Activities & Games

For communities that focus on healthy lifestyles, and want to offer healthy snacks during a kids event, here is a wonderful setup we found!  We unfortunately don't know the complete source for more info. How quickly can you name all four characters?

If you are throwing 100 random people together and hoping they are suddenly going to become fast friends, you are going to have a hard time! So we found a great way to get people to get to know each other! Kristi Dingess found this great template for us, where residents can use BINGO to get to know their neighbors. With this version of BINGO, however, there is no one at the front of the room reading out ping pong balls. Instead, residents get a card with a list of traits and interests, and then try to find other residents who have those specific traits. Just like in BINGO, they try to fill in squares to form lines up and down, left and right, or diagonally. For example, if a resident finds a neighbor who is a vegetarian, they can put...

Several years ago, we thought it would be an amazing program to have Starbucks Frappuccinos at the pool on select Saturdays! Unfortunately, the challenge to making that happen was quite steep, but that may all be changing! Starbucks just announced that it is going to roll out a delivery service in select markets! One of our strong beliefs is that an amenity has no value to your residents if they don't actually use it. So while the pool really impressed them during the initial sale, once they live at the community for a while and never use it, the pool slowly loses value to them. So programs to maximize your existing amenities is absolutely crucial, and this is a great way to jumpstart the pool during the summer! As this is a new program, we don't know the exact details....

Get prepared for winter by planning a hot chocolate bar during your winter party!  We found this idea at Indianapoluxe and love their take on a simple hot chocolate!  Rather than simply providing hot chocolate, they give everybody the chance to customize it to their preferences by adding peppermint, peanut butter, marshmallows, or caramel. This is one of those small elements of an apartment party that isn't huge in itself, but adds a little magic to the event.  What other ingredients would be good to add?    

Here is a great activity idea that can be scaled up for a HUGE twister group! I found this idea on Pinterest, and what really has us excited is that you could essentially make a community-wide twister game! Seems like that is an opportunity for a Guinness World Record, don't you? Here is the original idea, where you cut circles out of a pizza box and start spray painting the colors across the lawn, making four columns of dots - red, blue, yellow, and green. She suggests using Rustoleum 2x coverage paint. For a large twister board, it would make sense to make two or three columns for a wider rectangle. As you spray paint the dots, it is probably a good idea to run some string along the rows, or at least on the edges so that the...