Tag Archives: quarantine activities

COVID-19, Events, Nature, Social Media, Television

Things I’ve Done So Far During Quarantine

  • Dishes — a lot of dishes
  • Put away all the laundry that was sitting in piles of “This is clean; I’ll put it away someday.”
  • Cleaned out two boxes of stuff from my job
  • Practiced piano
  • Started a 1000 piece puzzle
  • Caught up on current season of Schitt’s Creek (so sad it’s over!)
  • Caught up on current season of Spring Baking Championship
  • Caught up on current season of Sister Wives
  • Watched last season of Flip or Flop
  • Watched season three of Lie to Me
  • Cleaned all main floor floors
  • Cleaned kitchen more times than I should have to
  • Actually cooked real food
  • Walked outside daily
  • Signed up for GeekNerdDating.com
  • Forgot to cancel before my trial period was up
  • Interviewed for a job
  • Updated my resume
  • Read
  • Stacked up a bunch more books to read
  • Debated rearranging all furniture in living and dining rooms but decided that was a terrible idea with nobody to help me
  • Video chatted with Grandbaby/Son/Daughterinlaw
  • Video chatted with my Tribe
  • Talked to parents daily
  • Spent too much on Amazon
  • Cleaned off all my ceiling fans with the new extendable pole duster I got on Amazon
  • Had groceries delivered twice
  • Had pizza delivered once and then was reminded that pizza messes with my stomach something fierce
  • Listened to birds singing
  • Took lots of nature pictures
  • Set up a private Facebook group for the condo association where I live
  • Wrote social media posts for pages I admin (some scheduled out through August)
  • Organized my Sharpies
  • Set up a main floor work space
  • Tried to wear something every day that makes me happy
St Patty’s day shirt & my Christmas leggings

 

View from the bench in front of my home

COVID-19, Family, Inspirational

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)