Here are some ideas that your match can do here in Prince George. 

Traditional Program:

1. Attend a Home Depot workshop
2. Attend a craft fair
3. Attend a theatre performance
4. Bake a pizza and your favourite cookie
recipe
5. Build Lego and a model (house, car, boat, etc.)
6. Build a snow fort and make a snowman
7. Catch butterflies, find insects
8. Decorate your Christmas tree and take down lights and ornaments together
9. Try to create jigsaw puzzle and play with your little/mentee
10. Do landscaping  and gardening together
11. Draw pictures and color together
12. Do some painting – a fence, a picture, a face
13. Do some woodwork and build a bird’s house, bird’s feeder and a box
14. Do arts and craft
15. Take a nature hike at Forests for the World or Moores Medow
16. Find something your little/mentee has never tried or a food she/he has never tasted
17. Get a book from the library on science experiments or crafts
18. Get your little/mentee to direct you to your destination by using a map
19. Go Bowling
20. Go cheer Little/mentee at one of his/her games
21. Go downhill skiing – don’t forget your safety gear
22. Go fishing (learn how to tie flies)
23. Go for a hike in the mountains
24. Go watch a Cougars, Spruce Kings or Timberwolves Game
25. Go feed horses at the Exhibition Park 
26. Go see the mentor’s worksite
27. Go skating at one of the ourdoor rinks
28. Go to a flea market or farmers market
29. Go to a musical concert or play
30. Go to recreation Parks > Fort George, Rainbow or one of the many schools
31. Go for a Drive and talk about new activities
32. Go to Famous Players
33. Go to the library and read about a favourite subject
34. Go to Two Rivers Art Gallery
35. Go ride go-karts at Park Drive In Theatre
36. Go biking with your little/mentee
37. Go swimming
38. Go tobogganing
39. Have a barbecue
40. Have a game of laser-tag at Outer Limits Laser Tag
41. Have a garage sale
42. Try some Wierd Science Projects
43. Help Mentor with a project around his/her house.
44. Keep a journal of your activities
45. Learn about astronomy together
46. Learn to play a musical instrument together
47. Learn to take pictures and make a photo album together
48. Listen to music and try to create your own song
49. Make a gift or card for someone special
50. Make a sailboat and sail it in a creek
51. Make paper snowflakes
52. Make jewelry out of beads
53. Make your kite or Fly a kite
54. Make paper-mache
55. Make your own gift wrap or gift bag
56. Make a scrap book together
57. Mow the lawn/rake the lawn
58. Paint some ceramics, pottery
59. Plan a picnic in a park
60. Plan and make dinner together
61. Plant a tree together and give it a nice name
62. Play “hang man” or “I Spy” with your little/ mentee when you’re in the car
63. Play cards (solitaire, lucky 13)
64. Play Nintendo or computer games
65. Go to the driving range at PGGCC or Alder Hills
66. Play games together (ping pong, soccer, tennis, road hockey, basketball, etc.
67. Read the newspaper headlines and have your Little/mentee guess the story.
68. Read the paper and attend free music festivals
69. Rent a movie and make lots of popcorn
70. See a play at the PG Playhouse
71. Go get Slurpees and hot dogs from 7-11 (Share a Little Magic Card)
72. Take a drive to your favourite part of town
73. Take a free  art class together
74. Take a Christmas lights tour around the town
75. Tell good stories of when you were their age
76. Tour a police station
77. Go window shopping at Pine Centre Mall, or Wal-Mart

78. Tour a fire station
79. Try cross-country skiing
80. Go to the Railway and Forestry Museum
81. Visit a Noahs Ark Adventureland
82. Visit a pet store
83. Visit  The Exploration Place
84. Go on a photo scavenger hunt
85 Volunteer your time together
86. Walk or wash the dog
87. Walk through the UNBC Campus
88. Wash a car together
89. Write and perform your own play and video tape it
90. Write your song and sing together in the car
91. Write a good story together
92. Watch or attend
an antique show
93 Visit the art gallery.
94. Make a Claymation movie
95. Go play in the snow
96. Have a camp out in your back yard
97. Shoot pool at Nicholson Billards
98. Make a gingerbread house
99. Show your little how to change a tire, or fluids in your car
100. Do something you have never done before!

