Although this Sunday and Monday are an official holiday from work in celebration of Easter, it doesn’t change the fact that everyone is going to be quarantined at home. With most newspapers and media outlets reporting that celebrations will be ‘muted’ as all shops and restaurants would be closed due to increasing COVID-19 cases, this doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Easter at home.
If you’re quarantined with immediate family, here’s a list of things you could be doing!
1) Let Your Inner Artist Out
Paint
Just because there isn’t a full on family gathering with everyone and their kids doesn’t mean the Easter egg hunt is cancelled. It just means that you need a little bit more creativity to get through the games. This is a perfect family bonding exercise with kids too!
For a start, place as many eggs as you want in a basket on a table and get crafty. This may need some earlier preparation because you’ll need paints and paintbrushes. But don’t just leave it at those two things. Include glitter, stickers, ribbons and whatever you might be easily accessible from an art store to help make this as colorful as possible.
Depending on the supplies and amount of eggs, this could definitely take up at least a few hours of your day.
2) Video Call With The Family
Video calling the family
There is no reason to let the day pass without a family get together. All those video conferencing applications you’ve been using for work meetings can easily be used for a virtual family gathering too! 925Egypt previously wrote an article listing video conferencing platforms that you can use.
The Atlantic wrote an article titled “The Art of Socializing During a Quarantine” that explained how phone calls and video chatting allow for heart to heart conversations even across distances.
“One slightly unusual means of doing that: initiating a video chat with a friend or loved one and then leaving it running in the background for an hour or two as you go about your days,” the article wrote. While of course several video chatting tools have been rendered as ‘unsafe’, on a special day like Easter, it’s worth keeping your family around – even if via video.
3) Look The Part By Dressing up
With no reason to leave the house, it’s easy to fall into the trap of alternating between sweatpants and pajamas. But what you wear has an impact on your day to a large extent. This is not to say your usual 9 to 5 office outfit will work because “if there’s one thing we all deserve during a lockdown, it’s comfort – and that simply doesn’t come from a starched white shirt and pencil skirt,” wrote The Independent.
Some websites have recommended wearing whatever Easter outfit you had in mind as if you’re heading to a big family gathering, but we won’t go with exactly that. Keep things chic, simple, comfortable: what you’d wear to a garden on a sunny day. The Independent called it a “desk-to-couch-to-jog-around-the-park-for-five-minutes-before-giving-up” look.
4) Movie Time
Nothing screams long weekend with the family like a movie night. Well, not quite. But let’s pretend. After a long day of enjoying chocolate bunnies, an Easter egg hunt and catching up with family members on video chat and phone calls, it’s a good idea to end the festivities with a movie.
In true celebration of Easter, perhaps it’d be a good idea to go with an Easter-relevant film but there are also way too many new things on Netflix and Apple TV+. Grab some snacks and/ or leftovers from lunch and binge on movies and shows until morning.
