Level 1 Contact Work Ideas

  • Go where kids are!
  • sporting events
  • Play hoops at the schools open gyms
  • Coaching
  • Tutoring
  • Musicals and plays
  • School lunches
  • Supervise a school club
  • Show up at kid hang outs
  • Early morning Hot Chocolate

Level 2 and 3 Contact Work Ideas

  • Take them with you, wherever it is!
  • Be in the right place at the right time to give kids a ride home.
  • Goodwill or Value Village hunting
  • Take them where they want to go
  • Costco, for cheap dinner ($1.50 hot dogs and drink) and free appetizers (free samples inside store)
  • Video games
  • College and pro sporting events if you can score tickets
  • Before school wakeboarding (ask Hinnebusch if you are interested)
  • Play homerun derby
  • Bowling
  • Movies
  • Midnight Frisbee Golf at Totem Lake Mall
  • Day Light Frisbee Golf at the official Mountlake Terrace course
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Poker
  • Milk Challenge
  • Make a movie, music video, or do a video scavenger hunt
  • Do your workouts with a kid or two
  • Do homework together
  • 4 square tourneys
  • Mud football
  • Dodge Ball
  • City Golf with an old club and a tennis ball
  • Give them rides
  • Help them with their chores
  • Bring them popsicles when they’re sick
  • Call them on your commute and leave voice mails if they’re in school
  • Take them to Old Country Buffet, The Wingdome, Dick’s, or Dixie’s BBQ
  • Before school/work Starbucks or Denny’s hangouts
  • Get addresses and write emails and hand written notes
  • whiffle ball
  • hikes
  • Trying on fancy (prom, etc.) dresses for fun at the mall.
  • Costco sample runs
  • Spa night (pedicures, manicures, facials, etc.)
  • Mall trips
  • Card making and writing
  • Scrap-booking
  • Girl movie marathon night
  • Early morning coffee/ breakfast hang-outs
  • Bring them lunch
  • Karaoke night
  • Do homework together at a cool library (U.W.)
  • Go for a walk at a cool place (arboretum, Freemont, etc.)
  • Make a fancy meal together

Contact Work over Christmas Break

Make Christmas cards together

Make Christmas crafts together (decorate stockings, make ornaments)

Make Christmas cookies

Christmas DVD night

Go look at Christmas lights at the zoo, Candy Cane Lane, or Botanical Gardens

Go Christmas Shopping.

Get picture taken with Santa

Capture the flag in the snow

Ultimate snow ball fight

Skiing/ snow boarding

Take them inner tubing at Snoqualmie

Snow football

Take kids to see New Years Fireworks

New Year’s Day Football Party

Include them in on your Christmas traditions

Serve somewhere…food bank, Kirkland Heights gift drive, feeding the homeless

Bring them to your church’s Christmas program or to Christmas Eve service.

Caroling

White Elephant

Wreath making

Go to Country Village

Go see Christmas movies at the theatre.