SEATED HOBBIES | Fun Hobbies You Can Do While Sitting Down

Check out our Huge List of Seated Hobbies! Great hobby ideas that you can enjoy while seated.

Whether you have limited mobility or simply prefer to spend your free time seated, there is bound to be a great seated hobby here for you!

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A

Acrylic painting

Airbrush art

Amateur radio operating

Animation creating

Antique collecting

Aquarium keeping

Architecture drawing

Astrology

Astronomy

B

Bead crafting

Binge-watching series

Birdwatching

Blogging

Board gaming

Book collecting

Bookbinding

Bowling (video game)

Browsing forums

C

Calligraphy

Candle making (though do get up for safety!)

Card games like poker or solitaire

Cartooning

Cataloging (e.g. stamps, books)

Ceramics painting

Chess playing

Coin collecting

Coloring books

Computer programming

Concert watching online

Cooking (while seated, for preparation)

Couponing

Crafting digital art

Cross-stitching

Cryptocurrency trading

Crystal growing

D

Digital music composing

Dollhouse making

Drawing

E

Editing videos

Embroidery

Enamel art crafting

F

Fantasy sports tracking

Film critiquing

Flower arranging

Foreign language learning

Friendship bracelet making

Furniture miniature making

G

Genealogy researching

Glass painting

Graphic design

Guitar playing

H

Handwriting analysis

Harmonica playing

J

Jewelry making

Jigsaw puzzling

Journaling

K

Karaoke

Knitting

L

Latch hooking

Leather crafting

Lego building

Listening to podcasts

Listening to music

M

Macramé crafting

Magic tricks learning

Mandala drawing

Manga reading

Meditation

Memory training games

Miniature painting

Model building (cars, planes)

Movie watching

N

Needlepoint

O

Online courses

Online gaming

Origami folding

P

Painting by numbers

Pen spinning

Philately (stamp collecting)

Photography editing

Piano playing

Ping Pong

Plastic canvas stitching

Playing musical instruments

Podcasting

Poetry writing

Poker playing

Pottery (though a wheel is typically used seated)

Programming

Puzzle solving (crossword, sudoku)

Q

Quilting

R

Radio listening

Reading

Remote control cars/boats/planes operating

Review writing

Role-playing games (RPGs) playing

Rubber stamping

S

Scrapbooking

Sculpting with clay

Sewing

Shell collecting

Singing

Sketching

Slide making

Slot car racing

Soap carving

Songwriting

Spelunking (virtual)

Spinning yarn

Stained glass making

Stamp collecting

Story writing

Sudoku solving

T

T-shirt designing

Tatting

Terrarium making

Textile art creating

Theater (watching online or listening)

Trading cards collecting

Typing practice games

U

Ukulele playing

V

Video editing

Video gaming

Violin playing (seated)

Virtual tours

Virtual reality (VR) exploring

Vlogging

W

Watching documentaries

Watercolor painting

Web browsing

Web Designing

Whittling

Wikipedia surfing

Wood carving

Word searches

Writing essays

Writing novels

Writing short stories

Y

Yo-yoing (while seated)

YouTube

Z

Zen gardening (miniature)

Zentangle drawing

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