Enjoy Life
The Great Outdoors
- Feed the ducks at the park.
- Cut some fresh wildflowers for your table.
- Hike somewhere with pretty scenery.
- Go jogging with a friend.
- 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.
- 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 favourite 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 neighbours.
Recreation
- 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 centre.
- Go to a nearby coffee shop and listen to any intellectual conversations going on.
- 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.
- Send flowers or a card to a friend just for fun.
- Go shopping to find a gift for someone who has been kind to you.
Around the house
- Bake some cookies for your neighbours.
- Buy a pretty house plant.
- Try out a new kind of tea or coffee.
- Start a canned food drive for needy families.
- Mow an elderly neighbour’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 neighbourhood-wide game of sardines.
- Take some time to look through old family photos.
- Invite friends and family over for supper.
- Get the family together and watch old home videos.
- Make up your own variety of smoothie with your favourite fruit.
- Record yourself singing a friend’s favourite songs and give the CD to them.
- 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.
- Print some digital pictures and hang them in your house.
- Repaint a room with a cheerful colour.
- 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.
- Make a pie, draw or paint a picture, or grow and arrange flowers to enter in the county fair.
- Explore iTunes for new music to listen to.
