Recreation Guy

It’s no secret that the economy is still in bad shape. Parents still want to send their kids to camp though.

Do you use microphones at your events? What about wireless mics? Okay, how about wireless headset mics?

Ah, school buses. Why are buses pretty much the same as they were when my parents went to elementary school?

Does your organization have a van. Why not pimp it out and make it a Kiddie Cab.

Do you need a break, a little distraction today?

One of our most popular events of the year is the Father-Daughter Valentine’s Dance. Here is how we run ours.
The Set-Up
The day of the event we set up the community room with tables and chairs for people to sit at. In the back of the room we have a few tables for crafts. At the [...]

I’ve not been very good at keeping up with this blog, even though I really want to. There are so many aspects top community recreation programming that I get stuck in my tracks when I think about what to write. So I am asking you what you want.

Whether it’s a theme meal, theme day or a theme week, themes are a big part of many summer camps. For good reason, too. It’s fun to have activities, special events, crafts, food and/or decor that ties into a theme. It’s like an ongoing, well planned birthday party.

Every recreation department teaches sports to kids, whether by their own staff or through contract instructors. And why wouldn’t they, the benefits for children are many. But what if you want to offer a sport and don’t have an instructor? Maybe you can’t find a qualified contract instructor to teach the skills and nobody on [...]

At the conference I attended last week there was an Expo. The expo hall was filled with companies vying for our attention, commitments to buy and business cards. As I meandered through the aisles and aisles of vendors I was specifically looking for programming products. Unfortunately there were only a couple of vendors that offered [...]

Today I was at the CPRS conference and as I saw people I knew I couldn’t help but smile. After a day of workshops and social gatherings I thought about how lucky I was to be in such a great industry. When I go to work I am juiced (on most days) about seeing my [...]