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