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150 Things to do During Quarantine!

   Hey, cuties! How are we doing? Going stir crazy yet? Run out of things to do? WELL, I’m here to help you!!! I made a list of 150 (YEP 1-5-0) things to do while you’re practicing social distancing during Covid 19 quarantine! To make it a little more interesting & digestible, it is all broken up by category for you, so jump on in!!

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Cleaning

1. Clean your floors and carpets (polish & wax if you’re up for it)
2. Do your laundry
3. Dust (don’t forget your ceiling fan!)
4. Deep clean your bathroom
5. Vacuum your couch cushions

Closet

1. Clean out your closet
2. Color coordinate your clothes – and realize you don’t need any more black but YOU DO need some red & pink & yellow
3. Take a photo of ALL your clothes (post cleanout) and make your own virtual Cher closet for future
4. Make future outfits & take photos! Organize them in a doc or a folder on your phone
5. Play dress up!! See if you can recreate a Disney look (see Disneybounding for reference), celebrity look or a blogger look

Organize

1. Organize your junk drawer, maybe while putting on a broadway caliber performance?
2. Organize your pantry (and your spices too)
3. Clean out your purse
4. Organize your underwear/pajamas / all of those drawers
5. Clean out your medicine cabinet 

Cooking

1. Bake a pie from scratch (get inspired by Katherine https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wo3XAHx7d/) 
2. Try a new recipe (try this one from my friend) 
3. Make mug cakes
4. Homemade pasta
5. Play at home chopped, try to make a dish out of random ingredients
6. Cook a fancy meal, dress up, do your makeup and use a tablecloth. Pretend you’re at a restaurant
7. Make granola
8. Make a rainbow cake … yes, all of these are related to cake lol
9. Host a cooking show at home
10. At home chopped, make something with random things you have

Beauty

1. Clean out your makeup drawer
2. Clean your makeup brushes
3. “Swatch” all your lipsticks on paper so you know what they look like – title them too
4. Master a makeup trend or hair trend
5. Recreate a celebrity makeup look, share it on social

Selfcare

1. Paint your nails try out some fun nail art
2. Hair mask or face mask OR FOOT MASK, just do all the masks
3. Bubble bath
4. MILLKKK out your skincare take your time & switch it up
5. Meditate

Giving Back

1. Research charities to support with causes you’re passionate about
2. Mentor someone! I mentor a few creatives and had 3 facetime calls with them in the first week
3. Follow / share / like a small business online
4. Buy gift cards to local restaurants or shops
5. Send someone a nice note/text/letter/card to tell them how much you appreciate them

Help out Future You

1. Update your resume or 
2. Plan your future Halloween costume, I mean it’s never too early
3. Start a side hustle that could one day be your main hustle
4. Create a vision board
5. Give yourself a compliment every day, write it down and put it in a jar OR Write yourself a love letter, set a date in your future calendar for when to open it and where to find it (I recommend hiding it inside a book & including the page on that date, or if you write it via text you can include it in the future calendar notes)

Connecting

1. Facetime with a baby Look into fostering a dog if you can (a lot of shelters need help RN) // Tell your dog (or pet) he (or she) is a good boy – extra points if you learn how to do it in a new language. If you don’t have a pet, FT someone who does!
2. Send snail mail to a friend
3. Make a friendship bracelet
4. Make an encouraging sign & hang it out your window (or snap a photo and share it)

Games (all can be played virtually)

1. Play heads up or charades via FaceTime (FT from your computer and use your phone to play)
2. Virtual hide & go seek (hide in your house, FaceTime a friend and see if they can figure out where you are) you can do this IRL if you have that opportunity too and aren’t alone
3. Play a board game virtually. Do it completely online or do it via FT where only one of you needs the actual board game! Do it via FaceTime (or do it IRL if you have a friend)
4. Play name that tune
5. Play a game alone like Tetris, online chess, words with friends, solitaire 

 

$$$

1. Create a Poshmark or host an Instagram sale to sell your clothes
2. Shop small businesses (bonus if you share them on your socials for others to buy)
3. Create a budget or rebudget
4. Do your taxes
5. Cancel any recurring payments you have going on

Move your body

1. Jumping jack contest (or push-ups)
2. Yoga or stretching! Challenge yourself to nail a new pose
3. Playing just dance (download the app to do this)
4. At home / online work out (try @getinshapegrlbway and on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/groups/658670808299060?tsid=0.4169797775859868&source=result!)
5. Act out a scene from a movie (risky business or pocketful of sunshine in the shower from easy A)

 

Music

1. Play piano / learn (you can do this on an iPad or iPhone app)
2. Living room karaoke
3. Dance/sing to your favorite song
4. Make a water xylophone ** link to studio DIY’s music day class on her blog for activities to do with kids
5. Learn every word to a song

Active mind

1. Puzzle
2. Read a book
3. Sudoku or crossword
4. Re-organize your Pinterest boards and start pinning again
5. Practice your time’s tables

