Are we really one year into lockdown? How is that possible? To keep you going, we collected our favourite adventures. Swim with sharks! Go to Mars! Invent a snowflake! Turn yourself into a famous painting! Count penguins for science! Design an iceberg!… and more.

Get Creative

• Make your own Blob Opera
• Check out Edwardian Dogs. Then take a portrait of your own dog
• Turn yourself into a famous painting 
• Print a Free Coloring Book at home
• Use the Snowflake Generator. Bonus: Curl up with a cup of tea and make a palace of time and stillness free of stress
• Make a time capsule
• Fill up a sketchbook and submit it to The Sketchbook Project at Brooklyn Art Library. Your book will become part of their collection for years to come.
• Make Clothesline Animals
• Mix your own blob

Visit

• Visit London then and now
• Visit a National Park
• See the Northern Lights
• Go to Mars
• Drive around a city while listening to its radio stations
• Visit Petra
• Travel to the Riviera Maya, Mexico
• Explore the world with Compassion Explorer
• Travel the world with WindowSwap
• Play City Guesser

Explore Art

• British Museum, London
• Guggenheim Museum, New York
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris
• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
• Pergamon Museum, Berlin
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Uffizi Gallery, Florence
• Raphael’s Room, the Sistine Chapel, and the Niccoline Chapel, The Vatican
• Painted Hall, Greenwich, London
• V&A, London
• Explore Girl with a Pearl Earring at vast scale
• Go to a fashion museum
• Frida Kahlo exhibition 
• Explore Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks, an art exhibition from Fairfield University Art Museum
• Visit even more museums (2500 and counting!)

Explore Science 

• Be the first to see an object from Science Museum Group
• Count penguins for science 
• Launch science experiments with items in your kitchen
• Visit the Jane Goodall Collection from National Geographic
• Swim with a shark in 3D
• Watch bears in the wild 
• Observe eagles in the wild (babies will be hatching soon!)
• See animals interrupting wildlife photographers
• Draw an iceberg and see how it floats
• See what the Hubble Telescope is looking at now

Read

• Let’s read together! Watch my Stay-at-Home Story Time videos
• Go on adventures inside books with my list of Children’s Books to Get You Through Lockdown
• Check out my favourite books to read aloud
• Have Dolly Parton read you a bedtime story
• Follow #operationstorytime on Instagram
• Join Mini BFF Book Club with Annie Downs
• Read with celebrities at Storyline Online
• Even more read alouds
• Visit my Amazon Store for even more book lists

Write

• Write a book! Look! I Wrote a Book! guides you through all the stages (plus see my top books about writing)
• Keep a diary about your lockdown. Each member of the family can write in their own section of this journal, with page dividers for each person
• Explore my favourite writing tools
• Keep a gratitude journal. Notice just a few things each day to be thankful for, and write them down. Once you start counting, you may never be able to stop

Watch

• The Great British Baking Show
• The Repair Shop on Netflix
• See a Shakespeare play at the Globe, London
• The Jesus Storybook Bible Videos (find a free selection on YouTube, or stream the full collection on Amazon Prime or Christianbook)
• Slugs and Bugs (I make an appearance—as an alien!)
• Visit The Nicest Place on the Internet 

Listen

• My Peace be Still Spotify playlist
• James Baldwin record collection
• I Need to Go Somewhere, a fun cabin fever anthem from Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
• Treat People with Kindness: A happy song and dance by Harry Styles
• Ambient sounds: Tropical Island in Thailand, Luxury train ride, Cafe in Paris, City Sounds in NYC

Get outside 

• Find a new walking path or hiking trail near you
• Stargaze and find constellations with SkyView
• Find the perfect place and time to watch the sunrise or sunset
• Do a listening walk, noticing all the sounds around you
• Do a rainbow walk, finding each color of the rainbow as you go
• Explore nature with the help of The Wildflower’s Workbook

Bring out the chef in you 

• Make a Cakelet
• Make Bon Appetit’s 13 Most Popular Recipes of 2020 
• Have a classic Cream Tea
• Make homemade cinnamon rolls
• Ask a family member to host a cooking class on Zoom and learn a family recipe

Have a party (safely) 

• Have an online jigsaw puzzle party 
• Watch movies with friends and family via Amazon Watch Party, GroupWatch, Teleparty
• Play games with family members with Game Pigeon, Words with Friends, and other family board games

What are you doing to beat the boredom? I’d love to hear. Tag me in your adventures, or leave a comment.