Watch films in the living room, cuddled up with a blanket and a bucket of popcorn. Or even better, in the backyard with a blanket on the grass with lots of snacks. Movie recommendations, from yours truly: Momma Mia!, The Hot Chick, or even get nostalgic with Grease and Footloose.
2. Work on some Hobbies
An at-home garden will produce better vegetables and herbs for your health. But also save you some of your money too for those fun activities. It is also better for the environment; the greens will go from your backyard to your table instantly.
Read all those chapter books you never read alongside those textbooks from school. Read out of fun and pleasure, and no rush to finish the chapter the night before a class quiz.
3. Working Out Outdoors
Your endorphins will increase being outside because your body soaks up that Vitamin D. Enjoying the positive rush of yoga in the sun will bring the happy hormones out of you. Meditate in the park too, your senses will be more alert and alive.
Vitamin D is key! Yes, that tan is of the utmost importance in the Summer but can reap benefits in mental health and your body's health. Absorbing those natural vitamins can help regulate mood and reduce health risks.
4. Take a Break
Use that PTO that has been sitting there and get paid a little while you take that fun trip to a new city, or a beach vacation.
National Park Visits can allow for hiking and walks to help stimulate outdoor activities, better mental health, and give amazing views and memories to last. The most serene and beautifully free view one could ask for.
Take a Day Trip to a place you never had the time to go to, see what there is to visit locally to change up some scenery.
See your family now that the days are longer and weather nicer to venture out in.
5. Mental Health Activities
WIFI Free Weekends are just as important, look up from that phone sometimes. Stop scrolling endlessly away your Summer fun. Get off Netflix and hike in nature.
Nap and sleep in on those summer days to catch up on some ZZZ’s. You will thank yourself later when you can think straight and not be so tired.
6. Food Activities
Try new recipes with those home-grown herbs and vegetables, learn some new skills in the kitchen.
Try new ice cream flavors, go to the frozen aisle of your local grocery store. Even visit that local ice cream shop on the corner with every flavor imaginable. Homemade ice cream can be a fun activity to learn but it will give you a nice cold dessert to have too.
Have that slushie from the theater or from the local shoppe when something cold will remedy those hot Summer days.
