Stuck at Home? I Got You, Boo.

How to enjoy the world while at home.

Are you stuck at home for any of the following reasons?

• Quarantine/Illness

• Snowed in

• House arrest

• House-poor

• Nowhere to go

• Lack of inspiration

• Lack of motivation

• Arachnophobia

• Agoraphobia

• Zombies

• In hiding

• Sheltering in place

• Exhaustion

• Depression

Feel better. Take care. There there. Take cover. Stay calm. Keep warm. Stay cool. Rest up. Hydrate. Hang in there. Save up. Breathe. Play.

Whatever the reason for your confinement, dear heart, we’ve got you covered with this mega list of things to do while stuck at home.

Admire

• Answer the age-old question, how does a pony put on a sweater?

• Marvel at mini-food cheeseburgers

• OMFG dogs

• AI Art Gallery

🥘 Cook/Bake

• Find anything you could want to make at AllRecipes and Yummly

• Search for recipes by ingredient at MyFridgeFood and Supercook

• For food lust and inspiration, check out Foodgawker

🎨 Create

• HitRecord: Collaborate with writers, musicians, artists (whatever your thing is) from all over the world

• Create graphic designs with Canva, Stencil, and DesignBold

• Edit photos online with Pixlr and Fotor

• Remove backgrounds from photos with Removebg

• Play an instrument or sing? Check out MusOpen’s free sheet music (also offers free audio)

• Explore color with Colordot, Material Design Palette, Coolors, Adobe’s Color Wheel, and Web Gradients

• Have a Cricut? Jennifer Maker has a delightful library of free projects

• Check out other great resources at TheMakers.io

• Runway ML: A creative toolkit that uses machine learning models for various creative projects, including art, video, and music.

• Deep Dream Generator: Create surreal AI-generated art using neural networks.

Send big files easily

• JustBeamIt

• WeTransfer

Use Focus Booster to help you break through distractions and stay on track

• Focus Booster

Free photos

• Pexels

• StockSnap

• Visual Hunt

• Unsplash

• Library of Congress (vintage prints)

• This Person Does Not Exist: An AI generates realistic photos of people who do not actually exist.

Free audio

• Free Music Archive

• Free Sound Effects

• More listed at Logobly

• AIVA: An AI composer that creates music for various projects, from soundtracks to personal listening.

Free stock videos

• Pexels

• Pixabay

• Mixkit

• More listed at Logobly

Free graphics

• Freepik

• humaaans

• undraw

• Vexels

• Vectorportal

Free fonts

• daFont

• Google Fonts

• The League of Moveable Type (first open-source font foundry)

• Font Squirrel

Preview fonts with specific words

• Wordmark.it

• Fontjoy: Choose font combos for your designs

For writers

• Bust Writer’s Block with Language is a Virus

• Try your hand at writing captions for the New Yorker’s cartoons

• Scroll through an endless supply of writing prompts

• Baby names are helpful when coming up with character names

• Distraction-free writing with Calmly Writer and ZenPen

• Emotion thesaurus

🚴‍♀️ Exercise

• Vi Trainer: An AI personal trainer that adapts workouts to your fitness level and goals.

• Free workout videos at Fitness Blender and efit30

• Yoga for Beginners

• 10 Minute Full Body Workout

• 20 Minute Full Body Workout

💪 Get Motivated

• The Story of the Chinese Farmer by Alan Watts

• Challenge your mind with Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe

• Take a gander at ZenPencil’s comics

• Watch the ultimate motivational speech that every human should hear: Good by Jocko Willink

• Check out Patreon’s Creator Mindset Map, which captures the core feelings every creator experiences

🤣 Laugh and Feel Good

• I can’t get enough of the hilarious comics and observations over at The Oatmeal and Hyperbole and a Half

• Time to Turn Up Mufasa!

• Key & Peele’s Substitute Teacher Skit

• One Man’s Tribute to a Timeless Love

• The Sound Project’s Faith in Humanity Restored Channel

• Pharrell Williams - Happy

• Re-visit the dance from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with the Prince Himself

• InspiroBot: An AI that generates amusing and sometimes nonsensical inspirational quotes.

👂 Listen

• Suno AI: AI-generated music.

• Endel: AI-generated soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep.

