Spring Bucket List

Happy Spring! Here are some ideas for fun this season (March 30 – June 20)*

Celebrate the Equinox on March 20!

• Balance an egg!
• Read your horoscope
• Make a crystal grid
• Create a spring altar with flowers, decorated eggs, crystals, rabbits, candles…
• Read the story of Persephone
• Meditate on fresh new beginnings…

Celebrate Easter (or Passover, Ostara or other spring festival)

• Dye or decorate eggs; for fun, try natural dyes, like yellow onion skin, red cabbage, beets, tumeric, herbal teas and juices from berries
• Put a painted or unpainted branch in a vase and make an egg “tree”

• • Decorate your front door with a spring wreath or Easter sign
  • Send Easter cards to loved ones
  • Watch the movie, “Easter Parade”

• Sing “Peter Cottontail”
• Bake Italian Easter Egg bread
• Make a Peeps diorama
• Make an Easter bonnet
• Watch “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown”
• Walk around a store and look at Easter decorations (Target, Jo Ann Fabrics, Walmart, etc.)
• Make Easter baskets
• Create a floral or decorative table centerpiece

• Wear a new (or new to you) dress or outfit
• Wear an orchid corsage or floral boutonniere
• Buy or donate Easter lilies
• Eat Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday
• Attend a service (online, outdoors or in-person) – Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday
• Watch the Mass online (St. Patrick’s Cathedral – NYC, the Pope’s Mass, National Basilica, Washington National Cathedral, etc.)
• Have an egg hunt
• Wear an Easter-themed face mask
• Wear new clothes on Easter Sunday
• Prepare a beautiful Easter brunch – an easy menu idea…
  • Quiche Lorraine or Quiche Florentine
  • Caesar salad or mixed green salad
  • Fruit salad or fresh berries; fresh mint garnish
  • Crescent rolls and butter or hot cross buns
  • Bunny cake or cupcakes
  • Orange-pineapple juice, mimosas or mock mimosas (use ginger ale or seltzer instead of champagne)
  • Coffee or tea

Rejoice in glorious flowers

• Take a hike to see wildflowers in bloom
• Take a stroll in a formal garden or botanic garden
• Create a floral arrangement or put a vase of fresh flowers in your home
• Visit an area that has cherry blossom trees
• Purchase a container pot or hanging basket of flowers
• Learn how to identify wildflowers with a nature field guide
• Take pictures of spring flower gardens
• Sip floral herbal teas
• Sketch or color tulips, daffodils and hyacinths
• Learn the meaning of flowers
• Bring some forsythia or pussy willow branches indoors
• Gather a few blossoms and press them

Get in touch with Nature

• Walk in a park on March 30
• Listen to spring peepers
• Learn how to identify trees and birds with a nature field guide
• Go camping before the mosquitos come out
• Take a walk in the rain
• Grow a garden or a container garden
• Star-gaze/moon-gaze

Listen to Spring-themed classical music

• Vivaldi – Spring
• Mendelssohn – Spring Song
• Johann Strauss II – Voices of Spring
• Tchaikovsky – March and April

Springtime Places to Go

• Take a hike to see wildflowers
• Walk an outdoor labyrinth
• Take a historic garden week tour
• Visit a state park
• Walk in a grove of cherry blossoms
• Visit a botanical garden
• Go to a minor league baseball game
• Play mini golf
• Pick berries or flowers at a pick-your-own farm
• Explore an outdoor garden center
• Tour your state capitol/grounds
• Go to an outdoor concert
• Take a tour boat ride
• Visit a theme park with spring festivities
• Go on a road trip
• Go on pedal boats
• Visit a farmer’s market
• Visit a golf cart town or community

Just for fun…

• Fly a kite
• Play catch, Whiffle ball or Frisbee
• Paint and hide rocks
• Walk barefoot in the grass
• Blow bubbles
• Spring or Easter trivia
• Paint a picture outdoors
• Spring-themed scavenger hunt
• Watch all the movies nominated for Best Picture Oscars

Around the home…

• Spring clean your space
• Put away winter clothes and take out your warm weather clothes
• Declutter and give away unneeded items
• Have a yard sale
• Energetically cleanse space with crystals or sage
• Clean outdoor furniture, deck, patio or balcony and decorate with new spring pillow, hanging flowers or colorful touches

Taste the flavors of Spring…

• Eat fresh spring produce – berries, asparagus, artichokes, new potatoes, carrots, spring onions, chives, parsley and other herb
• Steam fresh asparagus and serve with hollandaise sauce
• Make lemonade, limeade and aqua frescas with watermelon or cantaloupe
• Cook pasta prima vera
• Drink floral herbal teas: chamomile, rose hips, lavender, hibiscus, etc.
• Bake blueberry muffins
• Add meatless protein to meals: green peas, oats, tofu, lentils, chick peas, eggs and cottage cheese
• Make “bunny salad”
• Make smoothies with fruit, yogurt, ice, cinnamon and honey
• Have a picnic tea with cucumber sandwiches, madeleines and strawberries

Spring Self-Care

• Wear spring colors
• Get a hair cut; maybe a new look!
• Take daily walks outdoors
• Go to sleep earlier (as the birds will wake you up earlier!)
• Open the windows
• Exercise or do yoga outside
• Clean up litter from an outoor space or park
• Wear a face mask in public, indoor spaces
• If pollen affects you, take allergy medication and wipe your skin and hair with a damp cloth after spending time outdoors; change clothing and shoes

Celebrate Recognition Days

• March 20 – Spring Equinox, Ostara, Intl. Happiness Day and Astrology Day
• March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
• March 25 – Intl. Waffle Day
• March 26 – Solitude Day
• March 27 – Academy Awards
• March 30 – Take a Walk in a Park Day
• April 1 – New Moon
• April 2 – World Autism Day
• April 4 – Intl. Carrot Day
• April 5 and 8 – Minor League Baseball Opening Day
• April 6 – Nat. Walking Day
• April 9 – Nat. Unicorn Day; DC Cherry Blossom Parade
• April 10 – Palm Sunday
• April 14 – Nat. Gardening Day
• April 15 – Passover; Good Friday
• April 16 – Full Moon; Nat. Eggs Benedict Day
• April 17 – Easter
• April 18 – Adult Autism Awareness Day; White House Easter Egg Roll
• April 22 – Earth Day; Nat. Jellybean Day
• April 23 – Nat. Picnic Day
• April 29 – Arbor Day
• April 30 – New Moon
• May 1 – May Day, Beltane
• May 3 – Nat. Garden Meditation Day
• May 5 – Cinco de Mayo
• May 7 – Kentucky Derby
• May 8 – Mother’s Day
• May 14 – Nat. Miniature Golf Day
• May 15 – Total Lunar Eclipse
• May 16 – Nat. Mimosa Day
• May 18 – Intl. Museum Day
• May 20 – Nat. Pick Strawberries Day
• May 21 – Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Day; Intl. Tea Day
• May 24 – Nat. Asparagus Day; Nat. Brother’s Day
• May 30 – Memorial Day; Nat. Creativity Day
• June 1 – Go Barefoot Day
• June 3 – World Bicycle Day
• June 4 – National Trails Day
• June 14 – Full Strawberry Moon
• June 15 – Nature Photography Day
• June 18 – Intl. Picnic Day
• June 19 – Father’s Day
• June 20 – Last Day of Spring, Midsummer Eve

*This blogger recommends you continue to take pandemic safety precautions this spring including – reducing your time in indoor public spaces or outdoor crowded spaces, social distancing and wearing a mask in these settings, and to continue to take advantage of online opportunities (watching sports events, church services, etc).