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    Last Modified: May 23, 2022 by Tara Ziegmont 3 Comments

    Winter Bucket List – Free Family Fun Printable

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    Winter bucket list 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.

    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
    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

    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

    Grab the free Winter Bucket List printable below.

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    1. Anne | onedeterminedlife says

      December 06, 2017 at 10:38 am

      These activities sounds like so much fun! I make a list of things I want to do with my family as well. Our favourites are making cookies, doing advent and seeing all the Christmas lights.

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    2. Carolyn says

      February 22, 2020 at 11:08 pm

      Just found your sight and I LOVE it and that You Sare it freely! God Bless you, especially for sharing your gifts!❤️

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