101 things to do at home
Plus more!
Children
- Make a silly sign to put by each sink to encourage hand washing (here are 20+ free printable handwashing posters if you prefer)
- Teach kids why it’s important to wash ands with this handwashing activity
- Bake Cookies, or cake, or bread (try our melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookie recipe that are so much fun to cut out into various shapes and frost)
- Have a tea party. Get dressed up and bring a doll or bear and host a party with tea or apple juice and little snacks out of tea cups. This is sure to be a hit with young girls.
- Celebrate fun holidays with silly crafts and activities
- Build a Fort out of couch cushions, furniture and blankets, or this super cool fort kit.
- Make special popcorn (like oreo popcorn, carmel popcorn, etc. just search pinterest) and watch a movie together
- Play in the backyard (as of now, experts say you are fine to be outside as long as you are 6 feet from your neighbor)
- Draw on the driveway with chalk
- Ride your bike up and down the street (use a helmet please, the ER is not the place you want to be now!)
- Play backyard games like tic-tac-toe, jenga, giant yatzee, twister, connect four, croquet, badmitton, volleyball, etc.
- Kick a soccer ball back and forth or have a frienly family game
- Play a family game of PIG with your driveway basketball hoop (I would NOT go to the local park or invite over neighborhood friends during the pandemic)
- Just because the MLB delayed the start of baseball doesn’t mean you can’t play catch in the backyard
- Fly a kite (if you have a large backyard or a big empty field near your houes and local quarantine restrictions permit)
- Disneyland, and Disney Cruises may be closed…. but you can bring Disney magic into your day. Have a Disney Family Fun Day – ideas for themed food, games, crafts, etc. for a special day your kids will always remember
- Work on a 1000+ piece puzzle as a family
- Color a picture with crayons, markers, gel pens, or colored pencils (remember Amazon still delivers and, unlike hand sanitizer and chlorox / lysol spray, craft supplies are in stock!) We have over 500 pages of free coloring pages !
- Chances are you have some craft supplies like tp tubes, pipe cleaners, glue, construction paper, google eyes, tape, etc. around that you were meaning to make into a craft – no time like the present to make fun crafts for kids!
- Deep clean your house as a family
- Take time daily to pray for your friends / family / neighbors / community
- Call Grandma & Grandpa, Aunts & Uncles, Cousins, and friends on facetime / zoom / skype / facebook
- Make some silly playdough creations (you can grab free playdough mats here or try a new homemade playdough recipe here)
- Write a letter to family and friends or a pen pal (send via the mail, wait to mail it until the crisis passes, or take a picture and send the letter via messenger or email)
- Make a letter craft with your preschoolers – with one a day you will have crafts for almost a whole month!
- Make a souvenir – I don’t mean to trivialize what is going on at all, but with kids we also want to keep them calm and free from anxiety. Make a toilet paper themed craft to commemorate all the toilet paper craziness in the US.
- Blow bubbles! Don’t have any bubble solution on hand? Try our amazing homemade bubbles recipe
- Use lego to build landmarks from around the world, compete to build the tallest or most creative building, etc.
- Make an epic train track all around your living room
- Try Amazing Bubble Painting for Kids
- Whip up a batch of kid favorite SLIME! Here are our favorite slime recipes.
- Use this puffy paint recipe or these puffy paint recipe ideas to make a fun “3d” project
- Help kids learn some geography by pinpointing different cities on these free printable world map as you watch the news and hear different countries. For older students, you can work on statistics, epidimology, and math by graphing the growth of the pandemic.
- Younger students can seize the opportunity to learn about countries around the world with a less intense activity – they can color these Countries Around the World Coloring Pages to explore famous landmarks and cultures.
- Learn about the 50 US States with these super cute and fun-to-color 50 State Coloring Pages
- Make a fun hand art projects or alphabet handprint crafts
- Play a boardgame…. or two or three =) Here are some of our favorite board games to order on Amazon to try something new
- Prepare as scavenger hunt around your house (give clues on post it notes, picture clues, color scavenger hunt, alphabet scavenger hunt, etc.)
- Learn a new language online with rosetta stone or watch cartoons with the spanish language track
- Get a jump on Christmas by making some fun Christmas Crafts to give to family members in December
- Have a very merry unbirthday party – watch Alice in Wonderland, practice counting with these birthday cake playdough mats, make a birthday cake, etc.
