• Show your Little your high school yearbook picture.
• Go for a walk through a hardware store and explain the function of various tools.
• Practice filling out applications for everything.
• Wash the car.
• Look through a book of house plans and pick out your dream house.
• Read biographies of people who did great thing.
• Get a book of North American birds and go bird watching.
• Write a letter to your MP or MLA regarding an issue important to both of you.
• Go through your closets and donate old toys and clothes to a community shelter.
• Teach your Little to use a fire extinguisher.
• Share photographs.
• Take your Little with you to vote.
• Volunteer to ring a bell for charity at Christmas.
• Get creative with some lumber, hammer and nails.
• Go skateboarding at a nearby skateboard park.
• Read books written by local authors.
• Open the hood of a car and point out various parts of the engine, check the oil, fluids etc.
• Skip rocks on water.
• Make a collage with a particular theme of interest.
• Go to your local fire department and learn to use a fire extinguisher.
• Try your hand at archery.
• Go to a photographer's darkroom and learn how negatives and prints are made.
• Teach your pet a new trick.
• Talk to one another – share troubles & worries, joys & successes.
• Do something for an elderly friend.
• Research what was happening on the day you both were born.
• Learn 10 new words in a foreign language.
• Ride bicycles in a nearby Park.
• Make a batch of your favourite cookies.
• Go ice-skating, get hot chocolate afterwards.
• Learn how to fix your bike.
• Meditate together.
• Visit a coffee shop to sip hot chocolate or soda while having a friendly chat.
• Research an important event or issue at the library.
• Do aerobics in the living room or visit a health centre.
• Play tennis together.
• Learn about each other’s favourite music group.
• Play Frisbee golf.
• Go swimming at a pool, lake, or in the ocean.
• Help each other learn how to juggle or hacky sack.
• Look at new cars - Vipers, Corvettes, Hummers, Mercedes.
• Yard Work – for an elderly neighbour.
• Visit an electronics store.
• Encourage them to write a favourite author a fan letter, which can be addressed in care of the book’s publisher. Authors often respond warmly to such fan mail, and they may be the thrilled recipient of a personal response.

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• Paint an original T-shirt.
• Make your own instruments.
• Enjoy a fresh coconut, pineapple or any other kind of fruit that can not be found in the area.
• Paint an old piece of furniture.
• Explore different museums, libraries and art centres.
• Whack golf balls at the driving range.
• Work on home improvement projects together - painting, wallpapering, or remodelling a spare room. It provides great talk time and quite a few laughs, too.
• Make a Fondue meal or a fruit-and-cake fondue for dessert.
• Design and build a kite
• Cook anything from scratch (pizza, spaghetti, mashed potatoes, waffles, BBQ etc).

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• Tour the city and learn about its history.
• Train together to run in a race
• Go to a hockey game –
• Walk around a boat show or go to a sporting event.
• Take an art class together.
• Challenge one another to a game of Laser Tag.