Staying healthy and happy in times of stress and boredom
Being Mindful
Being mindful is beneficial to both your physical being and your mental being. It helps to relieve stress, and helps you to relax more. Here are some fun activities to help you be mindful.
Click here for some guided stress relieving yoga exercises!
Click here for some breathing exercises!
Click here for some guided meditation!
five senses exercise:
Mindful Coloring:
Physical Fitness
Physical fitness helps make sure you’re staying active and healthy in your down time.
exercising helps you feel stronger and happier too. Here are some fun activities to help you stay physically fit.
7 Minute workout/stretch break for between classes:
- Start with a right leg lunge for 30 seconds (make sure to go really low!)
- After the right leg, do a left leg lunge for 30 seconds (really low to get the stretch!)
- Jog in place for a minute (you can do high knees while you jog for an extra challenge)
- Do 10 pushups
- Do mountain climbers for a minute
- Do 15 sit ups (just go up as far as you can!)
- Quad stretch your right leg for 30 seconds
- Quad stretch your left leg for 30 seconds (this should feel really good!)
- Touch your toes for a minute
Lawn Games:
Some great things to use:
- Hula hoops
- Chalk
- Jump ropes
- Balls
- Cups
- Even rocks!
*Everything on the list has been used in very fun made up games or real games. It’s important to be outside for a time every day, so these are just some materials to get you going. Once you find something that works for you, share it in the comments section so others can get in on the fun!*
Here are some we have tried that we thought you might like
Here’s a Girl Power Playlist to Motivate You While You Exercise and Get Fit!
- “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys
- “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper
- “Who Says” by Selena Gomez
- “Nobody Ever Told You” by Carrie Underwood
- “32 flavors” by Ani DeFranco
- “Good Woman Down” by Mary J. Blige
- “Make Your Own Kind of Music ” by Cass Elliot
- “Respect” by Aretha Franklin
- “Stronger” by Kelly Clarkson
- “This One’s For The Girls” by Martina McBride
Hobbies
Here are some cool things you might want to take up:
- Knitting ~ here’s a beginners tutorial
- Poetry ~ here’s a brainstorming video
- Baking ~ here’s one of my personal favorite easy recipes
- Art ~ here’s a few tips to hone in your skills
- Creative writing ~ here’s a video to help you get some creative ideas
- Fashion Design ~ here’s a tutorial to get you started
- Dance ~ here’s a video class to learn the basics
- Coding ~ here’s a website for you to explore
- Reading ~ here’s a website with some great new books
- Origami ~ here’s an easy starter project
- Pottery ~ here’s a how to video
- Comedy ~ here are some tips to be funnier
- Singing ~ here’s a masterclass to help you with the technique
- Photography ~ here’s a 30 day photography challenge to see what you can do
- Piano ~ here’s a beginners piano lesson (with embedded lesson book links)
- Guitar ~ here’s a beginners guitar lesson (with embedded lesson books links)
- Gardening ~ here are some tips for a beginner
- Yoga ~ here are some good yoga channels to try
- Calligraphy ~ here are some steps to help get you started
- Videography ~ here’s some quick tips
- Podcasting ~ here is a podcasting starting guide
- Scrapbooking ~ here are some tips for starting a scrapbook
Cooking
Fruits and Vegetables:
*We girls need to make sure to eat 1 ½ cups of fruit and 2 cups of vegetables every day*
Some Great Fruits:
- Oranges vitamin c
- Grapefruit vitamin c
- Bananas vitamin d
- Apples vitamin k
- Pomegranate vitamin c
- Mango vitamin e
Some Great Vegetables:
- Broccoli vitamin k
- Kale vitamin k
- Sweet potatoes vitamin a
- Zucchini vitamin a
- Carrots vitamin c
- Beets vitamin b
Breakfast
Here are some healthy and nutritious breakfast options!
Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Cookies
Lunch
Here are some healthy and nutritious lunch options!
Roasted Garlic Hummus – Great for dipping vegetables like carrots and cucumbers!
Dinner
Here are some healthy and nutritious dinner options!
Stuffed Peppers with Brown Rice and Turkey
Academic Enrichment
Some Cool Topics To Take An Interest In:
- American History (i.e. past wars, presidents, discoveries)
- Feminism (i.e. key figures and dates)
- Politics ( election outcomes, media coverage, government intervention)
- The history of Girl Scouts
- International trade
- The 19th amendment (what was the significance?)
- Covid 19 progress and vaccine
Languages
Some popular languages to learn:
- Spanish
- French
- Mandarin (That one’s really hard!)
- Italian
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
Here are some links for your language learning journey:
- https://freerice.com/age-screen
- https://www.duolingo.com/
- https://www.memrise.com/
- https://www.livemochas.com/
* depending on your age and skill level, one site may be better than the other, duolingo and freerice being the most beginner friendly 🙂 *
Here Are Some Brain Teasers To Get Your Brain Going:
In this one, name the colors the word is written in but not what the word is, this will be very confusing!
Which way is this school bus traveling?
The bus is travelling left, because on this side there is no door
This one is a math problem, Which number belongs in the empty triangle?
3, left number is subtracted from the top number and then the difference is multiplied by the right number and then that product goes into the middle
Here is one more math problem. Try and figure out the value of the final number.
16, the apple is 10, the banana is 4, and the coconut is 2.
Don’t feel bad if it took a minute to solve these, they’re designed to challenge your mind in a way you’re not used to 😉
Here’s something to remember though when you’re doing all this stuff via the internet:
Fake news is a very important and relevant topic and has been for many years. It affects 100% of the American population and most importantly the female population. While we have been trying to put and end to this false advertising pandemic, here are some things you should look out for when browsing the internet and pop up ads:
- Does the website end in .gov, or .edu? if not then it may not be a reliable source
- Can this information be backed up with facts from other websites? do some digging to make sure this is true information
- Does it make sense? the covers on magazines rarely make sense but are exaggerated in order to draw your attention
- Is it the full story? make sure there is an entire story with both sides
- What type of audience is it targeted towards? Don’t use websites that try to tell you what to do, or what box to fit into
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