VOLUNTEER PRICE BREAKS

Being a Big shouldn't be expensive, so to help you along the way, we’ve collected some resources for you and your Little!

PRICE BREAKS

Price Breaks is one way local businesses partners with Big Brothers Big Sisters to offer two-for-one discounts or special rates for our Matches as a way to foster mentoring relationships with Bigs and Littles. To redeem an offer, you must present your Volunteer ID Card at any participating location during their operating hours.

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LAST-MINUTE TICKET OFFERS

As another fun and free activity exclusively for Matches, we frequently have Last Minute Ticket Offers to various programs in the area. If you are a Big and are not currently receiving these emails, please contact your Match Support Team who will get you on the email list.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Businesses can help foster our mentoring relationships by participating in Price Breaks, which offers Bigs and Littles affordable opportunities to spend time together.

If your business is interested in learning more about our discount program or offer Last-Minute Ticket Offer opportunities, please contact Bailey Roe at (260) 209-4722 or Bailey.Roe@bbbsnei.org.

ACTIVITY IDEAS

Stuck in a loop of doing the same activities? Check out some other things you can do with your Littles!

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  • ACRES Land Trust preserves

  • Adopt a grandparent at retired home

  • Attend art show

  • Biking

  • Bonfire/roast marshmallows

  • Bring a Little to work day

  • Build a fort

  • Build a model

  • Build house of cards

  • Bury a time capsule

  • Camp out in the backyard

  • Car show

  • Carve pumpkin

  • Catch lightning bugs

  • Celebrate half birthday

  • Check out Berne’s Muensterberg Plaza

  • Check out charity events

  • Check out covered bridges

  • Check out Parks and Rec activities

  • Check out the Frog Rock on Ardmore Avenue

  • Check out the Minion near Ossian

  • Chemistry set

  • Chess/Checkers/backgammon

  • Church service

  • Clean up litter

  • Come to a BBBS event!

  • County fairs

  • Crafts

  • Decorate Christmas tree

  • Decorate eggs

  • Design holiday card

  • Downtown Walking Tour

  • Dream up vacations

  • Eagle Marsh

  • Enter a contest together

  • Explore River Greenway

  • Family function

  • Feed ducks

  • Field trips

  • Fishing

  • Fly a kite

  • Foster Park flowers

  • Four-leaf clovers

  • Frisbee/Cornhole

  • Grocery shopping

  • Hanson Observation Deck/Limestone quarry

  • Heritage Park at 122nd Fighter Wing Air National Guard Base

  • Host birthday party for pet

  • How to fill out job application/build resume

  • How to sign checks/finances

  • Iron/wash clothes

  • Johnny Appleseed Festival

  • July 4 Fireworks

  • Learn to juggle

  • Lifetime Sports Academy

  • Lindenwood Cemetery

  • Lindenwood Nature Preserve

  • Listen to music

  • Little River Wetlands

  • Local parade

  • Look at cloud shapes

  • Make a calendar

  • Make a collage

  • Make homemade pizza/cookies/ice cream

  • Meet other Bigs/Littles

  • Meet professionals from their areas of interest

  • Memorial Park

  • Mow the grass

  • Paint or draw a T-shirt design

  • Painting/drawing/sculpting

  • Paper airplanes

  • Personal hygiene

  • Picnic

  • Play 20 questions

  • Play a board game

  • Play cards

  • Play catch/shoot baskets

  • Pretend job interview

  • Program your electronics

  • Puzzles

  • Research topic

  • Roller blading

  • Saloman Farm Park

  • School events

  • See "Oscar" the Beast of Busco

  • See nation’s second-largest flag on Coliseum Boulevard

  • See the Batmobile on a pole at Auburn’s Kruse Plaza

  • See World’s Largest Egg in Mentone

  • Snow shovel

  • Snow sledding

  • Splash pad

  • Start a garden

  • Study the stars

  • Take a walk

  • Take an art class

  • Take pictures

  • Talk about life

  • Teach manners

  • Tour Amish Country

  • Tour Fort Wayne murals

  • Tour Sweetwater

  • Tour your own city

  • Trace a family tree

  • Try pickleball

  • Veterans Memorial National Shrine and Museum

  • Visit a college

  • Visit a train station

  • Visit airport

  • Visit Markle water town Smiley Face

  • Visit meeting point of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana in Steuben County

  • Visit police/fire departments

  • Visit the library

  • Visit the Old Fort

  • Visit your past favorite spots

  • Volunteer

  • Walk a dog

  • Wash car/water war

  • Watch goalball at Turnstone

  • Watch high school/college sports/events

  • Watch YouTube

  • Wildcat Baseball

  • Work on homework

  • Work out together

  • Write a family newsletter

  • Write a letter

  • Write a story together

  • Write your own play

Paid (49)
  • African/African-American Historical Society Museum

  • Auto racing

  • Bass Mansion tour

  • Batting cage

  • Bowl/Join a league

  • Build something together

  • Combat Ops Laser Tag

  • Concerts

  • Creative Women of the World

  • Drive-in movie theatres at Garrett, Wabash and Huntington

  • Eat

  • Eat some more

  • Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory

  • Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo

  • Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum

  • Fort Wayne Pinball

  • Fox Island

  • Garrett Historical Railroad Museum

  • General car care class

  • Go to the beach/pool

  • Golfing/Driving range

  • Holiday shopping

  • Hoosier Air Museum in Auburn

  • Ice cream

  • Ice skating

  • Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

  • Lakeside Park Sunken Rose Gardens

  • Mad Ants basketball

  • Malls

  • Mid-American Windmill Museum in Kendallville

  • Movies

  • Museum

  • Pumpkin patch

  • Rent a canoe

  • See show at the Embassy Theatre

  • Sporting events

  • Summer fairs

  • Take a class together

  • Take CPR class

  • The History Center

  • Three Rivers Festival

  • TinCaps baseball

  • Toboggan Run at Pokagon State Park

  • Tour Chief Richardville House

  • Tour haunted house

  • Try Fort Wayne Curling Club

  • Visit farm

  • Visit state park

  • Walk about Parkview Field

Virtual (20)
  • Ask Allen County Public Library and Science Central for ideas

  • Check out NASA

  • Explore Mars

  • Great Barrier Reef tour

  • Help with homework

  • If you can imagine it, it’s out there

  • Online exercise class

  • Painting lesson from Bob Ross

  • Play brain teasers

  • Read a book together

  • Take an online class

  • Take an online tour

  • Take virtual roller coaster ride

  • TikTok dances

  • Tour landmarks like Eifel Tower, Taj Mahal, Sidney Opera House

  • Tour National Aquarium

  • Tour national parks

  • Tour online museums

  • Try out podcasts

  • Virtually tour theme parks