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SITE-BASED IDEAS

Here are additional resources to help you in finding activities you can do with your mentee: Conversation Starters,  Easy Crafts, you can color together  using these Coloring Pages, have a book club - here's a great book list by age, or visit a museum or zoo in person or online!  

101 Things to Do with Your Mentee!

Build a model
Make paper snowflakes
Draw pictures of each other
Make finger puppets
Create a cartoon character
Play wall ball
Have races in the gym
Learn how to play new sports (volleyball, tennis, badminton)
Read a comic book
Do research about a culture and try a traditional food
Make a kite
Do a jigsaw puzzle
Research a favorite animal or dinosaur in the library
Learn to play a musical instrument
Conduct a science experiment
Learn about astronomy
Do a good deed at the school (help the caretaker or librarian during the visit)
Learn a magic trick
Learn to take pictures and make a photo album
Play a board game
Plan a picnic
Create a crossword puzzle or word search together
Color a picture
Listen to music
Learn how to do a dance (chicken dance, line dance, Macarena)
Build a bird house
Try finger painting
Draw pictures with your eyes closed
Play cats cradle
Make a gingerbread house
Ask the child to teach you something they know
Make a mini skateboard park out of cardboard
Plant seeds in a flower pot and see if they grow
Play memory using a deck of cards
Find out why we celebrate a holiday
Write a poem
Make masks
Make a shoe box house with miniature furniture
Make friendship bracelets
Read newspaper articles about a favorite sports team or athlete
Make a card for someone you care about
Play catch
Read a joke book
Have “show and tell” – each of you bring something special 
from home and discuss its importance to you
Make paper airplanes and race them outside (or in the gym)
Make bubbles and blow them outside
Plan a party for one of your visits to celebrate your friendship
Make up new rules to an old board game and write them down
Play cards
Choose a place on a map and learn about it
Make bead animals
Write a story or play together
Fly a kite
Create an obstacle course in the gym – see who can run it fastest
Try a needlepoint project
Have a scavenger hunt in the library
Create a calendar and note special dates
Create a play using finger puppets
Take turns reading a book to each other
Make a gift for someone special
Ask each other trivia questions
Play in the play ground
Design your own board game
Keep a journal of your activities
Act out a nursery rhyme or children’s story (Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood)
Find out what your Mentee wants to be when they grow up and research information about the occupation and what skills they need to do it
Read the newspaper headlines and have your little guess the story
Play “hangman” or “I spy”
Make a snowman
Cut body parts from magazines and glue them together on another paper to make funny creatures
Learn how to count money (play Monoploy)
Create a secret code and write coded messages to each other
Read the Dr. Seuss book “Wacky Wednesday” and plan your own “Wacky Wednesday”
Make your own play dough
See how long you can keep a ball in the air (balloon, beach ball, volleyball)
Play marbles
Try a paint by numbers
Learn to play chess
Play hopscotch
Make a piñata and then ask the teacher if the class can break it
Write a letter to a favorite famous person
See how tall you can make a Lego creation before it falls over
Make a bug house and catch bugs in the play ground
Cut pictures from magazines and create an “all about me” collage
Learn how to set a table and about table manners – then practice by planning to eat lunch together during your visit
Make bead necklaces
Make paper origami
Write down everything that you and your Mentee like about each other and then share
Make up your own words to a favorite song
Decorate Easter eggs
Learn how to juggle
Read Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory while drinking hot chocolate
Make a pet rock
Write your own “knock knock” jokes
Make a bookmark
Make sock puppets
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  • Home
    • What is BBBS?
    • Our Team
  • GIVE
  • Our Programs
    • Site-Based
    • Community-Based
    • Activity Ideas >
      • Community-Based Ideas
      • Site-Based Ideas
  • Enroll a Child
  • E-Logs
  • Volunteer
    • Become a Big!
  • Contact Us
  • Support Us!
    • Resources
    • FUND POTENTIAL
    • Volunteer Today!
    • Support Us!
    • Partner with Us!
  • BBBS License Plates!
  • Tips for Kids Sake
  • BBBS GOLF TOURNAMENT
  • J.E.D.I