Are you stuck at home for any of the following reasons?
- Quarantine
- Snowed in
- illness
- House arrest
- House-poor
- Nowhere to go
- Lack of inspiration
- Lack of motivation
- Arachnophobia
- Agoraphobia
- Zombies
- In hiding
- Sheltering in place
- Exhaustion
- Depression
Feel better. Take care. There there. Take cover. Do the right thing. Aim for the head. Keep warm. Rest up. Hang in there. Save up. Breathe.
Whatever the reason for your confinement, dear heart, we’ve got you covered with this mega list of things to do while stuck at home.
🥹 Admire
The relentless optimism of the Museum of Joy
Admire artist Jeremy Miranda’s surreal oil landscapes
Get a little moonstruck with this gallery of The Moon in Art
Answer the age-old question, how does a pony put on a sweater?
Marvel at mini-food cheeseburgers omfg dogs
🥘Cook/Bake
Find anything you could want to make at all recipes and Yummly
Search for recipes by ingredient at myfridgefood.com and Supercook
For food lust and inspo, check out Foodgawker
🎨Create
HitRecord: Collaborate with writers, musicians, artists (whatever your thing is) from all over the world
Create graphic designs with Canva, Stencil, and Design Bold
Edit photos online with pixlr and fotor
Remove backgrounds from photos with removebg
Play an instrument or sing? Check out MusOpen’s free sheet music (also offers free audio)
Explore color with Colordot, Material Design Palette, Coolors, Adobe’s Color Wheel, and Web Gradients
Have a Cricut? Jennifer Maker has a delightful library of free projects
Check out other great resources at TheMakers.io
Send big files easily with https://justbeamit.com
Use Focus Booster to help you break through distractions and stay on track
Free photos
Library of Congress (vintage prints)
More listed at Logobly
Free audio
More listed at Logobly
Free stock videos
More listed at Logobly
Free graphics
Free fonts
The League of Moveable Type (first, open-source font foundry)
Preview fonts with specific words
Choose font combos for your designs
For writers
- Bust Writer’s Block with Language is a Virus
- Try your hand at writing caption’s for the New Yorker’s cartoons
- Scroll through an endless supply of writing prompts
- Baby names are helpful when coming up with character names
- Distraction-free writing with Calmly Writer and ZenPen
- Emotion thesaurus
- Good descriptive words here and here
🚴♀️ Exercise
Free workout videos at Fitness Blender and efit30
Krav Maga for Beginners
Burn 600 Calories in 60 Minutes Workout
💪 Get Motivated
The Story of the Chinese Farmer by Alan Watts, you can also read it here
Challenge your mind with Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe
Take a gander at ZenPencil’s comics
Watch the ultimate motivational speech that every human should hear: Good by Jocko Willink
Check out Patreon’s Creator Mindset Map that captures the core feelings every creator experiences
🤣Laugh and Feel Good
I can’t get enough of the hilarious comics and observations over at The Oatmeal and Hyperbole and a Half
Key & Peele’s Substitute Teacher Skit
One Man’s Tribute to a Timeless Love
The Sound Project’s Faith in Humanity Restored Channel
A Grandpa Sees Color for the First Time
Re-visit the dance from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with the Prince Himself
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (full movie)
👂Listen
Everyone already knows about Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. The following services have some good tunes if you’re looking for a new way to listen to music:
Listen to radio stations from across the world with SHOUTcast
Cut out the background noise with noisili
Listen in to live police, fire, EMS, aviation and rail audio feeds with Broadcastify
Free domain audiobooks can be found at Librivox
Enjoy a free background noise radio with SoundDrown
Go anywhere in the world, during any time period with Radiooooo
Recommended Podcasts
Stuff You Missed in History Class (really fascinating, quick hits of history)
Shots of Awe (good fodder for deep, soulful conversations)
🧠 Learn
Learn how to code with Codecademy interactively for free
Hear from some of the brightest, most innovative minds with TED
Learn a new language
Watch a time-lapse of the universe and be inspired
Try out PhEt’s Interactive Simulations and learn about molarity, Ohm’s Law and much more
This fabulous nerd created a comprehensive list of the internet’s simulations
Plumb the depths of the Deep Sea or explore our universe with Celestia and Stars
Free courses
More listed at Lifehack
See, read and hear first-person accounts from different points throughout history with EyeWitness to History
Fast forward to the future by learning about some of the projects coming out of the Moonshot Factory
Become a Innovation Manager with the Board of Innovation’s Toolbox
🙋♂️💁♀️Interact with Others
Collaborate with your friends/teammates with Miro’s free white boarding platform
Send big files easily with https://justbeamit.com
📚Read
Borrow eBooks from Your Public Library Through the OverDrive/Libby App
Read Classics and Obscure Titles in the Open Library
Read Public Domain Books from the Smithsonian
Some highlights: Popular tech magazines from 1913, scrapbooks of early aeronautica
Project Gutenberg is a library of more than 60,000 free eBooks
Get in touch with your humanity with Humans of New York
Find your next favorite book at GoodReads
Go ahead and judge a book by its cover at Cover Spy
Wikipedia is a treasure trove of unusual articles
Slaughterhouse 90210 offers mini-shots of pop culture and literature
Others:
Not books, but uplifting blogs/projects which are “listening care packages for uncertain times”
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
🧘♀️Relax
Guided Meditation for Centered Happiness
Rain sounds for sleep and study
Enjoy a free background noise radio with SoundDrown
“Marconi Union” by Weightless is scientifically proven to help you relax
Relax by drawing delicate digital mandalas
Take virtual walks or virtual train rides
Analyze your stress and find ways to alleviate it
🛝Play
Enjoy a little nostalgia with a plethora of old-school games like the Organ Trail and Donkey Kong in the Internet Archive’s Software Library and at Retro Games
Play all sorts of card games at CardGames.io or chess or Sudoku
Travel virtually with AirPano, Fullscreen 360
See what materials you can create with Little Alchemy 2
Tour the Museum of Endangered Sounds
GeoGuesser takes you random places in the world and asks you to guess where you are
Go through The Secret Door
virtual tours of some of America’s best national parks
Museum virtual tours, also here
Explore Google’s Street View Collections. Make sure you are using Google Chrome browser and get on a journey!
📺Watch
Check out what’s shaking in Sri Lanka with earthcams.com or see what nature is up to with explore.org‘s live nature cams
Watch Zoo and Aquarium Live Cams – Do not muss the 24-hour live view of giant pandas
My80sTV is just like watching tv in the 80s. Check out 90s and 70s too.
You can definitely lose a few hours watching the content at Great Big Story
Owned by Sony Pictures, Crackle actually has some decent free content available
Korean Dramas on Viki (don’t knock it until you try it!) with ads
Challenge your mind with Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe
Watch fantastic shorts and even feature-length videos at Vimeo
Rewatch your favorite clips and movie speeches with MovieClips’ channel on YouTube
Find where your favorite movie is available with Yidio
Others: