
GET OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TO TRY OUT
Gather a group of friends and break off into teams for a jaunt around the city looking for specific things. Start by making up the list: red bicycle, kissing couple, etc. If you live in a more rural area, you can make it a nature scavenger hunt where your list includes specific plants or animals instead. Use a special hashtag and have each team post a pic every time an item is found. Whoever finds all the items on the list first wins!
Be a tourist in your town
Can you confidently say that you know your city in and out? If Frommer’s was to contract you to write a guide to your city, would you do it justice? Take the time to visit more than just your usual hangout places. Be a tourist in your own city, go someplace new and you may be surprised by just how wonderful that old town can be. Most cities have free tours too. You could discover streets, shops, and landmarks that you never knew existed.
Stake out a large open spot in a local park, tell all your friends to bring food and drinks, and have an afternoon of games and sports planned out. Go old school with childhood favorites like the egg-on-a-spoon relay and tug o’ war!
Volunteer
Help paint a house, spruce up city landscaping, clean up litter from the streets, or walk dogs at the animal shelter. It’s a fun thing to do outside that also lets you make a difference in your community. Win-win!
No matter where you live, there’s bound to be birds somewhere. Whether it’s in your local park or the woods behind your house, birding is a surprisingly fun way to pass time while learning something new and appreciating nature. Stop by your local library to see if they have a guide so you can identify your new, feathered friends.
Spend an evening at a drive-in cinema
Park your car up next to your pals at one of Luna Cinema’s drive-in movie theatres across the country. It currently has locations in Kent, Chichester and Birmingham and its screens films like Dirty Dancing, Mean Girls, and Notting Hill.
There’s not much that tastes better than choosing homegrown produce offered by farmers themselves at a local Farmer’s Market. Going from stall to stall, you become more appreciative of the produce that comes from the good earth. Visit the National Farmer’s Market Directory for a market near you.