The next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, is scheduled to be released on November 19th. Have you considered having a Harry Potter pre-movie party?
The next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, is scheduled to be released on November 19th. Have you considered having a Harry Potter pre-movie party?
Do you hold a youth showcase? This fall will be our first. We’re calling it Project Funway.
Last year we, by the request of parents in our community, we began selling photos that we took at our ballet recitals. We have always taken photos at all of our big events, at camp and during our after school programs, but they were only for promotional purposes. We would use the good photos in our activity guides, our flyers and on our website.
Do you want to share your experience and expertise with others in the community recreation industry? I am currently accepting guest posts.
I’m currently working on our fall activity guide, and that means it’s time to reconsider what programs to keep around, toss out and add. So as we looked back on the past year we found that some of our biggest programs (had the most participants) were a bit of a surprise.
In part 1 I discussed the ways you can create the life-sized game board. In part 2 I discussed how to make life-sized characters, which really enhances the look of the game for kids and parents alike. In part 3 I am going to discuss the final piece of the Life-Sized Candy Land game – the cards or dice.
It’s time to create the characters.
Candy Land has gone through a few versions so we had to figure out if we wanted to create the game using the new characters or classic characters. We went with the new ones.
Recently I put together a life-sized Candy Land game for our Easter event. I am going to be honest, this was not an easy project, but once it was finished it was great. The kids loved it, the parents loved it, and we’ll have it for years to come. In this 3 part series I’ll…
You hire a new person and tell them that they need to run an after school program with crafts and/or games. They have no idea what to do or where to start. Your after school staff come in and they are scrambling at the last minute to put together a fun activity for the theme…
Wouldn’t it be neat if we held an event like a Storytelling Faire. There would be tents set-up with different story tellers. Stories would range from fantasy to history. Storytellers could use props if they wanted to. There could be storytellers that use puppets or act out stories. Stories could be told through photographs as…
