New lockdown activities desperately required!

[RockingMyFiftiesNot]

Lockdown activities last time around for us included gardening, decorating, walking, reading, watching films, TV series binge watching, various crafts, jigsaws, board and card games, zoom calls & quizzes/other online games with friends, decluttering & organising cupboards.

I feel like the above were done to death so am looking for new things to do. I don't work, I have some voluntary and caring responsibilities but still have lots of spare time.

Christmas prep a given. Planning mainly done, will finish ordering online stuff and writing cards. Have bought the ingredients to make cake and mincemeat etc

Want to deep clean everywhere again - boring I know! and there is a bit of decorating to do .

But what can I do that's new and enjoyable that I haven't listed already?

Thanks

FutureLearn courses - they are mostly from UK universities and free unless you need / want a certificate and cover all sorts of topics from languages, business, health, recreational math etc.

Wow thank you @Prokupatuscrakedatus , I will definitely take a look. I'd like to brush up on the languages I do speak and maybe learn a new one. And have a look and see what else is of interest. I've not had the headspace for that kind of learning for so long it hadn't crossed my mind now that I do. Cheers!

Face painting!

Have a look at coursera and EdX for the best Moocs in the world. OpenYale also has shared a trimester of live filmed courses.
Crowd sourcing identifying road and creating maps
www.missingmaps.org/

or stars and planets
www.zooniverse.org/
Or transcribe old documents

www.si.edu/volunteer/DigitalVolunteers

how old are your DC?

I second Coursera and Edx - I have taken courses from both platforms (they offered a fantastic one about lanuguage revival and preservation) - I just find the surface less user friendly.

Genealogy

Nomad that's fun, too.
And there is a future learn course for people starting out with this hobby in the UK - with lots of additional resources apart from the obvious ones.

I got myself a loom and started learning to weave...making my own hand towels, dish towels, etc. Very rewarding.

I highly recommend Social psychology on coursera.

@lljkk

how old are your DC?

They are young adults, and whilst I'll be forever grateful I didn't have to juggle work and homeschooling, I wouldn't have as much spare time to fill .

Take up a musical instrument!

I think some sort of course is a great idea. I've not tried weaving since I was a child, might take a look at that.

@AlwaysLatte

Take up a musical instrument!

I used to be quite musical. I have a guitar somewhere up in the loft I think. I never mastered it, definitely something I could do. Loving theee ideas, not sure why I didn't think of them myself!

Duolingo is good for languages.