Community Ideas

The hardest part of the poster is deciding what to fill the month with. It is easier when you see how others did it: somebody’s “Month of Water”, somebody’s “Month Without Screens”, somebody’s storylines for four. Any season here can be opened and forked for your own family.

Ideas month by month:SeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuaryFebruary

• Board Game MonthWhich game stayed in the family for good?Week 1 Classics: everything we used to playWeek 2 A new one: we pick it and learn the rulesWeek 3 Friends over: playing with a big crowdWeek 4 Teaching grandma: explain it all and playFind a game worth playing again and get everyone we can around the table.
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• Italian Kitchen MonthWhat of all we cooked will we cook again with no occasion?Week 1 Baking pizza ourselves, dough set at nightWeek 2 Out to the best Italian place in townWeek 3 Pasta week: three sauces, three shapesWeek 4 A cookery class: cooking under a chefLearn to cook Italian at home instead of ordering it.
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• Winter Fun MonthWhat turned out to be the best fun of this winter?Week 1 Skates: onto the ice, the whole familyWeek 2 Sledges: hunting the best hill aroundWeek 3 A snow fort in the yard, the whole yardWeek 4 Fireworks on New Year's night — off we goSpend December outside, not at the window: ice, hill, fort and fireworks.
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• Month About OurselvesWhat came as news about ourselves?Week 1 Meditation every evening: ten quiet minutesWeek 2 Thanks out loud: every evening, round we goWeek 3 The wheel of life: scoring eight parts of itWeek 4 A retreat at home: two days off the screensSpend the month paying attention: silence, notes, the wheel and two days offline.
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• Spider-Man MonthWhose Spider-Man turned out to be ours?Week 1 Tobey Maguire: three films, evening by eveningWeek 2 Andrew Garfield: both parts over a weekendWeek 3 Tom Holland: two parts on weeknightsWeek 4 Tom Holland: the finale with all threeWatch every Spider-Man film and pick the one that is ours.
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• Year in a BoxWhat was the hardest thing to put in the box?Week 1 Watching last year: every photo in one eveningWeek 2 Letters to ourselves — open on 31 DecemberWeek 3 A hundred things for the year, each our ownWeek 4 The photo we will take again next JanuaryLeave ourselves a letter, a list and a photo — and open the box on 31 December.
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• Taking Care of UsWhat should have been done long ago?Week 1 Barber and hairdresser: style, not lengthWeek 2 Massage: both of us booked on the same dayWeek 3 A whole day at the spa: phones in the lockerWeek 4 The doctor, not the spa: the tests we put offCome first for once, not last: the barber, the massage, the spa and the doctor.
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• Book MonthWhose book turned out better — his or hers?Week 1 Swapping books: each picks for the otherWeek 2 The reading club: we go and see if it is oursWeek 3 A swap shelf in the hallway, for neighboursWeek 4 Talking it over: did we agree or notRead what the other chose, get to the club and put a shelf up in the hallway.
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• Spooky MonthWhat came out scarier — the show, the game or our own face paint?Week 1 Decorating the flat: cobwebs, pumpkins, lightsWeek 2 Watching Wednesday — an episode an eveningWeek 3 Playing Reanimal, taking turnsWeek 4 Scary face paint: a costume rehearsalDecorate the house, invent our face paint and turn up at the school Halloween.
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• Month of HelpingWhat do we want to keep doing?Week 1 The shelter: how to help other than moneyWeek 2 Collecting food: asking the class and neighboursWeek 3 Sorting clothes and taking them to charityWeek 4 Sitting down together: what each of us feltHelp with hands and time rather than a transfer — and see what was ours.
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Families put the seasons here themselves — with the megaphone button on their own season. We show a random set every time: that way a new one has a chance to catch your eye instead of drowning under the ones already visible. If you see an ad, rudeness or someone else’s personal data, press the flag: we take such seasons off the showcase.