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Offer your residents an opportunity to stretch their budget and recycle old Halloween costumes through a costume exchange party. This event is perfect for residents of all ages and will provide a unique pre-Halloween event that won’t conflict with their already scheduled Halloween parties.  

Today's activity is actually pretty easy, and frankly, it is just a way for us to show off an amazing idea we found recently! Drawing contests are always fun with the kids at a community because everybody can participate no matter the age and skill level. Plus, it's a cheap option with just some markers, colors, etc. Now, having the drawing be a "contest" can be a bit tricky, because you never want to make the kids feel like they did a bad job, so be careful that you navigate that part carefully. That said, we have found probably the best prize we have ever seen for a drawing contest: You can now have one of the drawings be made into a stuffed animal! We stumbled across this absolutely brilliant website that creates custom stuffed animals based upon the children's drawings! ...

One of the biggest challenges to any apartment party is simply getting more attendance. So why not create a situation where every single resident is not only invited to a party, but is actually needed at the party? This is a general scavenger hunt type party, where teams are created based upon their building number, floor number, or some other logical subgroup at the apartment community. Prior to the party, each resident is given part of a treasure map, maybe in their mail box, with instructions on how to find the scavenger hunt items. In other words, each resident has a vital piece of the puzzle, so there is an incentive for fellow teammates to get as many fellow residents to come as possible. So residents are driven to reach out to their nearest neighbors and convince them to participate, or at least...

Establishing an off-site monthly dinner group is a great way to offer a value-added event for your residents with absolutely no cash outlay. I’m a big fan of resident-led events, with the office only helping to facilitate and get the word out, so here are a few strategies to get residents involved: As you set up the group, ask if any residents would like to take the lead. If it works out, you will get one person, or a few people to act as hosts at the dinner parties, helping with introductions. Once the dinner group gets started, try having a new co-host for every upcoming event. This co-host gets the privilege of selecting the next location for the group. This helps get attendees to be a part of the planning stage, and also ensures that they show up...

Every little girl wants to be a princess, and this is your opportunity to let her live out her dream for a few hours. Invite girls to come dressed in their best princess costume or party dress and offer a “princess makeover,” complete with a tiara, and then host a small fashion show or photo shoot as the parents cheer their princesses on.

This is a really simple thing to do with the students in your community. Those school books start coming home around the first week of school and one of the best ways to protect them is with a simple covering made of paper or plastic. There are a variety of items you can gather to help the kids decorate or cover their books. Large Paper bags are great and can be colored on, stickered up, or painted so that each student gets to show their individuality. I found this great article on how to use shopping bags to make a book cover. And you can use these simple directions for making book covers out of almost any material. Link to article: http://inmyownstyle.com/2012/07/how-to-make-shopping-bag-text-book-covers.html

We found this cringe-worthy event recently and had to share it. Look at the picture and tell us that this doesn’t look like a fantastic contest! Not only does this look like a great event, it is a social media program’s dream! Make sure to get permission from the “contestants” to use the photo, then watermark each with your community name and start sharing!

Have a professional Photographer show up and let your residents schedule appointments with them to take individual or family pictures on some of the beautiful parts of your community. I love taking pictures with my family but sometimes it is difficult to make the time to make an appointment, go to a new location, and all the hassle that goes with professional pictures…if a photographer were right there in my community though…. I’d definitely do it. This would be great exposure for your beautiful community as that photographer may use some for the pictures from your shoot to promote his known business (by giving your property credit as the location of course). Think about facebook posts and tags with your community and their residents on YOUR PROPERTY. Photo Credit to auggie tolosa http://www.flickr.com/photos/auggie_tolosa/

We have an art teacher as a resident. He is providing all materials. We are providing the clubhouse, foods, wine and cheese. He is teaching participants how to create scratch art. Each person gets to take home their creation as well.

We have an art teacher as a resident. He is providing the art materials and we are providing the clubhouse, food, wine and cheese. He will teach participants how to create their very own scratch art piece and they get to take home their creation.