Winter Bucket List – Free Family Fun Printable

Many years ago, I made a summer bucket list for like five years in a row, except I never ever called it a bucket list. But it was the same thing. This year, I decided to make one for all the seasons starting with winter.

As a full-time working mom and a mom blogger, I have to be really intentional about spending time with my kids. If I'm not intentional, our days and weeks would slip by, and I wouldn't have spent any real time with them.

I mean, we're in the same house, maybe even in the same room, but I'm writing on my blog or talking to their dad or working at my job, and they're watching tv or playing Legos or Barbies or something else. On their own.

If I'm not careful, my kids and I can lead these parallel lives, and I don't take the opportunity to pour into their lives at all. Like I said, I have to be intentional about it.

Hence the need for a bucket list for every season of the year. We can choose from the items on the list when we have little pockets of time or as opportunities come up. It will give us a base, a starting point from which to make our time together fun and rewarding.

As an aside, I am super intentional about scheduling fun. I make sure we do something fun together, all four of us, every single week, no matter what. (Well, unless they go on a weekend trip. Then I plan something fun for just me and Joe.) I have it written into my planner, I save money for it out of every paycheck, and I always make it happen.

I have read studies that say children make incredible memories on vacation. We do take vacations, usually one big one per year with a couple of weekends away.

But what if we can build those incredible memories in little bites sprinkled all throughout the year? Would that not add up in their little memory banks to a childhood well spent? I sure hope so.

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Winter Bucket List for Families

Time bound items:

1. DISNEY CRUISE (Okay, probably not on your list for the winter and not on the printable, but definitely on ours!)
2. Complete our Jesse Tree devotional
3. Go to Hersheypark Christmas Candylane
4. Drink hot chocolate
5. Read a book together every day (101 Christmas Books 101 Picture Books 101 Chapter Books)
6. Get some Christmas books from the library
7. Drive around looking at Christmas lights
8. See a musical or play (We're going to the Nutcracker in a couple of weeks!)
9. Decorate the Christmas tree
10. Listen to Christmas music
11. Make ornaments for the girls' bedroom tree
12. Give a secret gift
13. Make a gingerbread house (Full disclosure - We buy a kit and hot glue the house together. The icing never works right and just makes everyone grumpy. The girls love to decorate after the house has been hot glued together.)
14. Have a living room dance party
15. Have a no screens day
16. Take a photo with Santa
17. Sit on Santa's lap
18. Write letters to Santa
19. Have a Christmas gift wrapping party (just the four of us)
20. Fulfill an Angel Tree request
21. Read Luke Chapter 2
22. Pack an Operation Christmas Child shoebox
23. Have a living room picnic under the Christmas tree
24. Make a handmade gift
25. Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated one)
26. Make a wreath for the front door
27. Eat a candy cane
28. Leave your mail carrier & delivery people a special treat
29. Set up our nativity
30. Walk through Christmas Magic (I didn't put this on the printable since it's local to the Harrisburg, PA area, but if you are local, GO!)
31. Hang up Christmas lights
32. Drink eggnog
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33. Give away some stuff to charity (toys, clothes, books)
34. Make and spread reindeer food
35. Leave out cookies & milk for Santa
36. Write thank you notes for Christmas gifts
37. Have a living room picnic for New Year's Eve while watching The Sound of Music (This is our tradition, and the girls LOVE IT.)
38. Eat pork & sauerkraut on New Year's Day
39. Set family goals for the new year
40. Watch the Puppy Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday
41. Watch Punxsutawney Phil on YouTube
42. Watch the Winter Olympics
43. Make DIY Valentine gifts
44. Have an all red meal
45. Make heart-shaped pancakes

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All winter items:

1. Build a snowman
2. Make snowman pancakes
3. Have a snowball fight
4. Go for a walk every day the wind chill is above 10º F
5. Develop an indoor exercise routine for when the wind chill is below 10º F
6. Go sledding
7. Spend an entire day in our pajamas
8. Go ice skating
9. Bake cookies
10. Spend a very cold day watching movies with popcorn made on the stove
11. Volunteer together
12. Visit a museum
13. Try a new restaurant
14. Get up early and go to breakfast (hopefully with Pappy like I used to do years ago)
15. Take a walk in the snow
16. Plan a weekend getaway
17. Have a family game night
18. Catch snowflakes on our tongues
19. Write a handwritten note to a friend
20. Look at old photos
21. Make a blanket fort
22. Do a random act of kindness
23. Make coffee filter snowflakes
24. Make homemade marshmallows
25. Build a snow fort
26. Make orange pomanders like Grandma used to make
27. Make snow angels
28. Make snow candy like Mary & Laura did
29. Go to Cracker Barrel and eat by the fire
30. Make a big pot of cheeseburger soup
31. Have a bubble bath
32. Feed the birds
33. Measure the first big snow every hour
34. Swim in an indoor pool
35. Bundle up & take a carriage ride
36. Have a poetry tea party
37. Go to a paint your own pottery studio
38. See a hockey game

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