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We stumbled upon the concept of “mermaiding” on a recent radio story, which said that the sport/activity was rapidly growing across the country. Apparently, mermaiding, the art of swimming like a mermaid, has captivated the imaginations of both children and adults alike. While we can’t verify those claims, it sounded just strange enough to potentially make a unique resident event!
As you can imagine, mermaiding is essentially using a monofin to do the dolphin kick in swimming, and I would bet that most of us have tried this as a kid at least one time in our lives. But now, it has grown to include mermaiding classes and instructors. Bizarre, right? Well, we at ResidentEvents.com think that the more bizarre sometimes means the most memorable, so it might be fun to find a local mermaiding instructor to provide lessons at the community pool. Here’s a few tips and some more information about mermaiding to help you create an amazing event:
1. Embrace the Magic:
Mermaiding lessons offer an extraordinary opportunity to step into a mythical realm. By donning a mermaid tail, you can channel your inner mermaid or merman and experience the joy of embodying these legendary creatures.
2. Fitness with Fins:
Mermaiding is not just a whimsical fantasy—it's also a fantastic way to get fit! The art of mermaiding requires core strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance.
3. Explore Underwater Creativity:
Mermaiding is a unique form of self-expression that encourages creativity. With each graceful movement, you can express your individual style and flair. Mermaid tails come in a wide range of colors and designs, allowing you to personalize your aquatic identity.
4. Safety First:
While mermaiding may seem like a magical experience, it's crucial to prioritize safety. Mermaiding lessons typically include instruction on proper swimming techniques, breath control, and water safety. Experienced mermaid instructors will guide you through the basics, ensuring that you feel confident and comfortable in the water. Additionally, it's essential to swim in designated areas and follow any local regulations to ensure the safety of both yourself and marine life.
And lastly, make sure you use inclusive verbiage so the mermen of your community feel included, too!
So, why not take the plunge and embark on an extraordinary journey of mermaiding? Immerse yourself in the magic, embrace your inner mermaid, and let the waves carry you to new adventures!
Are you doing anything cutesy for St. Patrick’s Day? Members of the Multifamily Sharespace Facebook Group shared some of their ideas:
We will also have them enter to win a prize of scratch off tickets! -Jacqui Nielsen Stewart
I am OBSESSSSSSSSED with this. This rainbow is so cute and then you could add gold coins at the bottom if you want. If you are extra lazy, you can do skittles instead.-Rebecca Ross Gilinsky
Members of the Multifamily Sharespace Facebook Group shared some of their ideas:
•A sham-rock hunt! Spray paint easily visible sized rocks green, have your office and service team hide them on property. As residents find them, encourage them to turn them in as a chance to win a surprise at the end of the week. As soon as rocks are turned in they can be recycled and put back out for more opportunities. On small and large communities I have had great success with this event with hundreds of found rocks and thereby hundreds of positive points of resident contact. I usually start with about 30 rocks and place them is relatively easy places to be found, but it’s always fun to hide a few more difficult ones. -Erik Husa
•Top of the Morning Breakfast on the go. We are handing out single serve lucky charms cereal and milk! – Kristen Mooney
•We do something called "Pop Your Luck" where we get scratch cards off amazon (St Patty’s Day themed) and we tape balloons to them then tape them to a wall. We get gift cards and make gift baskets as prizes. In the pack there are 5 total winners, two grand and three special prizes; for the other cards that aren't winners we get a bunch of candy, and the residents get candy even if they don't win a prize. They come in, pop a balloon, and scratch the card to see their prize. It's a big hit!! – Jordan LaRusso
•If you want something super easy, I love the idea of doing something like this (candy bags). My team and I put this together as an example. Maybe do some gold chocolate coins mixed in or at the bottom. -Rebecca Ross Gilinsky
Members of the Multifamily Sharespace Facebook Group shared some of their favorite Resident Events:
Some other great resident event ideas:
The weather is getting warmer, and Spring slowly but surely calls everyone back outdoors.
A few reasons why I love outdoor events:
These outdoor resident events are becoming increasingly popular for us; check 'em out and get inspired!
