The Great Outdoors
- Feed the ducks at the park.
- Cut some fresh wildflowers for your table.
- Go fishing.
- Hike somewhere with pretty scenery.
- Go jogging with a friend.
- Take your dog for a walk.
- Get a group of friends together for a water balloon fight.
- Try to find out about little-known waterfalls in your area and explore to find them.
- Volunteer for a non-profit association.
- Go camping at a place you’ve never been before.
- Learn how to sail a catamaran.
- Visit a farm with a friend.
- Go off-road mountain biking.
- Take horseback riding lessons.
- Find a quiet place with beautiful scenery to read a favorite book.
- Find a wildflower information book and explore to see how many flowers you can identify around your town.
- Go kayaking.
- Start a garden.
- Run through a water sprinkler.
- Organize a barbeque with the neighbors.
- Run a 5K race or fun walk just for fun.
- Join the local community orchestra or choir.
- Take ballroom dancing lessons.
- Take up a new instrument.
- Write a humorous poem.
- Go see the nearest symphony orchestra.
- Read to grade school children.
- Join a recreational basketball or volleyball team from the local community center.
- Go to a nearby coffee shop and listen to any intellectual conversations going on.
- Become a mentor to a student that wishes to enter your profession.
- Organize a scavenger hunt for friends and family.
- Listen to a new genre of music.
- Explore small shops downtown in your city.
- Send a postcard to a child.
- Ask a veteran to tell you some if his or her favorite stories from years in the service.
- Send flowers or a card to a friend just for fun.
- Go to a music store and try out all the grand pianos.
- Go shopping to find a gift for someone who has been kind to you.
- Go visit your alma mater to see what has changed since you graduated.
- Go watch a high school play.
- Bake some cookies for your neighbors.
- Buy a pretty house plant.
- Try out a new kind of tea or coffee.
- Make gift baskets for a local charity.
- Start a canned food drive for needy families.
- Mow an elderly neighbor’s lawn and talk with them afterward.
- Find an ugly corner in the yard and turn it into a small garden.
- Try out a new recipe for supper.
- Take a bicycle ride.
- Organize a neighborhood-wide game of sardines.
- Take some time to look through old family photos.
- Invite friends and family over for supper.
- Start a scrapbook.
- Get the family together and watch old home videos.
- Let a child help you give your dog a bath (this doesn’t work so well with cats)
- Make your own root beer. As an added benefit, this is also a nice money saver.
- Make up your own variety of smoothie with your favorite fruit.
- Start a practical joke war with a sibling or long suffering friend.
- Record yourself singing a friend’s favorite songs and give the CD to them.
- Save a snowball in the freezer and get to throw it at someone on a hot summer day.
- Make your own fountain with Diet Coke and Mentos.
- Camp out in the living room with your kids.
- Build a fort out of cardboard boxes.
- Make homemade ice cream.
- Listen to your old cassette tapes or records.
- Call your parents just to say “hi.”
- Help your kids make homemade cards for relatives.
- Check out a book of jokes and read it.
- Build a house out of cards.
- Make a gingerbread house during the summer.
- Print some digital pictures and hang them in your house.
- Repaint a room with a cheerful color.
- Rearrange your furniture.
- Put your TV in the closet for a month.
- Reupholster an old piece of furniture.
- Make a slip ‘n slide for your family. (keep safety in mind)
- Make a pie, draw or paint a picture, or grow and arrange flowers to enter in the county fair.
- Help your kids make cards for nursing home residents.
- Explore iTunes for new music to listen to.
- Try out Pandora Radio.
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