Mentoring Activities
Submitted by Hanner’s Heroes
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Draw pictures of things we enjoy.
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Build things out of magnets and see whose object can hold the heaviest thing.
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Bring a coloring book, blank paper and colored pencils or crayons to color and talk about
how they feel. Avoid markers because they can stain the table.
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Give the student a survey to fill out. This helps to get to know them better.
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Look at Eye Spy books together. Let the student read and both try to find things in the
pictures.
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Make a list of 10 things that happened that week that went well. Focus on the positive.
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Read a book together or listen to the student read.
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Let the student take an Accelerated Reader or Reading Counts test.
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Bring a board game to play together (or ask the classroom teacher for a game).
Examples of games – Chutes and Ladders, Checkers, Pictionary, Monopoly
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Make a craft together.
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Help with homework or school work.
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Go to the gym (if it is available) and shoot basketball or kick a soccer ball.
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Talk about common interests.
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Each of you creates a collage describing yourself. Think about the things that make you
who you are. Consider family, friends, hobbies, interests, goals.
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Make holiday ornaments.
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I brought in a scrapbook with pictures of me and my family and things I have done so I
could ask them about their family.
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Help the student become creative by making up stories together.
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Talk to the student about her day/week and set some goals for the upcoming week.
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Bring in beads to make a bracelet.
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Play a flashcard game with sight words or math facts on them.
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At Christmas write a letter to Santa and to the student’s family.
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Play a game called “Eye Spy Eagle Eye” it is like the Eye Spy books but in a game form.
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Go to the library and have the student pick out a book that she can read. When finished
talk about it and draw a picture from the story.
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Sing a song.
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Cut pictures out of magazines of things that interest the both of you and make a collage.
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Play an ice breaker game; such as, Would you Rather?
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Sample Questions:
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Would you rather be able to fly or have the ability to read people’s minds?
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Would you rather have a third eye in the middle of your head, or a horn, in the
middle of your head?
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Would you rather it be winter forever or summer forever?
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If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, would you rather it be
sweet or salt?
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If you could choose a super-power, would you rather be able to fly or move
objects?
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If you had to be an animal, would you rather live in the ocean or on the land?
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Would you rather have a foot long eyelash you can never pluck or an earlobe the
size of a basketball?
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Create a sculpture with clay or play dough. Try making your own batch of play dough
together.
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To get to know each other better you could play Two Truths and a Lie. You could do
this first to model. State three sentences, two of them are true and one is a lie. Your
partner has to guess which one is the lie.