Play Countdown
Countdown is a British game show involving word and number tasks. In the (online) word game you select vowels and consonants as you wish. You then have 30 seconds to find …
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Build Something Using Magnetic Balls (Great for Stress Relief Too)
I can’t begin to tell you how satisfying it is watching this YouTube channel called Magnet World. With magnets (just like Lego) you can build whatever you want. Check out the …
Fun websites to beat boredom
MakeUseOf has a recent article, 15 Fun Websites for Instantly Beating Boredom Online Looking for websites to go to when bored? Don’t let boredom get boring. Even Steve Jobs was a …
Get into tie-dying
Ordinarily, when you think of tie-dye you probably think of 90s ravers or children under 10, but there’s nothing ordinary about the time we’re living in. Since lockdown started it seems …
Play Quick Draw
Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research. Over 15 …
Take a book quiz
Quiz.co.uk has a book quiz with 25 questions. Here are the first 5. See the full quiz here
Take a tour on a London bus - in 1950
The London red bus is iconic. This short film produced by the British Government describing how to travel on the London Buses. Dated 1950
Learn How to Make Soap
In this video, Elly goes through the introduction of soap making, the recipe and all the materials you need. This is the first part of a two part series with the …
Learn TikTok
IT’S BEEN MORE than three years since the lip-syncing app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, first became popular among tweens and teens. The social network has since spread far beyond Generation …
5 Musical Skills You Can Learn Online for Free, With or Without Instruments
Since you have some extra free time at home, how about learning a musical skill? You can get free music lessons online, with or without instruments, to pick up a new …
See history in pictures
Join nearly 4 million people following @HistoryInPics on Twitter, an account that share “the most powerful and entertaining historical photographs ever taken”. Here’s the recent timeline Tweets by HistoryInPics
Test your movie trivia knowledge
Here are 100 classic movie trivia questions, ranging from easy to obscure. Here are the first 3 1. Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane? Answer: “Rosebud” 2. Question: Who …
Play Hidden Through Time
The Verge has a detailed article about this game, Hidden Through Time is a relaxing yet challenging puzzle game. Hidden Through Time is a game where you locate hidden objects in a …
View 3D animals in your own home
An article in 9to5Google, Google 3D animals: Which ones are available and how to use them explains what it’s all about. At its I/O conference in 2019, Google announced that it would …
Learn How to Solve Cryptic Crossword Puzzles
I don’t know about you but I love crossword puzzles however, I’ve never got the hang of cryptic crossword puzzles. Maybe now is the time? Here’s some in the Guardian that …
Make Your Own Bike Roller
If you love to cycle but are stuck indoors then you need to be handy with some power tools. Okay, assuming you have the power tools and the material you can …
Learn about the Constellation in Your Sky
Stellarium Web is an online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source stellarium web project. Using the desktop, web or mobile version, you can identify the constellation …
Learn to solve a Rubik’s cube
WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik’s cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from …
Learn How to Tie Your Shoe Laces in Creative Ways
I LOVE these short videos. There’s so many different types from how to tie your scarf, wearing your shirts in different ways and of course, tying your shoe laces. I’ve done …
Learn Single Player Card Games
This week when I was cleaning out our games cupboard, I came across over a dozen different decks of cards that we had collecting dust. These cards were a blast from …
Check out MoMA Online Resources to Teach and Learn Art From Home
“Whether you are a classroom or homeschool teacher, a parent or caregiver now suddenly in the position of teaching at home, a student, or a lifelong learner, this is a challenging …
Join in on a 30 Day Photography Challenge
Martin Parr is inviting everyone to be part of a 30 Day photography challenge where every day, a topic is shared. You are invited to take a photo and share the …
Rediscover Parlour Games
Back in the old days, people used to play parlour games. These were games played indoors during the Victorian (and earlier) times when there was no internet, movies or technology to …
Join the Not in a Pub quiz (on Wednesday evenings)
Obviously the Country is going through a bit of a rough patch, pubs are closed, people aren’t allowed out because they have been grounded by Boris Johnson and boredom is setting …
Learn How to Dance Saturday Night Fever (and others)
The Never Stop Dancing YouTube channel has a variety of dance tutorials you can do in the comfort of your own home - alone or with your family. The combination of …
Watch Live Streams of Animals at the Zoo
Who doesn’t love watching cute animals in particular penguins. Our local zoo, Royal Melbourne Zoo has live streams of its animals. Why not check out if your local zoo has the …
Have a Netflix Party
Netflix Party is a new way to watch Netflix with your friends online. Netflix Party synchronizes video playback and adds group chat to your favorite Netflix shows. Netflix Party
Play Sudoku free online
Sudoku is one of the most popular puzzle games of all time. The goal of Sudoku is to fill a 9×9 grid with numbers so that each row, column and 3×3 …
Best free-to-play games
“With the coronavirus keeping everyone stuck at home, lots more people are playing video games but how can you get more for free? Fortunately, there are plenty of games that you …