100 Things to Do in Winter That Will Sweeten the Cold Season

With these 100 things to do in winter, you’ll enjoy the next 3 months to the fullest!

Winter is the most underrated season of all, yet it has so much to offer!

If you think there is a lack of fun, exciting, thrilling, enthusiastic, anticipatory and all-round great winter activities, you are sadly mistaken. Now begins a time of winter feel-good delights!

There is such an abundance of beautiful things to do in winter that we don’t even know how to do all the great winter activities: From the countless ways to get really cosy at home in winter, to sports, fun and action in the ice and snow, to the many opportunities you have now to finally learn, see, do what you put off doing in summer because of the good weather.

How many of these 100 things to do in winter can you tick off until the beginning of spring? Challenge’s on! 😉

100 Fun Things to Do in Winter You Should Try

Finally time to fold some origami unicorns again…

1. Cosily reading an exciting book on the couch while it is snowing, hailing, raining or storming outside
2. Drinking hot cocoa with marshmallows and listening to a good radio play
3. Starting a diary
4. Compose handwritten letters to people you haven’t seen in a long time
5. Bingewatch a series all day once
6. Invite friends to the home cinema with your favourite film
7. Cook a themed dinner with friends
8. Have an extended game night with friends (with board games, card games, etc.)
9. Organise a multiplayer gaming evening with friends, e.g. with Wii / Nintendo Switch
10. Try out new types of tea
11. Create your own tea blend
12. Make your own mulled wine with friends
13. … or call a mulled wine tasting for which everyone brings their own homemade
14. Make Feuerzangenbowle and watch the film The Feuerzangenbowle* to go with it
15. Try out new soup recipes
16. Have a blind tasting soup contest with your friends
17. Taking a hot bath by candlelight
18. …. and repeat this again for two 😉
19. Go into the steam sauna
20. Eat hot chestnuts
21. Knitting a hat or a scarf
22. … or crochet
23. Building a cushion castle with children
24. … and then have a pillow fight
25. Take a walk through the city in the freshly fallen snow
26. Walk with your loved one through a snow-covered forest
27. Take a winter night hike with grog or mulled wine in your luggage and a companion
28. Build a snowman
29. Be a kid again and have a snowball fight
30. Build an igloo, maybe even join a real igloo workshop
31. Ski or finally learn to ski
32. Snowboard or finally learn to do that
33. Skate or finally learn to do that 😀
34. Go tobogganing at the nearest hill
35. Go on a winter photo safari through your neighbourhood
36. Looking for the biggest and most beautiful icicle
37. Go to a tropical house and fill up on a bit of summer
38. Browse through an atlas and travel the world in your mind
39. Plan your next trip
40. Looking at old photo albums or slides from your childhood with your family, partner or best friend
41. Make origami animals
42. Paint, draw or make a collage of a picture
43. Learn something new you’ve always wanted to know how to do, e.g. a language, a craft, an instrument, etc.
44. Sign up at the gym and get fit for spring
45. Take a course there in a sport that is new to you
46. Take a yoga or meditation class
47. Think of a nice gift for your loved one for Valentine’s Day
48. Take part in a carnival parade
49. Go spring shopping with your best friend
50. Taking our museum rally with friends
51. Get involved in a charitable cause, e.g. serving food to the homeless, visiting lonely people in old people’s homes
52. Beautify and redecorate your home
53. Finally clear out old stuff and enjoy the feeling of liberation
54. Visit an indoor flea market
55. Browse for good books at the public library
56. Spend a weekend in another city (preferably where there is snow but the sun is shining)
57. Gather friends for the next pub quiz near you and take the trophy (or at least a few rounds of great fun ;-))
58. Meet up with a good mate(s) from the old days
59. … and really let it rip at the club
60. Take part in a tasting of your favourite drink (wine, beer, whiskey, gin, or even coffee) with your partner or friends
61. Surprise someone spontaneously and without an occasion with cinema, theatre or concert tickets
62. Just laze around for a whole day and do nothing, goar nix, as the Bavarians say
63. Spend a day with your partner in a wellness oasis / thermal bath
64. Treat yourself to an extensive couple’s massage together with your partner
65. Go to a café with your partner or friends and try out the selection of cakes
66. Bake a cake yourself again for once
67. Work off your energy in the climbing hall
68. Race with friends on the go-kart track
69. Go black-light mini-golfing (also great with kids!)
70. Solve tricky riddles with friends in a Live Escape Game
71. … or battle it out at Laser Tag
72. Forget about counting calories at the all-you-can-eat buffet (after all, you’re allowed to do that in winter)
73. Go to an interesting trade fair
74. As a special winter event, take your partner, family or friends on a husky sleigh ride or even a husky workshop
75. Take a trip to the highest point in your neighbourhood (e.g. the Berlin TV tower, Cologne Cathedral, a mountain, etc.) and enjoy the view.
76. Visit a zoo in winter and watch animals in the snow
77. Keep a dream diary
78. Learn lucid dreaming
79. Visit an animal shelter and choose a pet
80. Look after a friend’s dog or take it out for a walk
81. Going to the indoor swimming pool with the whole family or friends
82. Go to a play with the craziest title that is playing in your neighbourhood
83. Throw a cool theme party for your friends
84. Make hour-long phone calls to friends and relatives you haven’t seen in a while
85. For the really tough: ice swimming – it keeps the circulation going!
86. Or take a course in ice diving
87. Get the garden ready for spring
88. Get new houseplants to have even more greenery around you
89. Listen to music with friends for hours, drink wine and philosophise about God and the world.
90. Experience your sense of taste in a whole new way at a dark dinner
91. Invite your friends to watch a crime scene and try to guess the murderer together
92. Watch a football match in the stadium
93. Go to a concert of your favourite band
94. Go to the casino with friends
95. Spend a romantic evening with your sweetheart
96. Go to the opera or ballet
97. Surprise your partner with an erotic massage
98. Shoot a funny home video with your smartphone or a camera and edit it into a film.
99. Zapping through the TV with friends and having a laugh
100. Colouring in mandalas

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