Coronavirus 100 Things to do at Home While Stuck Inside

The coronavirus 100 things to do at home confinement in place since March forces the peoples to stay at home. To avoid boredom, here is a non-exhaustive list of 100 ideas to keep busy and not see the time pass.

That’s it. The peoples have been locked away at home since March. How to overcome boredom? How to escape from confinement by reinventing rituals that structure the day differently outside of telework and essential outings, of course.

1. Create a Containment Logbook to set temporal landmarks and rituals in this newly confined Parisian life. The whole family can participate. And so, children have a common goal which they share with their parents.
2. Follow the sports class Internet: cardio, reno, all you need to have a beautiful whole body.
3. Make up a story with pictures with the children, providing them with a narrative starting point and sometimes also an ending point. Then, drawing after drawing, they must walk from the starting point to the endpoint. They can learn creative things with cool drawing ideas. Cool drawing idea is providing to learn more different categories. Although our child could learn creative pencil sketch drawing easily.
4. Win the game of Scrabble, Cluedo, Time’s up … or any other board game. Vary the pleasures, there is no shortage of choice between the great classics and the 1,200 new products each year.
5. Organize hide-and-seek in the house or apartment, the opportunity to revisit the nooks and crannies of your home and see your home from another angle …
6. Stay Zen by practicing gentle gymnastics. Postures of the tree, the sphinx or the child in yoga, the position of the opening of the door of the clouds, or of the green dragon which rests on the ground in Gi Qong, guaranteed escape.
7. Tell yourself jokes. “It’s good to laugh sometimes” … Gathering in the living room for a shared laugh, it’s fun. The advantage is that even bad jokes make people laugh.
8. Build the Eiffel Tower in Lego, whatever its height, and its multicolored color. Once completed, you can send a photo to your grandparents by email …
9. Build a duffel cabin on the sofa. In the United States, during the Cold War, a nine-minute short film aimed at children from 1952, shown in schools, taught children what to do in the event of a nuclear attack: dive and cover! (Duck and cover!) These protective instructions may have been naïve, but they amused the children enormously.
10. Applaud all caregivers every evening from their balcony at 8 pm. An opportunity to get out of one’s routine for a good cause, to greet real everyday heroes, and to fraternize with one’s neighbors, even from afar …
11. Do not stay away from the latest information by staying connected to all the TV news or the internet.
12. Simply rethink the way you work. Electronics offer plenty of ways to continue just like in the office.
13. Give your sedan a facelift, washing your car manually is the best solution for a perfect result.
14. Remember that even in a period of confinement, it is fashionable to say hello or go get a wand from your neighbor.
15. Coronavirus obliges! Make your mask at home to face the virus in optimal conditions.
16. Take a serious look at finding your perfect diet plan to be on top of your form this summer.
17. Learn a new language, sites offer to learn (Babbel, Duolingo, Mosalingua).
18. Sleep … Have no qualms about a fat mat ‘or a little restorative nap.
19. Test your skill and learn to juggle and become a balancing act.
20. Become an artist by following the Web master classes. Let yourself be guided in fields as varied as horse riding, photography, or fashion…
21. Listen to good old occasional hits. We are far from entertainment as Pascal conceived it, but close to a frank and liberating laugh.
22. Escape by reading quarantine or One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Readings for the occasion!
23. Review the decor of your apartment, change places, the paintings … helping you by watching the new YouTube channel.
24. Continue to play football while playing FIFA 20 on the console or NBA 2K20 basketball.
25. Growing up with Pilates classes. This discipline would allow gaining 2 cm even after 30 years by avoiding the compression of vertebrae.
26. Ask grandmas to knit baby clothes for in 9 months …. Containment is likely to increase demographics. An activity to be practiced in front of the TV while looking after the children.
27. Calling friends on the phone. SMS are pouring in, but a real call during which we talk to each other, where we tell our situation, it does not have the same flavor at all.