- lp toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners practice their alphabet letters and learn their ABCs with these fun Alphabet Printables and ABC Games
- Prepare birthday cards for the next year so they are all ready to send out! You can get free printable birthday cards for kids to color!
- Have a fancy dinner where you all get dressed up, use a tablecloth and candles, and put on music while you eat
- Make some music. If your kids play instruments they can each work on a piece to perform. Or, make your own musical instruments to make your own music.
- Put on a circus at home where everyone works on an act. Have mom or dad be the ring leader and announce each act to thunderous appluase from your whole family. Just look for circus music in amazon music for your performance and have children see what is in a circus by watching Dumbo, The Greatest Showman, or google Ringling Brothers Circus on you tube to learn what acts are in a circus.
- Play with your food with these Animal Cookie Printables to practice counting to 10 or a montessori animal matching activity
- Have a fashion show where you make a runway out of towels, put on some music, and mom or dad can announce each fashion piece as your girls and boys walk down the runway in styles they create from their closets, mom and dads closet, or their dress up clothes. You can take pictures using a cell phone or camera and post them on social media if you like
- Travel around the world by preparing meals from different countries by googling recipes online. Have people wear clothes inspired by that country, play typical music, and even make decorations that are common in that country.
- Have you children write and illustrate a story you can actually publish into a book with services like lulu. Or you can write the story together as a family
- Subscrive to one of the Kiwi Crate lines for activities delivered to your door with all the supplies you need! Our favorites are the Atlas Crafte around the world, Doodle crate with different crafts, Eureka crafts with epic projects for kids 14+ (pictured above), and Koala crafte with several projects a month for little tykes, Subscribe now and save $3.14 a month with code PIDAY
- Have a backyard campfire – roast marshmallows, sing songs, tell stories, and play campfire games.
- Look through old family photobooks, scrapbooks, and pictures and tell your kids stories about your family history
- Work on organizing your family pictures into photobooks using services like shutterfly
- Plan your next family vacation – date TBD. Talk to your kids about where they would want to go, google what you should see in the state or country. Plan your disney vacation with our tips here!
- Did you know you can go on every ride at Disney World watching videos on youtube? Print off a park map and sit around the computer screen. Then google each ride on you tube and you can take a virtual vacation! You can even make your own mickey pretzels as a snack – not disney snack credits required!
- Teach your dog a new trick – shake hands, roll over, jump through a hoop, etc. Lots of ideas online
- Practice math or letters with these free printable snack mats: Goldfish Counting, Fruit Loop / Skittle / M & M Alphabet Mats, Sorting Colors Mats, Ten Frame Snack Mats
- Make an obstacle course for kids out of furniture, crepe paper, string. Here is one we made with crepe paper for a bug unit to give you an idea!
- Build your own DIY simple machines from things you have laying around the house to sneak in some fun learning
- Have a spa day with your girls – do face masks, manicures / pedicures, soak feet in a foot bath, take a bath, put cucumbers on your face, give massages, makeovers, etc.
- Play your favorite video game or buy a new game to make the time extra fun!
- Pretend you have your own zoo and put animal figures or duplo figures arranged to make a zoo. Or have kids join in and pretend they are animals with these free printable animal masks. Older students may want to try creating their own zoo on Zoo Tycone.
- Have a family reading competition! Here are some great books lists for kids and printable book logs / charts
- Work on learning to count coins and tell american money apart with these coin recognition worksheets
- Play store by making or printing your own pretend money, put a price on everything in their play kitchen, and let kids go shopping and practice adding and subtracting money!
- Make your own pizza night – make a yeast crust and let people pick their own toppings
- Star Wars Marathon – watch all the star wars movies in a row from episode 1-9. Or any other series you like such as Toy Story 1-4 or Frozen 1 & 2, etc.
- Sneak in some american history and let kids binge watch Libery Kids to learn about the revolutionary war in a very engaging, historically acurate cartoon for kids
- Follow our simple instructions for how to make a lava lamp – this will amaze kids!
- Become super heroes! Have everyone create their own super hero name, power, costume. You can roll play some events, watch incredible 1 & 2, or older kids can watch marvel super hero movies
- Build your own Sundaes – have lots of fun toppings for kids to make their own ice cream creations. Or, make your own ice cream in a bag with this hands-on recipe for active kids.
