Session ideas
Coming up with activity ideas can be a challenge at times. Below is a BBBS Activity Bingo to get you started followed by some other ideas. Enjoy!
Click on the Bingo image below to take a look at our BBBS Activity Bingo. Great if you are just starting out and need some ideas.
Below are a couple of examples of videos you could send in after finishing your BBBS Activity Bingo
Community Based Activity Ideas
General activities
Go for a walk
Feed the ducks
Make a list of all the things you hope to do together
Buy groceries – let your young person carry the list and find what you need
Have some fun at your local playground (monkey bars, climbing frames)
Explore the city centre
Visit a coffee shop – rate the hot chocolates around the city (makes a great base too)
Take the dog to the dog park (teach it some new tricks)
Head to the beach – skip stones, make sandcastles, sand sculptures, paddle, collect shells
Eat lunch together
Go for a bus ride
Visit the SPCA
Run errands
Rock pooling
Talk – topics could include, friends, sports, news, problems, food, pets, families, what’s happening, how they feel
Visit the Library – learn how to get a book out, look at books, share some headphones and listen to different genres of music, play games, play board games (makes a great base)
Play a board game – uno, snakes and ladders, monopoly, battleships, scrabble, boggle
Visit an exhibition at an art gallery
Head off on a bike ride
Fly a kite
Go for a picnic
Wash the car
Go for ice cream
Head off on a scavenger hunt – (loads of ideas on Pinterest)
Learn how to fix/service your bikes
Set up a lemonade or cupcake stand and raise money for BBBS
Make an obstacle course
Play indoor mini golf
Have fun with some messy play – make slime, kinetic sand, goo
Write a poem or funny story
Swimming
Play cards
Learn to juggle
Build a go cart
Learn the road code / to drive
Take photographs
Draw or paint
Have a water fight
Potato printing
Bake homemade dog treats
Geocaching
Pokemon Hunting
Start a woodworking project
Have a BBQ
Lego
Make a video
Museum
Carve soap – use cheap soap from $2 store and a lolly stick (ideas on Pinterest)
Make and fly paper planes
Go fishing
Learn yoga
Go for a run / running races / train for and participate in a triathlon or fun run
Mow the lawn
Cards – get well soon, greeting, birthday, Christmas
Make a bird feeder
Plant a herb garden
Catch a movie
Origami
Help a neighbour with their property
Open the hood of a car and learn the various parts and simple maintenance
Paint nails
Talk about what you did at the weekend
Go foraging
Bowling
Hide and seek
Visit a market
Make a bug container and see what bugs you can catch
Scootering – try out the local skate parks
Skateboarding
Frisbee
Help out in your local community
Skipping
Tennis
Squash
Draw/colour in Chalk on the pavement
Learn te reo Māori
Learn to play chess or backgammon
Bake – cookies, muffins, a cake, scones
Grab some hot chips and head to the beach or park
Create some homemade beauty products– sugar scrub, face mask, bath bombs
Gardening – at home or community garden
Learn a magic trick
Make a mask of their favourite character
Cook
Knit – hat, scarf – (ideas on Pinterest)
Print out or make your own word search or crossword
Play hangman
Build a model
Discuss who you admire and why
Do a jigsaw puzzle or make your own
Household chores
Learn to count in a foreign language
Do some kitchen science!
Make a family tree
Create a bead necklace or bracelet
Visit the old folk in a rest home
Learn sign language
Christmas decorations – snowflakes, santas (ideas on Pintrest)
Press flowers
Make a stress ball (flour and 2 balloons)
Fabric painting – t shirts, tea towels
Clay model
Collage – with collected bits or from magazines
outdoor activities
Abseiling
Ball games
Barbeques
Beach – combing, drawing in the sandcastles, collecting shells
Berry picking
Bike riding - Bike repairing
Bird watching
BMX track
Building
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
Flea market/garage sales
Frisbee
Fruit Picking – berries, etc.
Gardening - vegie/flower garden project
Ginger beer making
Going to the markets/Fairs, garage sales
Go-Karting, dodgem cars
Golf – mini golf
Gold Panning
Hangi
Harakeke
Hunting
Horse riding
Hut making
Ice skating
Kites
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 Park
Skiing, snow tobogganing, snow activities
Shooting - possum, rabbit
Shopping
Sitting on a hill, Sliding down a hill
Socialise with other children
Speedway/Drag racing
SPCA
Sport - watch child play sport, or participate
Swimming
Tadpole hunting
Target shooting
Tennis
Tramping, bush craft,
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
indoor activities
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 your dream house
Drama, role play
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 / Wasjigs
Karaoke
Knitting
Knot tying
Knucklebones
Large jigsaws
Lego, meccano
Library
Make-up
Make fish hooks and flys
Martial arts
Model making
Memento box
Movies
Motorbike shop
Museum
Music – listen/ play musical instrument - guitar drums etc.
Nintendo/Playstation
Painting
Photography
Picking flowers and arranging
Pilates
Pool
Puppet making
Reading aloud (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc.)
Rock climbing
Sewing
Grocery 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.
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