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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

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1944 EAST LANDIS AVE.
VINELAND, NJ 08362

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All youth achieve their full potential.

Our Mission

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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We partner with parents/guardians, volunteers, and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving: 1. Higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships 2. Avoidance of risky behaviors 3. Educational success

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