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COMMUNITY-BASED IDEAS

During Covid-19 Safety Precautions:  Mentoring will be done virtually via telephone, smart phone, social platforms, and/or video conferencing solutions (Zoom, Skype, Facetime, Duo, etc.).  Some activities in the 101 Things list below can still be done virtually.  However, here are additional resources to help you in finding activities you can still do with your mentee: Conversation Starters,  Easy Crafts (you can mail supplies to your Little and then you can do them at the same time virtually), you can color together virtually using these Coloring Pages, have a virtual book club - here's a great book list by age, or visit a museum or zoo online!  You can even play games online together, listen to a podcast, or do these fun indoor activities together, virtually.

101 Things to Do with Your Mentee!

Attend a Home Depot workshop
Attend a craft fair
Attend a theatre performance
Bake a pizza and your favorite cookie recipe
Build Lego and a model (house, car, boat, etc.)
Catch butterflies, find insects
Decorate your Christmas tree and take down lights and ornaments together
Try to create jigsaw puzzle and play with your Little/mentee
Do landscaping and gardening together
Draw pictures and color together
Do some painting – a fence, a picture, a face
Do some woodwork and build a bird’s house, bird’s feeder and a box
Do arts and crafts
Attend a parade together and cheer for your favorite float
Try something your Little/mentee has never tried or a food she/he has never tasted
Get a book from the library on science experiments or crafts
Get your Little/mentee to direct you to your destination by using a map
Go bowling together
Go cheer Little/mentee at one of his/her sporting events
Go fishing (learn how to tie flies)
Go for a hike
Go watch a hockey games 
Go horseback riding
Go see the mentor’s worksite
Go skating at different rinks, both indoor and outdoor
Go to a flea market or farmers market
Go to a musical concert or play
Go to recreation parks 
Visit the museums in Jacksonville 
Go to the Imax theatre in World Golf Village
Go to the library and read about a favorite subject
Go to the YMCA
Go ride go-karts
Go biking with your little
Go swimming
Have a barbecue
Play in our recreation area in the basement of the office
Have a garage sale
Help your Little/mentee with his/her science project
Help Mentor with a project around his/her house
Keep a journal of your activities
Learn about astronomy together
Learn to play a musical instrument together
Learn to take pictures and make a photo album together
Listen to music and try to create your own song
Make a gift or card for someone special
Make a sailboat and sail it in a creek
Make paper snowflakes
Make jewelry out of beads
Make a kite or go fly a kite
Make paper-mache
Make your own gift wrap or gift bag
Make a scrap book together
Mow the lawn/rake the lawn
Paint some ceramics or pottery
Plan a picnic in a park
Plan and make dinner together
Plant a tree together
Play “hang man” or “I Spy” with your Little/ mentee when you’re in the car
Play cards (crazy eights, go-fish)
Play video or computer games
Play mini golf or go to the driving range
Play games together (ping pong, soccer, tennis, road hockey, basketball, etc)
Read the newspaper headlines and have your Little/mentee guess the story
Read the paper and attend festivals
Rent a movie and make lots of popcorn
See a play together
Take a drive to your favorite part of town
Take an art class together
Take a tour of the Christmas Lights around town 
Tell good stories of when you were their age
Tour a police station
Visit a greenhouse
Tour a fire station
Try sailing
Visit a farm
Visit a pet store
Visit the zoo
Watch the boats go through the Bridge of Lions
Visit a Senior Center
Volunteer your time together
Walk or wash the dog
Walk through the Flagler College campus
Wash a car together
Write and perform your own play and video tape it
Write your song and sing together in the car
Write a good story together
Visit the Flea Market
Visit the Butterfield Art Gallery
Visit the Castillo de San Marcos downtown St. Augustine
Visit the art galleries downtown St. Augustine

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  • Home
    • What is BBBS?
    • Our Team
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      • Community-Based Ideas
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  • E-Logs
  • Volunteer
    • Become a Big!
  • Contact Us
  • Support Us!
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    • FUND POTENTIAL
    • Volunteer Today!
    • Support Us!
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  • Tips for Kids Sake
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  • J.E.D.I