Thursday, April 30, 2020

Long Distance Grandparents Ideas

Long Distance Grandparent Activity #6 – Play the Story Game

The Story Game is where you start a story with 3-5 words. Then, your grandchild needs to continue the story with just 3-5 words. Then you continue the story with the next 3-5 words. This game can get hilarious when your grandchildren run it completely off the rails in a direction that you just didn’t anticipate. . .especially with the little ones!

Have a Tea Party
Imagination required! Younger children will enjoy setting up a tea party and surprising grandma and grandpa with an invitation. All the grandparents have to do is bring a cup and saucer and play along.

Keepy:  Share art-work, school projects and other things that grandparents love to put on their fridge (but don’t have room for).



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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

101+ Offline Homebound Activities


                  101+ Offline Homebound Activities
This list is 5 pages long, so it can be mailed for one first class stamp.
For the most up to date version of this list  go to: http://Homebound.fun

                 ISOLATION BUSTING ACTIVITIES
>>>>>>>>>One to One  Activities<<<<<<<
Phone Conversation Starters
-Are you a cat person or a dog person?
-What was your hometown like?
-What’s your favorite band / singer?
-What weird foods have you tried?
      Link- https://conversationstartersworld.com/topics-to-talk-about/

 -What’s your favorite way to waste time?
-Whose your oldest friend? Where did you meet them?
-Who had the biggest impact on the person you have become?
-What’s the most useful thing you own?
   From- https://conversationstartersworld.com/250-conversation-starters/

 -What is the most adventurous moment in your life?
-What type of cuisine are you most interested in?
Who is the person you look up to?
-What was your most embarrassing moment?
              from-https://pandagossips.com/posts/123

 Remote Senior Center
This Seniors group offers over 70  phone chat groups a week. Free for all!
from:Well Connected:A community for Seniors (catalog PDF) or call:toll free  877 797 7299

 Glimmering Bridges
The mission of our group is to provide weekly phone calls and check-ins to people within the United States. Everyone is welcome: elderly isolated at home, a patient in the hospital with limited visitors, a caregiver, or just want someone new to chat with. We hope to lessen isolation and provide people with information about local resources. 
Contact Us: glimmeringbridges@gmail.com 813-846-8677

               BOREDOM BUSTING ACTIVITIES
- Paint a vase 
-Make shadow puppets 
-Write a gratitude list 
-Order a disco ball to decorate your living room
-Eat a bowl of ice-cream (& don’t forget to add chocolate shell)
-Bake something insane & over-the-top
-Clean out your closet
-Frame up some of your favourite photographs & hang them in your house 
-Torture your pets by making them wear costumes &/or hats Then take photographs 
-Read the entire newspaper 
-Organise your jewellery collection  Put on all your sequins,
-Learn the words to your favourite rap song to impress strangers with 
-Make paper dolls, then put them in envelopes & send them to your best friends  '
-Build a fort using blankets, chairs & a sofa   
-Reorganise your desk Throw away your old papers & start fresh 
-Chew an entire pack of Hubba Bubba & blow the biggest bubbles possible
-Put on lipstick & kiss all your envelopes
-Dye your lingerie in the bathtub 
-Paint a huge heart on your wall 
-Daydream 
-Write a letter 
-Tease your hair really, really big 
-Make your own book-ends
-Sing to your plants 
-Stick glow-in-the-dark stars all over your roof
-Camp indoors
-Cook yourself an extravagant breakfast: eggs, bacon, pancakes & a big pot of tea…   
-Cut out drawings of Where’s Wally & stick them in secret corners of your house
-Put on your most glamorous everything & slink around your home
-Lament the number of stamps in your passport & resolve to up your international playgirl game 
-Make a pile of jewellery that you could either donate or sell Fresh starts feel good 
-Tweeze your eyebrows 
-Literally make lemons into lemonade 
-Practice drawing the perfect cat’s eye 
-Make a mess 
-Hula hoop 
-Start planning — & purchasing — birthday & holiday gifts for your favourite people 
-Read old love letters
-Get rid of everything that you do not know to be useful, or find to be beautiful 
-Re-read your favourite book 
-Write postcards 
-Make a milkshake 
-Layer lots of necklaces at once 
-Paint something pink 
-Look out the window 
-Put on a clean pair of pyjamas 
 from: https://galadarlingcom/article/-things-to-do-when-youre-stuck-inside/

