35 Fun Activities & Things to Do

After a long winter, spring will soon arrive. Yay! The sun will begin to shine 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 my favorite Spring Bucket List ideas to get you started.

Cool Bucket List Things to Do in the Spring 

1. ✦ Attend the Opening Day of a Baseball Game

Many baseball leagues across the world start their seasons around April – on April 1^st specifically for MLB – making spring the perfect season to sit through a game. And is there any better game to check out than one on the opening day?!

2. ✦ Bake a Seasonal Pie

From apricot to cherry, spring has some of the best options for seasonal pies.  Taste of Home has a lot of excellent recipes for seasonal pies, while at Delish you’ll find over a dozen options for pies to bake for that Easter feast.

3. ✧ Climb a Tree

4. ✦ Dine Al Fresco

Dining al fresco essentially just means dining outdoors, the term deriving from Italian language. It’s an especially popular activity during the summer season, but actually you can (and should) start your al fresco dining a wee bit early. 

5. ✦ Eat Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry shortcake is a classic treat featuring fluffy biscuits (or sponge cake) layered with juicy strawberries and whipped cream—perfect for spring!

➞ If you want to get a headstart on next season, check out our Summer Bucket List

6. ✦ Feed the Ducks

With warmer weather comes springtime picnics and walks, perfect for feeding ducks (just swap out bread for oats, seeds, rice, or halved grapes for a healthier treat).

7. ✦ Fly a Kite

Another one of the outdoor things to do in spring is to fly a kite in the park. Don’t have a kite? Check out these cool ones: 

8. ✧ Go Berry Picking

You can typically pick blueberries and strawberries from March until the late spring season.

9. ✦ Go Bird Watching

Spring is a migration season for birds, when birds return to the Northern hemisphere after spending the winter somewhere warm. For an extra bucket list challenge, you can buy a bird watching book to see how many you can see.

10. ✦ Go Kayaking (or Paddle Boarding)

Kayaking and paddle boarding are perfect for when the water temperatures aren’t high enough for swimming yet.

11. ✦ Go on a Spring Break Vacation

Don’t know where to go? See my Travel Bucket List that has my top 100 picks.

12. ✦ Hang a Bird Feeder

You can easily buy a bird feeder (like this adorable wooden one), but you can also make your own—I am loving this adorable DIY teacup bird feeder.

13. ✦ Have a Garage Sale

14. ✧ Throw a Garden Tea Party

Get inspired dreaming and planning your own garden tea party by checking outCountry Living’s garden party ideas. 

15. ✦ 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 like, plus a blanket, and find the perfect spot at the park.

16. ✦ Hike a New Trail

17. ✦ Make a Dandelion Wish

One of the best parts about dandelions is that, after their bloom, they turn into seeds that look like puffballs, which will fly away if you blow on them—and you ought to blow on them and make a wish that just might come true!

18. ✧ Paint Rocks

Painted Rocks is a fun activity perfect for home décor, gifting, or even leaving them as a random act of kindness—and on one of my walking paths, they’ve even created a snake of painted rocks lining the path, always with fun new additions that might inspire your own creative idea. 

19. ✦ Pick Wildflowers & Make a Bouquet

Besides dandelions, a variety of other wildflowers, many of them absolutely beautiful, pop up and bloom around the same time in the spring. 

20. ✦ Plan the Ultimate Summer Vacation

Spring is also an excellent time to prepare for the upcoming summer. When you start your planning early enough, you’ll have the time and opportunities to create your ultimate itinerary, including booking whatever accommodation, activities or flights are needed to make it happen, before prices soar or everything gets sold out.

21. ✧ Plant a Spring Garden

No need to wait until summer comes along to start planting and preparing for your epic seasonal garden, you can definitely start it during spring. 

22. ✧ Plant Herbs

23. ✦ Play an April Fool’s Day Prank

April Fool’s Day happens worldwide every 1^st of April, so prepare to play a prank. For ideas for pranks see Best Life’s Harmless Pranks to Play. 

24. ✦ Play in the Rain

25. ✦ Play Frisbee

Playing frisbee is another amazing sporty activity to commit to in the springtime; whether that means putting together a group of people for a round or two of ultimate frisbee or just tossing it back and forth with a close friend in your backyard.

26. ✦ Search for Four-Leaf Clovers

Four-leaf clovers are fun to search for because of two reasons. One is because they’re rarer than a three-leaf clover, and the second reason is because four-leaf clovers are said to bring luck—and who wouldn’t love to have some of that!

27. ✦ Shop at a Farmer’s Market

In the spring season specifically you can make great finds at the farmers market, like apricots, artichokes, asparagus, parsley, peas, radishes and rhubarb. 

28. ✦ Skip Stones in a Lake

29. ✦ Spring Clean Your Space

30. ✧ Take a Tandem Bike Ride

31. ✦ Take a Road Trip

32. ✦ Walk Barefoot on the Grass

33. ✧ Walk Under the Cherry Blossoms

Even if you can’t travel all the way to Asia for them, your region might positively surprise you with some amazing cherry blossom trees of their own. 

34. ✦ Watch the Sunrise

35. ✧ Write a Spring-Themed Haiku

Haikus—a traditional Japanese three-line poem that captures nature’s beauty in just 17 syllables—aren’t limited to any one season, but the magic of spring and nature’s renewal provide endless inspiration. Follow my “how to write a haiku” directions to get started on your own!

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