7 ways to entertain at home during Covid-19 pandemic outbreak

Are you feeling very boring at home due to a coronavirus disease Covid-19 pandemic in many countries around the world?

You don’t know what to do while staying indoors to help to prevent Covid-19 pandemic?

Many people are recommended to stay at home or forced not to go out during quarantine at a place of residence.

No matter what reasons, there are many ways to make you have an interesting day.

For me, this is an opportunity to develop myself. Learning new skills, new languages, improve weak skills or trying to make a very delicious cake that I delayed many times due to a busy daily life, why not?

Here are 7 good ways to help you overcome your boredom throughout the day at home during the complex development of Covid-19.

1. Reading books

How long haven’t you been reading a book or an ebook?

Do you remember the last time you read a book?

Maybe a busy life outside pushes us to follow it. Hard working, deadlines of new tasks, monthly targets at work, parties with friends or colleagues, updates on friends’ news on Facebook, Instagram,… It seems that we don’t have time to read an book, a kind of entertainment requiring much more time to finish, depending on how thick the book is.

So, now it’s time for you to enjoy some interesting books? why not?

Reading books at home

Here are some books that you should not miss.

• Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas)

A series of French children’s book was first published in 1959 by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé. This book will give you cheery smiles by Nicolas’ personal sense of humour and funny illustration in every story. I laughed a lot when reading it.

• Heidi

Heidi is a story set in the Alps, was written by Johanna Spyri, an author of children’s stories, between 1879 and 1895. This work made Spyri famous as an outstanding writer of children’s literature.

• The Secret Garden

A novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1911. It has been seen as a classic of English children’s literature.

• Have a good day (Chuc mot ngay tot lanh in Vietnamese)

Written in 2014 by Nguyen Nhat Anh, a Vietnamese author. He has published many stories and novels for adults and children. A book is about life of animals and people, especially animals can speak. A very funny book would make you laugh a lot and help you less bored while staying at home. You can find the cutest books such as: Ticket to Childhood (2008), Young banana trees wear green shoes (2018),…

• The Tale of Tom Kitten (free ebook)

The book was written in 1907 by Beatrix Potter, an English writer. She is best known for her children’s book featuring animals. Another similar books are The Tale of Tod, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902). Funny illustration and cute stories about animals would help you have funny moments.

• Les Misérables (The Miserable ones)

A French historical novel by Victor Hugo, one of the France’s greatest writers, first published in 1862. The story has been retold many times in a musical, in plays for radio and theater. That’s considered one of the greatest novels of the 19^th century.

• O. Henry’s Short Stories

 The stories was written by William S. Porter ‘O. Henry, an American short story author. One of  O. Henry’s very famous short stories are The Last Leaves, The Cop and the Anthem, After Twenty Years.

• The Call of the Wild

Written in 1903, The Call of the Wild made Jack London become a famous American writer. The book is about the dangerous, frozen land of the north of Canada.

• Uncle Tom’s cabin

The novel was written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, an American writer, in 1852. The book sold over 300,000 copies a year after being published. Uncle Tom’s cabin is a story about Uncle Tom, a black slave and his people.

• David Copperfield

The novel was published in 1850, by Charles Dickens, often called the greatest English novelist of all time. David Copperfield is the most autobiographical novel.

• Tolstoy’s Short Stories

Written by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, a Russian author. He is regarded as one of Russia’s greatest novelists. What Men Live By and Ivan, the Fool (1985) represent the best of Tolstoy’s short works.

• Sense and Sensibility

Written in 1811 by Jane Austen, an English author.

2.Learning a new language or improve your weak language

In the free time while staying at home to avoid inflection of Covid-19, you can study English or any new languages you want to get a job promotion or to suit your interest.  There are many websites for you to choose.  Among of them, Duolingo is the most popular language -learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. This app provides you with many interesting stories and grammar, new vocabulary to practice language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening skills).

Honestly, I am a fan of this app and I always love to learn from adventurous and interesting stories on Duolingo.

Learning new languages through Duolingo stories

3. Discover yoga while staying home

If you have never done yoga before, why don’t you try this new sport? It’s very convenient for you to do everywhere, at any free time you have. You just need a yoga map. In case you forget to bring it, many yoga standing poses still help you to be good health, relieve stress, reduce muscle tension. Yoga is good not only for your physical healthy but also for your mental health. Youtube is one of the best channel from which you can learn yoga.

Do yoga at home (Photo: Stylecraze)

4. Learning the art of paper folding Origami

Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding, spanning over 1000 years.

For whose who are attracted to this art, learning new techniques of Origami is a good way to entertain these days. You can create beautiful paper flowers or even hand-made pictures to decorate your room. Besides, you can play with your children while all members of family can learn together to create very cute animals. In the internet, there are many websites to guide how to make Origami. You just prepare colorful papers and follow instructions exactly to create things you like.

Creating cute animals by learning Origami art of paper folding

5. Planting vegetables, flowers

If you are tree lovers, you can spend much more time to take care your garden which you didn’t spend time taking care of it much each day. You can try to plant more vegetables or flowers by seeds bought from the supermarkets. Maybe after a short time, you would have a beautiful garden and full of clean vegetables for your meal.

Vegetables from the garden

Planting vegetables at the balcony or small garden

6. Restart your passion that you have not time to practice before

When you were very young, you have spent all day just to draw or learn playing guitar. After many years, your passion was left behind to go to work for daily living expenses.

While staying at home to reduce close contact with people who may have corona virus,  you can start to draw again or to study to play more new songs on your guitar.

Learning to play guitar (Photo: Danguitar)

7. Learning Chinese chess game

Playing Chinese chess with computer is also interesting. There are many apps that you can download to play. Discovering a new game that you have never tried before would make you have a busy day and feel excited when you can win the computer.

Playing Chinese chess with a computer

So, I hope 7 ways to do in your free time mentioned above would help you enjoy your day.

If you have any new suggestions or other ways that you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment or share this post if you want other people to know it. Thank you for taking time to read this post.