Do a online work out class together or just do a couples work out!

• binge watch all of the series you may have never finished with your partner

• Game night! Have some fun games lined up to do with your partner and read the directions before you play!

Staying Connected:

• Use Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts etc. and video chat with your long-distance friends.

• Give the mail man a thank you note with a small bottle of water or snack.

• Create a Google document of shows or movies you’re watching and share it among family and friends.

• Write a play starring your loved ones. Perform it via a video call or video and post it!

• Jackbox Party Pack, which is a bundle of multiplayer games that you can play on any device (laptop, smartphone, smart TV, you name it). They’re affordably priced (under $30)

• Netflix Party is a Chrome extension that synchronizes video playback and adds a group-chat function to anything you want to watch on Netflix. 

• Invite people to join an interactive online discussion group or book club. Or watch livestreams of interest that include live chat.

• Hang out in your front yard and interact with neighbors postal workers or walkers, As long as you observe the proper physical distance, you can be a friendly, encouraging presence in the neighborhood.

• Volunteer Virtually spend time for organizations and help your community and ones in need!

• Become a volunteer for crisis textline. There’s many people going through a difficult time right now let’s be there for them even if it’s just a text message away.

• Download be my eyes and help the visually impaired!

• Check on your neighbors who live alone to ensure they are okay. From a safe distance, strike up regular conversations with these individuals at the same time every day or several times a week. 

• Learn ASL ( American sign language) even if it’s just a few basic signs more people need to learn this!