What Can You Do When You Are Stuck At Home?

Released Wednesday, 1st April 2020

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What Can You Do When You Are Stuck At Home?

Wednesday, 1st April 2020

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Sleep: Get the recommended amount. You have the time now!
Exercise:
- Check out indoor workouts online or stream them, come up with your own
  - Jump rope, planks/burpees, free weights, resistance bands
- Be creative and try to get 60 minutes per day of increased physical activity.
- Go Outside (without crowds)
  - Walking, with your dog, rain walk with your kids (puddle stomping)
  - go hiking/snowshoeing still practicing social distancing
  - Biking
  - Gardening, grow vegetables/herbs
Self Care: Take care of yourself so you can better take care of others
- Time to work on a healthier diet, real food you have time to prepare, get rid of the junk (see #4)
- Try giving yourself the perfect pedicure, doing a hair mask, reevaluating your closet to have a capsule wardrobe
Cook up a storm.
- Try new recipes and include your kids.
- Use Every Single Gadget You Have
- Everyone gets to pick a meal they like to share
- look at cooking shows and try out some of their ideas
- Use cooking as a history lesson/learning opportunity
  - The h/o the noodle
  - Hot dogs

Get an earthquake kit together, emergency pack, disaster plan
- Have a what-if bag?
- Get your photos onto digital hard drive
- Sort through old photos
- Make an inventory of your house
Don't try to take on the teacher role
- Things you can do which are educational but are not curriculum based
This is an amazing opportunity to reconnect with the "real" world if you look at it that way
Harness compassion for other people rather than feeling sorry for yourself
Meditate
Make playlists/share them, listen to something new, have an indoor dance party
Read a book, audiobooks, start a series (as a family): Harry Potter, Little House on the Prairie, Percy Jackson
Creative Writing: journaling or start writing a story or graphic novel
Socializing/ Reconnection: Facetiming
Organizing: maybe now is the time to finally get those photos organized, scanning files, getting tax info together
Let your inner child out: encourage your kids to pretend play and then join them in doing that!
- Make a tent inside with a blanket thrown over a table, tell spooky stories by lantern light (as long as this is age appropriate) camp type dinner, S'Mores with your toaster oven/oven
- Picnic inside or in the yard, Candlelight dinner, Breakfast for Dinner
- Wear pajamas all day
- Make a fort with old delivery boxes or a fancy house for your cat
- Puzzles, real board games
Start to learn a new language.
- See if your kids pick it up faster than you do!
Teach yourself a new skill
- Practice on that piano, learn to play the guitar
- DIY projects at home
- Learn a new language
- Sewing, knitting [start a virtual knitting circle]
Hardware stores are open, think about a repair project, DIY paint project, some spring cleaning, TONS of ideas online.
Start an art project or craft: painting, homemade playdoh, beading, friendship bracelets. Be creative!
Now that we are making do with less, are there permanent changes you can make to help save our planet?