10 Lockdown Activities to Inspire Creativity | AD

Life can get very boring by doing the same thing every day in the pandemic. It’s super important to break the monotony by trying out new things. That’s why I’ve come up with a list of 10 Lockdown Activities to Inspire Creativity:

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Cook Something New

Cooking, baking, and the presentation of food is truly a work of art. While there are so many online recipes you can check out to try, it can be fun to figure things out on your own. If you already know how to bake cookies, add something new to them like M&Ms or walnuts. Although baking is a very exact science, with cooking you have a lot more freedom to test out different ideas. You can try out new marinations and seasonings of your favorite meats. Or you can use a different kind of cheese for your mac and cheese recipe. There isn’t really a limit on the ways you can be creative with the way you cook.

If you are a complete newbie to cooking, you can always find a recipe to follow for something you have never made before. Either way, cooking, and baking can be a great way to inspire creativity in lockdown.

Learn to Play an Instrument

You can purchase some virtual lessons with a teacher or learn from YouTube! Finally, put those instruments that have just been in storage to good use.

Create a Vision Board

Vision boards are a great way to make a creative format of your goals. You can do this digitally on Canva or create a physical version with magazine cutouts.  If your goal is to go on vacation to a new country, use tons of photos of that place, food you want to try there, etc. Or if you want to create a vision board for your career goals, include photos of your heroes and the way you want life to be when you reach that goal. You can also pick out words that resonate with your goals and include them throughout your vision board.

There’s no correct way to create one. Find what inspires you and relates to your goals, include it.

Create birthday cards

Due to lockdown, it’s not possible to see all your friends and family. You can’t go out and see each other, exchange gifts, etc. It’s made celebrating someone’s birthday a little sad. But, you can come up with creative and cute cards to still make their day special. Even if you don’t have any birthdays coming up in the next weeks, it’s always nice to be prepared and have cute pre-made cards.

You can be creative with designs, GIFs, stickers, etc. What really makes a card look perfect is the font. It can really make or break the aesthetic of any birthday card. You don’t want to use the same font for every person or use something that you can easily find on Google docs. You want something special and unique. I use a free fonts website to pick out something different for each card that I make.

You can easily upload any of the fonts on there to a font app like Phonto to create your cards on an iPad or tablet. Or you can upload to Canva and do all of your card creations on there! Make sure once you download the ZIP file you open it as a folder to upload, otherwise, it won’t work.

Crochet

While crocheting can be very difficult to figure out, there are tons of free resources to teach you. You can find a lot of different stitches and patterns through blog posts or YouTube videos. It’s also pretty cheap to start crocheting since you only need some yarn and hooks. There’s definitely a learning curve to crocheting and it will continuously allow you to become more and more creative as you keep going.

The more stitches you know, the more you’ll be able to create. I started crocheting during the beginning of lockdown and was able to learn 2 stitches very quickly. Just those 2 let me create headbands and as I kept practicing the quality became better and better. It’s a super great way to be able to create something without being too difficult.

DIY Projects

Spend some time doing DIY projects. Maybe you have always wanted to make candles or you want to re-paint your room. Now’s the time to try doing something new. You could even upcycle the furniture you already have. Reupholster an old chair or paint your mirror frame a different color.

Scroll through Pinterest for DIY project ideas. There are so many tutorials and resources on there that will keep you busy forever.

Draw/Color

Another way to spark creativity is by doodling or using a coloring book. You can order color books on Amazon or just draw whatever you want on paper. If you have an iPad or other tablet you can also use Notability, which I mentioned in my how to take notes on an iPad blog post, to draw little doodles.

Make a Bucket List

Being in the midst of a pandemic has definitely changed a lot of people’s perspectives on life. Every day is a treat and not a guarantee. It’s great to still be positive and think about the future by making plans. A bucket list can be a great way to do this and make you think about everything you want to do.

Water Color Painting

To relax and let your creativity flow, you can always start watercolor painting. It’s your artwork, so there’s no need to follow certain rules or stick to one way of painting. However, if you need some sort of guidance, YouTube is your best friend.  All the episodes of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross videos are on there. It can be super soothing to watch the videos and paint along as you receive instructions.

Start a Scrapbook

Cloud software like Google Drive has made it so simple to store thousands of photos. But sometimes there’s nothing like having a physical copy of some of your favorite pics. You can print out your photos at a drugstore like CVS or RiteAid for cheap and organize them in any way you want. Do you have tons of photos from a vacation? Or did you go to a music festival and have lots of photos with friends? Whatever the case is, you can create a section of your scrapbook for big events like these and decorate it with different paper, stickers, etc.