• Everyone already knows about Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music. The following services have some good tunes if you’re looking for a new way to listen to music:

  • Jango

  • iHeartRadio

  • SoundCloud

  • AccuRadio

  • SHOUTcast: Listen to radio stations from across the world

• Noisili: Cut out the background noise

• Broadcastify: Listen in to live police, fire, EMS, aviation, and rail audio feeds

• Free domain audiobooks can be found at LibriVox

• Enjoy a free background noise radio with SoundDrown

• Go anywhere in the world, during any time period with Radiooooo

• Recommended Podcasts:

  • S. Town

  • Stuff You Missed in History Class

  • Shots of Awe

  • NPR’s StoryCorps

🧠 Learn

• Ask ChatGPT

• Fast.ai: A practical deep learning course that covers state-of-the-art techniques and their applications.

• Learn how to code with Codecademy interactively for free

• Hear from some of the brightest, most innovative minds with TED

• Learn a new language

• DeepL Translator: An AI-powered translation service known for its accuracy.

• Watch a time-lapse of the universe and be inspired

• Try out PhEt’s Interactive Simulations and learn about molarity, Ohm’s Law, and much more

• This fabulous nerd created a comprehensive list of the internet’s simulations

• Plumb the depths of the Deep Sea or explore our universe with Celestia and Stars

• Free courses:

  • Ted Ed

  • Coursera

  • Open Culture Online Courses

  • Udemy

  • Academic Earth

  • More listed at Lifehack

• See, read, and hear first-person accounts from different points throughout history with EyeWitness to History

• Fast forward to the future by learning about some of the projects coming out of the Moonshot Factory

• Become an Innovation Manager with the Board of Innovation’s Toolbox

🙋‍♂️💁‍♀️ Interact with Others

• Collaborate with your friends/teammates with Miro’s free whiteboarding platform

📚 Read

• Borrow eBooks from your public library through the OverDrive/Libby App

• Read classics and obscure titles in the Open Library

• Read public domain books from the Smithsonian

  • Some highlights: Popular tech magazines from 1913, scrapbooks of early aeronautica

• Project Gutenberg is a library of more than 60,000 free eBooks

• Get in touch with your humanity with Humans of New York

• Find your next favorite book at GoodReads

• Wikipedia is a treasure trove of unusual articles

• Others:

  • Smashwords

  • 24symbols

  • Not books, but uplifting blogs/projects which are “listening care packages for uncertain times”:

    • BrainPickings

    • The On Being Project

    • MyModernMet

    • Electric Literature

    • Austin Kleon

    • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

🧘‍♀️ Relax

• Guided Meditation for Centered Happiness

• Rain sounds for sleep and study

• Enjoy a free background noise radio with SoundDrown

• “Marconi Union” by Weightless is scientifically proven to help you relax

• Relax by drawing delicate digital mandalas with this tool

• Take virtual walks or virtual train rides with these resources

• Analyze your stress and find ways to alleviate it with this guide

• Do Nothing for Two Minutes

🛝 Play

• Enjoy a little nostalgia with a plethora of old-school games like the Oregon Trail and Donkey Kong in the Internet Archive’s Software Library and at Retro Games

• Play all sorts of card games at CardGames.io or chess or Sudoku

• Travel virtually with AirPano and Fullscreen 360

• See what materials you can create with Little Alchemy 2

• Tour the Museum of Endangered Sounds

• GeoGuesser takes you to random places in the world and asks you to guess where you are

📺 Watch

• Check out what’s shaking in Sri Lanka with EarthCams or see what nature is up to with Explore.org's live nature cams

• My80sTV is just like watching TV in the 80s. Check out 90s and 70s too

• You can lose a few hours watching the content at Great Big Story

• Owned by Sony Pictures, Crackle has some decent free content available

• Korean Dramas on Viki (don’t knock it until you try it!) with ads

• Challenge your mind with Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe

• Watch fantastic shorts and even feature-length videos at Vimeo

• Rewatch your favorite clips and movie speeches with MovieClips’ channel on YouTube

• Find where your favorite movie is available with Yidio

• Others:

  • Popcornflix

  • PlutoTV

  • TubiTV

  • SnagFilms

  • Internet Archive Movies