Lindsay Jacobs and friends share their ideas for how to pass the time in self-isolation!
1) Do an online course – there are loads of free ones – Tejinder
2) Write a book – Tenesan
3) Read that book – Tenesan
4) Write a quiz for your family and friends to do via video calling – Lindsay
5) Play music you used to listen to and remember when you last heard it – Louise
6) Start an online Bible study with fellow self-isolators – Tenesan
7) Stretching and exercise inside and outside – Andrea
8) An excuse to show the love of God by checking up on people from a distance – Tenesan
9) Enter the HBC Accord quiz! – Lindsay
10) Learn a language online – Tenesan
11) Don’t spend the entire day in your pyjamas. It’s important to wear clothes you associate with work or being outside. Doing so will greatly help you to be more active and activate a productive mindset – James
12) Art, craft and painting with the children – Andrea
13) Write a poem – Lindsay
14) Share some interesting and unknown facts about yourself with friends - Barrie
15) Come up with a new dish out of your limited ingredients – Tenesan
16) Watch the TV programmes you’ve recorded but never watched – Louise
17) Pray and meditate on God’s word – Tenesan
18) Do cross stitch – Andrea
19) Family games night – Tenesan
20) Teach your children to cook – Geormina
21) Make bath bombs and soap – Andrea
22) Declutter your bedroom – Esther
23) Sing worship songs – Lindsay
24) Knitting – Andrea
25) Give your home a spring clean – Lindsay
26) Make a DIY car track for the children – April
27) Painting by numbers – Andrea
28) Build a fort – Michelle
29) Card and board games – Andrea
30) Learn New Testament Greek – Barrie
31) Put a stick-on black board on a wall for the children to scribble on – April
32) Sort out the cupboard of random plastic tubs and lids – Lindsay
33) Spend some time in the mornings with the children reflecting on God’s word – April
34) Do all your schoolwork on time – Ethan
35) Do a bake-off competition – make cakes and post pictures of them both inside and out – Vincent
36) Spend quality family time together – Joana
37) Play board games or other games like charades over WhatsApp with family and friends that you cannot be with – Lindsay
38) Start a DIY project – Esther
39) Take a multivitamin to stay healthy - Juyoung
40) Card-making – Andrea
41) Video call your family and friends – Lanie
42) Play an instrument – Rosanna
43) Learn an instrument using YouTube – Esther
44) Pilates – Rosanna
45) Read a book – Rosanna
46) Stay positive – Ethan
47) Manicure your nails – Rosanna
48) Set yourself challenges like how many doughnuts you can eat in one minute! – Esther
49) Read to your children – no matter how old they are! – Lindsay
50) Attempt to read the whole Bible – Lindsay
51) Join an online HBC life group – Tenesan
52) Colour in a picture – Lindsay
53) Keep a diary about your time in isolation – Esther
54) Let your children have a pretend tea party – Lindsay
55) Capture a garden insect and keep it as a pet – Esther
56) Movie marathon night / family movie night – Tenesan
57) Play on the Wii (or other games console) – Rosanna
58) Memorise scripture – Esther
59) Draw a picture – Rosanna
60) Make something out of clay – Esther
61) Build a Lego model – Esther
62) Have a mini photoshoot – Esther
63) Make a movie – Esther
64) Binge watch Netflix – Esther
65) Set up a Netflix-watching party – James
66) Listen to an audio book – Sandeep
67) Invent something – Esther
68) Teach your family something they don’t know – Esther
69) Join a Facebook group dedicated to helping vulnerable people during coronavirus with things such as grocery shopping – James
70) Online shared Bible studies through the Bible app – Mobi
71) Sort out your paperwork – Enitan
72) Do the DIY repairs that you’ve postponed for months – Enitan
73) Buy and read a Francine Rivers book – Anne-Marie
74) Do a science project – Michelle
75) Decorate your bedroom – Esther
76) Build an obstacle course – Michelle
77) Learn to count to ten in ten languages – Mani
78) Plant a tree – Esther
79) Make a time capsule – Michelle
80) Tidy up stuff in the wardrobes and cupboards – Andrea
81) Put on a puppet show – Michelle
82) Collate your photo albums – Enitan
83) Have a talent show at home – Tenesan
84) Make a treasure hunt – Michelle
85) Play Monopoly – Rosanna
86) Learn the names of the books of the Bible in order – Barrie
87) Sleep more! – Rosanna
88) Assign a project to those in the house and they have to present it at the end of the week – Mani
89) Listen to some old HBC sermons on the website – Lindsay
90) Have a sleepover with your siblings – Esther
91) Do a puzzle – Esther
92) Keep a prayer journal – Lindsay
93) Do Bible journaling (look this up if you don’t know what it is!) – Lindsay
94) Learn a viral dance via YouTube – Tenesan
95) Invent a new board game – Lindsay
96) Experiment with new ideas like sewing, baking, cooking etc – Khadija
97) Pray with others over the phone every day – Jacqui
98) Learn to juggle – Lindsay
99) Make a scrapbook – Michelle
100) Re-read old issues of HBC Accord magazine! – Lindsay