Activity Ideas for Big and Little Matches

No Cost Activity Ideas

Go for a walk along the waterfront , through a park, anywhere new and interesting.

Go beachcombing – see how many different shells or coloured stones you can find.

Go for a drive anywhere scenic.

Go to Long Sault Parkway.

Go to SPCA and visit or walk the animals.

Go on a picnic.

Go to an open house at Little’s school.

Go on a scavenger hunt or a treasure hunt.

Plan a day trip.

Take a walk by the river and catch frogs or skip rocks.

Take a tour around a local college campus.

Take your Little out for Halloween.

Visit a public fleamarket (Morrisburg fleamarket is open on Sundays).

Visit a local library and check out an interesting book, movie, CD.

Visit each other’s families.

Visit a Petting Zoo around Easter time (shopping centres).

Visit a toy or pet store.

Visit a Hobby Shop.

Visit local airport, zoo, city hall, museum, etc.

Visit the Police Station or Fire Station.

VisitCornwallHarbour to watch ships load, unload.

Visit Iroquois locks, Iroquois.

Visit a farm.

Attend the Terry Fox Run.

Attend local dog shows.

Attend Canada Day activities in LamoureuxPark on July 1.

Check out local events in the paper – there are many free community events.

Window shop at the Cornwall Square.

Make a balcony garden together –plant seeds in an ice cream bucket and watch them grow.

Make a model – planes, cars, dinosaurs, doll houses, furniture.

Make your own T-shirt or apron – give them as gifts or wear them together.

Make a kite and fly it.

Make a mobile.

Make some popcorn and play a board game or do a puzzle.

Secure Social Insurance card for future employment.

Teach about job interviews.

Study driving manual.

Study wildlife.

Learn an instrument.

Learn about hygiene.

Learn to bake, knit, sew, crochet, hook rugs, macrame, etc.

Research something on the internet.

Choose something new to learn like calligraphy, or start and learn it together.

Try a new card game together.

Take a soccer ball to the park and kick it around.

Play catch with softballs, footballs, beach balls, bean bags…see if you can improve.

Play games while waiting in line-I spy, Who or what am I?

Play a sport, go biking, take a swim, try waterskiing, go skating.

Try canoeing or sailing, or kayaking.

Have a snowball fight, build a snowman, build a snow fort, build an igloo.

Shovel a neighbour’s driveway or sidewalk.

Cook something together – cookies, muffins, dinner or lunch.

Choose an ethnic theme and try cooking something new.

Start a scrapbook together – take photos, write in a journal, keep tickets and wrappers to remember your activities together.

Look through photo albums.

Take pictures with a camera.

Start a collection together – stamps, coins, business cards from restaurants or anything new.

Press flowers or leaves at different times of the year.

Rake leaves and make a big pile.

Celebrate one another’s birthday.

Take a hike on a nature or fitness trail.

Create something with Legos.

Help with a school project or homework.

Go berry picking.

Celebrate Canada Day with a party.

See a play, musical, ballet or concert.

Tie and dye clothes or fabric for a wall hanging.

Do household chores together.

Wash a car.

Do your hair or nails together.

Watch parades.

Watch a sporting event.

Celebrate special occasions together-carve a pumpkin, make valentines, colour Easter eggs, bake Christmas cookies.

Make playdoh.

Make paper mache.

Sing along with karaoke.

Do word search races.

Build a bird house or bird feeder.

Play 20 questions.

Listen to music.

Try to guess things about each other-favorite color or food, best subject in school, etc.

Write a story together.

Draw a map of Cornwall.

Colour in a coloring book.

Introduce Little to friends.

Low cost activities                                                                

Go bowling.

Rent movies with a theme - scary, comedy, classic, high school, TV dramas.

Play mini putt or visit a driving range.

Attend Big Brother/Big Sister activities and events.

Do crafts together.

Learn ceramics.

VisitUpper CanadaVillage, Morrisburg.

Visit FortWellington, Highway 2, Prescott.

Visit Old FortHenry, Kingston.

Visit Science and TechnologyMuseum, Ottawa.

VisitParliamentBuilding and PeaceTower, Ottawa.