Relationship Building

Ø Make a scrapbook of your match together

Ø Start a collection: stamps, rocks, or anything

Ø Create special days such as Christmas in July

Ø Take up an environmental cause in which you both have an interest

Ø Take pictures or make a video together

Life Skills

Ø Bake and cook together; learn to read recipes and prepare simple meals and snack

Ø Visit the library together and read to one another

Ø Read a newspaper together

Ø Visit your workplace together

Ø Fix your bikes together

Ø Open a bank account or create a budget

Ø Count money and learn money management

Ø Plant a garden and use the produce to make a special meal

Ø Visit the library and research something that interests your Little

Ø Learn about community resources – where the service is and how to obtain it

Ø Build something together – birdhouse, planter

Ø Fix the car or change a tire

Crafts

Ø T-Shirt painting or tie dying

Ø Make friendship bracelets

Ø Make your own candles

Ø Build something together, such as a birdhouse

Ø Make costumes for a special “dress-up” dinner

Ø Make a collage, a mural, or a mobile

Ø Carve a pumpkin

Ø Make decorations for special occasions (ex. Christmas tree ornaments)

Ø Make your own Christmas, birthday, or valentine’s cards

Ø Make funny figures using cardboard rolls and yarn for hair

Ø Sometimes it is fun to simply grab some paint or markers and be creative!

Ø Build a model car, ship, or plane

Community or Cultural Activities

Ø Research another culture’s customs & traditions

Ø Visit child’s school during an open house, or attend a school production

Ø Go to a garage sale

Ø Tour museums, art galleries, and libraries

Ø Go to a farmers’ market or a local fair

Ø Research a holiday or some other topic

Ø Attend a free concert or a music festival

Ø Go see the fireworks

Ø Visit the Humane Society

Ø Visit the Iroquois longhouses at CrawfordLake

Nature / Outdoor Activities

Ø Indoor camping or in the backyard

Ø Explore the Royal Recreation Trail, the Arboretum, Starkey Hill, or the Elora Gorge

Ø Go for a nature walk and use a compass

Ø Go for a picnic

Ø Keep a weather record

Ø Feed the ducks

Ø Take binoculars and go bird watching

Ø Go to a farm to pick seasonal produce such as apples or strawberries

Ø Go to a petting zoo

Ø Go swimming at a beach

Ø Go horseback riding

Ø Go fishing

Ø Wash your car together

Ø Collect leaves and try to identify them

Ø Fly a kite

Ø Go for a hay ride

Ø Go to fall fairs

Ø Make snowmen, snow sculptures, or snow angels together

Sports or Games

Ø Watch the child’s t-ball, baseball, or soccer team play

Ø Puzzles and card games

Ø Board games such as Snakes and Ladders or Monopoly

Ø Make crossword puzzles for each other

Ø Go for a bike ride

Ø Go skating, roller-blading, swimming, tobogganing, or skipping

Ø Toss around a baseball or Frisbee

Ø Play basketball, soccer, tennis, or volleyball

Ø Play computer or video games

Ø Go bowling or play mini-golf

Ø Play with the child’s toys (i.e. Lego or dolls)