In-School Mentoring Program:

1. Bake a pizza
2. Build a model
3. Make paper snowflakes
4. Draw pictures of each other
5. Make finger puppets
6. Create a cartoon character
7. Play wall ball
8. Have races in the gym
9. Learn how to play new sports (volleyball, tennis, badminton)
10. Read a comic book
11. Do research about a culture and try a traditional food
12. Make a paper-mache volcano and erupt it (outside)
13. Make a kite
14. Do a jigsaw puzzle
15. Research a favorite animal or dinosaur in the library
16. Learn to play a musical instrument
17. Conduct a science experiment
18. Learn about astronomy
19. Do a good deed at the school (help the custodianor librarian during one visit)
20. Learn a magic trick
21. Learn to take pictures and make a photo album
22. Play a board game
23. Plan a picnic
24. Create a crossword puzzle or word search together
25. Color a picture
26. Listen to music
27. Learn how to do a dance (chicken dance, line dance, Macarena)
28. Build a bird house
29. Try finger painting
30. Draw pictures with your eyes closed
31. Play cats cradle
32. Make a gingerbread house
33. Ask the child to teach you something they know
34. Make a mini skateboard park out of cardboard
35. Plant seeds in a flower pot and see if they grow
36. Play memory using a deck of cards
37. Find out why we celebrate a holiday
38. Write a poem
39. Make masks
40. Make a shoe box house with miniature furniture
41. Bake cookies together (Pillsbury frozen cookie dough works wonderfully)
42. Make friendship bracelets
43. Read newspaper articles about a favorite sports team or athlete
44. Make a card for someone you care about
45. Play catch
46. Read a joke book
47. Have “show and tell” – each of you bring something special from home and discuss its importance to you.
48. Make paper airplanes and race them outside (or in the gym)
49. Make bubbles and blow them outside
50. Plan a party for one of your visits to celebrate your friendship
51. Make up new rules to an old board game and write them down
52. Play cards
53. Chose a place on a map and learn about it
54. Make bead animals
55. Write a story or play together
56. Fly a kite
57. Create an obstacle course in the gym – see who can run it fastest
58. Try a needlepoint project
59. Have a scavenger hunt in the library
60. Create a calendar and note special dates
61. Create a play using finger puppets
62. Take turns reading a book to each other
63. Decorate cupcakes
64. Make a gift for someone special
65. Ask each other trivia questions
66. Play in the play ground
67. Design your own board game
68. Keep a journal of your activities
69. Act out a nursery rhyme or children’s story (Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood)
70. 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.
71. Read the newspaper headlines and have your little guess the story
72. Play “hangman” or “I spy”
73. Make a snowman
74. Cut body parts from magazines and glue them together on another paper to make funny creatures
75. Learn how to count money (play Monoploy)
76. Create a secret code and write coded messages to each other
77. Read the Dr. Seuss book “Wacky Wednesday” and plan your own “Wacky Wednesday”
78. Make your own play dough
79. See how long you can keep a ball in the air (balloon, beach ball, volleyball)
80. Play marbles
81. Try a paint by numbers
82. Create a treasure hunt map for your Mentee and hide a “buried treasure” where “X” marks the spot
83. Learn to play chess
84. Play hopscotch 
85. Make a piñata and then ask the teacher if the class can break it
86. Write a letter to a favorite famous person
87. See how tall you can make a Lego creation before it falls over
88. Make a bug house and catch bugs in the play ground
89. Cut pictures from magazines and create an “all about me” collage
90. Make sock puppets
91. Make bead necklaces
92. Make paper origami
93. Write down everything that you and your Mentee like about each other and then share
94. Make up your own words to a favorite song
95. Decorate Easter eggs
96. Learn how to juggle
97. Build a Gingerbread House
98. Make a pet rock
99. Write your own “knock knock” jokes
100. Have fun, and try something you have never done before

 

*List adapted from a list found on the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary's


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