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How to Design The Cover of Your Activity Guide
I see a lot of parks and recreation department and YMCA brochures. Most of them have one thing in common, the cover is not as engaging as it could be. I would show you examples but I don’t want anyone getting offended. Just take a look at yours or the city recreation departments and YMCAs [...]
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I see a lot of parks and recreation department and YMCA brochures. Most of them have one thing in common, the cover is not as engaging as it could be. I would show you examples but I don’t want anyone getting offended. Just take a look at yours or the city recreation departments and YMCAs [...]Send Out A Fun Holiday Card This Season
18. December 2008
Do you send out holiday cards to contract instructors, customers, other departments, advertisers, board members and/or staff? This year email them a holiday card that is sure to get a response. We’re in the recreation industry so we should be sending out fun cards, no? Take a look at the holiday card below, of some [...]
Continue reading...A Successful Event
27. October 2008
After working three thirteen hour days our crew was able to set up a quality Halloween event. The haunted house turned out better than expected. With only a day and a half to put it together we managed to pull all the pieces together for a successful event. It’s such a great feeling when you [...]
Continue reading...Haunted House Walls
21. October 2008
As we get closer to our Halloween Haunt event UPS and FedEx are dropping off boxes with props and decorations daily. One of the issues we’ve been going back and forth about is how we would create the walls. We finally decided that PVC pipes and plastic sheeting would be our best since we needed [...]
Continue reading...Scarecrow Row – The Building of a Haunted House Room
15. October 2008
One of the rooms/effects that we’ll have in our haunt is called Scarecrow Row. The original idea started out with three scarecrows. We weren’t sure if we were going to have the scarecrows just stare at the people going through the haunt (that whole suspense, not-sure-if-they-are-going-to-jump-out thing can be really freaky) or if we were [...]
Continue reading...Resident Camps are the Perfect Place for a Haunted Attraction
14. October 2008
I have worked at 5 resident camps and I can tell you that all of them are spooky at night when nobody is around. Resident camps are the perfect places for haunted attractions like a Haunted Hayride or Haunted Trail. Imagine hearing on the radio a creepy old voice, “Come up to Bear Springs Camp and [...]
Continue reading...Two Versions for the Haunted House
14. October 2008
During one of our Halloween Haunt meetings we kept going back and forth as to whether or not we should have a “tame version” and “scary version” of our haunted house. Some thought we should have just the one version and not split our focus on who we were creating the haunted house for. Others [...]
Continue reading...Out 1st Halloween Haunt is in 2 Weeks
13. October 2008
So with less than 2 weeks to go, most of my time is going to be spent on getting this event ready. The “haunted house” is actually going to be in a small community center. We have one room divided by a partition to work with. It’s taken some creative planning but we’ll have a [...]
Continue reading...Punt, Pass and Kick…well, kind of
30. September 2008
About a month ago I registered to officially run a Punt, Pass and Kick competition at the middle school. I got the rules, score sheets, balls and tees. This was going to be great. I figured that we would start with the 6th graders on day 1 and end with the 8th graders the following [...]
Continue reading...Halloween Is Approaching and I’m Scared
23. September 2008
So we had a meeting today about what we’re going to do for Halloween. I’m in charge of special events and I felt that we needed to be ambitious this year and do a haunted house…something that this recreation department has never done. Of course, I decided this months ago and only now am I [...]
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