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75 Ways to Increase Youth Attendance
For this and other great Tips Lists, please visit the Resource Center! 75 Ways to Increase Youth Attendance at Your Recreation Center 1. Early signups It doesn’t matter when – as long as it’s early, it’s a commitment 2. Announcements Make announcements about classes and activities during events 3. Exciting activities Youth love excitement, [...]
Making Education Fun
Recreation is not always just about fun and games. A lot of recreation centers have programs that include educational classes or activities. These can include programs on different subjects, such as health, life skills, or computers. These are subjects that can contain a lot of educational information or skills development, but that does not mean [...]
Storing Recreation Equipment
Do you ever run into the problem of running out of storage space, or not being able to find the recreation equipment that you are looking for? At a youth center I worked at, we had a storage closet in the gym. The problem with it was that we always had a hard time finding [...]
Cleanup Project
At a previous position, I worked as a program director for a community center in a low-income area. The center had a work program for teenage youth to earn income while working on property owned by the nonprofit organization that managed the center. I was asked on one occasion to supervise the youth on a [...]
A New Kind of Class
While I was working as a program director at a youth center a couple of years ago, we held various standard classes and activities, such as computer classes, leadership clubs, and arts and crafts, which were easy to be familiar with. I was encouraged, however, to try out a new kind of class that we [...]
“Active” Video Games
Children love to play video games. The only problem is that they can become very sedentary when sitting down and playing them for a long period of time. That is why you might consider adding an “active” video game console to your recreation center. “Active” video games require more than just sitting still and pushing [...]
Trivia Quiz
Are you running out of ideas for activities for your youth members? Are you already running plenty of popular programs and looking for something new? You may want to try having a trivia quiz! A trivia quiz is very simple to run. You simply present trivia questions on different topics, and give prizes for answering [...]
Gear Activities Toward Kids’ Interests
Not long ago I was working as a program director for youth at a recreation center. One of the problems that I had run into was that our classes and activities were getting stale. We were running a lot of the same successful programs, but were having some attendance and retention issues. A solution I [...]
Kickball
Kickball is a sport that everyone can love! It is easy to learn, has simple rules, and allows everyone to participate. Basically, it is just like softball, except played with a large, rubbery, bouncy ball. The object is to kick the ball when pitched to, and then to run the bases to avoid being tagged [...]
