- make soup
- use festive dishes and pretty napkins
- play board games
- put together puzzles
- host a chocolate party with a hot cocoa bar and chocolate desserts
- movie night with friends and snacks
- make a gingerbread house
- have a fireplace picnic in the living room floor
- learn to paint
- fill up the bird feeders for winter birds
- create a home spa experience in your own bathroom
- spring for a new fuzzy, cozy warm throw for the couch
- have a fondue meal
- take online classes in something fun and interesting
- learn a new language for an upcoming trip
- start a cozy sock collection
- layer up clothes & wrap up in blankets w/a thermos of hot coffee and watch for shooting stars
- bake cookies
- have a crafting day
- visit a museum
- write a handwritten letter to a friend
- look through old photos
- make a list of plans for the new year
- start a scrapbook or journal
- drive around to look at Christmas lights
- go Christmas caroling
- color in a coloring book
- go bowling
- watch a winter sunset
- browse antique stores
- make mulled cider
- serve grilled cheese and tomato soup
- watch all the cheesy holiday cartoons and movies
- listen to Christmas carols while you work
- create an unusual advent calendar
- make a vision board
- make annual family photo calendar
- get a sketch pad and doodle cute pictures
- organize your book shelves - create your own Dewy Decimal System
- clean out closets and donate things you no longer use
- create a family recipe book with all of your favorite dishes
- write poetry
- learn to knit or crochet or needlepoint or quilt
- play with old fashioned paper-dolls
- have a "Chopped" contest or bake-off with friends
- do a cookie-swap
- visit the community library
- bake a loaf of bread
Spring Hygge Ideas
- shop for/cook seasonal vegetables (asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, cabbage, carrots)
- make sidewalk pictures on the driveway
- plan a spring picnic
- celebrate all the minor fun holidays such as groundhog day, the Ides of March, Pi Day, St Patrick's Day, May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo, and Derby day
- plan a formal, fancy brunch
- make a fairy garden
- start plants for herbs/flowers
- long drives through the countryside to spot blooming pear trees, cherry trees, redbuds, dogwoods, daffodils, forsythia, lilac, Camila, and what-not
- spring cleaning
- read a book outside in the sunshine
- birdwatching as spring brings the little birdies out of the nest
- Easter celebration
- spring-scented candles and soaps and lotions
- plan a spring afternoon tea
- earth day
- attend a street festival
- have a wine/cheese picnic in a park
- fly a kite
- decorate Easter eggs
- visit a botanical garden
- bring flowers to a friend
- bake cupcakes
- visit the zoo
- make fresh strawberry shortcake
- play mini-golf
- cloud-watching
- find spring pillows to lighten up the house décor
- pick wildflowers
- surprise friends with Cadbury eggs
- plan the summer garden
- walk around the yard/neighborhood and take close-up photos of wildflowers/dandelions
- skip rocks at the creek or lake
- bake scones
- purchase cute new towels
- hang windchimes outside
- made dirt pudding
- visit a candy store and pick your favorite
Summer Hygge Ideas
- cookouts
- splash in puddles when it rains
- baseball games
- picnics
- grow veggies - fresh tomatoes and peppers! YUM!
- catch lightening bugs
- visit a rooftop restaurant at night
- side walk café and sit outside
- ride around with the convertible top down
- play beach music
- spend a day at the lake
- sit by the fire and toast marshmallows
- play lawn games
- visit a gazebo
- swing on a swing set
- go stargazing
- alfresco dining
- candlelight bath
- make homemade fresh squeezed lemonade and iced tea
- cook/serve fresh summer veggies
- made homemade ice-cream
- eat popsicles on a hot day
- walk in the woods
- sit on the screened porch and listen to a thunderstorm roll in and feel the cooling breezes
- visit a farmer's market
- get a snow-cone from the icee truck
- visit a fleamarket
- make ice cream floats or banana splits
- get a pedi for sandal feet
- blow bubbles
- feed the ducks
- hunt for 4 leaf clovers
- tie-dye t-shirts
- burn candles that smell like the beach
- visit a flea market
- hang clothes outside to dry
- can jelly/jam with fresh fruits
- wash your car and play/splash in the water from the hose
- deep condition your hair with coconut oil and sit in the sun
- go out for ice cream after dinner as a special treat
- attend a free concert downtown
- grill fresh corn on the cob
- have your friends each bring a different fruit and make an epic fruit salad
- play catch or badminton
- eat watermelon and have a seed-spitting contest
- paint rocks
Autumn Hygge Ideas
- go apple picking
- county fair
- leaf peeping
- hayride
- pumpkin patch
- decorate your front porch
- make all the pumpkin-spiced goodies (muffins, bread, pancakes, lattes, etc)
- plant bulbs for spring blooms
- fall scented candles
- autumn picnic in the woods
- buy a new sweater or hoodie to celebrate the new season
- rake/jump/play in leaves
- corn maze
- make an apple pie or apple fritters
- wear boots
- decorate the mantle
- make caramel apples
- roast pumpkin seeds
- watch "The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
- hike through the woods
- plant mums
- meet up with a friend at a coffee shop for a chat
- start making Christmas lists and plans
- host thanksgiving dinner
- make warm cinnamon buns for breakfast
- chose autumn-scented hand-soaps for the bathrooms
- organize a book swap
- make fall-themed cupcakes or cookies
- go to the homecoming football game at your old highschool
- spend an afternoon prepping freezer meals for busy nights ahead
- go to or host a wine tasting
- stage a photo-shoot
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