By Anna Hanuska
Celebrating a birthday in isolation can be really difficult, so here are some tips to help make your friends’ birthdays magical!
Have a surprise group Zoom call. It means a lot when you’re able to get all your friends together to chat, even if it's only virtually. You can change your Zoom background to something festive and buy online party games, like Jackbox Games.
Car parade! Show up at the birthday person’s house all in separate cars, and yell happy birthday as you drive by. Stop a block away and tape up some signs to the outside of your car for extra excitement.
Stop by their house for some socially distanced conversation. If you talk to each other from across the driveway, that’s way more than 6 feet apart. (Still, be sure to wear masks!)
Send them some dessert with a food delivery service. Using a service like Uber Eats, you can support local restaurants while supplying your friend with some birthday treats.
Do something together over FaceTime! You could drop off a baking mix and call them later to make it together, play a board game together (Battleship would work great!), or watch a movie together using an extension like Netflix Party or by screen sharing on Zoom.