Activities
for Bigs and Littles
Check
out this list for ideas - make sure you click on the underlined
items. Bonus Program partners have a discount for some
activities!
1.
Read a book or
magazine together.
2.
Make a scrapbook of your match memories
3.
Plant a garden
4.
Assemble and fly a kite
5.
Ride bikes
6.
Go rollerblading/rollerskating
7.
Play catch
8.
Go for a picnic
9.
Research each other's cultures and participate in local activities
that celebrate them
10.
Go canoeing
11.
Carve pumpkins
12.
Do homework
13.
Go for a car ride
14.
Go out to lunch or
dinner and try food that's new to both of you
15.
Attend sporting
events
16.
Wash your car together
17.
Volunteer somewhere
like a soup kitchen or a nursing home
18.
Research community events and let your Little choose what they
want to do - start here
19.
Go to the library
20.
Go horseback riding
21.
Go to a museum
22.
Play miniature golf
23.
Go to a county
fair
24.
Work or play on the computer
25.
Play tag or hide-and-go-seek
26.
Go to the movies
27.
Rent movies
28.
Go to a cider mill
29.
Facepaint
30.
Go swimming
31.
Go grocery shopping for supplies for a dinner and then cook
it together
32.
Have a tea party
33.
Play with dolls or trucks
34.
Go sledding
35.
Build a bird or bat house
36.
Do arts and crafts
37.
Visit the MSU campus
38.
Make each other birthday gifts, or make gifts for mom or siblings
39.
Go
on a nature walk
40.
Decorate a sidewalk with colored chalk
41.
Make paper dolls and lots of different outfits for them
42.
Invent your own handshake
43.
Buy or make stationary and send each other letters
44.
Bake a cake or cookies
45.
Have a beauty day with hair and nails or go for a haircut
46.
Paper mache
47.
Invent holidays for each outing, like "National Cloud Watching
Day"
48.
Finger paint
49.
Make beaded necklaces for each other
50.
Talk about what your Little wants to be when he/she grows up,
then go and tour a facility that offers that job
51.
Introduce your Little to your friends and family
52.
Go bowling
53.
Go to a concert
54.
Take a dance class together
55.
Play frisbee
56.
Learn a yo-yo trick together
57.
Be photographers for a day - go around town and take pictures
of things that look interesting, then get them developed to
look at for your next activity
58.
Work with flash cards
59.
Sing your favorite songs together
60.
Go to an animal shelter
61.
Learn to knit
62.
Go ice skating
63.
Window shop
64.
Visit a nature center
65.
Plan out an activity budget
66.
Make up a board game together
67.
Go to the
planetarium
68.
Attend a play
69.
Go golfing
70.
Listen to music
71.
Make valentines
72.
Have a barbecue
73.
Walk a dog
74.
Enter a race/walk together
75.
Start a collection of something
76.
Make a rock garden
77.
Build a model airplane or car
78.
Play cards
79.
Make a go-cart
80.
Watch a fireworks show
81.
Go on a drive to look for holiday lights
82.
Take
a tour of the Capitol in Lansing
83.
Go to the child's school and meet their teachers and let them
give you a tour
84.
Go disc-golfing
85.
Plant a tree together
86.
Make pottery
87.
Work on the child's bike together
88.
Make matching flowerpots and plant flowers
89.
Play tennis
90.
Swing
91.
Go rock-climbing
92.
Play kickball or soccer
93.
Play tag
94.
Teach your Little how to pump gas
95.
Play hopscotch
96.
Feed the ducks
97.
Visit the MSU Dairy Store
98.
Donate goods to Goodwill or the Salvation Army
99.
Color in coloring books
100.
Make a hockey/soccer goal
101.
Jump on a trampoline
102.
Visit yard sales or hold your own
103.
Make a book together
104.
Visit the Big's work
105. Write
each other poetry
106.
Go for a walk
107.
Go for a boat ride
108.
Check a bird identification guide out of the library and go
bird watching
109.
Find a grassy hill and roll down it together
110.
Run through a sprinkler
111.
