2. Cooking I won’t consider cooking as a hobby, because it’s a necessity to eat healthily. Even a 5-star restaurant can’t compete with homemade food. But as most people are eating outside daily, it’s good to learn cooking so that you can make tasty and healthy food at home. You can watch your calorie and protein intake if you cook at home for yourself. There are many Websites like Tasty, Yummly, and cookbooks to help you with Ingredients, Recipes, and Measurements.
3. Gardening It’s a very relaxing and anti-stress hobby. If you are a fan of nature and enjoy gardening, your garden will be like a pet to you. Trees and plants will chat and understand you, only if you chat and understand them. It’s like all relations, give and take. If you spend more time in nature or gardening, it’s like a natural therapy and many psychiatrists also recommend it. Garden Answers, SmartPlant, My Soil are a few gardening apps.
4. Stitching Stitching is considered as useless these days as people are wearing clothes as a one time use. It could also be considered as a necessity in some situations. You can’t find a tailor anywhere or anytime you want. And if you know how to stitch, you can upgrade your wardrobe and customize your clothes. Cross Stitch gives you ideas and hacks on Needlework. Many interesting alternatives like knitting, Crochet, Quiltmaking, Embroidery, and Fabric painting are available to work on.
5. DIY crafts It doesn’t have a particular way or thing to work on, so you can choose anything interesting to you and make it yourself. You can improvise and decorate your home, garden, clothing, accessories, and many more. You can give a new and creative look for anything boring. You can avoid spending your salary on unnecessary things which you can make at home. There are many Websites, Apps, and Social networking sites which provide you with lots of DIY ideas with the things you have already at home. Craftsy, BrightNest, Craftgawker, Makr are a few apps out there on DIY.
Pictographs came into existence even before languages. So, everybody can draw if one wants to. Your sketches need not be organized and perfect. You have to just go with the flow and draw whatever comes into your mind. Doodling is an amazing way to get relief from stress. There are many apps to let you shine in virtual sketching also. Unleash the creativity in you to make beautiful art and I promise, you” ll feel proud of yourselves. Let it be pencil sketching or using crayons, color pencils, pastels, watercolors — anything works great as long as you enjoy it and have fun!! Medibang and Autodesk Sketchbook are some of my favorite sketching apps that are for free.
I know what you are thinking, Lots of steps to follow, time taking process and very frustrating and I completely agree with you, But it can make you forget all those issues once you complete it. If you look at the positive side, it’ll teach you accuracy, precision, patience, and perfection. Those are a few qualities that are important for a successful life. You can learn origami through Jo Nakashima-Origami Tutorials, Origami.me, and Paper Kawaii websites. So why late, snatch a paper and work on it.
Let’s keep productivity aside for a second, board games are very relaxing and fun to enjoy with your family and friends in this quarantine. It’s a splendid idea to spend time with your peers. There are many apps through which you can play — there’s no need to share them, because you may already have some on your phone. But if possible, try to play more with boards instead of phones. Dungeons and Dragons, Scrabble, Monopoly, Business, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders are my favorite board games.
9. Calligraphy
I call it writing in a sexy way. You can stare a whole day at a calligraphic board and mesmerize its beauty. You can play with the letters and modify them in a way you like and you can improvise your handwriting. It represents integrity, harmony, rhythm, and creative fire. You can use it everywhere: while writing a journal, preparing notes, or in sketchbooks. There are some courses on calligraphy or you can simply learn through Youtube. Phonto and Calligrapher are famous calligraphy apps. Once you are done with learning calligraphy, you can try imitating various fonts and even create a new one.
10. Photography
These days there’s no need for a costly camera to uptake photography as your hobby, there are many kinds of affordable cameras out there. My favorite is a Polaroid camera. And with the high-quality phone cameras in the market, you can easily take awesome pictures with your phone. There are many apps to edit or make your pictures more beautiful: Adobe, Snapseed, Nightcap, Lapse it. Good luck to capture the memorable moments!