28. Offer to color to children. Anyone who has not yet mastered easy cool drawing ideas loves to play with colors.
29. Learn about embroidery, a few cross stitches, stitch stitches, stem stitches… enough to improve a cushion or create a pretty table runner.
30. The atmosphere is clean. The opportunity to return everything home and do a real spring cleaning.
31. Paint Easter eggs to follow a pretty old tradition. April 12 is fast approaching.
32. Take a quarter of an hour to meditate. In a good position, clear your head, pray or think of nothing. That’s the hardest part …
33. Review some great masterpieces of cinema and try to convert your home into a cinema.
34. Vibrate with Christine and the Queens on her Insta while listening to the concert live every evening at 6 pm.
35. Take out free samples and products bought on sale in beauty stores, and take care of yourself. Masks, creams, and varnishes of all kinds … come on, let’s do each other well!
36. Get informed, develop skills, analyze the world around us or simply have fun by listening to podcasts.
37. Enrich the vocabulary of your pet parrot and train him to repeat for 2 weeks sentences such as “That’s it, great, we can come out” or “Goodbye damn virus”.
38. Familiarize yourself with the terms of slip stitch, chain stitch, double crochet, or chain by starting crochet. You are sure to be playing the trendy card this summer.
39. List his future good deeds to be accomplished around him when our daily life resumes at a hundred miles an hour.
40. Spend several hours – even days – putting away your clothes and promising yourself that this is the last time.
41. Get down to the necessary steps to reimburse your spring vacation, which was unfortunately compromised.
42. And already anticipate the desires and ideas of the whole family for the next vacation. Take out the world map!
43. Celebrate the Printemps by ordering the special edition.
44. Customize your clothes and give free rein to your creativity: dyeing, ribbons, pearls nothing is too good for your favorite shirt.
45. Take an inventory of orphan socks that have not found their alter ego for months and which needlessly squat in the drawers of the closet.
46. Prepare the planters (those on the balcony too), it’s time to clean the soil to be ready for the purchase of flowers.
47. Print or digital version, go back to the stored photos, and sort them by composing their albums. So much easier to find your favorite souvenir photo!
48. Imitate Bridget Jones by pulling out your most wonderful pen to update your diary or why not start one for that matter?
49. Cook until thirsty by making the more than 6000 recipes offered by the great chefs.
50. Solicit teens for storytelling lessons on Instagram. Or if you already have perfect control, ask yourself, “like”, post and share your photos galore.
51. Anticipate the seasoning of your summer salads by embarking on a house production of aromatics. Sow, water, and taste your basil or extra-fresh mint in a few weeks.
52. Put on your sports bra to let off steam and dance in the middle of your living room, to the rhythm of your favorite “playlist”.
53. Make your hydroalcoholic gel so you no longer have to queue in pharmacies.
54. The 1st quarter of 2020 is almost over …. Take stock of the good resolutions taken on January 1st, add some if they have already been achieved.
55. Put cracked plates and chipped glasses in the trash. Take the opportunity to get rid of the old salad bowl that we hate.
56. Our lives are novels. Embark on the adventure of writing and leave his descendants his diary. Take a serious look at finding your perfect diet plan to be on top of your form this summer.
57. Brainstorm while trying to fill in the empty boxes of a Sudoku or a crossword puzzle.
58. Playing cards. Success in solo, duo battle, or Uno in family, come on, we draw, we focus and we try to win the game. Everything is allowed, except cheating.
59. Put on your best apron and teach your teenagers the basics of cooking so that 4, 6, or 8 hands can cook a good meal for the whole family.
60. Revise your conjugations, review the Pythagorean theorem, remember the wars of religion to be an excellent home teacher.
61. Lighten the memory of your smartphone by deleting all old spam or various messages stored unnecessarily.
62. Remember old family stories like a pretty tune: the whimsical life of an old cousin, the escapades of her favorite great-uncle.
63. Order clothes on the internet. There is no possible excuse for a size error: you have plenty of time to take your measurements meticulously!
