- Walk around the block--without headphones in your ears.
- Listen to birds.
- Smell flowers.
- Stop and really feel the wind around you.
- Stay up late and watch the stars.
- Fly kites.
- Start a garden (or window box).
- Go hiking.
- Ride bikes.
- Look for the first butterfly.
- Have a picnic.
- Play tennis.
- Quit work early and go outside.
- Go to the playground and swing.
- Grill out with friends.
- Get up before the sun and watch the sunrise from a mountain top.
- Go barefoot in the grass.
- Smell the fresh air.
- Get too hot outside for the first time.
- Go to the pool.
- Look for four-leaf clovers.
- Go to a baseball game.
- Walk outside at night.
- Make a bird feeder and put it on your porch.
- Go wading in a creek.
- Look for the first firefly.
- Go fossil hunting.
- Walk to your favorite coffeeshop in the morning.
- Stake out a bird's nest (at a safe distance with binoculars) and watch.
- Drink lemonade on the patio.
- Do yoga outside.
- Dance in the rain.
- When the flower petals start falling, run through them.
- Open all the windows.
- Collect small items from outside and make a nature mosaic.
- Play a pick-up game of football.
- Eat salads outside on the porch.
- Go to an orchard.
- Play frisbee.
- Join a kickball league.
- Find pictures in the clouds.
- Play in the sandbox.
- Put a drop of pond water on a microscope slide and try to identify everything you see.
- Drive with the windows down and the music up.
- Play beach volleyball.
- Hang your laundry outside on the clothesline to get that outside smell.
- Sleep in the treehouse.
- Sit on a hill and watch a sunset.
- Blow bubbles.
- Go to a state park.
- Play hopscotch in the driveway.
- Climb trees.
- Make a compost pit and learn how food breaks down.
- Go running in the rain.
- Write poetry in the park.
- Play "Pooh Sticks."
- Go to the farmer's market.
- Collect leaves and press them for your leaf collection.
- Finally learn the names of the birds you hear every day.
- Watch butterflies "puddle" at the edge of a mud puddle after a rainstorm.
- See a rainbow.
- Do a springtime photo shoot.
- Play with water balloons (and pick up all the pieces afterward).
- Make smores over a campfire.
- Hold hands with someone while you're walking outside.
- Go to the zoo.
- Run through the sprinkler.
- Sit under a tree and read.
- Go fishing.
- Find a butterfly on a flower and watch it use its proboscis.
- Make your own slip-n-slide.
- Wear new flip-flops outside.
- Make rock pets out of rocks you find on a walk.
- Feed geese at a public pond.
- Write with sidewalk chalk.
- Go sailing.
- Play music outside on the porch.
- Hug a tree.
- Create a tiny "world" out of things you find in nature.
- Find the moon each night and keep a moon journal.
- Eat outside at your favorite restaurant.
- Watch bees in the garden.
- Make a birdhouse (don't decorate it--not always safe for the birds).
- Wash your car the old fashioned way--with a hose and sponge!
- Save the worms stranded on the sidewalk after a rainstorm.
- Squish your toes in mud.
- Make an outdoor scavenger hunt for someone else.
- Play with hula hoops.
- Make clover crowns--and wear them!
- Play catch.
- Make leaf prints with paint.
- Ride a scooter.
- Go for a horse drawn carriage ride with your sweetie in the evening.
- Walk across a bridge.
- Make mud pies and decorate them.
- Eat ice cream while walking outside in the sun.
- Wear bright new hats out in the sun.
- Go to a botanical garden.
- Play capture the flag.
- Go canoeing.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." --Gandhi
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