11. Collecting
Who doesn’t love collecting?? I guess, everybody during some point of time would’ve been addicted to collect something. But if you are new to this, Stamps, coins, comic books, baseball pins, toys, trading cards, action figures, retro video games, rocks, crystals, and anything vintage is some cool ideas for collecting. And if you want to find a place where you can get all those things, eBay, Sortly, Colliibo, Vinyl record app, Retro game collector, Unboxed, Gemr, Key collector comics help you to do so.
In my opinion, it’s the best way to get a girl. To support my opinion there are many movies out there representing the same. You can also impress your family and friends with your artistic skills. There are many instruments which you can choose from and in these modern days, there are some fusion instruments also to make you sic. You can even play music on your phone if you don’t feel like carrying your instrument with you. Many online courses are also there to help you learn instrumental music.
It’s simply iPod+broadcasting. You can podcast on anything. You can speak about the topics you like. And if you got a handful of audience, you can collaborate with well-known or inspirational people……in that way you can directly meet some of your favorites. You can meet many people with the same interests and ideology as yours in the audience. You can podcast on Anchor, Buzzsprout, Podbean, Podiant at no cost.
Be it fiction or non-fiction, reading is one of the best ways to engage your brain and imagination. It also improves your vocabulary as well as your writing skills. If you ever wanted to become an intellect, don’t miss this chance……..just grab a book and start reading whatever you like. If you are more comfortable with e-books, there are many apps you can use like Kindle, Audible, but my personal favorite is Anybooks app which is one of the best and cheapest out there.
Journals, Stories, Essays, and Articles are forms of writing through which you can express yourselves. The main purpose of creative writing is to express your ideas, emotions, and also to entertain. Sometimes we all suffer from piled up emotions that don’t have a way to get out, as a result, we feel like hurting someone or even ourselves. Writing plays a great role in such situations and helps us feel lighter. So what are you waiting for? — pour your creativity and emotions, and start writing.
16. Online courses
Usually, we’ll work all day, so we don’t have enough time to learn new skills regarding our careers. But as we are in quarantine now, we can use this time to improve ourselves professionally. There are many apps to learn courses such as Coursera, edX, Udemy. Even if you don’t have enough money to do the courses, you can use financial aid service, which is available in most of the apps. The great thing is you can learn both arts and sciences in these apps. And in some apps, you can also teach and earn money — sharing your knowledge is the best way to learn a concept thoroughly.
Blogging also comes under creative writing, but it includes technical details also. It’s a wonderful platform to share what you know and inspire others. It requires basic technical experience, creativity, and the ability to attract an audience. If you are good at this, you can even earn from blogging. Wordpress, Medium, and Blogger help you to create your blogs. You can also blog on other social websites like Tumblr. Medium is free of cost and has publications to support readers and writers. Blogger is especially for freelancers and also is free of cost if you include .blogspot in your domain URL.
It’s another hobby which needs basic technical experience. Communicating through pictures is always better than paragraphs, where the main goal is to shorter and faster communication. You can design some visual content, posters, and even a website as you wish. Adobe and Lucidpress are some of the apps which are easy to use for beginners and are for free. Crello, BeFunky, and Wix are some websites for designing your websites and other stuff, that too free of cost.
To be honest, it’s fun to learn new languages. It’ll increase decision-making skills, memory power, attention span, ability to multi-task, cognitive abilities, and bigger brain. Mondly(for kids), Mango, Memrise, Drops, Busuu, Duolingo, Babble a few language learning apps. It is very helpful in traveling and also makes you respect the cultures. And the fun part is you can learn it with your friends so that you can share secrets in public. You can even create your language and use it as you like!
Many of us think that research is only for scientists, but in fact, it’s for all of us. Just pick a topic you are interested in or brainstorm for ideas, read some background information, make some observations, process them and try to prove them mathematically, and at last fins a solution for your problem statement. Then you can publish your research papers on websites like scirp.org. It’ll be very helpful in your career. But it doesn’t mean that you should pick only amazing topics, when you are bored, choose a topic, learn and try to apply it in your daily routine. You can share these experiences on your blogs and social websites.
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