Sometimes you don’t want to go outside, especially when the weather isn’t the best. And sitting at home doing nothing is also very tiring. But you can beat the gloom by organizing an interesting evening with friends at home. We offer you 10 life hacks of fun without leaving the house.
Game Night
Prepare some light snacks – and play all evening. In “Mafia”, “Twister”, darts – it all depends on your capabilities and imagination. For example, the games “Manager” or “Monopoly” develop economic thinking, and “Twister” – will bring you closer and cheer you up. You can play online games such as Just Dance or Gambino Slots. Or you can play ordinary card games – “Fool”, “Thousand”, “Poker” – and remember the tricks with them, which we knew how to do in childhood. And learn new ones.
An evening of music and dancing
Ask your friends to bring a selection of their favorite tracks – and have an evening of each other’s music. Music preferences will reveal a lot about your friends. Maybe you’ll add to your playlists, too. You can arrange a nostalgic disco, remembering school and college parties, hesitant attempts to invite a pretty girl for a slow dance, for example, to the legendary song “Shape Of My Heart” by Sting. Usually, friends have a lot of events and situations connected with music, which will become not only a topic for conversation, but also a reason to learn some dance together! Elegant and poignant tango, passionate and unstoppable salsa – choose you. The Internet is full of video tutorials that will help you quickly learn the basic elements and feel the character of this or that dance.
Karaoke
Favorite playlists of friends can not only “dance”, but also sing. Neighbors, of course, will not really be delighted with your class, but it may be possible to connect them to this fun.
Make up a poem or story together
You can occupy the evening with collective writing. In this case, you should only start. The result will be very unpredictable – everyone will pick up each other’s thoughts, add their line or sentence humor and poignancy. A dozen of such meetings – look, and a joint collection of poems and stories will be collected. If among friends someone plays the guitar, you can compose songs on pre-selected funny topics. And it is not necessarily limited to only one musical instrument.
Cook something from molecular cuisine
You can, of course, not bother and bring ready-made simple dishes – and all together to taste them (even evaluate each other and choose a winner at the end of the evening). And if you want to make a completely unusual gastronomic discovery, we advise you to try to cook something from molecular cuisine. Citrus spaghetti, watermelon caviar, coffee meat, liver candy – turn an evening with friends into a real culinary laboratory and break the patterns about food.
Discussion Club
Make a list of movies, books, or events you know and discuss them with your friends. Or you can make a movie club night: watch a movie and talk about it, as they call it, on the hot seat. Depending on your interests, you can discuss political and economic processes, fashion news, sensational articles on the Internet and so on. The main thing is that during the hot intellectual disputes, your friendship did not cool down.
Theme party
Organize a themed party: pajama party, retro style, tea ceremony, Hawaiian – rely on your mood and imagination. Or you can, for example, stage a favorite story or dream – and it will be a psychodrama!
Make up your own holidays
Traditions and holidays help strengthen relationships even more. Make up something of your own with your friends: Cooking Discovery Day, Backwards Day, a day based on a movie or book. Believe me, such holidays will not only be the ground for the best memories, but also can change someone’s life in your company.
Plan together
Take a stack of paper, felt-tip pens, make your life plans or a map of desires – for a month, a year, or maybe several years. Friends are the people who often inspire and support us in our endeavors and can sometimes give sound advice. And the goals of another person, especially a friend, can be a motivation to fulfill your own plans. You can also write down a plan for your future interesting meetings.
Photo session
Try to find your joint photos from five to ten years ago (if possible, look for earlier ones) and make a photo in the same poses, preferably similar interior and clothes. And then build a collage like “2000 – 17 years later”.
