Free Creative Activities Online
How do you spend your free time?
Reading, one of my favourite pastimes, provides some noteworthy health benefits. It has proven to help with mental health, reduce stress and improve memory functions.
Some of us may choose to get creative.
Throughout the pandemic, I’ve noticed many arts organizations have collectively provided access to their institutions online in a variety of ways.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM ONLINE FREEBIES
The Guggenheim Museum, for example, has provided access to more than 200 books on modern art. The collection includes catalogs of retrospective exhibitions on masters like Paul Klee, Robert Rauschenberg, Max Ernst, and many other famous artists.
It’s an absolutely fantastic tool. Looking at great art is always uplifting and so the Guggenheim Museum has done us all a great service.
GOOGLE ART- VIRTUAL ART TOURS
If reading doesn’t interest you and you’re more of a tactile learner that’s okay!
Google Art has teamed up with thousands of museums around the world to provide the public with virtual tours of some of the most prestigious institutions in the world. Check them out below.
FREE ONLINE COLORING FOR ADULTS
If you’re more in the mood for recreational entertainment, Smithsonian Libraries have put together an adult colouring book with a complete compilation of printable colouring pages.
Images ready to colour are based on items from some of the world’s most distinguished museum collections.
While most consider coloring a leisure activity, something to do for fun, it has many more functions.
Coloring tends to calm the 'fear' centre of the brain, thus positively reducing stress and anxiety, something that many of us are feeling during these uncertain times.
We are all facing a difficult and unprecedented time in our lives and should make every effort to take care of each other, and especially ourselves.
It’s important to take time to maintain our well-being so we’re able to endure adversity should it arise.
