Stay-at-Home Self-Care: Get Creative

• Find some drawing inspiration from The Frick and share your artwork with them.
• The Carnegie Museum has a blog of activities like drawing a squirrel and making your own thermometer.
• The Art Institute of Chicago is also offering a selection of activities.
• 20 easy crafts to do with few supplies from Design Improvised.
• Gumberg has a guide on creative writing.

E-books

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sewing, Lydia Willis
• The Sewists: DIY Projets from 20 Top Design-Makers, Josephine Perry
• Beginning Drawing: A Multidimensional Approach to Learning the Art of Basic Drawing, Alain Picard
• Drawing Funny: A Guide to Making your Terrible Little Cartoons Funnier, Oslo David
• Drawing Cats, R. Fabretti
• Drawing Dogs, R. Fabretti
• Drawing the Landscape, Chip Sullivan
• Oil and Acrylic Painting: Waterscapes: Learn to Paint Beautiful Water Scenes Step by Step, Joan Darflinger
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knitting and Crocheting, Gail Diven

• Discover a Hobby is a website dedicated to helping you find your next hobby.
• 50 hobby suggestions from Live Bold and Bloom.
• 16 hobbies that will improve your quality of life from Daring to Live Fully.
• Life Hack has a list of low-cost hobbies.
• Silicon Republic curated online resources for people seeking new hobbies.
• The Westport Library has an excellent guide on getting started with hobbies.
• Andy the magician teaches card tricks.
• AllTrails can help you find local walking and hiking trails.

Staff Suggestions

Music Librarian Terra Merkey loves to play the ukulele, and she suggests picking it up as a hobby! As a place to start, she suggests Steel City Ukuleles. Head on over to their Meetup page to participate in their live jam sessions.