- Buy a new lego set that he whole family will have fun building together
- Take a bubble bath, play with toys in the bath, or have a themed bath
- Once the sun goes down, turn off all the lights, hand out flashlights and play flashlight tag
- Have an EPIC game of hide and seek with your family throughout your house
- Make paper airplanes and have a competition to see whose goes the farthest
- Try guided art projects – by googling them on youtube (draw animals, people, famous places etc)
- Dive into a period of history with one of history units for kids
- Make an epic marble run out of the toy or DIY marble run
- Create beautiful origami creations (just google it or buy an origami book)
- Have a fun dance party with favorite music
- Get on pajamas and have a sleepover all together
- Create a human sundial on your driveway to show kids how time pases (or build a lego version)
- Play charades as a family for lots of fun and giggles. You can create your own or get this Charades for Kids we use all the time.
- Play an epic girls versus boys Pictionary game using dry erase boards or scratch paper!
- Create your own code or cipher and write each other hidden messages. You can do this activity on its own or as part of a spy themed day
- Work on memorizing a new passage of scripture together as a family (printable Bible verse cards)
- Create a road out of chalk on your driveway for little tykes vehices or bikes to drive through
- Teach kids to sew or knit
- Make this Amazing Tinfoil Art Project!
- Use kid-favorite Bingo Markers with our free Do a Dot Printables to practice a variety of skills
- Play BINGO (here are our free bingo printables) or memory game
- Make an indoor volleball game by attaching plates to paint stirers with staple or tape and using the diy paddles to keep a balloon in the air.
- Make Rock Candy
- Learn to make your own balloon animals
- Try one of these 100+ amazing Edible Science Experiments for Kids
- Have an epic Nerf War or Laster Tag game. Form teams and see who comes out on top!
- See who can build the tallest tower or longest bridge out of marshmallows and dry spaghetti
- Host your own family olympics! Try these ideas or try your favorite events.
- Minute to Win It Party – so many fun, silly activities that are sure to make kids giggle
- Make a GIANT domino run around your home (you may want to pick up a couple extra games for this one!)
- Help kids focus on all we have to be grateful for even during this unusual and scary time by creating a thankful box. Every day have kids share something they are thankful for, write it on a paper, and put it in the box.
- Get Healthy with af riendly physical fitness competition! See who can do the most sit ups in a minute, push-ups, jumping jacks, planks, etc. With our kids we also do wheelbarrow races and handstands against the walls.
- Go on a virtual museum tour here
- Watch a live stream of the New York Met here
- Doodle with Mo Willems here.
- Get crafty in the kitchen here
- Embark on enrichment activities here
- Study up with the Scholastic digital hub here
- Take an adventure walk around the backyard or neighborhood
- Write haikus
- Build paper airplanes
- Learn to solve the Rubik's cube via YouTube
- Find three objects and learn to juggle
- Have a spa day (DIY mani/pedis, face masks, etc.)
- Build a fort with pillows and blankets
- Do Pinterest projects
- Dress up in old Halloween costumes and make a crazy movie or mini skits
- Make a music video
- Check out ChessKid.com (free site where kids play each other in chess)
- Paint a room together
- Video chat with friends
- Walk around the outdoor Lyndon Sculpture Garden for free (while keeping a distance of six feet from others)
- Plant seedlings for the summer garden
- Do some Mad Libs (Search "free Mad Libs" and print out)
- Sing karaoke
- Play Milwaukee Monopoly
- Learn how to Geocache here
- Get the Korg Kaossilator app free for a limited time and create the next electronic music hit
- Decorate a cardboard box to make a fort, rocketship, pirate ship
- Dress up as your favorite characters
- Create a LEGO city
- Make your own crossword puzzle (or sudoku, puzzle, logic problem, etc)
- Listen to podcasts
- Make your own podcast
- Randomly call out countries and then look on a map or globe to see where they are located
- Clean your room – including under your bed
- Take an online art lesson here
- Do chores for neighbors and the elderly
- Put all the toys you don't play with in a box for other kids to enjoy
- Create a dance, or watch a music video and learn that dance
- Play balloon tennis or any balloon game
- Make a mini golf course
- Give your stuffed animals a Lysol bath
- Learn about different species of dogs or cats or bugs via Google
- Read books out loud to each other
- Play 20 questions
- Make slime, here's a recipe
- Play World Geo Bingo, get it here
- Have a family meeting and make a list of places you want to travel together – near and far – in the future
- Create a scavenger hunt either indoors or out
- Write a letter to a grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin or friend
- Make fortune tellers here
- Learn kid-friendly Spanish for free here
- Rearrange your bedrooms
- Play Hangman
- Learn to make balloon animals with this kit
- Find all the change in the house, count it and decide where to donate it
- Take a bubble bath or an "art bath" with shaving cream and bath crayons, etc.
