What can you do each week?

Do something creative together
Look at family photos or home videos
Read a magazine article of interest to the mentee
Talk about a wish
Play a game
Hike in a park
Go to the zoo
Help with homework
Arrange to do a “drive around” with the police
Go to a museum
Walk around a mall
Make something for a nursing home and deliver it
Visit an animal shelter
Start a hobby
Take a walk, jog, swim together
Have lunch together
Do community service together
Talk about a dream car, dream house, dream job
Chat online Share interesting life experiences
Play a musical instrument or learn one together
Listen
Get two small notebooks –one for you and one for your mentee.
Write down thoughts and feelings throughout the week.
Share them when you see each other.
Remember the mentee with a card or surprise on his/her birthday
Make bread or dessert together
Build something together
Make a time capsule together.
Write down what you want people in the future to know.
Bury it together and decide when it should be opened.
Attend a high school or local college activity together
Fly a kite together
Make popcorn together and talk
Play basketball
Have your mentee teach you about your computer or your VCR
Visit a community college
Visit a technical school
Sit in evening classes in a community college
Work on a resume
Talk about appropriate dressing
Practice job interview skills
Talk about balancing a checkbook or a budget
Talk about credit cards and saving money
Go to two similar stores and demonstrate bargain hunting
Walk around a lake or along a river
Go fishing
Hike in the woods
Write thank you notes to people who have helped you and your mentee
Talk about friendships, good and bad, healthy and unhealthy
Have fun

Mentoring is a partnership
Allowing your mentee to play a role in deciding what you do will: help build your friendship, help your mentee develop decision making skills and show the mentee that you respect him/her

Make sure that these activities are age appropriate for the mentee. Take the time to listen and solicit ideas and to tell your mentee that you want him/her to enjoy your time together and to do activities that you both enjoy. Make it clear what the cost limits are for activities.