ACTIVITY IDEAS

Stuck in a loop of doing the same activities?

Check out some other things you can do with your Littles!

Free (127)
  • 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

Discounted (26)
  • 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

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