- Learn a classic card game: solitaire, crazy 8s, slap jack, etc.
- Pretend the living room floor is lava
- Have a family poetry reading
- Go to a beach, collect a few rocks and paint them
- Study the phases of the moon here
- Have a jumping jacks contest
- Make a list of your favorite movies and then Google each one to find out something interesting you didn't know about it
- Call a friend on the phone (rather than connect on social media)
- Learn how to hand sew
- Play duck, duck, goose
- Lay down a clean sheet in an open room, set a popcorn popper on top of it without a lid and pop the corn (parents must be present)
- Blow bubbles
- Make zines with a single sheet of paper here
- Learn simple origami here
- Walk around the block backwards
- Tell stories about happy family memories
- Kids and parents take turns introducing each other to their favorite songs
- Learn cat's cradle here
- Make Kool- Aid play-doh with this recipe
- Visit BrainPop.com for more serious learning experiences
- Do a jigsaw puzzle
- Play Bananagrams or Boggle, both with educational qualities
- Get a magnifying glass and go on a hike here
- Teach kids domestic chores like laundry and dish washing
- Practice the lost art of cursive writing here
- Do yoga for kids here
- Pick one of the planets and find out 10 facts about it, then draw it
- Dye Easter eggs
- Watch a show on National Geographic
- Play school or bookstore
- Write raps and then perform them
- Look up knock-knock jokes online
- Read about the politician you want to vote for
- Read about the politician you don't want to vote for
- Take artsy photos on your phone around the topic "Favorite things in my home"
- Organize closets or junk drawers
- Go to Zenni.com and "try on" wild-looking glasses just for fun
- Do trust falls (adults must be present!)
- Make your own comic book
- Make a collage out of books, magazine, catalogs, recycled paper items, etc.
- Do as many sit ups as you can, followed by as many push-ups as possible
- Have a "dusting" party with loud music and finally dust all those places that never get dusted
- Learn the moonwalk here
- Mix kitchen liquids together and play alchemist (parents must be present!)
- Be bored – it leads to doing cool things we'd never think of otherwise
Adults
- Read a book you’ve been dying to read
- Make an Amazon wishlist because it’s fun
- Go to a workout class
- Do a workout at home
- Go for a walk
- Listen to a podcast
- Watch a new series on Netflix
- Read a magazine
- Take a nap
- Do laundry
- Change the sheets
- Clean out your closet
- Re-organize some drawers
- Donate clothes
- Volunteer
- Go window shopping
- Try a new makeup look
- Clean out your makeup
- Cook something new
- Bake something new
- Bake cookies for a neighbor
- Make a 101 in 1001 list
- Clean your house top to bottom
- Watch a favorite movie
- Surprise someone with coffee or lunch
- Go walk on a trail in your city
- Write blog posts
- Work on your social media
- Take photos
- Take a class (online even)
- Explore
- Binge watch a show you love
- Clean out your car
- Wash your car
- Vacuum
- Mop
- Clean out your fridge or freezer
- Clean out your purse
- Do some ab workouts
- Give yourself a pedicure
- Try some new makeup palettes
- Rearrange your furniture
- Mix up your decor
- Change out pictures in frames
- FaceTime your family
- Call your grandparents
- Make a mood board or an inspiration board — Pinterest counts
- Have a coffee date with your bestie
- Clean up the files on your computer
- Organize Google Drive
- Organize your planner
- Read some news headlines from the day and find a few articles that interest you
- Do a puzzle or a crossword
- Make a document with important phone numbers
- Donate things you don’t need
- Vacation dream
- Clean your makeup brushes
- Get a massage
- Get a facial
- Get a mani/pedi
- Plan a trip to visit a friend
- Go to a yoga/pilates/barre class
- Head to the gym
- Go for a run
- Clean out your pantry
- Start a side hustle
- Make dinner for a friend/neighbor
- Make a list of finances
- Call cable, internet, XM radio and ask for a better deal
- Learn to make a fancy cocktail
- Journal
- Clean up your Facebook friends list/Twitter list etc
- Download a dating or friend app
- Watch the Harry Potter movies
- Read the Harry Potter books
- Color
- Dust your light fixtures
- Download the 7 Minute Work app and do it
- Make a new playlist
- Go to a wine/painting class
- Update your resume
- Try on fun fancy dresses at the mall
- Go to a famers market
- Meditate
- Have friends over for a game night
- Host a wine night
- Make a scrapbook
- Babysit for a friend
- Surprise your parents
- Do a DIY
- Check out a museum
- Meal prep
- Make smoothie bags
- Wash blankets from the couch
- Organize your basement or attic
- Have a slumber party by yourself (order pizza, put on some fun movies, pop some popcorn)
- Fine a new YouTube channel to binge
- Go to the movies alone
- Go try a new restaurant
- Make frozen yogurt
1. Complete a puzzle: The more pieces the better! Feeling extra saucy? Take on a Rubik's Cube. More of a word person? Crossword puzzle!