More Ideas:
If you're not doing workshops as part of your Resident Engagement strategy, you're missing out. BIG TIME.
Workshops are interactive, educational, and fun. They bring your residents together to learn a new skill they're interested in or discover something new, creating strong memories and impressions on all who assist.
When planning a workshop, go for a trendy, cool topic, like the Charcuterie Board. It's gotten a ton of attention lately and has quickly become very popular among residents!.
You’ll Need a Variety of these Essentials:
Arranging The Board:
During The Event:
A few events you can try out or book:
Valentine's Day Wine & Cheese Tasting
Valentine's Day Shortbread Cookies Cooking
Valentine's Day Wine & Paint
Valentine's Day Romantic Outdoor Movie
Valentine's Day Wine & Chocolate Tasting
Valentine's Day Casino Night
Single's Mingle
Other resident experience boosters
Valentine's Cards & Chocolates: Simply printing out a nice Valentine's card and passing it along with some Kisses (the chocolates!) goes a long way.
Pet Treats: People love their furry friends and they'll be super appreciative if you show their pets some love. Plus, the only thing cuter than a heart-shaped cookie is a bone-shaped cute. I don't make the rules.
Brownie Cake Pops: They’re fun, delicious and so cute! Brownie cake pops are the perfect Valentine’s Day snack to go. Put them out in the lobby and enjoy the smile on your residents’ faces.
Put Up a Photo Area: Get balloons (heart-shaped? YES!), flowers, and maybe even glitter! Residents can take pics and upload them to Instagram. You’ll get a ton of mentions and tags! Remember, the cornier, the better.
Looking for some exciting Halloween events to host for your residents? Here are a few ideas to help entertain your ghosts and ghouls!
Reverse Trunk-or-Treat
Have residents dress up and meet outside of their buildings. Then decorate a golf cart and drive from building to building passing out candy.
Pumpkin Carving Contest
Residents carve a pumpkin and set it at the walkway of their building with their information on the back. Staff go around and judge them.
Drawing and Coloring Contest
Have residents turn in drawings, then decorate the windows of the clubhouse with them. Ask residents to come by and judge the drawings in the different age groups, yes even adults! Each participant receives a bag of candy and winners receive a prize.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Hide skeletons, pumpkins, and other things around the property and have prizes and treats awarded for residents who send selfies with all the hidden objects.
Check out below for even MORE fun ideas!
These ideas were compiled from a collaboration by Nicholas Clayton and the Multifamily ShareSpace community.
Not only will your residents love it, but it will help you generate more leads.
Have you ever wondered how you can throw an Instagram-worthy pool party without breaking your budget? Today is your day! A splashy pool party doesn’t need to cost an arm and a leg to make an impact. The key is to invest in the right items that will allow your residents to enjoy, and most importantly, SHARE the party online.
This event is SO easy. Fill your pool up with a variety of floats in all sizes, set up a table with refreshments that require ZERO effort to prepare, and use decor to create a photo-opp area. All that’s left is to transform yourself into your inner influencer and take photos like your life depended on it. That’s it!
You’ll need these essentials:
Bring It To Life:
During The Event
Make sure to chat with your residents at least once throughout the party.
Select a member of your team to be the photographer at the event. Make sure they take photos on their phone, but also encourage them to offer to take photos for your residents on their phones. If you have the photo backdrop, take photos there and encourage residents to tag you on social media so their friends will see how awesome you are.
Want to get this entire event done-for-you FREE? Sign up for Sprout’s pool party event giveaway by August 1st and we’ll send you everything you need to bring this event to life at your community.
Have you ever wondered how you can throw an Instagram-worthy pool party without breaking your budget? Today is your day! A splashy pool party doesn’t need to cost an arm and a leg to make an impact. The key is to invest in the right items that will allow your residents to enjoy, and most importantly, SHARE the party online.
This event is SO easy. Fill your pool up with a variety of floats in all sizes, set up a table with refreshments that require ZERO effort to prepare, and use decor to create a photo-opp area. All that’s left is to transform yourself into your inner influencer and take photos like your life depended on it. That’s it!
