Week 1 Play Suggestions

Playing is being mindful.

Grab a partner and dos-e-doe pick, pick a suggestion and away you go……………

Invite others………..friends, co-workers, book club, your exercise group, walking/running/cycling/gym partner, spouse or Post the list of suggestions on a bulletin board along with the guidelines.

Week 1

1.      Visit a quilt store – check out the colours, textures, designs, & quilts on display.  You don’t have to purchase but take your time observing.

2.      Purchase bubbles.  Sit on your front step in the early morning to blow bubbles.  Sit at the back of your home to blow bubbles.  Sit in your vehicle in a parking lot to blow bubbles out the window.  (I love watching peoples’ reaction). Blow them spring, summer, fall & winter.

3.      In the spring, participate in Maple Sugar day.  Take note of the sounds, smells and savor the taste of the maple sugar.

4.      Find a church you haven’t visited before & enter to sit, taking note of the colour, texture, sounds & smells Respect their customs and try to understand a little more about their beliefs.

5.      Watch a cartoon or cartoons on a kid’s TV station.

6.      Escape to a matinee.  

7. Have a technology-free day.

8.      Write a poem.  Don’t get caught in the perfection of rhyme.  Write another poem using the starting line “Roses are Red/Violets are Blue…………finish it in a fun way.  Now do it again!

9. Go for a walk, and take your camera with you to document the experience.

10.   Snow is getting moist to make it the perfect time to build a fort…….then build a snowman behind the fort.  If the snow isn’t great for making snowballs……..then dig a tunnel.  Decorate the snowman in the traditional way with hat, scarf, use rocks or large buttons for the eyes, carrot, and buttons down the front.  Now add your own special touch to create Magic.  Maybe take a photo.  Love to see you photo. 

I Dare you, no Double Dare you to take time to Play.