2. Start a journal or blog. Sure, it can be about the coronavirus, but it could also be about a specific interest from chess to cheese.
3. If it won't bother your neighbors: Dust off that old instrument and practice.
4. Text all your exes just in case you have one more thing you wanted to get off your chest.
5. Write poetry. Perhaps you can craft a haiku for Mother's Day, or something without a specific structure. Just try it!
6. Watch all the really long movies you’ve avoided until now.
7. Download Duolingo, or a similar app, and teach yourself a foreign language.
8. Finally read “Infinite Jest,” “Les Miserables” or even “The Stand.” Go all in and read “Ulysses.” You got this.
9. Meditate. Try lying down with your eyes closed, palms up and while focusing on your breath. Or spend 20 minutes sitting crosslegged and repeat a soothing word to yourself in your head. (The latter is more like transcendental meditation.)
10. Face masks, moisturizer, oh my! Treat yourself to a 10-step skin care routine you don’t have time for during a normal work week.
11. Look at pictures of puppies.
12. Put together the most attractive charcuterie board possible, but you can only use foods you already have in your fridge and cupboard.
13. Take note from "Tangled" star Rapunzel, who has an entire song about how she's spent her days alone in a castle. Activities included in her ditty: Ventriloquy, candle-making, papier-mâché and adding a new painting to her gallery.
14. Write actual letters to family and friends. After that? Write thank-you notes to service people who you remember went out of their way for you.
15. Learn calligraphy. YouTube can help.
16. Finally read the rules to those long and intense board games you've never played with the family. Encourage the family to play.
17. Put on a soap opera. Mute the sound. Create your own dialogue.
18. Have a space in your home where all of the tupperware goes? Organize it and actually match lids to containers.
19. Try on all your clothes and determine whether they “spark joy” á la Marie Kondo.
20. Better yet, go through this process with your junk drawer and supply shelves.
21. Have a roommate meeting about how to be more considerate of one other, especially while you will likely be spending more time together. Bring baked goods.
22. Bake those goods.
23. Watch the films that won Oscars for best picture.
24. Watch films that won Independent Spirit Awards for best picture.
25. Watch films that critics say should have won those aforementioned awards.
26. Read all the New Yorker issues piled on your desk.
27. Will Tom Hanks into recovery from coronavirus by watching every Tom Hanks movie chronologically.
28. Knit or crochet.
29. Use Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts or Marco Polo to video chat with your long-distance friends.
30. Try out at-home aerobics or yoga videos. Consider downloading a fitness app with curated workout playlists.
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31. Look at yourself in the mirror. Attempt a self portrait with pencil and paper.
32. Take a bubble bath (bonus: Add a glass of wine).
33. Make a classic cocktail, from negronis to Manhattans and aperol spritzes. Don't forget the garnish.
34. Coloring books: They’re not just for kids.
35. Take time to reflect: What have you accomplished in the last year? What goals are you setting for yourself in the next year?
36. Write a short story or get started on that novel.
37. Actually try to reproduce something you see on Pinterest. Probably fail. Try again.
38. Clear out the family room and camp indoors with all blankets, popcorn and scary movies.Here are 100 movies to watch for every cinematic yearning
39. Finally get around to fixing that broken door knob and loose tile or cleaning scuffed up walls.
40. Acquire a foam roller and treat yourself to some physical therapy.
41. Pretend you're 13 years old and fold a square piece of paper into a fortune teller you put your thumbs and pointer fingers into. Proceed to tell fortunes.
42. Learn how to braid (fishtail, French, etc.) via YouTube tutorial..
43. Throw out all your too-old makeup and products. (Tip: most liquid products have a small symbol on them noting expirations, usually six months to a year. This includes sunscreen!)
