Match Activity Ideas

Community Based Mentoring

The City of Medicine Hat has a monthly newsletter showcasing events and activities to do around town. Click here to access it for more ideas.
Attend a Downtown Art Walk
Check out a local greenhouse; try The Windmill Garden Centre or Blondie’s
Check out the Tourism Medicine Hat website for additional community ideas like Market In the Park, the Downtown Chili Cook Off, and the Farmer’s Market
Attend a board game night hosted by Medicine Hat Board Game Guy!
Go to the Medicine Hat Public Library for various programs and events such as movies every other Saturday and book clubs!
- DID YOU KNOW: You can use your library card to borrow a Community Access Pass to the Esplanade, Family Leisure Centre, Medalta, and the Downtown YMCA?! You can also borrow a Human Book to learn something new!

Go swimming at the Family Leisure Centre
Cheer on a local sports team such as the Rattlers, the Mavericks, or the Tigers!
Play basketball or tennis at one of the various playing courts around the city
Throw or kick a ball around at one of Medicine Hat’s many parks
Watch the stock cars or drag racing

Go for a walk along the river or go hiking in Elkwater or Redcliff
Try floating down the river for a day
Plant flowers
Check out The Park After Dark throughout the Summer for outdoor movies!
Play Giant Chess outside of the Medicine Hat Library
Have a beach day at Echo Dale!
Interested in space and the cosmos? Check out the Eagle Butte Observatory or get involved in the Medicine Hat Astronomy Club!
Go mini golfing at Hooplas (or for free in Elkwater)!

Attend a paint night with Christy Vince, also known as Paintergirl!
Create a scrapbook of things you have done together
Tye-dye t-shirts
Make friendship bracelets
Make holiday cards
Attend a free sketch night at Cafe Verve
Paint rocks and hide them around the city; check out Medicine Hat Rocks!
Michaels arts and crafts store: kids craft classes on Saturdays from 10:00am-Noon. Cost $2; double-check flyer/store to see what the craft is and dates

Build a kite and try to fly it
Create a building out of Popsicle sticks
Build Lego!
Build a bird house or a tree house
Build a model car, ship or plane
Build a snowman or snow fort
Home Depot: Kids Workshops run the second Saturday of every month from 10:00am to Noon. An adult needs to accompany a child/youth to participate- No cost involved.

Take in local music at one of our local coffee shops (Station Coffee Co. , Inspire Cafe , Cafe Verve , The Heartwood Cafe )
View art at Inspire Cafe, Station Coffee Co., The Esplanade , or Medalta
Make a video together
Write a story or create a play
Attend a local school play or production; or attend a production at The Esplanade
Go window shopping at the mall!

Build a castle out of toothpicks or cards
Make a scrapbook of things you have done together
Make finger puppets
Paint canvases or t-shirts
Sketch
Paper plane flying contest
Origami
Paint rocks and hide them around outside the school; check out Medicine Hat Rocks!
Make a paper-mache volcano
Make masks
Create a collage
Make paper bag puppets

Computer games; watch funny YouTube videos (appropriate ones of course!)
Learn about different subjects: astronomy, nature, biology, chemistry. And make it heaps of fun!
Randomly choose a place on a map and learn more about it
Share with each other about your own culture and customs
Research a favourite animal, alive or extinct, in the library

Keep a journal of activities you do together
Create a Bucket List of things to do throughout the year
Have a “show and tell”0 each of you brings something special or important to you from home (or take a picture of it) and discuss its importance to you
Write down everything that you and your Little like about each other and share
Create a new language together