100 Things to do when Bored at Home this Lockdown!

With things around us being so uncertain, everybody is sitting back at home to cling to their lives. This is a whole new experience for people worldwide and in all these monotonous days, boredom high can take over you. You look for things to do because you are too tired of following the same secluded routine every day or maybe a lack of one. To help you fight through what seems to be endless similar days, here is a list of 100 things to do when bored at home.

100 things to Eliminate your Boredom

 

Constructive Activities to do when bored at home

 

1. Finish your homework, college assignments, and syllabus.
2. Do internships to gain experience in the real world.
3. Write a play or a skit with you as the main character.
4. Learn calligraphy and for once get pretty handwriting.
5. Try speed typing.
6. Learn about your country’s past.
7. Colour in a Mandala for adults colouring book.
8. Learn how to dance.
9. Take impromptu IQ tests online.

Time to try Something New!

1. Try writing with both hands. Learn to be an ambidexter if you wish.
2. Try exercising. Join a virtual yoga or zumba class.
3. Try out tongue twisters with your friends or family.
4. Make origami.
5. Sign up for certified classes and up your learning game.
6. Start a YouTube vlog, a Reddit page or an Instagram page.
7. Learn new hairstyles or try a different hair colour.
8. Search for ‘things a human cannot do’ and then try doing them.
9. Buy a new gadget and explore it.

Enlighten your Mood when bored at home

1. Surf through Pinterest and find boards that interest you.
2. Shop online. Explore new flea markets.
3. Watch Netflix with your friends.
4. Sing. Sing songs out loud.
5. Play card games.
6. Brainstorm gift ideas for different occasions for your friends and family.
7. Watch online concerts.
8. Go cycling around the city.
9. Watch all the ‘Oscar winning’ movies and see what the hype is about.
10. Get yourself into skincare.
11. Find new music and artists you might like.

Take up the Responsibility

1. Get a pet so you get better at taking care and taking responsibility.
2. Clean your house, start from your room. One at a time.
3. Organize yourself digitally, unsubscribe from emails, clean chats, delete photos etc.
4. Update your computer.
5. Design your dream home.
6. Bake something, and learn the art of it. 
7. Clean out your wardrobe.
8. Clean out your fridge and restock it.
9. Renovate your room.
10. Organize your garden. Clean, plant, trim etc.

Time to Read and Make a List when bored at home

1. Read current affairs and know what is happening around you.
2. Read new books or re-read your favourite ones.
3. Get your documents ready or renew them.
4. Write down your goals per decade.
5. Get hooked on mythologies (so addicting!)
6. Read about the great wars in history.
7. Make a list of things you are grateful for.
8. Make a list of people you like.
9. Work on a financial plan for yourself.
10. Make yourself a genuine bucket list.
11. Read fanfiction, and enter a world of imagination.
12. Make a list of your friends. Close your eyes and keep your finger down. Visit the friend your hand decides.

Play and Pass your Time with Fun when bored at home!

1. Make your own escape room challenge.
2. Play board games.
3. Play with clay, this is an interesting thing to do when bored at home.
4. Plan online games such as Chess, Ludo etc.
5. Get your karaoke and start grooving on songs along with your friends.

Go Digital when bored at home!

1. Watch a documentary on the scariest places in the world.
2. Surf through Reddit or Instagram. Crazy places to kill time. Also, Reddit is extremely enlightening.
3. Watch YouTube videos.
4. Edit some photos and videos.
5. Download apps and give makeovers.
6. Listen to Ted talks.
7. Do some ‘spot the difference’ challenges.
8. Organize apps on your phone.
9. Listen to podcasts waiting on your list.

Some Random Things to do when bored at home

1. Find new music and artists you might like.
2. Observe basic things around you. Nuance observations.
3. Learn about your family tree from your mum and dad.
4. Make photo books-one of your friends and one of your family.
5. Plan your next birthday or somebody else’s.
6. Go through your gallery.
7. Make random lists of people, grocery, countries, games etc.
8. Cook something you like.
9. Text the most random celebrities on Instagram, although it might not be fruitful it’s going to be fun.
10. Memorize the world map, and know the world better.
11. Write app reviews, site reviews etc.

Some Relaxing Activities to do when bored at home

1. Talk to yourself while standing in front of a mirror, a way to get a better insight. 
2. Bake something, and learn the art of it. 
3. Try and explore something you do not like.
4. Make music playlists.
5. Set up a virtual meet with your friends.
6. Take a bubble bath and just relax.
7. Talk to your grandparents. They have a lot to share.
8. Reach out to someone you have not seen or talked to in a long time.
9. Meditate. Calm your mind.
10. Take a long, peaceful nap.

Miscellaneous Activities to do when bored at home

1. Analyse TV shows.
2. Take a virtual visit to a museum or a zoo.
3. Analyse fan theories, make your own fan theories.
4. Write articles on topics of your choice.
5. Write two letters. One to your future and one to your past self.
6. Learn about your country’s past.
7. Complete puzzles.
8. Paint something in your house.
9. Choose pictures that are worth framing and get them framed.
10. Introspect. Think about things you have to work on yourself.
11. Find someone successful or famous and go through their timeline, their life story.
12. Get all dressed up with your family and take photos.
13. Look at the sky and let your thoughts run wild and free.
14. Write five of your very own, personally made songs.

Conclusion 

However, the end of this list does not limit your creativity for there are so much more things to do when bored at home.  The point is to do what makes you happy, do what puts your heart and mind at ease during these testing times. It is not always in the busy hustling world that you get to take some time out for yourself to do things you love. Now, it is a matter of a healthy body if you just keep yourself at home, kick back with ice cream and relax. Observe how the world around you is ever moving and how you can use this time to discover more about yourself and take a healing break. There is no limit to knowledge so why not get to know some interesting facts about Sikkim Culture here.