Information on how we support mentors
Looking for things to do with your little brother or sister, see our activities lists below (both Indoor and Outdoor).
Indoor Activities
- Activity Books
- Badminton
- Baking/cooking – make a cake, chocolate/lolly making
- Board games
- Cafe
- Card games
- Candle making
- Crafts – card making, shell or other picture frames, cross stitch, origami
- Charades
- Dancing
- Designing things
- Egg blowing
- Indoor cricket
- Jump rope
- Jig Saws
- Karaoke
- Knitting
- Knot tying
- Knucklebones
- Lego, meccano
- Library
- Model making
- Memento box
- Movies
- Motorbike shop
- Museum
- Music – listen/ play musical instrument – guitar drums etc.
- Painting
- Photography
- Picking flowers and arranging
- Puppet making
- Reading aloud (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc.)
- Sewing
- Skating
- Suitable videos (make a list of ones that are)
- Story-telling
- Tenpin Bowling
- Theatre
- 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.
Outdoor Activities
- Ball games
- Beach – combing, drawing in the sand sandcastles, collecting shells
- Bike riding – Bike repairing
- Big tree walk
- Bird watching
- BMX track
- Building
- Caving
- Cloud watching
- Collecting shells, rocks, insects, etc.
- Driving / tiki touring
- Estuary exploring
- Exploring
- Farm activities – watch a milking, visit a farm, sheep shearing etc.
- Fishing, eeling, cockles, floundering.(gathering Kai Moana)
- Firewood collecting
- Frisbee
- Fruit Picking – berries, etc.
- Gardening – vegie/flower garden project
- Ginger beer making
- Going to the markets/Fairs, garage sales
- Harakeke
- Horseriding
- Hut making
- Kites ($2 shop)
- Lizard Hunting
- Mechanics
- Mentors/families outing
- Orienteering
- Parks and Gardens
- Play touch rugby, squash, golf, tennis, table tennis, pool, ….with them
- Playgrounds
- Rafting
- Rock climbing
- Skate Board Park
- SPCA
- Bushcraft,
- Treasure Hunt
- Tree planting
- Trip to the snow
- Walks – bush, beach, walkways
- Water propelled rockets