having a difficult time in Quarantine? Here’s some creative activities for kids, teens, families, and adults to strengthen happiness and build memories!
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 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!
