Welcome to the Bigs' Corner!

Start a hobby together (e.g., astronomy, clowning, sewing, music, singing, drama, dance, stained glass, painting, poetry…).

Start a collection of something you are both interested in like stamps, rocks, coins, comics, bugs, dolls, figures, sports cards, etc.

Walk, train, and play with your dog together.

Pop popcorn (the "old fashioned" way, not in the microwave) and watch a movie.

Build a model car, plane, or rocket.

Form your own book club (with other matches) and/or read together.

Draw, paint, work with clay, or make papier-mâché animals or casts of each other.

Play Charades, checkers, chess, backgammon, or any board or card game (you can even create your own).

Take a bike ride together (there are several trails in the area – www.trailnet.org).

Research your family trees together – the library and Internet are great resources!

Fly a kite at the park – for an extra challenge, make your own kites!

Feed birds or go to a park and feed the ducks.

Have a TV show you both watch every week, then call and talk about it.

Do a science project together using household products (find out what happens to an egg soaked in vinegar).

Take a walk and bring a memento bag to collect interesting objects along the way.

Prepare a meal together from start to finish – try finding good recipes online or in your favorite cookbook. (YUMMY!)

Write a letter to your Little on your match anniversary telling what you’ve noticed about him/her in the last year. Ex: positive changes, growth or maturity.

Take your Little to your place of employment.

Make your own cards for holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions for friends and relatives.

Trim the hedges, mow the lawn, rake the leaves, and do other yard work together.

Build a bird house or feeder.

Share family/vacation pictures with each other.

Create a Match scrapbook or photo album to record all your fun times together.

Start a garden - indoors or out.

Carve a pumpkin together - don’t forget to roast the seeds!

Make a log cabin, picture frame, or anything you can think of out of popsicle sticks.

Teach him/her how to change the oil in your car, or any handy skills you may have.

Complete a jigsaw puzzle.

Volunteer at a community center/soup kitchen/humane society.

Make up new lyrics to a song – maybe even about your match.

Make your own T-shirts with fabric markers and colored glue.

Keep a journal of all your outings together and what you liked/disliked about each.

Make friendship bracelets.

Play frisbee, catch, basketball, volleyball, touch football, croquet, badminton, etc.

Make paper airplanes and gliders.

Play games on the internet or peruse your favorite age-appropriate sites together.

Make wrapping paper from old magazines and newspaper.

Make an obstacle course in your yard or local park and time each other.

Make puppets.

Use sidewalk chalk and draw pictures on the sidewalk.

Bake a cake, cookies, or brownies or make candy

Have a picnic.

Make a collage on "friendship" or your Little’s life using pictures and headlines from old magazines and newspapers.

Look up new words in the dictionary.

Have your Little teach you something.

Blow Bubbles.

Listen to music together.

If your Little is a teenager, practice completing job and college applications.

Show your Little your high school yearbook, baby pictures, old report cards,etc.

Build a snowman/ woman.

Go on a camera scavenger hunt – Make a list of the things you want pictures of before you go and let your Little take the pictures.

Surprise your Little by celebrating his/her half birthday.

Together, write a family newspaper for friends and relatives.

Make a bug cage and catch bugs.

Weave a ring out of grass.

Buy 10 shares of stock in an inexpensive company and watch it make or lose money.

Use a globe to locate friends, travel destinations and current events.

Make a collage of your lives with pictures cut from magazines.

Plan an imaginary vacation.

Roast marshmallows with toothpicks over the flame of a candle.

Learn a simple magic trick and amaze your friends.

Trace around your little on a piece of butcher paper each year to show how much your little has grown.

Learn to make homemade root beer or ice cream.

Make a fondue meal or a fruit-and-cake fondue for dessert.

Decorate eggs - not just at Easter.

Learn how to sew.

Take turns styling each others' hair.

Rearrange the furniture in your living room.

Learn how to dance.

Learn to count to 10 in a foreign language.

Have an art show featuring your Little's masterpieces. Invite your friends and family to come and buy original, signed artwork. Set low prices and everything will sell.

Make homemade potpourri with dried flower petals.

Help your Little make a list of everyone who loves them.

Wash the car.

Make a calendar of the big events of the year.

Write a poem.

Look through a book of house plans and pick out your dream house.

Help your Little write a letter to the author of their favorite book.

Get a book about animal tracks and explore a pond or trail to see what animals live there.

Create a tornado in a bottle; put colored water in a two-liter bottle, connect another bottle to it like an hourglass, turn it over and give it a swirl.

Learn to program a computer in BASIC language.

Finger paint with chocolate, lemon or strawberry pudding.

Make mini-pizzas using English muffins.

Write a letter to your Congressional representatives regarding an issue important to both of you.

Donate old toys and clothes to a community shelter.

Check out a tree identification book from the library and discover which trees grow in your neighborhood.

Train together and participate in a one-K fun run.

Invite someone who has lived in a foreign country over for dinner to talk about life in that country.

Use of book of names to find the meaning of your names.

Make a tent using blankets stretched over chairs.

Squeeze fresh orange juice.

Open the hood of a car and point out various parts of the engine.

Read books about famous inventors.

Enjoy a fresh coconut or pineapple.

Learn to tap out your names in Morse code and to sign your names in sign language.

Skip rocks on water.

Buy a yo-yo and learn how to do tricks with it.

Write to the President and ask for a photo. (You'll receive a picture and a whole packet of information)

Build a house of cards together.

Teach your pet a new trick.

Make pancakes from scratch.

Learn to identify three constellations.

Paint an old piece of furniture.

Learn CPR.

Have a Monopoly tournament.

Bake and frost cutout cookies.

Make foods from around the world and learn how people live in that country.