Activities & Ideas for Mentors
Activities for Mentors
Choose from the list below of suggested mentor/mentee activities.
- Go with your mentee to the school's library or media center and check out the headlines of the latest newspapers from around the country.
- Ask how they are doing in school
- Research and talk about famous people who used their abilities to get ahead.
- Make greeting, get-well, or holiday cards to give to other people.
- Bring a board game.
- Look at a map and talk about places you would like to visit.
- Set personal goals.
- Play sports in the gymnasium. (If school allows)
- Work on the computer in the media center.
- Write stories together.
- Do a jigsaw puzzle.
- Build a model.
- Bring in a photo album, and share pictures of your family, house, and pets.
- Discuss favorite hobbies.
- Read the same book and talk about your favorite parts.
- Write a letter to a former teacher, a cousin or relative in another community, an old friend, the editor of a local newspaper, etc.
- Ask the questions for the driver's license test.
- Listen, listen, listen.