Whether or not you have a couple ideas up your sleeve, we’ve got more winter bucket list ideas for you.
Winter is soon approaching and with it cold, dreary, and dark days.
But it doesn’t have to be like that! You can bring light into your days by creating a bucket list of things to experience over the winter and holiday season.
If you’re looking for fun activities to do solo, with your family, as a couple, or things to do for the holidays, we’ve got something here that is sure to spark ideas.
Here are 53 ideas sure to stir up great ideas for the season.
Winter Bucket List 2021
The winter season can be hard for everyone. It’s a time when depression is high and when activity can be really low. However, this is also the perfect time to try new things and to experience (or re-experience) the ultimate winter.
- Ice skating at Rockefeller Center.
- Test several recipes of hot cocoa and pick your favorite.
- Bake traditional holiday cookies from another country.
- Sing Christmas Carols for your neighbors.
- Experience The Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
- See The Northern Lights in Iceland.
- See the Winter Lights installation in Linköping, Sweden.
- Check out the Kemi Snow Castle in Finland.
- Head to Wisconsin to see the Stewart Tunnel Ice Formations.
- Serious skier? Visit Courchevel.
- Engage in the ultimate snowball fight with your kids.
- Learn how to build an igloo.
- Create a Gingerbread House Village.
- Build a blanket fort in your living room with an entire tunnel system.
- Create your own holiday story.
- Watch a holiday movie every day in the month of December (or for 30 days straight, whichever works best for your family).
- Write Santa a letter and mail it.
- Make snow angels with the neighborhood kids.
- Take a family photo to remember the season by.
- Make Ugly Christmas sweaters.
The great thing about this list is that you can use some of what is on this list in preparation for the winter season, too. You can set up how and where to get your holiday season family photos taken or you could plan a trip to an area with a lot of snow to have that epic snowball fight.
- Make fudge from scratch.
- Go on a date to a ski resort and learn how to ski.
- See The Nutcracker in person.
- Go to a swanky New Years’ Eve party.
- Send holiday cards to friends and family.
- Make a cozy blanket.
- Go snowmobiling!
- Go sledding down a very large hill.
- Experience ice fishing.
- Do an anonymous act of kindness.
Don’t feel afraid to add other ideas to this list like having a game night. Those are easy and fun to do, too.
- Come up with your own soup creation.
- Go ice climbing (or being outdoors isn’t your thing, indoor climbing is fantastic).
- Experience the thrill of night skiing/snowboarding.
- Check out your local Christmas lights show (Google the best ones near you).
- Sit in front of the fire and sip on some wine and read a book.
- Head to New Haven, CT, and experience the world’s largest indoor ropes course at IT Adventure Ropes Course in Jordan’s Furniture (yes, furniture).
- Visit a museum that is bound to have activities specifically for the winter season.
- Get out of the cold and make your way down South and hit up Schlitterbahn in Texas or Disney World in Florida. You’ll get to see their beautiful winter decorations while you’re there.
- Buy out a movie theater (yes, you can do this!) and have a ball.
- Make salt dough ornaments.
No matter what you do spend time with your friends and family (or make some new ones!) and have yourself a fun winter no matter what!
- Redecorate your home to look like a Winter Wonderland.
- Have an outdoor winter picnic with hot teas, hot cocoa, and whatever else will keep you warm.
- Go snowtubing (not to be confused with sledding!).
- Fire up your firepit and create some s’mores.
- Make elaborate gingerbread people.
- Make Apple Cider from scratch.
- Have a vintage, traditional Christmas. Think popcorn garland, dried oranges, cranberries, that kind of Christmas.
- Host a dinner party filled with winter comfort foods (e.g., baked macaroni and cheese, soup, etc)
- Create a realistic New Years Resolution.
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- Learn how to make beautiful charcuterie boards.
Don’t forget to care for someone else other than yourself this season. A lot of people are without a place to lay their heads. Volunteering at a soup or a homeless shelter is the best thing you can do for someone else.
- Attend a tree lighting ceremony.
- Chop down your own Christmas tree. We did this for 2020 and it was sooo satisfying.
- Make a wreath (and a doormat) for your front door.
- Build a snowman (I’ve actually never built one and it would the perfect time for someone else to try!).
See? It’s that easy.
Go out there and experience all that there is to winter and have the time of your life.
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