After a long Winter, Spring has arrived. The days are getting longer and the flowers will start to bloom. It is time to make a plan as to how you are going to enjoy this change of season. Here are 10 Spring Bucket List ideas to get you started.
Although winter may seem like it will never end, there seems to finally be some light at the end of the tunnel. When winter steps aside and spring comes back to play, we get to once again enjoy warmer weather, blooming flowers and a whole lot of fun spring activities we may do every spring – or have never done before! Here is a bucket list of the best things to do in spring to make sure that all of us can capture the best of the season.
1.) Bake a Seasonal Pie
Each season has their own pies perfect to bake that season and your options for spring just may be the most diverse of them all! From apricot to cherry, Taste of Home has a lot of excellent recipes for seasonal pies for the spring season. Meanwhile at Delish you’ll find over a dozen options for pies to bake for that Easter feast.
2.) Go Bird Watching
Spring is a migration season for birds, when birds return to the Northern hemisphere after spending the winter in somewhere warm. That makes spring an amazing season to go bird watching because they’re gathering in large groups and will therefore be easier to see. You can even buy a bird watching book to see how many you can see.
3) Go Kayaking
Once snow clears out and the warmer weather is upon us, a huge, diverse range of outdoor activities becomes available to us. Among them are both kayaking and paddle boarding which are perfect ways to spend the late spring days where it’s sufficiently warm but not too hot for enjoying. Plus, even if the water temperatures aren’t high enough for swimming yet, that’s no obstacle for kayaking and paddle boarding.
4) Hang a Bird Feeder
Bird feeders are not beneficial to hang in your backyard simply for our own amusement of watching as various birds come for feeding, but during the nesting season specifically it helps parent birds collect more food – or at least more easily – for their baby birds than if they have to fly far from the nest to get the food.
5) Have a Picnic
When you go to the park to feed the ducks, by all means make a day out of it! Put together a basket of strawberry shortcake, your freshly picked strawberries or blueberries and/or whatever else that you liken to be in your perfect picnic, plus a blanket, and find the perfect spot at the park to lay down and enjoy some warm but cool spring weather along with delicious snacks and fresh nature.
6) Hike a New Trail
Each season of the year offers something different for your hiking experiences, from the nature around you to the trails that are best to be taken. Spring offers amazing landscapes with the flowers and the returning greenery, though in some destinations there may still be some snow lingering! But, because of the freshness and “coming back to life” after winter hibernation, spring can be inspirational for you to try and hike a trail you’ve never tried before.
7) Plan a Trip for Summer
Spring is also an excellent time to prepare for the upcoming summer, when many of us are on an extended break from school or work. When you start your planning early enough, you’ll have the time and opportunities to create your ultimate summer vacation, including booking whatever accommodation, activities or flights are needed to make it happen, before prices soar or everything gets sold out.
8) Plant Herbs at Home
Spring is also the season to do it if you wish to plant and grow herbs. You can start planting them about as soon as March rolls around as many of them are keen to be planted and start growing from early spring. Growing your own herbs not only makes for tastier dishes and other health benefits, but they’ll look so attractive in your home.
9) Shop at Your Local Farmer’s Market
Late Spring is the season for farmer’s markets. Get your reusable bags and load up of fresh fruits and vegetables for tonight’s dinner. One of the yummiest and healthiest of the Spring Bucket List ideas!
Farmer’s Markets are an excellent place to shop for fresh produce any season of the year. In the spring season specifically you can make great finds like apricots, artichokes, asparagus, parsley, peas, radishes and rhubarb. Since spring is all about the new and fresh activities to try, if you’ve never – or rarely – shopped at a farmer’s market, it’s time to add at least one weekend visit to your list of spring activities for this year.
10) Spring Clean Your Space
Spring cleaning is an age old, universal activity where we clean our homes from top to bottom, getting rid of the old and no longer used, including thorough scrubbing and deep cleaning of various surfaces in the home. It may sound like a drag, but it can actually be incredibly cathartic, not to mention it is a much needed activity to do at least once a year, with spring being the perfect season for it.
