How can you spend quality time with your loved ones this holiday season?
- Yeoh King Lim
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min read
It’s the month of joy and happiness and spending time with your loved ones. As we all know, we did not expect that we will be affected by the pandemic this year and it doesn’t allow us to go out and play with our friends and family. Christmas bazaars and parades are cancelled, while we all are encouraged to stay at home with our loved ones and spend the holiday season at home. It’s gonna be a different Christmas, but that would not minimize the fun we shall have at home. You will no longer be bored, as we have compiled a list of activities on how you could spend quality time together with your loved ones this holiday season.
Tip #1:
Making a calendar
We all know this is not exactly a plan but coming up with a daily plan of activities could help you keep track of your activities while preventing a boring day or even timing clashes. By making a calendar, you can always make plans ahead of time, while jotting down every idea you have and ensure that all your magical ideas won’t go missing. You could create a calendar from any application of your choice or even jotting down on a planner. as long as it suits your needs.
Unmasked Picks: Google Calendar
It’s easy to use and it allows collaborations with your loved ones. From planning individual activities to inviting your loved ones for a call on Google Meets. It’s the one-stop calendar application you need.
Tip #2:
Plan the day with your loved ones
Even if you’re following a plan, it’s good to have your loved ones together to brainstorm about the times you’re going to spend together ahead. It could prevent unnecessary clashes. Give them options. Ask them what they feel about doing tasks in certain ways while giving them time to adjust their schedules.
Tip #3:
Turn off the phone
The holiday season is for you to take time off and spend quality time with your loved ones. Turn off your phone and be present. Catch up on matters, reconnect with your loved ones, have some bonding time and recharge your own battery.
Activity #1:
Doing house chores together
Who said doing house chores couldn’t be fun at all? Sharing house chores could bring the family together. It could minimize the workload of one while creating bonding times among family members.
These are some house chores that we all could do together:
Unmasked Picks:
Making Beds
Setting the table for meals
Watering Plants
Doing Laundry
Cooking
Activity #2
Watch Holiday Movies Together
Sometimes, the most enjoyable thing is doing nothing. Take time off and watch a movie together with your loved ones. With countless holiday movies coming out each year, one would never get bored. Snuggle up under a blanket together, grab your favourite snacks, browse your favourite streaming service, watch a Christmas movie and feel the holiday vibes as Christmas is approaching.
PS: Stay tuned for our next post on what food and snacks you could get for this holiday season while supporting the differently-abled community.
Unmasked Picks:
Netflix Christmas Movies: https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/107093
Activity #3
From playing games to crafting
As people nowadays spend time on screens than on papers, papers are still fun sometimes. Take out your old favourite board game and give it a go again. If you are not a game person, try picking up art and crafts again, while learning new crafts together with your loved ones is also a form of bonding.
Unmasked Picks: Game Edition
Monopoly / Monopoly Deals
Scrabbles
The Game Of Life
Exploding Kittens
The Malaysian Dream
UNO
Jenga
Pictionary
Chess
Snake & Ladders
Unmasked Picks: Crafting
1. DIY 3D Origami
https://brightside.me/creativity-art/14-models-by-the-masters-of-3d-origami-which-you-can-make-yourself-184405/ (Source: Bright Side)
2. Easy DIY Crafts Anyone Can Do (Source: HGTV)
3. 5 Minute Crafts
4. 20 Easy Quarantine Crafts to Do at Home
Activity #4
Creating a holiday greeting video together
As we are encouraged to minimise our physical movements, we could still bond with each other online. FaceTime and catch up with one another. Besides that, take the chance this year of creating a holiday greeting video together with your loved ones, live in the moment as all this will become memories when it is safe to meet with each other again.
Here are our tips on how to spend quality time with your loved ones on this very special holiday season. We would love to hear your suggestions on how would you be spending this holiday season with your loved ones. Have a safe and productive holiday season ahead and don’t forget to stay safe, stay healthy and take care of your mental health! :)
Happy Holidays - Unmask Your Wounds.
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