Spring Bucket List

Every day’s a big adventure with tiny boots and curious hearts. This spring, we’re keeping it simple— soaking up sunshine, exploring the outdoors, and spreading kindness like wildflower seeds 🌼🍃

Use this bucket list to inspire your own outdoor adventures this Spring keeping wonder, imagination and creativity at the heart of all moments.

Celebrate Earth Day

Attend a park clean-up or pick up litter at your favorite greenspace. Choose 3 realistic ways your family can be more eco-friendly this year, i.e. composting, reusable lunch bags, thrifting over purchasing new.

Go on a worm hunt

Who doesn't love looking for worms?! They appear just after a rain shower so it's easy to spot them on a walk. Grab sticks or even a shovel and get to exploring in the dirt. Watch as explorers discover and squeal with excitement as they discover worms through the simple art of digging.

Visit a new greenspace

Any outdoor area can be a green space as long as you can see the sky overhead! Visit a new space in your town or city that you, or maybe anyone, has never spent a lot of time in and discover how simple it is to connect with nature in a new space.

Picnic with friends

Pack a lunch and head to a greenspace to spend time outside with friends. My favorite way to connect with people, besides being outside, is over good food. Make it a potluck or a simple picnic. Visit a new greenspace or one that you already love.

Soak up the sun

Embrace these warmer days and spend as much time outside as possible! Think about the activities you do inside, can you take them outside to enjoy? Arts and crafts, magnet tiles, laundry (yes, I said it!) Anything that we do inside can be done outside AND bonus, we don't need to set up activities for nature play; explorers will just know what to do.

Plant native seeds

An extension of Earth Day, explore which plants are native to your region and also those that attraction pollinators! Plant seeds or flowers in a small garden; this helps the earth and all its creatures. Visit pollinator.org for great resources and information!

Ice cream for lunch

Do I have to say more?

Donate outgrown winter gear

Set up a gear swap, connect with a local foster family or organization that supports women and children (like Families in Transition.) Donate Winter gear your explorers have outgrown or maybe even Spring clothes you won't need this year.

Play in the mud

Zero fancy equipment is required for this. You just need dirt, water and a stick for mixing and you will see the magic mud can inspire in your explores and maybe even yourself if you let it.

Make chalk paint

This is SO simple and fun yet often overlooked in my opinion. It offers explorers the fundamental skills need to build on creativity. Give explorers a mallet or stone and have them break and smash the chalk. Simply blend with water and they can create on paper, the driveway, stones or other nature treasures!

Surprise a friend with flowers

Grab a thrifted vase or one you were going to donate anyway. Use an old jar from pasta sauce or a milk jug, it doesn't matter! Pick up some flowers or even make a nature inspired bouquet using treasures found on a walk or painted twigs like this one from Recycled Crafts! Keep your gift anonymous if possible and leave for a friend or neighbor to find along with a note of encouragement; it will make their day!

Elf your neighbors - spring style

You may have seen us doing this before; we call this "elfing" year-round and it's easy to do with a Spring twist. Surprise a friend or neighbor with flowers like we shared above or grab a thrifted basket (or a vessel you have lying around.) Fill with flowers, spring snacks (hello yum Cadbury eggs,) bubbles for kids, a jump rope and chalk. These can be as simple as a flower with a note of kindness left on someone's doorstep or more elaborate like the basket described above!

Look for colors in nature

On a nature walk simple look for the colors of the rainbow in nature treasures that show us that Spring is coming!

Do something every day to make the world a better place

What can you do TODAY to make tomorrow better for Mother Earth, your family and people you don't know? Can you choose more eco-friendly options, declutter and donate items you no longer need or use? Can you say hi when passing a neighbor on the street or bring goodies to your local fire department, so you know their hard work is appreciated? The opportunities are endless here if you're open to spreading kindness!