Activity Ideas
Sports/Outdoor Related Activities
- Bowl for Kids' Sake!
- Take a bike ride together
- Play soccer, basketball, football, volleyball, softball, baseball, badminton, croquet, etc.
- Fly a kite (spend time making the kites together beforehand)
- Go hiking
- Go to the park
- Plant flowers or vegetables
- Go on a picnic
- Go to a Notre Dame sporting event
- Go horseback riding
- Cloud watch
- Make an obstacle course in the backyard, see who can complete it in the fastest time
- Use sidewalk chalk and draw pictures on your sidewalk
- Go putt-putting, or to a driving range
- Take a nature walk
Educational Activities
- Go to the library
- Visit Potawatomi Zoo
- Go to an art museum
- Work on homework or school projects
- Read together
- Start a hobby together (e.g. astronomy, sewing, playing a musical instrument, poetry, pottery)
- Research your family trees together
- Teach your little how to change the oil in your car or some other handy skill you may have
- Look up new words in the dictionary
- Do at home science experiments
Crafts and Other Activities
- Create a match scrapbook
- Make ice cream
- Put together a puzzle
- Bake or cook together and create your very own cookbook from the recipes you use
- Make your own t-shirts
- Have a movie night in
- Go to the fair
- Attend your Little's school events
- Watch a parade
- Make your own cards
- Eat lunch at your Little's school (get permission from the parent and school first)
- Share family photos with each other
- Listen to music together
- Window shop at the mall
- Make a log cabin, picture frame, or anything you can think of out of popsicle stick
Volunteer Activities