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This artistic event is for the ladies in your community. It allows them to come together and have a jewelry making craft night! This event is likely to be fun to those who have a passion for fashion, crafts, and exploring their creative side. It will also serve as a therapeutic process and allow residents to take a break from their stressful daily routines. For this event, consider finding an instructor who can help your residents make stunning handmade jewelry for themselves or their loved ones. You could look up some local craft or jewelry designers to facilitate the event. Materials ***TIP*** Check in with your instructor for specific materials suggestions. For this event, you may need: · Earring hooks · ...

It’s officially summer! This exciting event is for your community residents and their beloved pets. For fully professional and insured services, we suggest inviting a local pet grooming business to the community. Negotiate with local providers to offer their services to residents at discounted rates. Let your residents know about the event well in advance. This way they can come prepared with their pets and fully enjoy the services! Create Stations for Each Different Grooming Activity We suggest making different stations for the various pet grooming activities. Some suggestions for the stations are: · Bath station · Blow drying station · Hair...

A rotating supper club is a wholesome food event that’s sure to bring residents together! People love to gather around food, discuss current events, commiserate over their careers, gossip about celebrity news, and discuss their favorite shows. A dinner club is a great opportunity for residents to bond over their shared commonalities and a delicious multi-course meal. This type of dinner party is also sometimes called a Progressive Dinner or Safari Dinner. ***TIP*** We suggest making this into a monthly recurring event. That way, more residents get a chance to participate and host guests for a part of a meal! Planning the Event Invite residents over to the community center for explanation and planning purposes. Ask the residents which parts of the meal they would like to host and have them...

Want a night event with a wild and creepy vibe? Plan some games of hide and seek in the dark! For this event, you’ll only need enthusiastic participants and heavy darkness. To make the event most fun, plan it as an outdoor activity. ***TIP*** Give prizes to residents or teams who manage to stay hidden the longest! Variations of the Game While simply playing hide and seek in the dark can be fun, there are also some variations you can add to make hide and seek in the dark even more exciting. Flashlight Tag To play this version, you’ll need to designate a space as your home base. Select one resident to be “it.” This person will count to thirty while everyone else hides. The person who is “it” flashes their light around...

One of the best ways to achieve our goals is to keep them top of mind. This way we're always consciously and subconsciously looking for ways to move closer to them. Vision boards are a powerful tool to help us reach our goals, and a great activity to complete with your community residents. This event can be adapted for children, pre-teens, teens, and adults. We suggest holding a child-friendly event in the day time and saving any adults-only party for evening hours. This works best as an indoor event, but it can also be held outdoors on a still and quiet day (remember, making paper collages and high winds don’t go great together!) Creating vision boards is a fun and motivating activity that can help clarify people’s life goals and solve problems where a person feels stuck. ...