The Ultimate Spring Bucket List: 30 Little Joys to Welcome the Season
There is something magical about Spring, as the days become lighter, and the world seems to start growing again around us, it can really feel like everything (including ourselves) is coming back to life.
So if you are looking for some fun, simple, or different ways to welcome this new season, I have put together 30 little joys to help you welcome Spring.
You don’t have to complete them all, or even most of them; the idea is to pick a few on the days you feel like celebrating the season, or on those days when you need a reminder that brighter days are ahead.
Getting Outside Again
- Go on a blossom walk and notice the trees starting to bloom
- Visit a local park and take in the signs of new life
- Sit in your garden with your morning tea or coffee
- Take a slow walk somewhere green
- Watch the sunset
- Wander around a garden centre (even if you don’t buy anything)
- Look out for daffodils, tulips, or bluebells
- Have your first picnic of the year
- Open your windows and let fresh air fill your home
- Sit by water, a lake, a canal, or even a pond
Cosy Spring Reset at Home
- Do a gentle spring clean (even just one drawer counts)
- Swap heavy blankets for lighter, brighter ones
- Add a fresh scent to your home: candles, sprays, or diffusers
- Wash your bedding and enjoy that fresh-bed feeling
- Rearrange a small corner of your space
- Bring home some flowers (supermarket ones count!)
- Tackle one “doom pile” you’ve been avoiding
- Start a small herb pot or houseplant
- Let natural light take over, open curtains wide
- Switch to a lighter, more uplifting playlist
Little Seasonal Joys
- Try something fresh and seasonal to eat
- Bake or cook something simple and spring-inspired
- Treat yourself to something small, just because
- Do something a little Easter-themed (yes, even as an adult)
- Visit a farm or spot baby animals if you can
- Browse a local market or spring fair
- Spend a bank holiday doing absolutely nothing
- Take photos of small signs of spring around you
- Start something new; even if it’s tiny
- Let yourself believe things might be getting a little better
A Gentle Reminder
You don’t have to tick everything off this list; you don’t even have to do many of them, as, after all, spring isn’t about doing more, it’s about noticing more.
Remember, even the smallest moment of sunshine on your face or a fresh breeze through the window as you sit with a cup of tea counts, and sometimes, that’s more than enough.
What would be at the top of your Spring bucket list?
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Looking forward to getting my flower beds ready for summer planting
top of my spring bucket list is hitting the gym and getting summer holiday ready
Top of my spring bucket list is definitely sitting in my garden with a cuppa. It doesn’t have to be early morning, any time of day if the sun is shining and there’s fresh green shoots on the trees and some bright spring flowers. My happy place.
To get my stairway decorated and a new carpet
Decluttering is at the top of my Spring bucket list.
To tidy up the garage and plant some vegetables
sowing seeds for the seasons ahead, both food and flowers!
I’ve planted up window boxes to the front of my cottage and planted a lavender plant for the bees in my back garden.
Attempt to get our garden sorted and buy some new plants
Do some 10k runs and use the warmer weather to get out more, go for walks and runs.
Top of my Spring bucket list is a few more dry sunny days so that I can really get to work in the garden
Sort out the garden with new garden furniture
getting some seeds planted to grow my own food. Spring is such an exciting time!
Getting the garden looking tidy and ready for the summer
To go for a cold water wild swim in a river or the sea.
Delivering lambs! I’ve seen them being born but I would love to deliver one (or 2, or 3…) myself one day
I love a Spring reset. I think it’s the only time of year when the urge to tidy and titivate is so strong. I love throw open all the windows and let the fresh air indoors.
Lego Hamster? What an ace prize. The kids would love it.
Top of my spring bucket list would be opening the windows and letting the fresh air fill my home (whilst trying not to let the pollen in!).
Top of my spring bucket list is getting out in the garden and enjoying some good weather.
My Spring bucket list is to get away to the sun for a relaxing break.
Great list! Now the weather is improving, I can’t wait to go out for a picnic.
I’ve planted some tomato seeds, so fingers crossed that they do well. Going to plant some runner beans and courgettes too.
I love looking for sea glass when the weather is milder!
I love a spring clean. You can see the dust when it starts getting sunny all the time so best to get it done!
Fun prize thank you, never have too much Lego !
I’ve already started on cleaning. So prob after that the garden
spring clean In the middle doing the kitchen cupboards
Watching the bees pollinate the flowers in the garden while sitting down in the sun.
A gentle spring clean 🙂
A relaxing two night break with my husband with lots of country walks and good food.
Enjoying the sunny spring weather and nature outside.
Getting outside again – especially with the clocks about to go forward and the days getting warmer
Ideally a warm and sunny spring with dry spells so I can spend time outdoors
going on a farm visit with the children to see the lambs xx
I need to spend some time listing clothes that I no longer want on eBay. The sorting out has been done, so I just need to sell them and make some room.
Sorting out my potting shed ready for my flower seedlings x
Getting out to the coast for fish & chips and a walk along the beach
Enjoying time outside with my family as the weather gets nicer!
Get myself sorted and start the long postponed Ebay blitz!
Sort out my wardrobes
I love looking at the garden after the first weed, it always reminds me summer is on the way
Getting down to the local beach for a bracing walk
Getting out and tidying the garden is a must really!
I like to stroll around the neighbourhood looking at the spring flowers
Family fishing on Brighton beach is top of my list
a new garden shed
Time to start cutting the grass. Have already started garden tidying.