Opt Outside

December 1, 2021 9:58 AM

Outdoor Advent Calendar from 1000 Hours Outside. Includes cold and warm weather activities such as 20 minute bird count, holiday decorations walk, red & green picnic dinner, and hot cocoa hike. Happy December!
posted by carolr (5 comments total)

These may be quite interesting to adapt to apartment life or places that typically don't get nice snow.

I think that adapting this concept to whatever your life's like will be just as enjoyable as an overall concept.
posted by mightshould at 11:12 AM on December 1, 2021

My library did something like this last year, with activities evenly divided split among local outdoor activities and accessing the library's online resources (b/c of Covid limiting in-person accessibility). I learned a lot about neat digital resources that I now access all the time. Usually when you finish their winter reading challenge or local engagement challenge, you get to pick a book from the sale rack or you get a grocery tote or something.

But last year, if you completed every square on the winter challenge calendar? YOU GOT A TOQUE WITH THE LIBRARY'S LOGO ON IT.

Friends, I have never hiked so enthusiastically in my entire life.

I am not an outdoor person. But for a winter hat WITH THE LIBRARY'S LOGO? I hiked my butt off.

(Totally worth it, everybody's jealous of my library hat when I wear it.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 11:29 AM on December 1, 2021 [10 favorites]

A TOQUE WITH THE LIBRARY'S LOGO ON IT

Today I learned that the word “toque” does not exclusively refer to an enormous chef’s hat.

It was a fun visual while it lasted, though.
posted by delight at 11:47 AM on December 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

A TOQUE WITH THE LIBRARY'S LOGO ON IT

Today I learned that the word “toque” does not exclusively refer to an enormous chef’s hat.

It was a fun visual while it lasted, though.
posted by delight at 2:47 PM on December 1

As someone who calls those hats toboggans, I'm just glad not to be the source of confusion for once.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 12:15 PM on December 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

mightshould -- there seems to be an entire second calendar (scroll down the page) made for warm weather!
posted by amtho at 3:11 PM on December 1, 2021