You’ll need these essentials:
Bring It To Life:
During The Event
Want to get this entire event done-for-you FREE? Sign up for Sprout’s pool party event giveaway by August 1st and we’ll send you everything you need to bring this event to life at your community.
Get more great event ideas like this along with the caption templates, flyers, and social graphics to bring it to life.
We recently asked the ShareSpace Community to share their best Pet Event Ideas and there were some great ones so we’d like to share some of those here:
1. “I love doing yappy hour with pup cups of whipped cream & doggy treats! I want to hold an adoption event with the humane society in our area though!” ~ Jura Mikayla Clifford
2. “I always held a pet costume contest at Halloween on my properties!! We had more older folks and not many kids. The residents loved it!!! I always made about 15 lbs of bacon and served cheese (and crackers as well for the humans!) I gave away prizes of poop bags....new collars....dog treats and toys!! We had contests for best costume...and always had a first second and third place winners. When we called out the dogs name that won....they would prance up to the front for their prize...and bacon!! We posted pics for weeks after that all the residents loved. The dogs....would remember the bacon smell and come visit the office staff...and prospective residents!! Such fun!!!” ~ Tamari Riehl
3. “At the holidays this past year, we did a pet food drive for our local pet pantry” ~ Kristi Von Bender
Let’s be honest, no one likes cleaning. Especially not spring cleaning. But it’s simply one of those things that must be done, and the drastic shift in the weather is usually the best time to knock it out. So why not help your residents out by hosting a yard sale? It’s one of the main things you miss out on by living in a multifamily dwelling, but there are ways to help your residents get rid of that old junk and clean out their storage rooms! All you need are a few tables and signs, and you’ve got yourself the recipe for a fantastic yard sale.
Start off by ADVERTISING. This is the most important step. If you don’t advertise, you’ll get virtually no visitors and no visitors means no sale. You can advertise in your local paper, social media garage sale sites, and your property’s Facebook or Instagram. Any way you can get the word out, do it! The more buzz you create, the more visitors you’ll get, especially when the weather is perfect for those yard sale hunters that crave a bargain.
Get old fashioned with it! In the days before social media and Facebook pages, people used signs to guide thrifters to their sales. Grab a few signs from your local store, or make your own with some poster board and markers! Create something attention grabbing and informative and you’re sure to get a horde of Saturday morning early risers stopping by to see what your residents have to offer. Make sure to include the address, date and time in large, easy to read lettering. You can post signs at corners near your property, and guiding all the way up to your front door to make sure they know where they’re going.
Finally, make sure your residents have everything they need. Make sure to provide trash cans for clean-up. Tables can be rented inexpensively, and you can take a tally of who might need one for the big day. It’s a huge help to the residents participating at little cost to the property’s event budget. You could even set up a refreshments table for visitors with information about the property. That way, you might even get a lease or two out of the event.
No matter what, yard sales are always a hit. Giving your residents a place to clean out their old things makes room for the new, and also keeps them from overflowing their apartments and storage units!
We all know that everyone loves free food. In the summertime, you have plenty of residents that are home and take care of kids that are out of school. Whatever the case may be, providing a lunch during the summer can not only help out parents with kids at home for the summer, but those looking to save a few bucks in the current economic climate.
The best part is, it’s super easy to do with little prep work and little effort! You can do one big lunch where your residents can grab a lunch to go, or you can make it a weekly thing!
You can start with bag lunches filled with sandwiches and snacks, or you can have lunch catered if you have the budget for it. Kids are so easy to please if you’re providing an alternative to school lunches that aren’t present in the summer, and most of your adult residents will be so appreciative for a complimentary lunch.
If you choose to, you can even host a ‘Make Your Own Lunch’ bar, and provide different entrees (pre-packaged, of course), chip choices, and other snacks to throw together. You’ll get to converse with residents, and they’ll get to pick their lunch for the day! If you have lunch catered, it could be even more customized, and you could try a yummy new option every week!
Overall, this is a super easy event idea. All you have to do is find the food, and you’re done! Either way, you’re making lots of residents super happy, and it’s a really low key event to handle!