64. Move furniture around without disturbing neighbors. Swapping the sofa and the TV, nothing like a new home without moving.
65. Shine your dog’s hair with a good foaming shampoo.
66. Stretch your fingers while learning sign language.
67. Reread the great classics of comics which gather dust in the apartment. Like for example the Tintins. Here, as if by chance, while rereading The Temple of the Sun, we come across a scene where our intrepid reporter is confined with Haddock and Snowy in a large room by the noble son of the Sun …
68. Go to the website of the Ministry of Culture which offers a complete digital cultural offer.
69. Realize that it is, therefore, possible to juggle between computer and baby and wonder who will have the last word between the mouse and the bottle.
70. Rise alongside Rimbaud, Verlaine, or Apollinaire by re-reading and learning poems.
71. Hiding behind huge piles of files sorting and putting away papers.
72. Bet on luck by playing the lottery from your smartphone and dream of everything you can do when you have won the jackpot.
73. Travel with great classics by rereading books and enhance your knowledge.
74. Counting the beats, staying in the rhythm, synchronizing your movements … in short, moving your body to the hits of Just Dance. 15 minutes (or more) a day is the key to Olympic form!
75. Find a magic wand and play Harry Potter by taking away all his hassle. An idea already implemented by the children.
76. Give a magnificent blow with the hammer on his pig and count his savings (even if it means being disappointed).
77. Review his chemistry lessons, trying to remember the names of the components of his drugs by sorting them.
78. Create ephemeral curtains after washing and hanging your duvets in the 4 corners of the apartment.
79. Revise your highway code, a good way to be on time to get your license.
80. Take nails, screws, glue, tape, and other essential accessories to repair everything in the house.
81. To master “the shepherd’s stroke” “the Castling”, “the catch in passing”, to then equal Bobby Fischer, or Magnus Carlsen current reigning world chess champion.
82. Devoutly rub his rugs to remove stains of wine, tapenade, and strawberry which have become encrusted there over time.
83. Reconcile with your stairwell by going up and down the stairs several times a day.
84. Pick up pen and inkwell again and start writing letters again.
85. Stock up on batteries and listen to radio broadcasts such as immerse themselves in the stories of Christophe Hondelatte on Europe 1.
86. Stop eyeing your old, battered armchair and start repairing seats to give it new life.
87. Run a marathon on the balcony. Every day, by timing, to observe the progression curve …
88. To (re) start playing a musical instrument: cello, clarinet, percussions, it’s up to you to set up a small family orchestra!
89. Take out your sewing machine and sewing box to create the dress you have dreamed of for a long time or to make the hem of her pants that have been dragging for ages.
90. Looking at old photo albums with the family and resorting to a time dedicated to sharing with a trip in memory time. Common memories of often happy times allow you to smile again.
91. Settle down comfortably to watch the complete series of a series that has just arrived or have some catch-up sessions.
92. Walkthrough the thousands of existing applications on smartphones and install the funniest, funniest, most exciting that match your interests.
93. Arm yourself with paintbrushes and an easel, choose whether you are a watercolor painting or an oil painting, and let your creativity run wild.
94. Decorate the apartment or his room with origami and transform his living space into a decoration workshop. The “artistic” arrangement of these little paper wonders away drawing (penguin in a tuxedo, lotus flower, waving ghost …) in the house, bedroom, or apartment, multiplies the diversion effect by two. Without forgetting the final parental visit where we marvel at the result.
95. To have stars in your eyes by watching all the matches of the football team of the 2018 World Cup.
96. Frantically polish his silverware and make it shine with a thousand lights.
97. Become a surrealist by indulging in exquisite corpses, a good way to give free rein to your unfulfilled desires.
98. Pamper your shoes: clean them, polish them, in short, dress them up so that they shine with 1000 lights again.
99. Counting the number of red cars that pass in his street, a good old trick that passes the time.
100. Try to do a daily workout at home and take good health. It will help you to fight a coronavirus.