 -Have a solo dance party
-Teach yourself how to do an Australian accent (or any accent, for that matter)
-Learn how to play the harmonica (or any instrument for that matter)
-Buy an at-home workout DVD
-Bake a cake (and eat the whole thing for yourself)
-Take a rollaway chair and ride it down the driveway
-Paint a self-portrait
-Plant some flowers in your backyard
-Become a master at air-guitar
-Perform a concert (just for yourself)
-Write a novel
-Become an expert on quantum mechanics
-Give yourself a new hairdo
-Knit a sweater (if you don't know how, learn)
-Make a bunch of origami paper cranes and decorate your house with them
-Make homemade popsicles
-Reorganize your entire closet
-Put together a funky new outfit
-Make a short film
-Memorize the lyrics to all of your favorite songs
-Become your favorite fictional character
-Become your favorite animal
-Practice your autograph for when you become famous
-Create a magical potion
-Learn a few spells
-Put the TV on mute and overdub it with your own voice
-Make paper hats with old newspapers
-Create music playlists based on random things, like colors
-Create a full course meal based on whatever's in your kitchen
-Teach your pet a new trick
-Take a bunch of artsy photographs
-Make a scrapbook
-Learn a bunch of new words and incorporate them into your speech
-Try to draw the most perfect circle without using a compass
-Make your own board game
-Memorize some poetry well enough so you can recite it
-Build a fleet of sailboats and float them in your bathtub/pool
-Write a song
-Practice picking locks
-Make a drum kit out of random household items and play it
-Draw a tattoo on yourself
-Give yourself a new piercing
-Figure out the meaning of life
from: https://wwwtheodysseyonlinecom/-things-when-bored-completely-alone

 -Paint your nails
-Give yourself a gentle massage with essential oil
-Tidy your room
-Enjoy your favorite treat
- Style your hair the way you never did before
- Do an in-depth cleansing and skincare routine
-Tune in with yourself with a short self-interview
-Make a want-and-need list
- Do your laundry
-Take a bubble bath
-Meditate
-Take a power nap
-Put together a self-care kit
-  Grab a blanket and some snacks to picnic in the living room
-Play with your pet
-Read a magazine
-   Plan your dream trip
-Dig deep in an unsolved crime
-Watch TV
-Read a book
-List out your self-betterment goals
-Try drawing or sketching
-Redecorate your room
-Write a poem
- Write a letter to a loved one
-Bake something
 from:   https://wwwourmindfullifecom/boredom-killer-things-to-do-alone-at-home/

  - Mad Libs
 -Write a book
- Play dolls
-  Read books outloud
- Learn Morse Code
 -Invent your own code
- Paint family portraits
- Build a house of cards
-  Learn the state capitals
- Make the flags of the world out of construction paper
- Rearrange your bedroom
-  Make musical instruments out of stuff in your house
-  Make paper snowflakes
-   Look at old photos
-   Make a Family Tree
- Make a paper chain
-     Learn a few magic tricks
- Using stuff around your house, set up an indoor bowling lane
- Make paper airplanes
-  Make a toothfairy pillow by hand
 - Make holiday or birthday wrapping paper with stamps
- Count all the loose change you can find
-        Build a model car/plane
- Make pet toys
 -    Learn how to do yo-yo tricks
- Make paper dolls
-  Build with legos
- Check in on your neighbors
- Make shadow puppets
-    Use flashlights to create profile shadows that you can turn into Silhouettes
-Write on the backs of photographs
- Make a stuffed-animal zoo
- Polish the silver
- Sew buttons onto scrap fabric
- Fix something around the house (squeaky hinges, loose cabinet knobs, add hooks)
- Do a puzzle
-  Make beads out of rolled up paper
- Make up poems and limericks
-  Make and decorate paper crowns
-  Learn how to tie cool knots
- Begin each sentence with "I LOVE YOU!"
from: https://rochesterkidsoutandaboutcom/content/-things-do-kids-during-power-outage

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Monday, April 20, 2020

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Saturday, April 18, 2020

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On March 25, 2020 Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco,  posted a youtube video  on twitter on why we all need to wear masks. Three days later...

 "Jeremy wrote a viral Washington Post article on March 28th about why Americans need to wear homemade masks to slow COVID-19. This article sparked a nationwide grassroots movement in the U.S. that created enough buzz that within days it led to the U.S. CDC changing its guidance and recommending that all Americans wear masks in public (April 3rd)."

 Here is a simple mask design that is posted on Jeremy's website that can be created without the need of any tool but a pair of scissors....





And here is an instruction video for the above plans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=432&v=hVEVve-3QeM&feature=emb_logo


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Important: How To Clean Any Homemade Mask

   Washing Masks




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Rotating Masks to Disinfect them

If you have multiple masks, the best strategy is to rotate use of the masks over several days, which gives time for the virus to die  New York Times link


 Time is a powerful disinfectant; infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 illness, plummets after two to three days on hard surfaces. The virus lasts even less time on other surfaces (SN: 3/4/20). Some researchers have recommended rotating through a series of masks, so that worn masks can “rest” and passively become virus-free again.  link








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The Germ-Cleaning Power of an Open Window





To improve protection for the wearer, a coffee filter or paper towel can be easily inserted into the mask to improve filtering. For instance, the Hong Kong Consumer Council recommended design includes a paper towel, after scientists “scanned kitchen paper towel under electronic microscope and revealed that the fabric size, gaps and layout of kitchen paper towel are similar to that of the middle layer of surgical mask”.
https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/20/skeptics-masks/


