Stuck At Home? 25 Ideas To Help Beat The Boredom

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Stuck At home? 

With most of the country on extended leave the question is what to do. The kids are home from school.  People are home from work.  How do you beat the boredom if you are stuck at home?

Staying Home

Being stuck at home comes in varying levels around the globe.  Some people are choosing to avoid largely populated buildings and events.  Others are getting out and enjoying the great outdoors.  Some are staying indoors and trying to keep entertained. 

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Things To Do While Your Stuck At Home

Ideas for keeping the kids entertained.  Whether you are stuck at home or you need ideas to keep the kids busy here are 10 great ideas that don’t involve electronics.  Put down the phone and the tablet and have some fun. 

Things To Do While Stuck At Home With Kids

Any kid anywhere no matter the age can spend hours if given the opportunity to craft. Whether it be drawing, painting, forming clay figures, making slime or building a model.  

Stuck At Home Activities

Let the imagination run wild.  Get out what art supplies you have or order a few off Amazon. Simple supplies will do. 

Give a child a box and the playtime will last for hours. 

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Fun Things To Do When Stuck At Home

Kids love to bake and eat so why not mix both. Get out the recipe books, the flour, sugar and baking sheets and get baking. 

You could make cookies, muffins, cupcakes, bread or get really creative and make homemade pasta. 

Baking will give you something to do plus if you are stuck at home it gives you something yummy to eat.  And it saves you money.

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Activities To Do With Kids

If you can still get out and enjoy your local area plan a hike, take a bike ride or plan a picnic in your local park. 

Things To Do Outside While Stuck At Home

Something as simple as go for a walk around the neighborhood can be fun, relaxing and take everyone’s mind off being stuck at home. 

Outside Activities For Kids

Whether it be a sport field for a little soccer or the basketball court for some one on one.  Or to the playground for some playtime on the swings.  

Playtime in the park is a great way to cure the boredom and use up some energy. 

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Support Local During Quarantine

Like I said being stuck at home comes in varying degrees. If you can still get out and about go support your local businesses.  Have coffee at your local coffee shop. Browse the local used book store. See what the farmer’s market has on sale this week. 

Small local businesses will feel the economic effects worse than big box stores during an economic crisis. 

Fun Things To Do When Stuck At Home For Kids

Whether it be Lego or fort building the fun can last for hours.  You don’t need some special kit grab some blocks and start building.

If you are constructing a fort chairs, sheets and clothespins are a good starting point. The table and a sheet plus some pillows will work too. 

Things To Do When Bored At Home For Kids

It could be something as simple as Where’s Waldo or something as complicated as an amazing race. 

 

Scavenger hunts are just plan fun.  You can do them indoors or in your community. Give the kids or who ever is playing a list of things to collect or tasks to do and send them running.  The first to complete their list wins. 

Games To Play With Kids When Stuck At Home

Board games, card games, thinking games they are all great ways to pass the time. 

Fun Things For Kids To Do At Home

Beat the boredom while you’re stuck at home and make use of your own backyard.  Plan a picnic, plant a garden, string some lights and have a BBQ.  

Get out the bubbles and the sidewalk chalk and let the kids play. 

Spa Time At Home

If you are stuck indoors it is the perfect time for a manicure and pedicure.  Set up an at home spa and let the kids paint their nails, massage their hands and get a bit of rest and relaxation away from all the worldly pressures. 

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Virtual Museum Tours While Stuck At Home

Did you know you can tour famous museums without leaving your couch?  Travel & Leisure published a list of 12 Museums From Around The World you can tour from home. 

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Visit National Parks Without Leaving Home

There are some pretty amazing sites to be seen in the national parks so once you can get out and enjoy them I suggest you do so. Totally The Bomb has collected virtual tours of over 33 National Parks.

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Beat The Boredom While You Are Stuck At Home

Whether you are breaking out the Kindle and catching up on your reading. Or binge watching Amazon Prime Video.  There are numerous ways to beat the boredom of being stuck at home. 

Things To Do At Home

Make it interesting.  Plan a night time picnic or marshmallow roast and star gaze. Start planting your garden. 

Teach the value of lending a helping hand by checking up on your elderly neighbors.  Bake a couple of dozen cookies and share them with your neighbors. 

Things To Do When Kids Are Bored 

Get the kids involved and turn the kitchen into a science lab.  Build a volcano with baking soda and vinegar. Make some slime.  Or maybe you have littles and homemade play dough is more of what you need for hours of playtime fun.

Activities To Do At Home

For those of you who want to extend the learning at home options Scholastic has options for Pre-K to Grade 6+ on their learn at home website. 

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Updated May 2, 2021

Stuck At Home? 25 Ideas To Help Beat The Boredom