Everyone deals differently with the idea of being stuck at home for months on end, but the process usually involves some amount of boredom. Maybe you’ve spent most of your time on Netflix, or you’ve already tried a few homemade bread recipes. Perhaps you have tried cleaning out that messy room, or starting a Youtube channel. However you deal with the extensive freetime you now have, at some point you’ll probably think “I’m really bored right now. What should I do?” And in that case, this list is for you.
- Organize something: your spice cabinet, your photo collection, your sock drawer… you get the picture
- Go online shopping
- Paint a picture
- Try a new recipe (maybe something easier than bread)
- Make care packages to send to your friends
- Ding-dong-ditch your friends with homemade baked goods
- Cook a fancy dinner for your family
- Set up a scavenger hunt for your family
- Learn to draw animals, human faces, or cool patterns
- Learn a new language
- Learn Morse code
- Take a free online class in a subject that interests you
- Memorize your favorite poem
- Make up dance moves to your favorite song
- Learn a new gymnastics trick
- Learn magic tricks
- Talk backwards for a whole day
- Perfect a vocal accent
- Do a 24-hour reading marathon
- Make a list of your wildest hopes and dreams
- Make a list of facts about you
- Start a journal (can be a daily diary, an art journal, or a bullet journal)
- Update your bucket list
- Learn a new practical skill, like sewing
- Go a week without social media
- Try learning some sign language
- Redecorate your room
- Do Crosswords or Sudoku puzzles
- Practice a sport
- Do yoga
- Start meditating daily
- plan a home exercise routine
- Call your friends
- Learn digits of pi
- Create your utopia (if you could make the perfect world, what would it look like?) and write about it, draw it, or make collages to display it
- Write a short story, poem, or essay and enter it in a contest
- Expand your vocabulary
- Practice impressive trick shots
- Pull a (harmless) prank on your family
- Make a candle
- Do online trivia
- Explore new apps
- Write an article and send it to a magazine or newspaper
- Watch Ted Talks
- Explore spoken-word/slam poetry online
- Learn a new hairstyle
- Write a book (okay, this one may be a bit more time-consuming)
- Learn/practice cursive or cursive
- Write letters to your friends and family. Be a penpal! Grandparents especially like getting letters.
- Watch a documentary
- Create short films– you can learn animation, record your own acting, or make a mini documentary
- Photograph the sites of your neighborhood
- Participate in an online book club with your friends
- Write reviews of books, shows, and movies, etc.
- Learn or practice an instrument
- Find new music you really like
