Events
To have your community event listed in this section please feel free to contact us.
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Winter Activities:
Enjoy the outdoors (socially distanced)
- Have an epic snowball fight
- Go sledding
- Try friluftsliving
- Make a snowman or a snow fort with people in your household
- Go snowshoeing
- Make snow angels
- Go stargazing
- Take a wintry hike
- Try ice skating
Get a taste of winter
- Load up a cup of cocoa with whipped cream or marshmallows
- Bake a pie
- Sip a hot toddy
- Make baked apples
- Restart your sourdough addiction (and try these ideas for things you can make with your sourdough starter that aren’t bread)
- Make homemade caramel popcorn
- Roast root vegetables
- Enjoy some mulled wine
- Simmer a pot of homemade soup
- Make snow cream
- Indulge in a big stack of pancakes slathered with maple syrup
- Make (and enjoy) eggnog (here’s an easy eggnog recipe!)
- Have a little fondue
Try some wintry crafts
- Build a gingerbread house
- Cut paper snowflakes
- Make a birdfeeder out of pinecones, peanut butter, and birdseed—and place it near your window for a show
- Create handmade valentines
- Knit a scarf
Enjoy some much-needed self-care
- Cozy up by a roaring fire (indoors or out!)
- Watch the snow fall
- Burn your favorite scented candle
- Light candles and enjoy a bubble bath
- Break out a jigsaw puzzle
- Cuddle up with a blanket, a cup of tea, and a good book
- Spend the day in your PJs
- Work on a challenging crossword or word game
- Splurge on a pair of fuzzy slippers
Reconnect with loved ones
- Bake cookies to share with your friends and neighbors
- Build a pillow fort
- Enjoy a living room picnic
- Host a movie marathon of all your favorites
- Eat dinner by candlelight
- Write a love letter
- Plan a virtual game night
Try something new
- Take an online cooking class
- Pick up a new hobby
- Encourage an amaryllis bulb or other flowering plant to bloom
- Start some seedlings
- Host a virtual book club
- Stick with a New Year’s resolution
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