You can just take a few ideas and on days when you feel sad or just don't have anything to do - use them. Or take the challenge and accomplish all the items on this winter to-do list. Let it be your own personal winter challenge. Either way it will be fun!
- Play snowballs.
- Make a snowman. A real one, with a carrot and a scarf.
- Prepare the mulled wine.
- Bake a pie with a new recipe.
- Go ice skating.
- Go sledding.
- Go skiing or snowboarding.
- Start a family tradition. The New Year's holidays are just the right time to do it.
- To decorate the Christmas tree.
- Buy lots of garlands and flashlights.
- Wrap Christmas gifts.
- Bake gingersnaps or cookies.
- Go to a New Year's Eve show. If you don't have children, you can hide behind your nephews or «borrow» children from friends. Friends will be eternally grateful to you, children will be happy, and you will enjoy immersion in a children's fairy tale.
- Revisit your favorite New Year's Eve movies.
- Read a new book, wrapped in a warm blanket (you can order a plaid and other photo gifts with a 5% DISCOUNT by promo code WINTER).
- Read a magical fairy tale.
- Watch winter cartoons.
- Buy beautiful mittens. Or knit them, it's up to you. But the degree of coziness in mittens is obviously higher than in gloves.
- Buy or ask your grandmother to knit warm socks.
- To warm up by the fireplace.
- Go to a bathhouse or at least a sauna.
- To lie in the snow and make an angel.
- Walking around and wishing all passersby a Merry Christmas!
- Jump in a snowdrift.
- Go for a walk in the woods with sandwiches, hot tea and a camera.
- Feed the squirrels and the birds. They'll thank you. You can even make a bird feeder.
- Have a marathon of Christmas and New Year's episodes of all your favorite shows.
- To summarize the year.
- Learn how to make money online.
- Make a plan for the next year. When goals are clear, it's easier to move toward them.
- Find the longest icicle.
- Tread a path in the deep snow.
- Catch snowflakes with your mouth, on your palms, study their beautiful shapes, and photograph them with a macro lens.
- Make a wish on New Year's Eve.
- Send New Year cards to all your friends and family. Real ones! Paper!
- Cut out lots and lots of snowflakes.
- Looking at the beautiful frosty patterns on the glass.
- To eat tangerines to the brim.
- Walking on a frozen puddle, listening to the crackle of ice.
- Wearing a reindeer sweater.
- Change the phone call to some Christmas melody.
- Drink tea with lemon, honey, cinnamon or ginger.
- Make a list of books to read next year.
- Take your old clothes to a secondhand store.
- Take more family photos together, taking ideas for winter photo shoots in our article. Print them out and put them in frames or posters.
- Play board games with your family or friends.
- Find a new hobby or just try doing something with your hands.
- Cook a new dish.
- Hug more often! This will better generate more warmth of mind as well.
- Re-watch your favorite TV show.
- Making a gingerbread house. As an alternative to or in addition to gingerbread!
- Learning to believe in miracles. Or make miracles happen!
- Prove to the child that Santa Claus is real.
- Learn to look for the positive in everything.
- Revisit summer photos. Remember warm days, bright greens, vacations by the sea... If you haven't printed them out yet, you can make magnets for the fridge.
- Make a rearrangement in the apartment or just change something in the interior.
- Buy lots of scented candles.
- Go to the town Christmas tree.
- Have a romantic candlelight dinner.
- Buy a new notebook to start the new year with a clean slate-literally.
- Putting up the Christmas tree outside.
- Make a photo book of pictures from the past year.
- Treat yourself. Buy yourself a new book or dress or paint, something you've never gotten around to and always put off.
- Make a playlist with Christmas and New Year songs.
- Drink cocoa.
- Do good.
- Make a dream board for the next year.
- Give a gift to someone in need.
- Bake holiday cookies and treat your coworkers at work or friends at school.
- Enroll in a course. To avoid boredom in the evenings, do something new.
- Smile more!
- Take a walk in the park.
- Take winter photos.
- Start planning your summer vacation.
- Make or order an Advent calendar.
- Take a little trip for Christmas vacation.
- Meet the new year in an unexpected place.
- Meet new and interesting people.
- Invite guests.
- Put together a huge winter picture puzzle.
- Go to the theater.
- Go to the movie theater.
- Blow up the clapper.
- Shake a snow-covered branch. And if your friend is standing under it, it's doubly exciting.
- Have a cozy sit-down at a cafe.
- Make a to-do list for the spring.
- Prepare a traditional dish with a new recipe
- Pretend Santa Claus.
- Get your house, your closet, your head in order.
- Buy a figurine with the symbol of the New Year.
- Light the lights on the windows every night.
- Spend more time with children, parents, family and friends.
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