44. Interview your grandparents (over the phone, of course) and save the audio. Can you create an audio story or book with that file?
45. Go through your camera roll, pick your favorite pics from the past year and make a photo book or order framed versions online.
46. Go on a health kick and learn how to cook new recipes with ingredients you may not be using already, from miso to tahini.
47. Create a Google document of shows or movies you’re watching and share it among family and friends.
48. Make a list of things for which you are grateful.
49. Have your own wine tasting of whatever bottles you have at home. Make up stories about the journey of the grapes to your mouth.
50. Work on your financial planning, such as exploring whether to refinance your loan or ways to save more money.
51. Perfect grandma’s bolognese recipe.
52. Make coffee, but this time study how many beans you use, which types, how hot the water is, how long it brews and whether any of that makes a difference.
53. Buy gift cards from your favorite local businesses to help keep them in business while we quarantine.
54. Watch “Frozen 2,’ which went up early on Disney Plus. Another new movie on the streaming service: "Stargirl."
55. Write a book with your family. Pick a character and each member writes a chapter about their adventures. Read aloud to each other.
56. No March Madness? Have a Scrabble tournament. Or Bananagrams. Pictionary, anyone?
57. Get into baking with "The Great British Baking Show," but your technical challenge is baking something with the ingredients you have on hand (that you didn't already use in the charcuterie board).
58. Indoor scavenger hunt.
59. Alternate reading the Harry Potter series with your kids and cap each one off with the movie.
60. Dye your hair a new color. No one else needs to see it if you don't like it.
61. Read Robert Jordan’s 14-book “Wheel of Time” series before it streams on Amazon starring Rosamund Pike.
62. Write a play starring your loved ones. Perform it via a video call app.
63. Go viral in the good way by making a quarantine-themed TikTok.
64. Rearrange your sock drawer. Really.
65. Stop procrastinating and do your income taxes.
66. Make lists of all the museums, sporting events and concerts you want to visit when they finally reopen.
67. Get into comics with digital subscriptions on your tablet, like Marvel Unlimited.
68. Rearrange your furniture to make it seem like your home is a totally different space.
69. Practice shuffling playing cards like a Poker dealer. Be ready for employment opportunities once all casinos open back up.
70. Organize your spice rack alphabetically or get crazy and do it by cuisine.
71. Teach your dog to shake. Hand sanitizer optional.
72. Memorize the periodic table. You never know when that will come in handy.
73. Order and put together some IKEA furniture. Time yourself.
74. Get a free trial of a streaming service and binge-watch as much as you can before it expires.
75. Apply for a new job. You have remote work experience now.
76. Learn a new style of dance via YouTube, from bellydancing to breaking.
77. Update or write your will and organize your affairs. Yes, it sounds melodramatic and morbid but let’s face it: This is a task many of us avoid because we never have the time. Now we do.
78.The parades have been canceled but you can still make corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day.
79. Bring out the Legos. Build your house inside of your house.
80. Watch the "Star Wars" movies in this and only this order: Rogue One-IV-V-II-III-Solo-VI-VII-VIII-IX.
81. Two words: Coronavirus beard! Grow it, moisturize it, comb it, love it.
82. Learn the words to "Tung Twista." Get them so ingrained in your brain that you can rap them as fast as Twista can. Impress everyone.
83. Been meaning to get some new glasses? Try on new frames virtually on sites like GlassesUSA.com.
84. Attempt things with your non-dominant hand, from writing to brushing your teeth. Prepare to be frustrated.
85. How many words per minute can you type? See if you can get speedier by taking a typing course.
86. Prepare to verbally duel a bully who wants to discuss the evolution of the market economy in the Southern colonies, by memorizing Matt Damon's "Good Will Hunting" speech.
87. Learn origami. Make cranes for your loved ones.
88. Stretch. Work on your flexibility. It's possible to get the splits back, right?
89. Try to speak in pig Latin. Or, "ig-pay, atin-Lay."
90. Talk to your plants. How are they doing? Make sure they are getting the amount of sunlight they should be. Check their soil. Water if necessary.
91. Deep condition your hair and put paraffin wax on your hands. Enjoy your soft hair and nails.
92. Consider donating money to food banks to help families struggling to get meals.
93. Write a song. If you want to make it about your time inside and put it to the tune of "My Sharona" and replace "Sharona" with "Corona," do what you have to do.
