ACTIVITY IDEAS
Stuck in a loop of doing the same activities?
Check out some other things you can do with your Littles!
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
Bargain hunting
Bisque It Pottery Painting Studio
Black Pine Animal Sanctuary
Cooking/baking
Farmer’s market
Fast track racing
Fort Wayne Aviation Museum
Fort Wayne Komets hockey
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Fort Wayne Youth Theatre
Laser X
Lemonade stand
Putt Putt Fun Center
Read comic books
Read newspaper cartoons
Roller Dome North
Science Central
Science project
Scrapbooking
Start a collection
TAG Art Company
Tokens ‘N Tickets
Ultrazone
Used book store
Visit area attractions
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
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