Pets

1. Tell your dog (or pet) he (or she) is a good boy – extra points if you learn how to do it in a new language
2. Give your pet a bath
3. Teach/train them to do something new
4. Make a video from their POV – extra points if you Watch cartoons until you identify what their voice would be
5. Play fetch (or fetch with your quarantine buddy, or just bounce a ball on the wall)

Inner child

1. Build a fort
2. Make hopscotch in your living room
3. Legos!
4. Fingerpaint
5. Watch your favorite childhood tv show

Nature

1. Start an indoor garden
2. Monterey bay Youtube Livestream
3. Go for a walk or bike ride (6-10 ft away from people please)
4. Open a window (be careful if you’re up high) and bask in the sun
5. Order flowers from a local shop to brighten up your home (only available in some locations)

Art

1. Sketch or do an Adult coloring book or paint by numbers
2. Make crafts (check out the to craft queen studio DIY)
3. Create something you can give as a (post quarantine gift)
4. Take a virtual art tour with the google art and culture app
5. Make a Picture collage or scrapbook
6. Make Paper airplanes (link to some hardcore ones)
7. Make a kite (use it later)
8. Make a paper chain
9. Watch Broadway shows (link to another post with all the shows
10. Watch artist time lapses on Instagram

Movies/TV: (if you’re rewatching, challenge yourself to find something “new” every time. I still discover something new in each Harry Potter movie/book I read and I’ve read them 31 times in the last year lol – don’t judge)

1. Watch all the marvel movies (21)
2. Watch all the Harry Potter movies
3. Read / listen to the Harry Potter books (also fun to do movie / book / movie / book to compare)
4. Rewatch an old tv series
5. Watch my recs on Hulu Netflix Disney plus amazon 

Learn Something New

1. Start to learn a language. I use the babble and the dueling app + watch youtube videos for beauty YouTubers in different languages!!
2. Learn to knit or sew or patch your denim
3. Hand Lettering lessons on youtube via @humblylettered
4. Learn photographer/videography/editing (Paris loves watching Stallman’s youtube videos for lighting/shooting tutorials)
5. Learn to draw Disney characters (I’m taking this class)

Dream

1. Shop for apartments in a different city online! You can even fake plan your whole life somewhere else BC THAT’S FUN
2. Make a post quarantine todo list
3. Make plans for may, schedule days with friends, pick out restaurants and make really fun themes
4. Plan a future birthday party or wedding or dream date on Pinterest! It doesn’t matter if it never happens
5. Plan a future vacation, map out an itinerary. Plan something for summer or fall or even next year!!

Lazy

1. Sleeeeep! (I’m getting an extra hour every day BC I CAN
2. Mindlessly scroll through social media (TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter)
3. Scream OR SING at the top of your lungs into a pillow
4. Nap daily
5. Podcast

Computer / Tech

1. Detangle  your electronic cords / go through them / label them (you don’t need them all!!!)
2. Clean out your camera roll
3. Clean out / unsubscribe from emails
4. Clean out your contact list
5. Clean out your hard drive or dropbox

Home

1. Print out photos to put in frames (or order prints) OR do a gallery wall
2. Re-arrange a room
3. Redesign your home on Pinterest (or design a home you’ll never live in just for fun)
4. Go through old books, find ones to donate them, add a happy or positive message in the front before you do
5. Spray paint old vases or statues in fun colors

 

Social Media

1. Mute / unfollow accounts that don’t make you happy and find ones to follow ones that make you happy
2. Join an online challenge as a watcher or as a creator (link to my @colormemagic #colorme park hopper challenge)
3. Join a Facebook group (try the skinny confidential Facebook group)
4. Find a new favorite influencer on every platform
5. Watch people’s highlights on Instagram 

For Creators

1. Facetime with another creator and ask each other questions/swap tips
2. Find a new way to monetize your business (ads, affiliate links)
3. Pitch yourself to future brands
4. Rework your media kit
5. Grow your account (check out my color me classroom series to learn how)
6. Do a Q&A and create a FAQ page
7. Find someone to update your website or learn how to do it yourself
8. Update your profile picture / bio / hashtags / highlights all that stuff
9. Launch a new platform
10. Schedule / plan your content for the next few months

Pop Culture-Inspired (do these after watching the shows or just from memory)

1. Perfect your top model runway walk and model poses in the mirror (FIND YOUR LIGHT GIRL AND DON’T LOSE YOUR NECCKK!)
2. Master the RuPaul lip-sync, and find your go-to song when you have to sync for your life
3. Create your own NAILED IT attempt
4. Have a wizard’s duel (ok to duel with your friend via facetime if you’re alone)
5. Participate in a pop-culture bracket (see @colormemagic stories)

We’re gonna get through this Covid-19 Quarantine together!

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SHOP THE LOOK:

Jumpsuit –  exact lounge knitted jumpsuit (Size 0-12) 
Mug – Mike Wazowski Mug
Plus Jumpsuit – Curve lounge  jumpsuit (Size 12-24)

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