Countryman IsoMax E6 EarSet Microphone

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

Random Thoughts and Ideas – Kiddie Cab

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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.

It’s Monday

Do you need a break, a little distraction today?

How We Run Our Father-Daughter Valentine’s Dance

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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….

What Do You Want?

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I’ve not been very good at keeping up with this blog, even though I really want to. There are so many aspects to 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.

Teaching Sports After School

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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…

We Need More Recreation Programming Products

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…

One of the Best Things About the Recreation Community is the People

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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…

Flashcards – A Rainy Day Activity

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Its been raining off and on here in Northern California so I decided to dig up some of my reference books and find some rainy day activities that I knew were good and have used in the past. Below is an excerpt from a book called Camp Program Ideas, edited and compiled by Janet Gibson,…

Sign Language Program for Kids That Anyone Can Run

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The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine, Susan, who is the director of an after school YMCA site. We were discussing programming, as we always do, and she mentioned that she started running a sign language program. I took a semester of sign language in college. I really…