Activities for Staying at Home

Stay Busy at Home

During the Coronavirus outbreak, we are asked to stay at home as much as possible. Here are some resources and ideas to keep busy and engaged at home:

Trivia Time! Challenge your general knowledge with these multiple choice trivia quizzes, courtesy of Wayland resident and trivia master Don Ward.

Adventures in Lifelong Learning: Free online classes at Framingham State University

Senior Planet: All sorts of resources and ideas for seniors

Google Arts and Culture: A wide range of virtual museum tours and travels around the globe

Live Bird Cameras: Watch birds up close and personal, from around the nation and the world

Hundreds of Ivy League Courses Online: It’s not too late to go to Harvard!

Ghost City – Avenue S: Digital art for these COVID times by artist Jody Zellen. Jody is a California-based artist who grew up locally. Her parents live in Wayland.

Sudbury Valley New Horizons Band Performance: A digital merging of local musicians playing Andante from Notturno K286 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, under the direction of former Wayland Middle School music teacher Diane Muffett.

Virtual Washington, D.C. Museum Tours: DC has a plethora of museums, including 17 Smithsonian museums. If you’re looking for creative ways to get of our your house and into a new environment without actually leaving your house, we’ve compiled a list of virtual museum tours in DC.

How To Use Zoom: An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to use the popular video-calling platform

We will continue adding to this list. If you have good ideas that you’d like to share, just call us at 508-358-2990, or send an email to coa@wayland.ma.us. Thanks!