Community Based Mentoring
In-School Mentoring
Around the Community
- 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!
Sports & Activities
- 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
Outdoor Activities
- 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)!
Food
- Check out a local coffee shop
- Bake cookies or brownies
- Go for a picnic in a park
- Make dinner together
- Check out a local food truck
Crafts
- 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!
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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
Construction & Building
- 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.
Arts & Culture
- 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!
Crafts
- 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
Games
- Play hopscotch
- Play with dominoes
- Create a Rube Goldberg Machine
- Thumb Wrestle
- Play card games or board games
- Play “hangman” or “I spy”
- Play chess or checkers
Around the School
- Have a picnic outside
- Play with chalk
- Go for a “nature walk”
- Do a good deed at the school (help clean or help a librarian)
- Have a scavenger hunt
- Create a treasure hunt map for your Little and hide a “buried treasure”
- Use the gym if possible
- Decorate cookies or cupcakes
Construction & Building
- Build a bird house
- Build a snowman or snow fort
- Build Lego!
Sports & Activities
- Basketball, soccer, floor hockey, football, softball, badminton, etc.
- Play hide and seek
- Play tag
Educational Activities
- 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
Arts & Culture
- Listen to music; share with each other favourite artists or songs
- Make a Claymation movie with your phone
- Read a joke book and tell each other some of the jokes
- Create a crossword puzzle or word search together
- Go on a photo scavenger hunt around school grounds
Other Fun Ideas
- 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