10 Activities to Keep Yourself Busy During Confinement

That's it. The British have found themselves slammed at home since March 23. How to get bored? How to escape from confinement by reinventing rituals that structure the day differently... apart from home office and essential outings, of course.

 

1. Pick a hobby

Staying home is a great moment to choose a hobby to devote time to. If you are a language and culture lover, then online courses on foreign languages is your choice. You just need to take a well known institute for boosting your second language level.

If you chose to learn Spanish online, then pick classes in Spanish school Barcelona like Expanish. This institute has been teaching students all over the world for over a decade, and their online classes are getting the best reviews.

 

2. Take sports lessons on the Internet

Cardio, strength training, everything you need to keep healthy during this long stay home. You can pick a class from one of many sport professionals on Instagram or Youtube, but remember to start in your own rhythm in order to not get injured.

 

3. Do Electronic Housekeeping

People often think of cleaning our apartment, but much less rarely doing our electronic cleaning. Do you have time to kill? Take the opportunity to delete all these useless (or compromising) photos from your cell and clean up your Facebook contacts (bye bye toxic people).

You can also take the opportunity to delete those 6834 email messages accumulated in your inbox.

 

4. Make up a story with drawings with the children

Enjoy time with the kids with a narrative starting point and sometimes also an ending point. Then, drawing after drawing, they must walk from the starting point to the ending point. One more activity to add to the list!

 

5. Spend Hours Playing Board Games

Board games are always perfect for creating moments of relaxation and sharing within families. Win Scrabble, Clue, Time’s up... or any other board game. Vary the pleasures, there is no shortage of choices between the great classics and the 1200 annual new releases.

Electronic versions of board games have undeniable advantages over their physical counterparts. Instant installation and storage, more affordable prices, automation of forbidding actions (mixing cards, scoring points), no space required to play or store boxes, etc.

Only their physical and tactile aspect is missing, the pleasure of manipulating the different elements of the game, pawns, cards or dice. It’s even more glaring in containment time: immediate availability, and opponents always ready to play, whether it’s artificial intelligence, your containment companions, or online, with friends or strangers.

 

6. Give Old-Fashioned Games A Chance

Organize a 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.

Obstacle course is another option. To have fun without too much preparation, ask your children to follow a specific route: crawling under the table, jumping over a pile of clothes, walking in hoops... Whoever arrives first will win the trophy. Be careful to always imagine the challenges while respecting safety rules.

 

7. Start Yoga

Stay Zen by doing gentle gymnastics. Postures of the tree, the sphinx or the child in yoga, position of the opening of the door of the clouds or the green dragon which rests on the ground at Gi Qong, guaranteed escape.

 

8. Tell Jokes

"It's good to laugh sometimes". Gathering in the living room for a shared fun session, it lets off steam. The advantage is that even bad jokes make you laugh.

 

9. Sort Your Clothes

Your cupboards would make Marie Kondo look around and you struggle every day to know where your belongings are and which ones you can put? Here you go, empty your cupboards, sort and re-store in the "art of tidying up".

 

10. Creative Activities With and/or For Your Children

All these tutorials on social networks, from decoration to repair through construction, have always caught your eye. Your child is also asking for your attention. Now is the time to make this puppet theater or fort that has been dreamed of for months (why not a Game of Thrones style toilet paper throne?).