Nostalgia Diaries Pop Quiz! The air is getting warmer, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining brighter, flowers are blooming everywhere… What season is it?
It’s Spring!
Since the emergence of Spring brings all kinds of opportunities to channel your inner child, we decided to round up 50 Nostalgic Spring Activities to share with you for Throwback Thursday today.
Because who wouldn’t want to relive those fun, easy-going childhood times filled with picnicking and kite flying and flower picking and puddle jumping and bubble blowing?
We’ve even compiled these 50 Nostalgic Spring Activities into a FREE download (complete with check boxes!) for you to print out and slap up on your fridge. Maybe by the end of Spring you’ll be able to check off all these activities — and if not, well, hey, at least you had fun trying!
So what are you waiting for? Grab the kids or a loved one or a friend — or even just yourself! –and get busy celebrating Spring. We think these are perfect ways to make some memories today that you’ll remember tomorrow.
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1. Go on a picnic
2. Fly a kite
3. Plant seeds
4. Play on a playground
5. Lay in the grass
6. Bird watch
7. Search for four-leaf clovers
8. Splash in puddles
9. Go on a scavenger hunt
10. Build a birdhouse
11. Wear flowers in your hair
12. Twirl in a field
13. Get ice cream
14. Take a bike ride
15. Play hide and seek
16. Climb a tree
17. Blow bubbles
18. Try to catch a butterfly
19. Enjoy a sunrise
20. Watch a sunset
21. Catch raindrops on your tongue
22. Star gaze
23. Look for a rainbow after it rains
24. Go to a park
25. Eat a Popsicle
26. Play hopscotch
27. Take a hike
28. Jump rope
29. Have a tea party
30. Hunt for caterpillars
31. Make a wish on a dandelion
32. Read on a rainy day
33. Go to a drive-in movie
34. Pick wildflowers
35. Play in a fountain
36. Make a pet rock
37. Make shapes out of clouds
38. Play Frisbee
39. Make a bird feeder
40. Draw with sidewalk chalk
41. Make a spring music playlist
42. Build a fairy garden
43. Play leap frog
44. Skip stones
45. Buy a fun umbrella
46. Have a barbecue
47. Play miniature golf
48. Press flowers in a book
49. Take a day trip
50. Make s’mores
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Let us know: What are some of your favorite springtime activities?
At the The Nostalgia Diaries, our goal is to help you simplify, enhance, and engage your lives by focusing on the most important things: remembering, appreciating, believing, and becoming. It’s all about celebrating the past to create better days today.
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I love all of these simple, memory making ideas! I think this list will help ease those long summer days with ‘nothing’ to do! Visiting you from Blogging with Heart!
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I was just thinking that I need to get my little guy some bubbles!!! And yes yes yes to twirling in field. 🙂
Twirling with bubbles!
goooood stuff! 🙂
Thank you!
I love this list! I am so excited for Spring weather to finally be here so we can enjoy being outside!
Yes! So nice to be able to be outside more! Glad you liked the list!
Great list! It is always helpful to have a go to list for ideas!
I love making lists to check off. I like to see all that I have accomplished! 🙂
So fun! This list makes me want to grab my kids right now and run outside! Thanks!
Right!? Grab those kiddos and get out there! 🙂
These are such great tips! I’ll be saving this; hoping we can do some of these this spring!
Belle | One Awesome Momma
I hope you are able to do a lot of them this spring. And if not in the spring, then summer!
Great list. There are a lot of activities that I have never done, so who knows maybe I can try some of these out this year. Thanks for sharing this 😊
Always great to try new activities. Who knows what you will love doing!
Great list! We will definitely be doing many of these. So happy that Spring is finally here!
Yay spring!!!
I was just thinking the other day that it has been WAY too long since I last flew a kite!
Right? I see them in the parks and think about the simple nostalgia of flying a kite. Time to visit a kite store I think!
Track and Field Day! 🙂 That was always my favorite day at school. It meant the end had arrived!
Yes! One of the best days of the year as a kid.
We have not been to get ice cream yet, but it is definitely on my list!
What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? I could go for cookies and cream!
Laying on the grass, getting ice cream, and going to a drive in movie or on the top of my list!
All fabulous things to do! Haven’t been to a drive in movie in almost 15 years!
Love these ideas! Always helps to have a list to choose from rather than trying to pull things from no where.
I agree! I hope the list helps you accomplish some of these fun activities this spring!
These are so much fun! I definitely want to make sure I do as many of these as possible with my daughter!
Lots of great memories to be made!
Such a great list! My kids would love this
I hope you can do as many as possible this spring!!
I love this list! It does make me nostalgic for my childhood. I would love to do every item with my daughter and I know I will probably have even more fun! It would be really fun to a picture journal to accompany each activity.
LOVE the picture journal idea!
I am going to make a birdhouse with my son!! So much fun- great idea.
There’s something very nostalgic about birdhouses…. have fun making awesome memories!!
I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to go to a drive in movie! They’re so much fun!
It’s been about 15 years since I’ve been to a drive in! Time to go again I think. 🙂
Love this list!
Thank you!
Love these ideas! Great post! 🙂
So glad you liked it! Thank you!
Love the list it brings back memories of when I was a kid.
Glad we could help bring back some memories!
Love everything nostalgic! Great post and great ideas!
Nostalgia is where it at! 🙂 Thanks for reading. Glad you enjoyed it!
So many great ideas here! We don’t have spring…4 seasons: warm, hot, hotter, and a little cool. 🙂 Many of the ideas we can do year round!
I think I would miss the changing seasons, but I DO like warm weather. I hate being cold.
My favorite spring activity is to find a place to hike, and snap pictures with my dSLR.
Hiking and picture taking are perfect spring activities!
I love this! We are so electronic/tech focused, that the things we did and enjoyed when we were younger are almost no longer.
I agree! That’s why we are here! To help people celebrate their past to help create better days today. 🙂 Electronics and tech have their place, but no reason why we cannot enjoy now some of the things we used to enjoy from our past! Thanks for reading!
I love this fun list! I always encourage my kids to go outside and play…like I used to do!
Yes! And hopefully you are able to go outside and play too!! 🙂
Yep. safe to say I love absolutely all of these things! < 3
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This list is just what I needed to get me motivated to do more with my little guy and for myself! Thanks!
Glad to help! 🙂
I love reading lists like this! I love that the spring weather is rolling in and with that more fun and outdoor activities!
-Stephanie | http://www.nudelipdiaries.com
Sooo happy it is spring, but the weatherman says snow this weekend… so back to wooly socks and hot chocolate for a least a day! 🙂
All of these are so fun to remember…flying a kite is one of my favorites!
Let’s go fly a kite!
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