BBBSMA Activities

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1	Fly kites on a windy day.
2	Have a picnic, each of you bring your favorite foods.
3	Play Frisbee.
4	Play a sport (football, basketball, tennis, soccer, golf, and catch).
5	Build and paint a birdhouse.
6	Get your poles and your bait and go fishing at Grand Lake.
7	Take an arts and crafts class at Home Depot.
8	In the library, do research on colleges, and help your Little fill out an application.
9	Bring two disposable cameras to your favorite place and each of you take photos. Develop and compare perspectives.
10	Go horseback riding.
11	Participate in a fun run or walk for a cause.
12	Take a walk together with a momento bag and collect interesting leaves, rocks or items that catch your interest.
13	Make a bug cage and catch bugs together.
14	Go on a camera scavenger hunt. Make a list of things you want a picture of before the hunt. Let him/her take the pictures.
15	Visit a farm and milk cows.
16	Go for a bike ride.
17	Tour the police department, the fire department or the courthouse.
18	Go to an airplane or military air show, or visit the Neil Armstrong Museum
19	Participate in a community service activity to show your Little the importance of giving back.
20	Meet the mayor and other city officials from your town.
21	Take a walk and learn the neighborhood. When you get back, draw a map.
22	Make a lemonade stand or a hot cocoa stand - learn basic business principles.
23	Try to find seven different types of trees, then try to identify them all.
24	Teach your Little about the different parts of a car.
25	Make a list of your interests and share it with each other.
26	Share your own life experiences.
27	Maintain a scrapbook of all the things you do together. Include ticket stubs, menus, pictures, programs, and other momentos.
28	Create your own Top 10 lists - music, movies, restaurants, etc.
29	Share your school yearbooks.
30	Create a "Life Map" with your significant events along the way and share with each other.
31	Visit a local facility that cares for the elderly and introduce yourselves to the residents.
32	Be a reporter, interview each other, then write the article.
33	Draw your family tree.
34	Work together to make a collage of his/her life with pictures cut from a magazine.
35	Take your Little to a basketball or football game at the high school he/she will attend.
36	Help your Little make a list of everyone who loves him/her.
37	Show him/her photographs of you as a child.
38	Visit the school or neighborhood library- make a goal to read 12 books this year.
39	Work on school assignments together.
40	Go to the school computer lab (if available) and learn a new computer program.
41	Visit all types of museums: art, science, nature, etc.
42	Attend activities at the Littles' school concerts, plays, sports events, or fairs.
43	Bring a magazine, book, or newspaper article and discuss the content.
44	Assemble a model airplane or bookcase.
45	Sit and watch the clouds go by on a bright summer day.
46	Get some soap and a bucket and wash the car.
47	Read and write poetry.
48	Visit a hospital and look at the babies in the nursery.
49	Do something together to help an elderly person.
50	Look through a clothing catalog and ask what he/she likes and doesn't like-- explain what is becoming of a young gentleman/lady and what is not.
51	Paint a special message for his/her mother on a wooden cutting board.
52	Using play money, teach him/her how to spend the money you earn.
53	Learn CPR together.
54	Learn some new dance moves.
55	Visit a coffee shop and sip hot chocolate while playing chess, checkers, or backgammon.
56	Go to local arts and crafts exhibit shows.
57	Make greeting, get well, or holiday cards to give to other people.
58	Look for a four-leaf clover.
59	Go for long walks and talk about what you encounter along the way (nature, people, etc.).
60	Talk to each other about concerns, feelings, and values.
61	Go to church/synagogue/mosque together.
62	Create a Big and Little Pact with meaningful words you both choose and then sign and frame it. Keep it in a place where you can see it.
