Summer Party

Getting out into nature can be fun and relaxing. It reduces stress, reduces exposure to indoor environmental toxins, and can even regulate your sleeping patterns as well! Encourage your residents to soak up the sun and fresh air by organizing a camp-out in nature! Whether you’re cabin or tent camping, residents will love an organized group camping experience to a nearby public campground. Remember, start your search and planning early! Consider registering your group a year in advance of your event. This way your group will find spots together at the campground of your choice. Talk to the campground directly to make arrangements for your large group well in advance and avail group discounts. Registration ...

Which brew will be recognized as the best craft beer in this ultimate beer battle? Find out when you host a beer tasting challenge and vote in your community! Image source: Pixabay On a particularly hot summer day, invite residents (21+ crowd only) to enjoy and vote for a variety of local (and/or imported) chilled craft beers over in your community center! If needed or desired, you can bring in a local craft beer expert or home brewer to share their knowledge and experience. An expert can help residents appreciate the beers by explaining the different kinds of beer and what to look out for when taste-testing and voting. Setting up the...

This summer, when the sidewalks are hot enough to fry an egg on the cement, it’s good messy fun to actually give it a try! In your community, host a sidewalk egg fry to test the talents and culinary skills of residents. Participants can craft up contraptions to harness the heat of the sun and sidewalk to cook an egg! via GIPHY How to Host an Egg Fry Ensure that residents have enough advance notice to figure out how they will try to fry an egg. You also need to keep an eye on the weather and plan your egg fry event on one of the hottest days of the year. Image source: Pixabay ...

An underwater hula hoop course is a great addition to your summer pool time events! What’s more, you can change up the hoops to make it more or less challenging for everyone. All ages and abilities should get a change to swim through your hula hoop obstacle course. Here’s a video showing underwater hula hoops in action: How to get your hula hoops underwater Image Source: Everyday Dishes To make a Hula hoop obstacle course, you’ll need several water proof weights such as rubberized dumbbells - 3 and 5 pounds weights work best. Next, take 2 - 3 feet of rope and attach the weight and hoop on either end of the...

Labor Day is a great opportunity to encourage your residents to mingle and have a bit of late summer fun. Before it starts getting too cool in the fall, aim for a water play party that accommodates all ages of participants. Here are a few wet and fun activities that will make your next water play event one to remember. Water shadows The concept of water shadows is simple. Kids and adults line up agaist the side of a building, fence, or wall and pose up against it. Using a watering hose (sprayfeature works best) lightly spray across all participants to create dry negative-space “shadows” around the outlines of their bodies. Kids especially love to do this more than once, so it’s best to choose an area that dries fast...