Things To Do In Isolation

Hello everyone! I’ve been seeing a lot of lists going around of ideas for things to do in isolation during this health crisis, and I had some ideas too! I hope this will help anyone who is getting antsy and bored indoors. Let’s all take a deep breath and practice healthy habits!

• Crafting
  • With A Lot of Craft Supplies
    • Make a zine
    • Make an abstract (maybe even 3-D?!) painting
    • Design a new board game, including playing pieces, original art for the cards, and a board
    • Design and make polymer clay jewelry
  • With Limited Craft Supplies
    • Collages with newspapers, old magazines
    • Make a collage from different images featuring your favorite color, or a collage of one thing like foods, or eyes, or purses, or shoes
    • Refuse scissors! Try to make an image in collage by ripping paper
    • Use card stock to make a little village of paper houses (check out PaperHolm to get inspired)
    • Pinterest is full of ideas!
    • Blind contour drawings with different colored/width pens one on top of the other – this always ends up looking really trippy, abstract and cool
  • • Design a “mythical creature mashup” or design an original character
    • Write a letter
• Baking/Cooking
  • Make golden milk with herbs and dairy or non-dairy drink
  • Try to bake scones or other goodies
  • Check what you can make with the ingredients you have in the house
  • Honestly comfort food is where it’s at right now!!
• Digital Crafting
  • Canva can help you make a digital scrapbook of favorite memories/photos… you can also make yourself a new logo or design stationery letterhead for your favorite fictional places/people
  • Make a new ringtone or record a song on SoundTrap’s free trial – you don’t even need a microphone to make a cool mix with their loops
• Writing Prompts
  • Write free-form poetry
  • Write a short story
  • Journal about your favorite memories
  • Make lists (like this one! LOL)
  • Make a family tree and write about your family’s history
  • Write a romance novel?! The cheesier the better! Link me when it’s done!
  • Write children’s poetry – extra silly!
• Chores/Productive things
  • Get super duper organized
  • Learn EVERYTHING YOU CAN about something that has always interested you
• Things you probably haven’t done in ages but should probably do
  • Clean your phone/the keyboard of your laptop
  • Clean out under your bed
  • Scrub down your bathroom
• Self-care/beauty things
  • Take a steam bath
  • Do your nails
  • Face mask

The list goes on and on! Please add anything you think of!