94. Study the art of beatboxing.
95. Try moving in super-slow motion. It's OK to laugh at regular speed.
96. You know how there are dozens of ways to wear a scarf, but you only wear it the one way? Learn the other ways.
97. Learn Old English words. Pepper them into your conversation. Wherefore not?
98. Try on a new shade of lipstick. See how long it takes your partner to notice it.
99. Take deep breaths, in through your nose and out through your mouth.
100. Sleep. Get lots of it.
2. Start a journal or blog. Sure, it can be about the coronavirus, but it could also be about a specific interest from chess to cheese.
3. If it won't bother your neighbors: Dust off that old instrument and practice.
4. Text all your exes just in case you have one more thing you wanted to get off your chest.
5. Write poetry. Perhaps you can craft a haiku for Mother's Day, or something without a specific structure. Just try it!
6. Watch all the really long movies you’ve avoided until now.
7. Download Duolingo, or a similar app, and teach yourself a foreign language.
8. Finally read “Infinite Jest,” “Les Miserables” or even “The Stand.” Go all in and read “Ulysses.” You got this.
9. Meditate. Try lying down with your eyes closed, palms up and while focusing on your breath. Or spend 20 minutes sitting crosslegged and repeat a soothing word to yourself in your head. (The latter is more like transcendental meditation.)
10. Face masks, moisturizer, oh my! Treat yourself to a 10-step skin care routine you don’t have time for during a normal work week.
11. Look at pictures of puppies.
12. Put together the most attractive charcuterie board possible, but you can only use foods you already have in your fridge and cupboard.
13. Take note from "Tangled" star Rapunzel, who has an entire song about how she's spent her days alone in a castle. Activities included in her ditty: Ventriloquy, candle-making, papier-mâché and adding a new painting to her gallery.
14. Write actual letters to family and friends. After that? Write thank-you notes to service people who you remember went out of their way for you.
15. Learn calligraphy. YouTube can help.
16. Finally read the rules to those long and intense board games you've never played with the family. Encourage the family to play.
17. Put on a soap opera. Mute the sound. Create your own dialogue.
18. Have a space in your home where all of the tupperware goes? Organize it and actually match lids to containers.
19. Try on all your clothes and determine whether they “spark joy” á la Marie Kondo.
20. Better yet, go through this process with your junk drawer and supply shelves.
21. Have a roommate meeting about how to be more considerate of one other, especially while you will likely be spending more time together. Bring baked goods.
22. Bake those goods.
23. Watch the films that won Oscars for best picture.
24. Watch films that won Independent Spirit Awards for best picture.
25. Watch films that critics say should have won those aforementioned awards.
26. Read all the New Yorker issues piled on your desk.
27. Will Tom Hanks into recovery from coronavirus by watching every Tom Hanks movie chronologically.
28. Knit or crochet.
29. Use Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts or Marco Polo to video chat with your long-distance friends.
30. Try out at-home aerobics or yoga videos. Consider downloading a fitness app with curated workout playlists.
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31. Look at yourself in the mirror. Attempt a self portrait with pencil and paper.
32. Take a bubble bath (bonus: Add a glass of wine).
33. Make a classic cocktail, from negronis to Manhattans and aperol spritzes. Don't forget the garnish.
34. Coloring books: They’re not just for kids.
35. Take time to reflect: What have you accomplished in the last year? What goals are you setting for yourself in the next year?
36. Write a short story or get started on that novel.
37. Actually try to reproduce something you see on Pinterest. Probably fail. Try again.
38. Clear out the family room and camp indoors with all blankets, popcorn and scary movies.Here are 100 movies to watch for every cinematic yearning
39. Finally get around to fixing that broken door knob and loose tile or cleaning scuffed up walls.
40. Acquire a foam roller and treat yourself to some physical therapy.
41. Pretend you're 13 years old and fold a square piece of paper into a fortune teller you put your thumbs and pointer fingers into. Proceed to tell fortunes.
42. Learn how to braid (fishtail, French, etc.) via YouTube tutorial..
43. Throw out all your too-old makeup and products. (Tip: most liquid products have a small symbol on them noting expirations, usually six months to a year. This includes sunscreen!)
44. Interview your grandparents (over the phone, of course) and save the audio. Can you create an audio story or book with that file?
45. Go through your camera roll, pick your favorite pics from the past year and make a photo book or order framed versions online.
46. Go on a health kick and learn how to cook new recipes with ingredients you may not be using already, from miso to tahini.
