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

• Harvest MonthWhich of these will become our autumn habit?Week 1 Off to grandma's — bringing in the cropWeek 2 Pickling cucumbers and tomatoes, jars sealedWeek 3 Making jam and labelling the jarsWeek 4 Laying the table and inviting guestsMake something with our own hands that lasts into winter.
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• Culture MonthWhat of all we saw did we want to see again?Week 1 The theatre — a play, the whole familyWeek 2 Ballet: the first time in our livesWeek 3 A concert: the philharmonic or an organWeek 4 Playing it ourselves: guitar and pianoGo where we never go, and play something of our own at the end of the month.
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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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• Forest MonthWhat in the woods turned out not to be what we thought?Week 1 A herbarium: a leaf from every treeWeek 2 Mushrooms, a basket and a field guideWeek 3 Campfire, baked potatoes and sausagesWeek 4 Back to where we started — what changedGet to the woods every week and come back to where we started.
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• Know Your CityWhat did we see in our own city for the first time?Week 1 A museum we have never once walked intoWeek 2 An unfamiliar district: pick one, walk itWeek 3 The blank spots near home — walk to themWeek 4 A tour of the local ice-cream factoryGo where we have never been and see our own city the way visitors do.
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• Eco MonthWhat we gave away — who needed it more than we did?Week 1 Clearing cupboards: give away, not throw outWeek 2 Litter-picking in the park next doorWeek 3 A book swap shelf in our hallwayWeek 4 Finding the city's eco volunteers, joining inGive it away rather than bin it — and find who else is doing this.
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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.