Ultimate Spring Bucket List
Are you looking for spring bucket list ideas? You’re in the right place!
Spring is a beautiful time of year, with fragrant flowers beginning to bloom and bursts of green coming back after a long, cold winter. And creating a seasonal bucket list is a great way to enjoy your spring.
A spring bucket list is a fun way to check off new activities and experiences, and make the most out of this time of year. It can inspire you to get outside and try something new, or just to shake things up at home. I’ve rounded up plenty of spring bucket list ideas for you, including things to do at home or further afield.
Here’s a look at the best ideas for your spring bucket list:
At Home
Looking for spring bucket list ideas that you can do at home? Check out these suggestions for unique and memorable ways you can usher in the spring season and celebrate spring festivities at home. Most of these ideas are very inexpensive, or even free, so you don’t have to spend much money to have fun.
- Start an herb garden.
- Make a flower crown out of spring flowers.
- Spring clean your closet and donate old clothes.
- Have a backyard picnic.
- Go on a nature walk and photograph spring flowers.
- Host a St. Patrick’s Day party.
- Make a spring playlist.
- Spend a weekend deep cleaning your home.
- Declutter and host a garage sale.
- Go for a walk outside in the rain.
- Make strawberry shortcake.
- Dye or decorate Easter eggs.
- Make a March Madness basketball bracket.
- Plant a flower garden.
- Host a fiesta for Cinco de Mayo.
- Make fresh homemade lemonade.
- Pick wildflowers and make a flower crown.
- Do some digital decluttering.
- Have an at-home tea party.
- Plan a prank for April Fool’s Day.
- Search for four-leaf clovers outside.
- Go outside and fly a kite.
- Take up bird watching.
- Pick and press spring flowers.
- Foster a shelter animal.
- Collect rocks from outside and paint them.
- Bake a pie with fresh berries.
- Go outside after it rains and jump in puddles.
- Plant a tree for Earth Day.
- Make a DIY flower wreath or centerpiece.
Local
There are many great local activities and experiences you can have during the spring. If you’re looking for a way to break up your usual routine and try something new, having local “micro-adventures” is an awesome way to do it. These are some more ideas of things you can add to your seasonal bucket list for spring.
- Have a picnic in the park.
- Go see cherry blossoms or other spring blooms near you.
- Volunteer at a community garden.
- Attend afternoon tea.
- Go strawberry picking at a local farm.
- See spring flowers at a local botanical garden.
- Attend a May Day celebration.
- Go to the opening game for a baseball team.
- Buy fresh flowers to spruce up your home.
- Go for a scenic spring bike ride.
- Visit a butterfly garden.
- Buy fresh produce from a farmer’s market.
- Take a perfume-making workshop.
- Go for a spring hike.
- Volunteer for Earth Day.
- Eat at a Mexican restaurant for Cinco de Mayo.
- Visit a nearby state park or national park.
- Take a sunrise yoga class.
- Go skip rocks at a pond or lake.
- Check out an outdoor art or craft fair.
- Attend a community Easter egg hunt.
- Shop for secondhand goods at a flea market.
- Play a game of croquet.
- Visit a wildlife sanctuary.
- Take a guided foraging walk to find edible plants.
- Attend a local Spring Lantern Festival.
- Try outdoor rock climbing or bouldering.
- Check out a rooftop restaurant or bar as the weather warms up.
- Join a community clean-up event.
- Go to a food truck festival.
Travel
If you have cabin fever from a winter stuck at home, check out these great travel ideas for your spring bucket list. Spring is an excellent time to travel, and you can usually save money in popular destinations by avoiding the peak summer seasons. These are the best worldwide destinations to visit this spring.
- See the cherry blossoms in Washington, DC.
- Visit Keukenhof in the Netherlands to see the tulips.
- Celebrate Holi in India in March.
- Take a spring break road trip to the beach.
- See baby sea turtles hatch in Costa Rica.
- Travel to Seville, Spain for Semana Santa.
- Visit Giverny, France to see Monet’s gardens in bloom.
- Take a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey.
- See blooming bluebells in the UK.
- Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin, Ireland.
- See the sakura blossoms in Japan.
- Celebrate Songkran, Thailand’s national water fight in April.
- Visit dreamy Bora Bora.
- Celebrate King’s Day in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April.
- Experience the Coachella music festival in California in April.
- See the Chicago River dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day.
- Travel to Holland, Michigan for Tulip Time.
- Experience the glamor of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France in May.
- Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe/Zambia in the peak spring season.
- Wander through Kew Gardens in London.
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Puebla, Mexico.
- Explore Morocco in the milder weather of spring.
- Attend the Las Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain.
- Go to Mount Vernon, Washington for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.
- Visit Machu Picchu, Peru in April or May for great weather.
- Experience a superbloom in California’s Death Valley National Park.
- Trek the Great Wall of China.
- Beat the summer crowds by visiting popular European destinations early.
- Visit the island of Madeira for the spring Flower Festival.
- Experience Guatemala’s colorful Semana Santa celebrations.
Spring Bucket List Ideas
This guide showed you the best spring bucket list ideas.
I love spring, and I think it’s such an exciting, fun time of year. Even though I’m older now, I always associate spring with the excitement of spring break at school, and after that, it was practically summer!
Creating a spring bucket list is a great way to make this time of year more exciting, and to take advantage of seasonal activities and experiences, whether at home, locally, or traveling abroad.
Now get out there and spring into spring with these ideas!
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