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Books I’ve Read Since COVID Started (in the order I read them)

  • Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators | Ronan Farrow
  • Pineapple Grenade | Tim Dorsey
  • My Husband’s Wife | Jane Corry
  • The Riptide Ultra-Glide | Tim Dorsey
  • Tiger Shrimp Tango | Tim Dorsey
  • Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys | Eric Garcia
  • It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) | Nora McInerny
  • Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
  • Shark Skin Suite | Tim Dorsey
  • Untamed | Glennon Doyle
  • Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don’t Deny(R) Intermittent Fasting | Gin Stephens
  • Coconut Cowboy | Tim Dorsey
  • She Went All the Way | Meg Cabot
  • Maestra | L.S. Hinton
  • What to Say Next | Julie Buxbaum
  • No Happy Endings | Nora McInerny Purmort
  • Clownfish Blues | Tim Dorsey
  • A Map of Days | Ransom Riggs
  • The Conference of the Birds | Ransom Riggs
  • The First Time She Drowned | Kerry Kletter
  • One to Watch | Kate Stayman-London
  • The Pope of Palm Beach | Tim Dorsey
Book covers from TimDorsey.com
http://timdorsey.com/books.html

Things For Kids To Do While You Are In Quarantine (and they won’t even realize they are all educational!)

  • Invent a new board game
  • Use chalk art to turn your entire driveway (or front porch, or back deck, or garage floor) into a mural
  • Write letters to people you know
  • Make hand made cards to mail to strangers in nursing homes
  • Bake cookies
  • Plan a menu based on ingredients at home
  • Learn to cook
  • Watch animal videos (Cincinnati Zoo, Shedd Aquarium)
  • Make up fun songs
  • Read Shel Silverstein online and then write silly poems like he does
  • Create a dance routine to a favorite KidzBop song
  • Write a rap about the period table of elements, (or the Greek alphabet, or mutiplication tables)
  • Film your rap on TikTok or SnapChat or Facebook live
  • Plant a container garden
  • Do a multi-week experiment about what kind of music helps your container garden grow faster, (find a “scientific method” chart online to help with recording their hypothesis and testing it)
  • Detail the inside of the car
  • Video chat grandma
  • Teach grandma how to use her video chat first
  • Read big books together (Harry Potter, Narnia, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland)
  • Do YouTube videos for family meditation
  • Do online exercise videos from LesMills or your local YMCA
  • Measure all the things
  • Design charts to show the measurements
  • Create a stop-action film with Legos or play dough or stuffed animals (or, if you really enjoy Bob’s Burgers, with a pound of raw hamburger)
  • Write a movie script, design sets with items on hand, film it, post it online
  • Let them find Pinterest activities they can do with common household items
  • Build the Best. Fort. Ever.
  • Draw their own comic books
  • Make salt dough and play with it
  • Memorize something (Scripture verses, your favorite monologue from a movie, the preamble to the Constitution, all 50 states in alphabetical order)
  • Hide Easter eggs around the house
  • Do old fashioned calisthenics
  • Organize toys (NOT YOU… let them do it and then be okay with how they do it)
  • Create a time capsule to open in 10 years
  • Bury it in the back yard
  • Hide a “treasure” and then make a treasure map for others to find it
  • Use paper plates or construction paper to make giant Scrabble letters and play word games
  • Help change the oil in the car
  • Learn how to change a flat tire
  • Do easy science projects like eggs in various liquids, or testing air pollution, or the effect of germs on bread (all on Pinterest plus a million more)