100+ Hobby Ideas for Mums

Being a mother means you have to spend all your time with your husband and children, plus a gazillion tons of household work… NOT!

More than anything else, you need a hobby for your sanity! If you are stuck for ideas on something fun just for you – we have over 100 hobby ideas for Mums!

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Arts & Craft Type Hobbies

For the crafty mum, you can still hone your amazing skills through these hobby ideas:

Computer & Technology-Based Hobbies

Millennial mums may not have a problem with these type of hobbies, but if you want to try your hand at being a techie, here are some hobbies we recommend:

• Start a basic blog.
• Start researching your family tree – I used Ancestry.com.
• Start a Pinterest Board, pin like a crazy woman and try and grow your following.
• Buy a decent camera and start learning about photography.
• Use Youtube to learn how to edit photographs or videos.
• Start listening to regular Podcasts, or start your own!
• Become a Wikipedia Editor.
• Become an online gamer!
• Get paid to do online surveys.
• Geocaching is fun for the whole family!

Foodie-Based Hobbies

If you want to improve your skills in cooking or baking, you can enrol in classes of these type or join a competition or just learn something new. You can even start growing your own produce that you need for cooking.

• Set a task of cooking two difficult recipes per month.
• Enter a cake in a local show.
• Go to a cooking class.
• Start a food blog
• Preserve Your Own Fruit
• Learn cheese-making skills.
• Cake Decorating
• Handmake gourmet chocolates
• Learn about Food Fermentation
• Kombucha brewing
• Go to a Wine Appreciation Course.
• Make your own unique biscuits and sweets.
• Make your own jams and relishes, sell them at the local markets.
• Start a vegetable garden and grow your own produce.

Hobbies to Improve Self-Esteem

• Join a Roller Derby Team
• Online Poker (not for money that is)
• Online Gaming
• Pottery
• Ice Skating
• Drama and Acting Classes
• Metal Detecting
• Slacklining
• Martial Arts
• Horseback Riding
• Learn How to do magic tricks
• Juggling
• Amateur theatre

Hobbies for the Super Organised

Make your habit a hobby!

• Start and keep a regular diary.
• Write a weekly gratitude list.
• Calligraphy
• Send real letters to friends and family – handwritten that is!
• Start writing a novel or ‘how to’ book.
• Make a Youtube video on how organised you are – you could become a Youtube sensation!

Personal Improvement

Mums need to get themselves back and improve their self-confidence. Choosing some of these hobby ideas may just be what you need.

• Public Speaking (Toastmasters)
• Learn to play the piano.
• Start going to the gym regularly.
• Learn meditation.  There are some great free apps to try.
• Enrol in an online course.
• Self Defence Course

Hobbies that Could Make you Money

Turn your incredible skills into a money-making one with these amazing ideas.

• Learn Nail Art and advertise your skills on Facebook.
• Learn how to do amazing hairstyles for formals or balls.
• Good at photography?  Advertise your skills and start taking clients.
• Learn how to do face-painting and advertise your services on Facebook.
• Antiquing – buy and sell old furniture at a profit.
• Learn how to do affiliate marketing and get a commission on the products you recommend.
• Learn how to give a massage.
• Write articles for websites (can get you as much as $200/article if you are good at it!).
• Flip Used Furniture (or houses if you can afford to do that!).
• Addicted to Facebook? Become a ‘Social Media Guru’ and advertise your trade for small businesses.
• Good at English?  Become a proofreader or editor.
• Put together an amazing resume and sell the template online (or just do it for friends and family!).
• Start an online store and buy and sell your way to profit.
• Baking.  Not only for yourself and your family, but look at baking for others too!
• Become a Mystery Shopper

Musical Hobbies

You’re never too old to learn or improve your musical skills.

• Learn how to play an instrument.
• Learn to DJ.
• Take singing lessons.
• Join the cast of the local acting group.
• Join a choir.

Garden and Outdoor Based Hobbies

• Create bonsai
• Make and sell your own terrariums
• Flower Arranging
• Hydroponics
• Bird Watching
• Fishing
• Grow your own produce

Meeting with Friend Type Hobbies

Cheer up with your peers through these hobby ideas.

• Start a regular book club.
• Go to a yoga class.
• Or a Zumba Class.
• Join a Ten Pin Bowling League
• Organise a progressive dinner or a dinner party club.
• Go to a dance class. Most places have ballroom, boot scooting, tap dancing just to name a few.

Competitive & Sporty Hobbies

Stretch those muscles further!

• Coach a kids team (soccer, netball etc).
• Start a trivia team and dominate at trivia nights for prizes.
• Try a sport! Netball, Touch Football, Hockey, Softball, Tennis, Squash – so many to choose from!
• Stand Up Paddleboarding – or take it one step further – Yoga Stand Up Paddle Boarding!
• Archery
• Be hardcore! Go to Crossfit!
• Join a fitness class like Pump or Step.
• Train for a marathon or triathlon.

Nerdy Loving Hobbies

If you’re nerd and proud, these are for you!

• As mentioned above – become a gamer!
• Historical Re-enactment
• Paintball
• Jigsaw Puzzles
• Read the latest novels and then look at starting your own book club.
• Learn another language – there are loads of apps and Youtube videos so you can learn for free!
• Metal Detecting – you could find a fortune!
• Start a board game group.
• Study and invest in the stock market.
• Tudor kids in maths, science or any other subject you are proficient in.

Pet-Loving Hobbies

You can never go wrong with these ideas, all you pet-loving mums!

• Cat and Dog Showing
• Dog Training Courses
• Enlist your pet with a ‘talent’ agency and take them to ‘shoots’.
• Got a unique cat or dog?  Start their own Facebook Page and build a following for them!
• Dog Walking
• Pet Sitting

Community Minded Hobbies

Bring out the kindness in you as you help and become a volunteer for your community.

• Join Meals on Wheels to help cook meals for the elderly.
• Volunteer at a local charity.
• Be a mentor.
• Volunteer at your child’s tuckshop or uniform shop.
• If your local Op-Shop is looking for volunteer staff, give a few hours a week.

Collecting Type Hobbies

The idea of collecting is not a new one – and there is just so much ‘stuff’ out there to collect.  Find something you love and start hunting for it – here are some ideas:

• Stamp Collecting
• Coin Collection
• Tea Pots or Teaspoons
• Shells
• Thimbles or Scissors
• Clocks
• Dolls

Which of these hobby ideas would you want to try or have already tried?