Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge

Getting to Know You

1. Make a list of your interests and share it with each other
2. Share your own life experiences
3. Maintain a scrapbook of al the things you do together. Include ticket stubs, photos and other momentos
4. Create your own Top 10 lists (i.e. music, movies, restaurants, etc.)
5. Share your school yearbooks
6. Show them photos of when you were their age
7. Create a "life map" with your significant events and share with each other
8. Be a reporter! Interview each other, then write the article
9. Draw your family tree
10.  Work together to make a magazine collage that tells about each other
11.  Take your Little to an event at the high school he/she will attend
12.  Help your Little make a list of everyone who loves him/her
13.  Show him/her photographs of you as a child

In My Neighborhood

1. Participate in a community service activity together
2. Go to the park
3. Play on the playground
4. Take a walk and learn the neighborhood, get back and draw a map
5. Make a lemonade or hot cocoa stand - learn basic business principles
6. Try to find seven different types of trees, then try to identify them all
7. Teach your Little about the different parts of a car.
8. Go Swimming
9. Window Shop in downtown Staunton
10. Go to the Waynesboro Soap Box Derby
11.  Watch your local high school's sports team
12.  Walk your dog together
13.  Go to yard sales
14.  Attend an auction (check the local newspapers for times and locations)
15.  Visit a travel agent and pick up brochure and information. Imagine a fantasy vacation
16.  Save pennies in a special piggy bank to go on this said vacation

Outdoors

1. Fly kites on a windy day
2. Have a picnic, each of you bring your favorite foods
3. Play frisbee
4. Play a sport
5. Build and paint a birdhouse
6. Go fishing
7. Go hiking at the Shenandoah National Park
8. Take a ride on the Staunton Trolley
9. Visit the Blue Ridge Parkway
10.  Visit Natural Bridge
11.  Sit and watch the clouds go by on a bright summer day
12.  Get some soap and a bucket and wash the car together - if you and your Little are really ambitious, plan a Big/Little car wash!
13.  Bring two disposable cameras to your favorite places and take photos. Compare the different perspectives
14.  Go horseback riding
15.  Participate in a fun run or walk for a good cause
16.  Go on a "Big" or "Little" hunt and collect all things with the words "Big" or "Little" in them
17.  Go for a bike ride or rollerblade together
18.  Make a bug cage and catch bugs together
19.  Plant flowers together
20.  Stop and smell the roses
21.  Plant a tree on your Little's birthday
22.  Take a walk together and collect interesting leaves, rocks, etc.
23.  Go on a camera scavenger hunt. Make a list of things you want a picture of before going
24.  Ride the train at Gyspy Hill
25.  Feed the ducks at Gyspy Hill park
26.  Visit a farm
27.  Learn to ski or snowboard together
28.  Go to an airplane or military show
29.  Have a barbecue in your backyard
30.  Draw pictures on the sidewalk with chalk
31.  Go birdwatching
32.  Go fruit picking (strawberries, apples, etc.)
33.  Take your little to the beach
34.  Hopscotch
35.  Jump rope
36.  Roast Marshmellows
37.  Make snow angels
38.  Go sledding
39.  Ride in one a one horse open sleigh
40.  Sip egg nog and sing Christmas songs
41.  Go Christmas Caroling
    

1. Visit the local library - make a goal to read 12 books this year
2. Work on school assignments together
3. Attend activities at your Little's school - concerts, plays, sporting events or fairs
4. Use your home computer (or visit the school or library computer lab) to learn a new program together
5. Visit all types of museums: art, science, nature, etc.
6. Bring a magazine, book or newspaper article and discuss the content
7. Teach your Little to play cards
8. Assemble a model airplane or bookcase
9. Take an arts and crafts class at Michael's 
10.  Read and write poetry 
11.  write a story or poem together (we will even publish it in our newsletter)
12.  Do research on colleges and help your Little fill out an application
13.  Tour a college campus
14.  Visit a hospital and look at the babies in the nursery
15.  Do something together for an elderly person
16.  Look through a clothing catalog and ask what he/she likes/dislikes
17.  Explain what is becoming of a young lady/gentleman and what is not
18.  Make something together for his/her mother or father
19.  Teach your Little about money, budgeting, finances
20.  Learn CPR together
21.  Learn some new dance moves
22.  Rent a video tape and learn Yoga together
23.  Visit a coffe shop and sip hot chocolate while playing chess, checkers or backgammon
24.  Volunteer together for the Salvation Army, Meals on Wheels or the Special Olympics
25.  Volunteer to ring the bell for a local charity at holiday times
26.  Go to local arts and crafts exhibit shows
27.  Visit a music store and learn about different types of instruments
28.  
     Discover what things around you are magnetic
29.  Teach your little to cook
30.  Bake a cake together
31.  Teach your little a craft: sewing, knitting, woodworking
32.  Go the the Blackfriars theatre to watch a Shakespeare play
33.  Tour the Blackfriars theatre
34.  Tour the police station (ask permission first)
35.  Tour the local radio station (Kris at WKDW might even put you on air)
36.  Learn about the solar system by visiting a planetarium
37.  Tour a local Civil War battlefield