Feeling cooped up?

IDEAS TO OCCUPY YOUR TIME AT HOME DURING
THE COVID-19 "STAY AT HOME" TIME

 

Visit the ODEBOLT HISTORY PAGES and find out a LOT about our town's history!

Neighborhood "I Spy" game - have your kids draw big rainbows and put them in your window.  Tell your friends! Then walk around and see how many rainbows you spy!

Phone family, friends and neighbors a couple times a day. Human voices, telling stories, laughing - cheers you up! This includes kids. They can learn phone-talking skills!

Call elderly neighbors to check on them. Do they need groceries? Cheer them up.

Have your kids do some art on your sidewalk with chalk. If a lot of people do it in a neighborhood, you can take a walk to see it.
Find an antique fire cart near downtown. Find out about Kelly's Colts!

Organize a walk with your friends - staying at least 6 feet apart. Make a long line! You'll have to talk loud and laugh louder!

Take a family hike in a park (stay off play equipment though!)

Drive around Blackhawk Lake and look for migrating birds. Take binoculars!

Drive around town - how many flag poles can you spot? Or blue houses. Or ....

Visit the Vet's Memorial Monument at the cemetery with your kids. Talk about the people on the monument. Walk around tombstones of people you knew and tell about them.

Find a small, red, one-room house in Odebolt once inhabited by Swedish immigrants and read about it!

Walk the path at Memorial Walk Park from the beginning and then back again. Read the plaques embedded in the walk.

Visit Monument Circle and read what is written on the stone marker there.

See the window display at the Odebolt Museum.

Look for Easter decorations around town - or make some to decorate your lawn or windows.

Find a small park where the Ground Observer Corps used to watch for enemy aircraft.

Think creatively, especially as the weather warms up. Maybe you could plant a pollinator garden with your kids and help beautify Odebolt for people AND feed our beneficial bugs, bees and butterflies!

All the best, and stay safe!