Go to the laundromat
112.
Go to Caesarland
113.
Jump rope
114.
Go to the mall and try on dresses
115.
Go hiking
116.
Rake leaves
117.
Clean the garage
118.
Change the oil in your car
119.
Visit the Humane Society
120.
Learn CPR and First Aid together
121.
Draw nice pictures of each other for your refrigerators
122.
Do science projects
together
123.
Build a rocket and set it off
124.
Go to the zoo
125.
Play frisbee golf
126.
Have a lemonade stand
127.
Go sailing
128.
Build a tree house
129.
Go out for a soda
130.
Talk on the phone
131.
Play in a sandbox
132.
Invite each other to your birthday parties
133.
Make a calendar together and write down your activities
134.
Visit a rose garden
135.
Tour a
historic home or landmark, such as the Turner Dodge House
136.
Start a hobby together
137.
Test drive a new car
138.
Teach your little how to balance a checkbook
139.
Learn the basic four food groups
140.
Visit elderly people or children in the hospital
141.
Shoot hoops
142.
Go skiing
143.
Make picture frames
144.
Learn calligraphy
145.
Learn to quilt or sew
146.
Decorate shoeboxes to keep all of your match memories, like
pictures and movie ticket stubs
147.
Make
homemade ice cream or visit an ice
cream parlor
148.
Bake a double batch of cookies & deliver one to a needy
family
149.
Visit
an airport
and watch the planes take off and land, or go to a lake and
watch the boats, while you have a picnic
150.
Plan
a scavenger hunt for outside. Or plan one for in the house using
every letter of the alphabet.
151.
Go fishing
152.
Play
a board game that all can enjoy---Monopoly, Sorry, Scrabble
153.
Work
on a jigsaw puzzle
154.
Have
a candy treasure hunt
155.
Work
on a crossword puzzle. Better yet, make
your own!
156.
Provide
old magazines, scissors & glue. Pick a theme for your collage
(families, pets, things to be thankful for). Cut out pictures
& glue them onto a large piece of paper or poster board.
157.
Go to the flea market and see who can find the best bargain
for a dollar
158.
Make
a board game
159.
Make
your own homemade pizza
160.
Invite
others over for a game of charades or "Guesstures"
161.
Listen
to recordings of your favorite music
162.
One sunny Saturday morning, get out the gardening tools and
find someone (a shut-in, perhaps) who could use some free yard
work
163.
Make
a collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons
164.
Catch fireflies together, put them in a jar and watch them light
up. Let them go.
165.
String
popcorn and place on a tree for the birds
166.
Make puppets out of lunch bags, old socks, felt, wooden clothespins.
Put on a puppet show.
167.
Have a bonfire outdoors and roast hot dogs and marshmallows
168.
Go to your nearest hospital and look at the babies in the maternity
nursery. (Visiting hours only).
169. Visit a shut-in or an elderly friend or relative in a nursing
home
170.
Pick wild flowers and press some of them to save
171.
Ask your Little about their greatest fears, and talk about them
172.
Encourage
your Little to color a picture to send to grandparents
173. Make
a list together of all the things in the house that use electricity
174.
Enjoy a shopping trip for something little, but fun--a jar of
bubbles, stickers, paper dolls, a matchbox car.
175.
Visit a farm. Milk a cow, help feed the animals. Take pictures.
176.
Play badminton, volleyball, Frisbee, yard darts or ping pong.
177.
Talk to each other about your families.
178.
Buy shrinky-dinks and color them, then cook them.
179.
Make up jokes together.
180.
Make a calendar together of important dates.
181.
Decorate sugar cookies.
182.
Start a bug collection. Dab a cotton ball in rubbing alcohol
and tape it to the lid of an empty jar. Catch bugs in jar and
leave overnight. Use pushpins to fasten bugs to a board an label
them.
183.
Stop by a fire station and ask for a tour.
184.
Learn magic tricks.
185.
Make a time capsule and bury it somewhere.
Have
a cool activity that you do with your Big or Little? Share it
with us!
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