Activities
An idea for your mentoring is to keep an album with photographic record of activities and memorabilia – creating memories with the child.
Resources
Outside Activity Ideas
- Abseiling
- Ball games
- Barbeques
- Beach – combing, drawing in the sandcastles, collecting shells
- Berry picking
- Bike riding - Bike repairing
- Big tree walk
- Bird watching
- BMX track
- Building
- Bumpa-boats
- Boating
- Camping
- Canoeing/Kayaking
- Cardboard down hills
- Car yards
- Caving
- Cloud watching
- Collecting shells, rocks, insects, etc.
- Dodgem cars
- Dog training
- Drag racing
- Driving / tiki touring
- Estuary exploring
- Exploring
- Farm activities – watch a milking, visit a farm, sheep shearing etc.
- Feed ducks
- Fishing, eeling, cockles, floundering.(gathering Kai Moana)
- 4x4 wheel driving
- Firewood collecting
- Fleamarket / Garage Sales
- Frisbee
- Fruit Picking – berries, etc.
- Gardening - vegie/flower garden project
- Ginger beer making
- Glass Blowing Gallery
- Going to the markets/Fairs, garage sales
- Go-Karting, Dodgem Cars
- Golf – mini golf
- Gold Panning
- Hangi
- Harakeke
- Hunting
- Hydra slide
- Horseriding
- Hut making
- Ice skating
- Kites ($2 shop)
- Lizard Hunting
- Mechanics
- Mentors/families outing
- Microscope
- Mini golf
- Model boats
- Motorbiking
- Orienteering
- Paintball
- Parks and Gardens
- Passionfruit collecting
- Petanque
- Picnics
- Play touch rugby, squash, golf, tennis, table tennis, pool, ....with them
- Playgrounds
- Rafting
- Rock climbing
- Rollerblading
- Sailing
- Sandcastles
- Sausage sizzle
- Skate Board Park
- Skiing, snow tobogganing, snow activities
- Shooting - possum, rabbit
- Shopping
- Sitting on a hill, Sliding down a hill
- Snorkeling,
- Socialise with other children
- Speedway/Drag racing
- SPCA
- Sport - watch child play sport, or participate
- Spotlighting
- Street Hockey
- Swimming
- Tadpole hunting
- Target shooting
- Tennis
- Tramping, bushcraft,
- Treasure Hunt
- Tree planting
- Trip to the snow
- Volleyball
- Walks – bush, beach, walkways
- Washing Cars
- Watching sport
- Water fights
- Water propelled rockets
- Window shopping
- White-baiting
Inside Activity Ideas
- Activity Books
- Art gallery
- Aquarium
- Badminton
- Baking/cooking – make a cake, chocolate/lolly making
- Bead Gallery
- Board games
- Boxing
- Cafe
- Card games
- Candle making
- Ceramic Painting
- Chipmunks
- Clay modelling
- Climbing Wall
- Crafts – card making, shell or other picture frames, cross stitch, origami
- Charades
- Computer games
- Dancing
- Darts
- Designing things
- Drama, role play, drama
- Egg blowing
- Exhibitions
- Face Painting
- Fancy dress, dressing up
- Gym
- Home management, housework
- Homework – reading/ spelling
- Egg blowing
- Exhibitions
- Face Painting
- Fancy dress, dressing up
- Gym
- Home management, housework
- Homework – reading/ spelling
- Indoor cricket
- Jump rope
- Jig Saws / Was Jigs
- Karaoke
- Knitting
- Knot tying
- Knucklebones
- Large jigsaws
- Lego, meccano
- Library
- Make-up
- Make Fish Hooks and Flys
- Martial arts
- McDonalds and KFC
- Model making
- Memento box
- Movies
- Motorbike shop
- Museum
- Music – listen/ play musical instrument - guitar drums etc.
- Nintendo/Play station
- Painting
- Photography
- Picking flowers and arranging
- Pilates
- PlayStation
- Pool
- Puppet making
- Reading aloud (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc.)
- Rock climbing
- Sewing
- School Work
- Shopping
- Shooting (small bore)
- Software development
- Skating
- Suitable videos (make a list of ones that are)
- Story-telling
- Table tennis
- Teach Computer skills
- Tenpin Bowling
- Theatre
- Videos
- Visiting Friends/Elderly
- Waiata, haka, cultural activity
- Watch the rugby/ netball/ basketball or other sport on TV together
- Woodwork, Carving, Whittling
- Writing – Penpal/articles for newsletter/sponsor child etc.
- Zoo
Rainy days in Nelson
1. Libraries – take board games, crafts, play cards, do puzzles, hangman, learn a magic trick or read.
2. Museum –Free for kids
3. Founders Park –Free, visit the attractions or devise a scavenger hunt
4. Swimming Pools
5. Mini Golf – Road Hogs, Selwyn St – Wacky Wednesday $6 pp
6. Roller Skating
7. Suter Gallery
8. Picnic or cook under the shelters at Tahunanui Beach or Rabbit Island.
If you have a good rain coat…
1. Go for a walk, run through the puddles
2. Play ‘Pooh Sticks’ off a local bridge, preferably a pedestrian one.
3. Make streams in the dirt
4. Slide in the mud
5. Measure the amount of rain falling
6. Collect worms
New Conversations
- Show picture of when you were young
- Bring a picture of a place you have been and tell them all about what it was like
- Play 20 questions, or I spy
- Plan your next activity
- Tell stories to each other
- Tell them where you come from
Cheap or free activities to do in nelson - tasman
Building Futures through Friendship
