How best to reach out to Family & Friends this Festive Season during the pandemic

Can’t greet each other with a hand shake or a hug? Well, social distancing greetings can once again see a good change as you can restart the trend of elbow bumps. You remember in college when you were one of those cool kids to use their elbows to greet your buddies? You can always go back to your social greeting skills from the past. Not to mention how it would be a fun spin to your usual way of saying hello to your family and friends!

Another interesting way of greeting your buddies, maybe not so much with the family, would be the foot bump. For this, you will simply have to touch your heel with the other person’s heel, and you’ve got yourself a funky new style at saying hello or goodbye. It is a cute way of greeting people, especially friends. You see, you can further add some new spin to the foot bump by maybe doing a bit of a dance. It’ll certainly take you back to your youthful days, that’s for certain.

A fist bump as a way of following social distancing greetings can never go wrong. Remember Moose from Step Up 2 and how he would fist bump and pull the hand back with a slurping sound? It might not be as cool as it used to be once upon a time, but you can certainly bring back the trend of fist-bumping with the pullback slurp!

Hand gestures

What better way to follow social distance and greet family and friends this festive season than with the classic namaste? The hand gesture is recognised worldwide, and for all the right reasons. It is compassionate and shows a sense of respect towards everyone in the room. With the pandemic on our head and social distancing being the prime necessity, you should opt to greet your friends and family with a nice namaste.

Have you ever been gestured with the Alohan shaka? It is basically the hand gesture that involves you curling your three middle fingers and leaving the pinky and thumb finger to extend out. It is a rather fun way to greet someone and certainly a cool thing to try out this pandemic. The shaka is used to showcase the fun loving and happy spirit of the Alohan. Perhaps you could give it a try?

Air kisses might be a European thing, but it can also be yours this festive season. As you greet your friends and family this festive season, you do not have to plant kisses on their cheek or forehead but instead blow air kisses with your mask on! A little hand gesture showcasing that you are blowing kisses while wearing a mask shows that you’re a responsible one.

You might have always stood tall with a patriotic salute every time you watched the national flag be hoisted or when you meet someone older. Perhaps this could be your way of showing respect as you maintain social distance and greet your elders. It is the perfect way to greet friends and family this festive season during the pandemic. A salute would certainly give you extra brownie points around your parents and older folks.

An adorable hearty hand gesture is easily one of the cutest ways to greet someone while maintaining social distance. As and when you do reach out to your family or friends this festive season, you can greet them from far away with a hearty hand gesture. It is the best way to express your emotions of the love for someone.

How to reach out to your friends and family this festive season during the pandemic

Zoom video calls have managed to become the new favourite. With the video calling app allowing families and friends to get closer in the time of a pandemic, it has certainly started a new trend. Scheduled group video calls have been taking place, and that is certainly one of the things that you could take up during the festive season. You do not necessarily have to visit your family or friends, but you can just fix a schedule and collectively call each other up! Quite awesome, wouldn’t you say?

Conference calls might get chaotic, but they’re super fun! You cannot deny that when families get together on the phone, it is quite entertaining. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, you might not be able to visit them directly. So how about going back the old ways of picking up the phone and giving your friends and family a call. They would most certainly enjoy it, and you could also follow the social distancing protocol in terms of greeting them. It is practically perfect.

Here’s a special thing that you can do to greet your friends and family as well as maintain the social distancing decorum. E-cards are a fun way to greet someone, especially during a pandemic. You can sit in the comfort of your home, maybe even teach your kids to use their creative prowess and come up with some fun festive greeting e-cards. These can be sent to your friends and family on occasion. It would be a great way to wake someone up with a lovely message in the form of an e-card!

An Amazon gift voucher or gifts to be sent to your friends and family during the festive season is easily one of the best ways to wish them on the auspicious occasion. Get them a thoughtful gift which includes things that they might need or use in the future. Either you can get them an assortment of gifts or get them an Amazon voucher, so they get something for themselves. It will be a sweet gesture and one of the best social distancing greetings.

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