There are a lot of great sites that have wonderful arts and crafts ideas that you should know about. Here are my favorites.
There are a lot of great sites that have wonderful arts and crafts ideas that you should know about. Here are my favorites.
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…
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,…
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…
Kids love puppets. Create an after school program that kids can learn and practice puppetry once a week. After 8-10 weeks you’ll be ready to put on a show for other kids and/or their families. A puppet program is relatively easy to run and the kids will really get into it. Kids first learn the…
April 20th-26th, 2009 is TV Turnoff Week. Yesterday I told you that I would give you 20 ideas for programs you can put together for TV Turnoff Week. Well, here we go… Family Bingo Night Community Dog Walk Family Bike Ride A One Night Gardening Class Dodgeball Tournament Mommy and Me Arts and Crafts A…
Acting classes are great. The kids get to play drama games, dress up as someone else, and perform. You don’t have to be an actor to lead a drama program either, at least not for kids. Of course, not all acting programs are created equal. You can put on a drama class that consists of…