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Maskmaking Fun -Ideas to make your own masks


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Friday, April 17, 2020

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Art Activities

Bubble Painting is a fun way to create art with your children! Easily craft your artwork into notecards, bookmarks, and more for fun homemade gift idea  (for over 50 more  ideas that were translated from an  ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet select the link below)


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General Boredom Busting Activities



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Boredom

The boredom activities are for the most part ideas that need no interaction with a computing device for you to do

  
-Order a disco ball to decorate your living room 
-  Bake something insane & over-the-top 
-  Make a master list of everything you need to do Yeah, EVERYTHING Then start… 
- Frame up some of your favourite photographs & hang them in your house  
 -Torture your pets by making them wear costumes &/or hats Then take photographs   
-Organise your jewellery collection  Put on all your sequins,
- Learn the words to your favourite rap song to impress strangers with  
- Make paper dolls, then put them in envelopes & send them to your best friends  '
-Build a fort using blankets, chairs & a sofa  
- Put on lipstick & kiss all your envelopes 
 -Dye your lingerie in the bathtub  

-Paint a huge heart on your wall 
-Chew an entire pack of Hubba Bubba & blow the biggest bubbles possible  (for 87 more  interesting ideas select the link below)


100 things to do while your stuck inside

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(Seniors please note: Before doing any suggested physical activities such as dance, yoga or exercise, be sure to consult with your health professional) 

Look at pictures of puppies   (for 99 more   ideas that are written in the English Language select the link below)

100 things to do while stuck inside due to a Pandemic
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Try Karaoke at home or sing along with your favorite song  (for 72  more out of sight  ideas select the link below)

73 Fun Things To Do Alone At Home For When You Are Bored


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-Build a fleet of sailboats and float them in your bathtub/pool  
 -Learn a bunch of new words and incorporate them into your speech
-Try to draw the most perfect circle without using a compass
-Make your own board game
-Memorize some poetry well enough so you can recite it
-Build a fleet of sailboats and float them in your bathtub/pool
-Write a song
-Practice picking locks
-Make a drum kit out of random household items and play it
-Draw a tattoo on yourself
-Give yourself a new piercing

-Figure out the meaning of life

 (for 38  more incredibly delectable   ideas select the link below)

50 Things to Do When You're Bored and Completely Alone
Whether you’ve never picked up a paintbrush in your life or were the star of your art classes at school, painting can be incredibly therapeutic, and is a wonderful way to amuse oneself for a few hours.
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from 50 Coronavirus Jokes That Should Help You Get Through Quarantine



Dig out your old paints or steal your kids’ and let your imagination run wild  (for 27 more fun and fabulous ideas select the link below)
28 Things To Do When You're Home Alone And Bored Out Of your mind

  Make a list of all the people who were a positive influence on your life and write each of them a thank-you letter. Think for a bit about all of the people who have inspired you and helped you along in your current life path. Make a list of all of these people – mine, for example, includes my high school English teacher, some relatives and friends, and a few college professors. Then pull out some paper and a pen and write each of them a handwritten letter, reminding them of how they helped you out and thanking them for doing so. It’s a great way to get in touch with the people who helped shape your life, and it’s something you’ll feel genuinely good about for a long time.  (for 49 more ideas that would put a smile on anyones face  ideas select the link below)
Long Distance Relationship Activities: The Ultimate List 

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-Make a television out of a big box and put on shows 
-Mad Libs
 -Play dolls
-Learn Morse Code
-Invent your own code
-Paint family portraits
 -Build a house of cards
-Learn the state capitals
-Make the flags of the world out of construction paper
-Make musical instruments out of stuff in your house
-Make paper snowflakes
-Make a Family Tree
-Make a paper chain
-Learn a few magic tricks
-Using stuff around your house, set up an indoor bowling lane
-Make paper airplanes
-Make a toothfairy pillow by hand
-Make holiday or birthday wrapping paper with stamps
-Count all the loose change you can find
-Play dress up
-Make pet toys
-Learn how to do yo-yo tricks
-Make paper dolls 
-Check in on your neighbors
-Use flashlights to create profile shadows that you can turn into Silhouettes
-Write on the backs of photographs
-Make a stuffed-animal zoo
-Polish the silver
-Sew buttons onto scrap fabric
-Make beads out of rolled up paper
-Make up poems and limericks
-Make and decorate paper crowns
-Learn how to tie cool knots

-Begin each sentence with "I LOVE YOU!"


  (for 67 more passionate ideas select the link below)
100 Things to do with Kids During a Power Outage



National Emergency Library The Internet Archive has over 1.4 million books available for loan in its library. For the duration of the cornavirus crisis, their wait list ios suspended and all books are available immediately with no waiting
 link (for  a whole bunch of somewhat silly  ideas select the link below)

 My own suggestions for the Homebound  


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