For One High Schooler, “Theme Nights” Are A Way to Have Fun During Quarantine

Marguerite Dyke has been throwing creative “theme nights” to help her family have fun while quarantined. A high school junior living in Kansas City, Marguerite has been under mandatory lockdown with her family for several weeks due to COVID-19. To fight off the boredom, she enjoys planning special at-home events about once a week. 

So far, her event themes have included an “Irish pub night,” a “basement rave” and a “mask-erade ball” (this event included dinner and a photoshoot in fancy clothes, but also face masks, in the spirit of the global pandemic). Marguerite’s next idea is a country music-themed evening, which she hopes to host in the next week. 

Although the only attendees at Marguerite’s events are herself, her parents, and her older sister, she says that even a small group event provides some much-needed entertainment during quarantine. “It adds a little variety into our days,” she explains. “We end up doing the same things over and over again in quarantine, and so it’s nice to have one night a week where we look forward to it for the whole week, and we can do something a little different, that’s exciting.”