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

• 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 GuestsWho do we want to see again?Week 1 The son's classmates come roundWeek 2 Off to grandma and grandpa, long overdueWeek 3 Rounding up the coursemates we lostWeek 4 Getting to know the neighboursOpen the door four times: the children, the family, old friends, the neighbours.
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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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• Presents for EveryoneWhich present was the best one to give away?Week 1 Making family cards for every relativeWeek 2 A secret Santa inside the familyWeek 3 The wish tree: a stranger child's letterWeek 4 Thanking the cleaner, the porter, the doctorMake the presents by hand and give them to more than our own.
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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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.