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ArtReach Information
Did you lose your ArtReach email? Click here for activities you would like to attend, then email your program coordinator ArtReach activities.

Activity Ideas
Make a picnic and hang out in the park
Go to a play (find cheap plays in the Westword)
Hold a staring contest
Read the newspaper together at a coffee shop
Hike up Lookout Mountain
Play football, soccer or Frisbee in a park
Shoot hoops on a neighborhood court
Learn to play pool
Eat ice cream at Dairy Queen and talk about the opposite sex
Take your mentee to work with you for the day
Play video games at the arcade
Watch a movie at the $1 theater (Hampden and Quebec)
Listen to cds at a music store
Walk your dog together. No dog? Borrow your neighbor’s!
Go sledding then have a snowball fight
Draw pictures of each other                                     
Go to DIA and watch the planes take off
Teach your mentee how to play card games
Volunteer at a soup kitchen           
Change the oil in your car
Visit the animals at the Dumb Friends League
Read comic books at the library                  
Paint your own pottery
Make each other your family’s special recipe
Arrange to take your mentee to a workplace that interests him/her for a career
Do the word-finds in the Sunday paper
Arrange a scavenger hunt through downtown Denver
Walk around the Taste of Colorado and see who can eat the craziest thing
Shovel the sidewalk for your elderly neighbors                                           
Go trick or treating
Visit a college campus
Go snowshoeing (can rent shoes cheaply at REI)                    
Save change you find on the ground
Attend the free days at the art museum and zoo
Drive to Vail and take the free gondola to the top after 2:00 pm
Visit Red Rocks and tour the free museum
Hit golf balls at the driving range
Walk the Cherry Creek trail from Glendale to LoDo
Learn about Denver’s history at the library
Attend the Pumpkin Festival at Chatfield
Go swimming at the YMCA
Drive up Mt. Evans or Loveland Pass
Plant a small garden or a tomato plant
Walk down the 16th St Mall eating hot dogs
Watch the performers on Pearl Street in Boulder
Ride the Alpine Slide at Heritage Square in Morrison
Go to a Rockies game and sit in the Rock Pile seats
Attend a free concert or art show opening at a coffee shop
Read a book separately (Holes, by Louis Sacher is a great one) and then discuss
Tell each other silly, embarrassing stories that make you laugh