63	Play cards.
64	Do arts/crafts or sew; make holiday decorations.
65	Put together a jigsaw puzzle.
66	Tell jokes or stories.
67	Study other cultures/countries.
68	Bake or frost cutout cookies.
69	Rent a funny movie and then imitate your favorite characters.
70	Look for arrowheads.
71	Paint an original T-shirt for a special occasion.
72	Help your Little make dried potpourri from dried flower petals.
73	Make a calendar of big events for his/her year.
74	Make mini-pizzas using English muffins topped with pizza sauce, cheese, and pepperoni.
75	Plant flowers or vegetables and watch them grow.
76	Use a book of names to find the meaning(s)of his/her name and the names of other family members.
77	Squeeze fresh orange juice.
78	Carve a pumpkin and roast the pumpkin seeds in the oven.
79	Visit a music store and learn about different types of instruments.
80	Use a magnifying glass to examine all kinds of little things.
81	Make foods from around the world.
82	Have a carpet picnic on the living room floor and watch a movie.
83	Do aerobics in your living room or visit a health center.
84	Create a bead necklace or bracelet.
85	Paint pottery pieces together.
86	Go bowling together.
87	Study a foreign language.
88	Help your Little fill out a job application and conduct a "practice interview".
89	Help your Little plan a personal budget; teach them how to balance a checkbook or basic finances.
90	Discuss personal hygiene, hairstyles, or how to apply makeup.
91	Start a collection of rocks, stamps, trinkets, etc.
92	Teach the child how to play a musical instrument or learn one together.
93	Work on home improvement projects together-- painting, wallpapering, or remodeling a spare room.
94	Write letters to friends.
95	Read your favorite stories aloud and make a tape recording.
96	Correspond with a pen pal in another state or country.
97	Go shopping together.
98	Make a website together.
99	Eat lunch with your Little at their school.
100	Make dinner for your Littles' mom and surprise her.
101	Plant and water flowers outside
102	Take a sponge and put grass seed on it, keep it moist and watch the grass grow
103	Play catch with a big ball or with a softball
104	make a card for someone special
105	Wash the car
106	Go outside to make letters/numbers on the sidewalk
107	Use shaving cream to finger paint on a table or outside
108	Cut the front panel of a cereal box into puzzle pieces, mix them up and put the puzzle together
109	Marble painting: drop paint dipped marbles into paper-lined box and shake it
110	Ice Skate: put shaving cream outside on a tarp and let them slide around in it
111	Paint w/ yarn
112	Blow colorful bubbles by adding food coloring to your bubbles
113	Use chalk and play hopscotch
114	Eat colored celery by soaking it in food coloring before eating
115	Take each others fingerprints and examine them through a magnifying glass
116	Step in paint and walk on paper to make your footprints
117	Paint with flowers
118	Paint with eye droppers
119	Make a scrapbook of your time together
120	Paper mache with your little
121	Learn first aid
122	Make a scavenger hunt and take your little on it
123	Melt and mix crayons to make multi-colored crayons
124	Make a bird feeders and hang it in a tree
125	Have a parade with wagons and your friends
126	Lay on the sidewalk and trace eachothers bodies with chalk
127	Launch a helium balloon with a latter on it and see what happens
128	Play water balloon volleyball with your little
129	Make a collage out of thinks that you both like in old magazines
130	Mix corn syrup and food coloring and create a picture
131	Color salt by rubbing colored chalk on it and create a picture
132	Drip drops of foods coloring onto coffee filters to make a flower
133	Obstacle course
134	Making candles with melted crayons and wax
135	Go boating or swimming
136	Go roller blading or skating
137	Tie dye T-shirts
138	Rubber band wax paper to your shoe and slide around on the carpet
139	Make a tent out of blankets chairs and other things
140	Take a hike through the woods
141	Make ice cream sundae
142	Make sock puppets
143	Feed ducks at a local pond together
144	Write a book with your little
145	Play in the sprinkler together
146	Mix corn starch and water and see what happens
147	Go to a apple orchard and pick apples
148	Eat watermelon and have a seed spitting contest
149	Visit a strawberry patch and pick strawberries
150	Build a tree house
151	Play basketball
152	Make paint monsters: put paint on paper and fold the paper
153	Create a hat out of news paper
154	Dress up how ever want and take pictures
155	Taste different kinds of pickles and discuss which one you like the best
156	Make cookies together
157	Go visit historical monuments in your town or the ones around you
158	Go to a carnival
159	Start an ant farm
160	Go to a theme park
161	Buy a gold fish and take care of it together