Activity Ideas — Stuff to Do Together

• Research and talk about famous people who used their abilities to get ahead
• Make greeting, get well, or holiday cards to give to other people
• Interest the mentee in games, math, and different books each week
• Look at magazines for students with low reading levels; they offer many things to talk about and help the student with self-expression
• Share your own life experiences
• Tell the mentee about your work and how you reached this position
• Remember the mentee with a card or a little cake on his or her birthday
• Just talk together
• Attend the holiday concert or other school activities
• Share your school experiences when you were the same age
• If a student has trouble sitting still, let him or her work off energy by running in the gym for the first part of the meeting
• Bring in construction paper, scissors, glue, and magazines with lots of pictures, and have the student create a collage about himself or herself
• Read the newspaper together
• Play a musical instrument or learn one together
• Color
• Work on the computer at school
• Play sports or discuss your favorites
• Play board games or card games; stress following rules and good sportsmanship
• Write stories together
• Fly a kite
• Walk outside to the playground or sit under a tree, if allowed
• Have a picnic outside, if allowed
• Build a model
• Plan an activity with another mentor and mentee
• Listen, listen, listen
• Just be a friend
• Bring a photo album from home and share pictures of your family, house, and pets
• Discuss favorite hobbies
• Buy your mentee a small journal or notebook; write down thoughts and feelings during the week and share them when you see each other
• Swap photos of each other
• Do arts and crafts together
• Do Word Search activities together
• Read, read, read