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Practical wisdom for daily life
Home for the night
• Rent a video, make a fire in the fireplace
• Make holiday decoration, flower arrangement, craft project
• Learn a new craft, skill or hobby
• Write a poem, short story or musical piece
• Prepare a formal dinner
• Have your own ping pong or miniature golf tournament
• Decorate a dance floor in the living room
• Look for stars and constellations using a star book
• Use a new recipe to make food or candy
• Sculpt using clay, or carve with soap
• Play charades, TV games, card or board games
• Go through your photographs; create captions for them and put together an album
• Read and discuss a book, news article or the comics
• Debate a world event or problem.
Brainstorm for solutions
• Watch TV – the late show, a cultural or sport event, news, nature, comedy, or movie
• Learn about a particular topic or famous person
• Share and update your joint or individual goals
• Get out your tape cassettes and record a home made skit or commercial
Fun in the sun
• Take an early morning walk, watch the sun rise, then eat breakfast
• Prepare a meal at an outdoor grill or fireplace
• Visit a waterslide, canyon, park or zoo
• Go for a hot-air balloon or airplane ride
• Plant a tree or garden
• Make and fly kites
• Gather pine cones, pine nuts, wild flowers, berries, fall leaves, butterflies, shells
• Hunt for rocks, toadstools, or arrowheads
• Pan for gold
• Go horse back riding
• Pick strawberries or other fruits and eat them with cream
• Drive to a lake and rent a row boat, skip stones, have an evening beach party, build
sandcastles, fish
• Hike or back pack on a nature trail
• Visit an archaeological or historical site
• Visit a park and feed the ducks, dodge sprinklers, bicycle, picnic, play a game
• Go bird-watching in a forest, park or bird refuge
• Attend an outdoor arts, garden or international festival
• Be an amateur photographer. Find artistic settings to take great pictures of nature, other
people, or each other.
Out on the town
• Go window shopping
• Take a moonlight walk
• Attend a planetarium, museum, aquarium or art gallery
• Play computer or video games at an arcade
• See a local movie, play, concert, ballet, circus or sporting event
• Have a quite dinner at a favorite restaurant
• Dance at a club or ball room, square dance for a change of pace
• Take a drive to a place you’ve never been before
• Attend an auction, bazaar or estate sale
• Go midnight bowling; then have an early break fast
• Visit an old bookstore or a library. See who can find the strangest book
• Go to an amusement park, state fair, festival, mall, or exhibit
• Attend a city council / legislature meeting
• Tour a historic site in your area
• See what can be done or purchased on a five or ten dollar limit
• Attend a class at the library or university
• View a competition
• Take a dance lesson
• Visit a relative or friend
Winter
• Snowshoe, ski, snowmobile, ice-skate, toboggan, or go sledding / tubing during the day or
at night
• Play snow football, hockey, or other snow games
• Hike to a snowbound cabin
• Sculpt using snow
• Go ice fishing
• Hunt for the Christmas tree Outdoor
• Play tennis, golf, soccer, Frisbee, badminton, volleyball, softball, miniature golf, croquet,
horse shoes
• Get some baseball mitts and a ball and play catch
• Go ice-blocking
• Play Frisbee golf or Frisbee football
• Ride bikes
• Rent dirt bikes or four wheelers
• Swim, scuba dive, surf or body surf
• Go moonlight sailing or canoing
• Do a river run in rafts or inflated tubes
• Go mountain climbing, rappelling, hang gliding, or parachuting
• Fish, hunt, backpack or hike in a wilderness area
• Practice your skills at a golf driving range, a go cart track, or some batting cages
• Go bird watching, taking along a bird book from the library, or try the fascinating practice
of bug watching
• Roller-skate or skateboard at a park
• Ride horses
• Go to the sand dunes for jumping or buggying
• Jog or enter a road race
• Fly a kite
• Organize a complete sports day