This event will challenge residents to learn something new. Collect ideas of fun and silly skills from which residents can choose!

The basic premise is to have a list of different skills that residents can choose from to learn to do something new.

YouTube star Max Maher shows his lifelong learning mindset through example. Max regularly tries to learn new things. Sometimes in only a matter of a few hours! 

His trials include learning fun tricks like juggling, riding a unicycle, spinning a pen, knife throwing, or any other “practice makes perfect” skill that strikes his fancy. You can check out his channel for ideas of skills to suggest to your residents.

Choosing a Community Challenge  

For this event, you can either choose a challenge yourself or throw out several ideas to your residents and have them vote for their favorite challenge. 

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Give the residents anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete the challenge.

There are thousands of ideas for fun party tricks and interesting bucket list skills to learn. Some ideas for lifelong learning challenges include:

• Juggling
• Throwing a boomerang
• Throwing cards
• Perfecting your moonwalk (or any other dance move)
• Performing a magic trick
• Build a card house (card stacking)
• Play the harmonica
• Performing a Yo-Yo trick
• Solving a Rubik’s Cube
• Learning a shadow hand puppet
• Make a carrot recorder
• And more!
  
  

Remember, get in on the action! If you have fun with it, your residents will too. 

Have your residents share their best attempts (and wins) with you to post to social media and share with your whole community.

***BONUS*** Make this event a recurring quarterly challenge where the whole community tries to learn how to [fill in the blank]!