List of Hobby Ideas

Arts and Crafts

• Woodwork
• Patchwork/ Quilting
• Basket making
• Embroidery
• Drawing - Still Life
• Oil painting
• Pottery
• Multimedia
• Upholstery
• Sugarcraft
• Dressmaking
• Pottery
• Candle making
• Homemade soap
• Whittling
• Make your own instruments
• Beading (my daughter loves to bead)
• Crochet
• Knitting
• Build your own kite
• Paper mache
• Mosaics
• Stain glass
• Furniture restoration
• Sculpting
• Weaving

Collecting

• Stamp collecting
• Train spotting (collecting train numbers)
• Collecting Staffordshire figures

Around the house

• Gardening
• Garden Design
• Grow your own vegetables
• Plumbing
• Flower arranging
• Fish keeping
• Interior design
• Hair dressing
• DIY

Food

• Wine tasting
• Cooking
• Foreign foods - Indian/ Chinese/ Italian
• Baking
• Mushroom collecting
• Cake decorating

Electronics and computing

• Amateur Radio
• CB
• Electronics
• Digital photography
• Computer programming
• Computer graphics
• Web site design

Language and literature

• Learn a language
  • French/ Italian/ Spanish/ Mandarin/ Welsh/ Gaelic/ Latin/ Greek/ German/ Arabic/ Russian /Bulgarian
• Join a literature group
• French literature
• Creative writing
• Lip reading
• Sign language

Other

• Astronomy
• Origami
• Magic
• Drama
• Join a local operatic society
• Scrap booking
• bonsai trees
• bird watching
• model airplanes
• building birdhouses

History

• Family History
• Local history
• Trace the history of your house
• Stone circles
• Discovering Ley Lines
• Restore old photographs

Sport

• Scuba diving
• High Diving
• Fishing
• Swimming
• Judo
• Tae Kwon Do
• Orienteerig
• Hill Walking
• Trampolining

Health and personal development

• Alexander Technique
• Yoga
• Pilates
• Reiki
• Massage
• Belly dancing
• Line dancing
• Reflexology
• Aromatherapy

If you have any more hobby ideas please drop us a line and we will add it in to the page.   Special thanks to Kathryn Raphael for sending in the last update.