HOBBIES

Get yourself a hobby, sport or activity to keep you busy in a worthwhile way and do something that you enjoy! These activities will also help you after your retirement to keep you busy! 

Help your children and grand children to find a hobby that suits them.   You can get help on the internet on how to start with certain hobbies if you do not know how.  Here are 4 types of activities or hobbies you can do and there are lots more!!

Physical	Intellectual	Social	Practical
Running	Reading  - books, kindl, internet books.  Read your Bible and read concordances and do  Bible-study.	Hosting board game nights	Scrap booking
Swimming	Writing  - books, articles	Write down your family history  - visit all your family members who know about the history or visit a museum like Franschoek in South Africa where you can find out about S.A. families	Craft – making cards
Cycling	Drawing	Get to know someone by inviting them for tea or a meal	Organize your home
Surfing – take lessons	Learn a new language	Organise a music evening and listen to music.  Each one brings a favorite CD	Learn to sing
Snorkeling	Educate yourself – like taking computer  classes	Play with your children – organize a play day.  Help them build a tree-house, doll’s house or tent and play with them	Learn to cut  hair
Ski or snowboarding – take lessons	Keep note of news and latest happenings in the world	Play cards	Canning
Fishing	Surfing the internet	Host a regular dinner party	Cooking and baking
Walking in a Mall for exercise	Start a blog	Help someone with a soup kitchen or porridge kitchen among poor people	Carpentry
Walking in a Nature Reserve	Start a web	Organize a prayer meeting or a Bible study	Crochet
Horse-riding	Play board games	Organize a safari-meal where you eat and visit your friends starting with the starters at nr. 1 and end with dessert at last one	Knitting
Cricket	Play chess	Host a quizz night or play “30 seconds”	Do pottery
Gholf	Watch documentaries	Host a quilters class – get somebody to teach you to quilt	Bird watching
Gardening	Do a toast-masters course	Organize an outing to a place of interest	Build models
Bush walking	Study an extra degree or course	Organize a tour overseas	Build jigsaw puzzles
Camping	Sodoku and puzzles	Visit an old age home and play bingo with the people	Visit museums and art galleries
Fruit picking	Teach illiterate people	Attend church services and get involved in the activities at church	Travel the world by house sitting
Gym	Take a course and Evangelize children	Phone your friends from time to time or visit them regularly	Van Dwelling: Live in a van!
Boot-camp	Write a Christmas play or carols	Organize a family weekend	Become a caretaker at a block of flats
Tennis or table tennis	Write regular encouraging newsletters to your friends	Organize a picnic for your friends	Making clothes
Volley-ball	Learn how to do forex-trading	Organize a Christmas holiday week with your children and grandchildren	Embroidery
Bowls or croquet		Remember your friends birthdays and make them something special	Make jewellery and sell them