101 Things to do with your 'Match' in the community!

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. Attend the Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls
16. Try 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
24. Go watch a hockey games (Junior B Falcons, Niagara Ice Dogs, Hamilton Tiger Cats)
25. Go horseback riding
26. Go see the mentor’s worksite
27. Go skating at different rinks, both indoor and outdoor
28. Go to a flea market or farmers market
29. Go to a musical concert or play
30. Go to recreation Parks > Burgoyne Woods, DufferinIslands, QueenstonHeights, etc
31. Visit the Museums on Clifton Hill (FREE for both)
32. Go to the Imax theatre
33. Go to the library and read about a favourite subject
34. Go to the YMCA
35. Go ride go-karts
36. Go biking with your little/mentee
37. Go swimming
38. Go tobogganing
39. Have a barbecue
40. Play in our recreation area in the basement of the office
41. Have a garage sale
42. Help your little/mentee with his/her science project
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 a 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
62. Play “hang man” or “I Spy” with your little/ mentee when you’re in the car
63. Play cards (crazy eights, two handed Eucher)
64. Play Nintendo or computer games
65. Play mini golf or go to the driving range
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 festivals
69. Rent a movie and make lots of popcorn
70. See a play
71. Go to the Midway and save your tickets for something BIG
72. Take a drive to your favourite part of town
73. Take an art class together
74. Take a tour of the Christmas Lights around town (Rio Lane in St Catharines)
75. Tell good stories of when you were their age
76. Tour a police station
77. Visit a greenhouse
78. Tour a fire station
79. Try cross-country skiing
80. Try sailing
81. Visit a farm
82. Visit a pet store
83. Visit Happy Rolfe's Petting Zoo
84. Watch the Ships go through the canal
85. Go look at Niagara Falls
86. Visit the St. CatharinesMuseum
87. BuddistTemple in Niagara Falls
88. Visit a Senior Centre 
89. Volunteer your time together
90. Walk or wash the dog
91. Walk through the BrockUniversity campus
92. Wash a car together
93. Visit White Meadows and take the Maple Syrup tour 
94. Write and perform your own play and video tape it
95. Write your song and sing together in the car
96. Write a good story together
97. Visit a Flea Market
98. Visit the Butterfield Conservatory
99. Go to Canada's Wonderland (Special treat)
100. Visit the Toronto Science Centre ($2 per person)
101. Visit the art gallery.

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101 Things to do with your 'Match' In-School!

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 caretaker or 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. Learn how to set a table and about table manners – then practice by planning to eat lunch together during your visit
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. Read Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory while drinking hot chocolate
98. Make a pet rock
99. Write your own “knock knock” jokes
100. Make a bookmark
101. Make sock puppets

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