Activities for PULSE Mentors and Mentees
Find Activities for you and your mentee:
- Check the Calendar Section of the Boston Globe each week.
- The Boston Public Library: A place to go and a resource to do other things!
- The BPL offers a wide range of free activities throughout Boston, including films for children, story time, and games. Check the Brighton Branch Calendar of Events!
- The BPL Museum Pass Program gives you and your mentee access to museums around Boston.
Get ACTIVE with your Mentee:
Blue Hills Reservation: Blue Hills Reservation (5,800 acres) adjoins Fowl Meadow Reservation (894 acres) that together comprise the largest open space within 35 miles of Boston. This woodland reservation contains hundreds of different varieties of trees, shrubs and wildflowers that harbor a great diversity of wildlife. MDC Rangers conduct public programs that interpret the area's natural and cultural history, from prehistoric times to present day. Discussions, walks, workshops, and special events for children are presented year-round on varied topics including wildlife, recreational activities, Native American life and resource management
- Directions: Take the Red Line to Ashmont Station, then take the Canton and Blue Hills bus to Trailside Museum.
Walk or Tour the Freedom Trail
- There is a ton to do on and off the trail for kids!
- Create your own tour with your mentee using this Freedom Trail Map.
- The Flynn Recreation Complex has generously agreed to allow free admission for "mentees" when accompanied by their "mentor." Stop by the PULSE office to pick up a permission slip.
ATTEND an event with your Mentee:
Boston College Athletic Events
- The Boston College Athletic Association generously has donated free tickets to football, basketball and hockey games. Watch your e-mail or stop by the PULSE office for more details.
- Boston Symphony Orchestra holds a FREE concert series called the Community Chamber Concerts. All concerts are held on Sundays at 3pm. Get the full schedule by calling the BSO ticket office.
VISIT a Museum/Historic Site/Zoo with your Mentee:
- During its regular hours, everyday 10am-5pm it costs $12/person, however its offers special pricing on Fridays between 5pm and 9pm - admission is only $1/person!
Directions: Take the Red Line to South Station. You'll come out next to the Federal Reserve building. Walk around to the other side of the Federal Reserve by walking one block on Summer Street, to the water, and then left on Dorchester Avenue, along the water. That will bring you to Congress Street, where you'll walk across the bridge and you'll see the Museum ahead on your left, behind the 40-foot milk bottle. It's about a three-block walk.
- Open daily 10am-4pm
- Regular admission: $7 adult, $4 child. If you call and make a reservation 2 weeks in advance, it is $1 off the adult and child admission price.
Directions: Take the Orange line or commuter rail to the Forest Hills station, then take the number 16 bus to the Franklin Park Zoo.
- Fenway offers tours of the park on a daily basis. They leave hourly from the Souvenir Store on Yawkey Way from 9am to 4pm.
- Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
- FREE Wednesdays from 3pm-5pm, September-May; also FREE on Sunday mornings 9am-12pm. Student discount is $7.
Directions: Take the Alewife Red Line to the Harvard Square stop. Exit through the turnstyles and up the stairway that leads to Harvard Yard, and walk into Harvard Yard to the statue of John Harvard — from here take the path to your left, exit the yard and veer slightly to the right. The Science building (a white granite structure with a rock formation in front) will be on your left, and Memorial Hall (a large red brick building with a tall steeple) on your right. (If Memorial Hall is on your left, you are walking in the wrong direction.) This will take you to the intersection of Kirkland and Oxford. Proceed left (westward) down Oxford Street. The main entrance to the museum is on the right side of Oxford — at 26 Oxford Street.
- FREE passes to the MFA for BC students are available at the O'Neill Library.
- Youth are admitted for FREE after 3pm on weekdays, and FREE for all after 4pm on Wednesdays.
Directions: Take the green "E" line outbound (you can switch for this line at the Arlington T-stop). Get off at the Museum of Fine Arts stop. The Museum is right across the street.
- Free passes can be checked out ahead of time from the Boston Public Library.
Directions: Located right off the Aquarium T-stop on the Blue Line.
Visit and tour the USS Constitution
- FREE ADMISSION
- There is a lot to see at the USS Constitution. There are half-hour tours that are free and fun for kids. This is located off of the Freedom Trail in Charlestown.