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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