- Surprise your little by celebrating his/her half birthday.
- Make a thin layer of Jell-O and carve it into letters, numbers & figures
- Together, write a family newspaper for friends and relatives.
- Take a walk together with a memento bag and collect interesting leaves, rocks or junk.
- Go to the bank and open a saving account.
- Design a Christmas card together.
- Make a bug cage and catch bugs.
- Eat lunch with your little at school.
- Weave a ring out of grass.
- Paint graffiti on the walls of a room a few days before it is to be repainted.
- Buy 10 shares of stock in an inexpensive company and watch it make or lose money.
- Look up new words in the dictionary.
- Use a globe to locate friends, travel destinations and current events.
- Go on a sound scavenger hunt with a tape recorder.
- Go shopping at a secondhand store for dress-up clothes.
- Make a collage of your lives with pictures cut from magazines.
- Make giant soap bubbles.
- Plan an imaginary vacation.
- Roast marshmellows with toothpicks over the flame of a candle.
- Learn a simple magic trick and amaze your friends.
- Show your Little your high school yearbook picture.
- Paint an original T-shirt.
- Go for a walk through a hardware store and explain the function of various tools.
- Compliment your Little's character and skill three times for every one compliment of their appearance.
- Find all the living things in a one-foot square of grass.
- Trace around your little on a piece of butcher paper each year to show how much your little has grown.
- Learn to count to 10 in a foreign language.
- Go to a volleyball or basketball game at the high school your Little will attend.
- Write a letter to your Little on your match anniversary telling them what you've noticed about them in the last year.
- Have an art show featuring your Little's masterpieces. Invite your friends and family to come and buy original, sign artwork. Set low prices and everything will sell!
- Make a family tree.
- Go bowling.
- Walk the dogs on Saturday morning at the humane society.
- Visit the National Museum
- Go window shopping
- Take a ride on the submarine
- Surf the net at the library
- Visit Government establishments
- Write and read poetry
- Build a model airplane
- Go fishing.
- Have a picnic, each of you take a favourite food.
- Visit the Botanical Park
- Go horseback riding.
- Have tea in the "Tea Room" at Every Bloomin' Thing
- Create your own "Top 10" list
- Look through a book of house plans and each pick out your dream home.
- Fly a kite.
- Take a photography class.
- Attend activities at your Little's school such as concerts, plays, sport events or fairs.
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