30 Things To Do While Staying Safe at Home

April 13, 2020 —

Try some of these fun activities to keep your family entertained while we all do our part to stay safe at home!

Family Room:

  • Dust off that instrument you have lying around and start playing or teach someone else in your house how to play.
  • Create an indoor scavenger hunt for your kids.
  • Try a family game/challenge to complete tasks with your non-dominant hand.
  • Teach your pet new tricks.
  • Have a family board game tournament.
  • Make a cardboard or blanket fort with your kids.
  • Re-read one of the books on your shelf or get a free book or audiobook online from the public library.

Yard:

  • Weed your garden.
  • Plant flowers or prepare a new garden bed.
  • Take time to give your yard a special treatment with things you might already have in your garage – mow and edge grass, fertilize, pressure wash your deck, clean outdoor furniture, etc.
  • Spend some time relaxing in the yard playing games with family.
  • Set up a campsite for the whole family and spend the night toasting marshmallows by a fire.

Garage/Basement:

  • Try some indoor workouts that require minimal equipment. You can find a YouTube video to guide you.
    • Get creative for added weight – water jugs, a backpack full of books, cinderblocks/bricks, etc.
    • Use a broomstick in place of a barbell for movements like squats and focus on form and repetitions rather than weight.
  • Try a new form of fitness you’ve never explored to keep it interesting – yoga, Pilates, running, biking, HIIT training, etc. YouTube is also a great source for instructional videos to get you started.
  • Work on your flexibility by spending time stretching each day.

Kitchen:

  • Organize your pantry and fridge and toss out all expired foods.
  • Put all spices in alphabetical order.
  • Thumb through your recipe books and find new things to cook.
    • Can’t think of anything to cook?
      Input the ingredients you already have and want to use and this website will give you recipes to choose from: https://www.supercook.com/#/recipes
  • Find YouTube cooking videos/channels and follow along with their recipes.
  • Try to recreate your favorite restaurant meal from scratch.
  • Perfect your best coffee recipe and try out other types of coffee drinks.

Bedroom and Bathroom:

  • Go through your closet and prepare to donate items you no longer wear.
  • Deep clean your bath or shower.
  • Take a relaxing bath.
  • Go through your bathroom cabinets and organize everything, throw away expired makeup and beauty products.
  • Make sure all your over-the-counter cold and flu medications are up to date.

Media room:

  • Pick a show from your childhood and re-watch it with your kids.
  • Use a free video chat service to connect with friends or other family members and come up with activities to do virtually together – play an online game, start a music playlist or create of list of shows/movies to watch at the same time.