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
