Match Activities
Age ranges are guidelines only – many activities are appropriate for children of all ages! Please remember to regularly talk through activities with your Little’s parent or guardian—they are an important part of your match.
Check out our agency calendar for upcoming match events and activities.
Ages 5-7
- Bake and frost cut out cookies
- Fly a kite on a windy day
- Go for a walk on the beach and collect interesting shells or other items
- Feed the ducks at the park
- Make a present for someone special
- Play UNO, Crazy 8s, or Old Maid
- Play badminton or croquet
- Go for a walk and stop at interesting spots to stand or strike a pose to develop your Little's sense of balance
- Have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich picnic
- Visit a pet store and decide which is the oddest pet
- Go on a Big or Little hunt and collect all things with the words Big or Little in them
- Cloud watch on a bright summer day
Ages 8-10
- Start a scrapbook with a page for pictures of favorite things
- Go on a camera scavenger hunt to find odd objects to photograph
- Make greeting, get well, or holiday cards for special people
- Visit the zoo at feeding time
- Read a selected book out loud and tape record it
- Play miniature golf or go bowling
- Play Monopoly, Life, Sorry, or hangman
- Go on a field trip to the museum – focus on one exhibit and discuss it
- Go for a bike ride
- Make a lemonade – learn basic business principles
- Go to the library together
- Participate in seasonal activities – carve a pumpkin, go puddle jumping, paint Easter eggs
Ages 11-13
- Watch a TV program and identify negative stereotypes
- Look up your state on the Internet: what is the major industry?
- Build and paint a bird house – watch for occupants
- Rent rollerblades and learn to skate, safely
- Make a list of people you admire – look them upon the Internet
- Take a long ride on public transportation to the end of the line
- Visit the SPCA and offer to walk the dogs
- Mow the lawn or wash the car together
- Play computer and video games together
- Participate in a community service activity to show your Little the importance of giving back
- Plan or plant a garden or visit a community garden and offer to help
Ages 14-16
- Research what happened on the day and year each of you was born
- Figure out how to program your VCR
- Visit the fish market, meat market or other place where food is not prepackaged
- Check out the classified advertisements and discuss what each job requires in terms of education and experience
- Go out for dinner at an ethnic restaurant – who else is eating there? What is your favorite dish?
- Explore a new radio station together – discuss ads and target audience
- Plan and shop for ingredients to cook dinner together
- Go to a concert featuring a favorite performer
- Try mastering something difficult: juggling, cooking a soufflé, water color painting
- Watch a professional or semi-professional sporting event
- Talk about what’s in today’s newspaper
- Buy ten shares of stock in an inexpensive company that your Little will recognize and watch it make or lose money
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