47. Create a Google document of shows or movies you’re watching and share it among family and friends.
48. Make a list of things for which you are grateful.
49. Have your own wine tasting of whatever bottles you have at home. Make up stories about the journey of the grapes to your mouth.
50. Work on your financial planning, such as exploring whether to refinance your loan or ways to save more money.
51. Perfect grandma’s bolognese recipe.
52. Make coffee, but this time study how many beans you use, which types, how hot the water is, how long it brews and whether any of that makes a difference.
53. Buy gift cards from your favorite local businesses to help keep them in business while we quarantine.
54. Watch “Frozen 2,’ which went up early on Disney Plus. Another new movie on the streaming service: "Stargirl."
55. Write a book with your family. Pick a character and each member writes a chapter about their adventures. Read aloud to each other.
56. No March Madness? Have a Scrabble tournament. Or Bananagrams. Pictionary, anyone?
57. Get into baking with "The Great British Baking Show," but your technical challenge is baking something with the ingredients you have on hand (that you didn't already use in the charcuterie board).
58. Indoor scavenger hunt.
59. Alternate reading the Harry Potter series with your kids and cap each one off with the movie.
60. Dye your hair a new color. No one else needs to see it if you don't like it.
61. Read Robert Jordan’s 14-book “Wheel of Time” series before it streams on Amazon starring Rosamund Pike.
62. Write a play starring your loved ones. Perform it via a video call app.
63. Go viral in the good way by making a quarantine-themed TikTok.
64. Rearrange your sock drawer. Really.
65. Stop procrastinating and do your income taxes.
66. Make lists of all the museums, sporting events and concerts you want to visit when they finally reopen.
67. Get into comics with digital subscriptions on your tablet, like Marvel Unlimited.
68. Rearrange your furniture to make it seem like your home is a totally different space.
69. Practice shuffling playing cards like a Poker dealer. Be ready for employment opportunities once all casinos open back up.
70. Organize your spice rack alphabetically or get crazy and do it by cuisine.
71. Teach your dog to shake. Hand sanitizer optional.
72. Memorize the periodic table. You never know when that will come in handy.
73. Order and put together some IKEA furniture. Time yourself.
74. Get a free trial of a streaming service and binge-watch as much as you can before it expires.
75. Apply for a new job. You have remote work experience now.
76. Learn a new style of dance via YouTube, from bellydancing to breaking.
77. Update or write your will and organize your affairs. Yes, it sounds melodramatic and morbid but let’s face it: This is a task many of us avoid because we never have the time. Now we do.
78.The parades have been canceled but you can still make corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day.
79. Bring out the Legos. Build your house inside of your house.
80. Watch the "Star Wars" movies in this and only this order: Rogue One-IV-V-II-III-Solo-VI-VII-VIII-IX.
81. Two words: Coronavirus beard! Grow it, moisturize it, comb it, love it.
82. Learn the words to "Tung Twista." Get them so ingrained in your brain that you can rap them as fast as Twista can. Impress everyone.
83. Been meaning to get some new glasses? Try on new frames virtually on sites like GlassesUSA.com.
84. Attempt things with your non-dominant hand, from writing to brushing your teeth. Prepare to be frustrated.
85. How many words per minute can you type? See if you can get speedier by taking a typing course.
86. Prepare to verbally duel a bully who wants to discuss the evolution of the market economy in the Southern colonies, by memorizing Matt Damon's "Good Will Hunting" speech.
87. Learn origami. Make cranes for your loved ones.
88. Stretch. Work on your flexibility. It's possible to get the splits back, right?
89. Try to speak in pig Latin. Or, "ig-pay, atin-Lay."
90. Talk to your plants. How are they doing? Make sure they are getting the amount of sunlight they should be. Check their soil. Water if necessary.
91. Deep condition your hair and put paraffin wax on your hands. Enjoy your soft hair and nails.
92. Consider donating money to food banks to help families struggling to get meals.
93. Write a song. If you want to make it about your time inside and put it to the tune of "My Sharona" and replace "Sharona" with "Corona," do what you have to do.
94. Study the art of beatboxing.
95. Try moving in super-slow motion. It's OK to laugh at regular speed.
96. You know how there are dozens of ways to wear a scarf, but you only wear it the one way? Learn the other ways.
97. Learn Old English words. Pepper them into your conversation. Wherefore not?
98. Try on a new shade of lipstick. See how long it takes your partner to notice it.
99. Take deep breaths, in through your nose and out through your mouth.
100. Sleep. Get lots of it.
