Activities To Do From Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Being in isolation can take a toll on our mental health. We can lose our sense of independence, connectedness, and efficiency.
Maintaining these components of mental health can still happen from home. Here is a list of activities that you can do as a family, as a couple, or on your own!
Activities for Families
- Watch Cincinnati Zoo showcase their animals every day from starting at 1 PM MST through Home Safari Facebook Lives
- Create DIY science experiments with Telus World of Science Instructions
- Read-aloud picture books with Josh Gad every night on Twitter
- Take a virtual tour of 12 world famous museums
- Plan a scavenger hunt and have your children find the next location by writing clues
- Virtually visit the Grand Canyon, Mud Volcano, and Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park
- Have a NASA astronaut read your kid a story while they float around in space
- Log onto Suessville and join Dr. Seuss’s Word Challenge of reading as many books as you can or play around on Suesville with Dr. Seuss-themed games
Activities for Couples
- Host a skype dinner party with your friends
- Create a bucket list of things to do together - you may learn a few new things about each other while having fun
- Order in from open Edmonton restaurants, light some candles, and enjoy a date night
- Play two-player video or board games
- Enjoy music together with available online streamed concerts
Activities for Individuals
- Keep up with your physical fitness and workout at home with online trainers like Wickham or Blogilates
- Volunteer to deliver items to our vulnerable population (policies in place for protection)
- Join an online community with people who share the same interests
- Go for a walk and enjoy the fresh air
- Have Matthew Stepanic, co-owner of Glass Bookshop, drop off a book to you in the Edmonton area
- Catch up with old friends that you haven’t spoke to in a while by phoning them
- Make a cook book so you have easy and fast recipes to make during the week (useful for when your back at work!)
- Work on art projects or sign up for Create to Connect for daily creative challenges