This is our Mentors' Resources for Primary Schools link page
Here you can find links to resources to help you provide support for your mentee in Primary schools. Click on one of the links below to move quickly to the age group and activity you think might be of interest.
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Year 3-4 (7-9 years old)
Year 5-6 (9-11 years old)
Year 3-4
Year 5-6
Pipe Cleaners
- Making different things out of pipe cleaners e.g. dragonfly and butterfly.
Drawing Pictures
- Draw family members and things you like, both mentor and mentee can do this.
Variation on Picture Drawing
- Take in something like a Tesco Direct catalogue and make a collage of all the things your mentee likes.
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Volcano experiment
- Plasticine or playdough to mould into a mountain.
- Make a hole in the top of the mountain and put bicarbonate of soda inside
Pour on the top Red food colouring and vinegar to cause a fizzing reaction as the ‘lava’ flows
3D shapes
- Check this website to find all sorts of shapes which you can cut out, colour and stick together.
www.korthalsaltes.com has loads of shapes even obscure ones e.g. Icosidodecahedron
Name game (2 or more people)
- Using Post-it notes stick the name of a famous person or animal on the backs of all participants.
The aim is to try and guess the name stuck to the back of you by asking other people questions
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Card games
Planting
- Simple growing cress in an eggshell or in a small pot for beginners
- Or something more challenging like sunflowers or bulbs in the winter so in March they flower.
Christmas decorations
Candle engraving
- get thick candles and using a blunt knife or tool carve the candle into another shape or engrave the candle with any picture you like.
Role plays
- Write your own or make-up pretend scenarios.
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Large Collage
- Use the reverse side of a long piece of wall paper.
- Cut outs from magazines along a theme e.g. water and mountains.
The therapy of ripping and sticking things down is good for active youngsters.
Writing and Recording Plays
- Make up a script for a play
- This gives a chance to do some writing. The script can then be decorated.
- Finally using a Dictaphone play can be recorded
Word Searches
Using websites such as…
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp
You can create a word search specific to your mentees interests. E.g. football players, celebrities, animals, countries
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Make your own Board Game
- Use Cardboard boxes.
- Use paint, felt tips and scissors to create whatever kind of boardgame you like
- Snakes&Ladders is a classic and you can make your own counters to go with it
- RO! Has dice if you need them and plenty of cardboard boxes!
Elves, Wizards and Giants
- Like paper, scissors, stone but with real actions
- Elf is crouched and fingers pointed by the ears (like a rabbit) whilst saying ‘eek’
- Wizard has their arms outstretched as if casting a spell whilst saying ‘hazarrr!’
- Giant is on their tiptoes with their arms up as well as growling
The order of who wins is as follows:
Elf shoots the wizard with its pointy ears, Wizard frazzles the giant and Giant squashes the elf.
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Pictionary with Playdough
- Divide up into teams
- Make cards with the name of an object or animal on the back.
- One person out of team 1 has the playdough and picks up a card but doesn’t show it to anyone.
- It’s up to that person to sculpt the object on the card out of playdough in 1 minute whilst their team mates try and guess what it is.
- If they guess it within the time they get one point.
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