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
Book collecting
Bookbinding
Bowling (video game)
Browsing forums
C
Candle making (though do get up for safety!)
Card games like poker or solitaire
Cartooning
Cataloging (e.g. stamps, books)
Ceramics painting
Computer programming
Concert watching online
Cooking (while seated, for preparation)
Couponing
Cross-stitching
Crystal growing
D
Digital music composing
Dollhouse making
Drawing
E
Enamel art crafting
F
Fantasy sports tracking
Film critiquing
Flower arranging
Friendship bracelet making
Furniture miniature making
G
Glass painting
Graphic design
H
Handwriting analysis
J
Jewelry making
Jigsaw puzzling
K
L
Latch hooking
Leather crafting
Listening to podcasts
Listening to music
M
Mandala drawing
Manga reading
Memory training games
Miniature painting
Model building (cars, planes)
Movie watching
N
Needlepoint
O
Online gaming
P
Pen spinning
Philately (stamp collecting)
Piano playing
Ping Pong
Plastic canvas stitching
Playing musical instruments
Poker playing
Pottery (though a wheel is typically used seated)
Programming
Puzzle solving (crossword, sudoku)
Q
R
Radio listening
Remote control cars/boats/planes operating
Review writing
Role-playing games (RPGs) playing
Rubber stamping
S
Sculpting with clay
Sewing
Shell collecting
Sketching
Slide making
Slot car racing
Soap carving
Songwriting
Spinning yarn
Stained glass making
Stamp collecting
Story writing
Sudoku solving
T
Tatting
Terrarium making
Textile art creating
Theater (watching online or listening)
Typing practice games
U
Ukulele playing
V
Video editing
Violin playing (seated)
Virtual tours
Virtual reality (VR) exploring
Vlogging
W
Watching documentaries
Web browsing
Wikipedia surfing
Wood carving
Writing essays
Writing novels
Writing short stories
Y
Yo-yoing (while seated)
Z
Zen gardening (miniature)
