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<\/p>\nThe coronavirus COVID-19 has people staying indoors, especially now that restaurants and bars are closed statewide for the next two weeks. If you’ve already finished every Netflix and HBO marathon you can think of and are grasping for new ideas, here’s a list of what to do during your self-quarantine. Thanks to online resources, there’s actually a ton of things to do indoors nowadays, from coloring to taking yoga classes, to learning computer coding, knitting, and everything in between.<\/p>\n
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If you aren’t interested in audiobooks<\/a>, they also offer language instruction and music.<\/p>\n Another excellent indoor activity to try in the Chicago area when you’re snowed in is Lumosity<\/a> brain games. You can join a global community of 85 million brain trainers, all committed to challenging their brains with cognitive games designed by in-house scientists. Lumosity will have you diving right in with a Fit Test: three games that each challenge different abilities. That\u2019ll give you your baseline scores, so you can watch how your scores change over time, one of the best things to do indoors.<\/p>\n If you’re social distancing and staying home in Chicago, we also recommend downloading and listening to sheet music from free-scores.com<\/a>. If you place an instrument or enjoy classical music, this activity with keep you busy. If you don’t already know how to read sheet music, you can learn via this Ted\u00a0Ed Lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can learn just about anything academic via TED lessons. If you’d like, you can also create your very own lesson. At TED Talks<\/a>, you can also watch speakers present on pretty much any topic you are interested in and some you didn’t even know existed.<\/p>\n2. Play brain games at Lumosity<\/h3>\n
3. Download sheet music<\/h3>\n
4. Stay curious with\u00a0TED-Ed<\/h3>\n