Grandparents Day, an important celebration on our church family calendar, means an opportunity to highlight 'family' within our community. It also adds up to loads of fun activities for all ages, but a heap of planning for our family ministry outreach team.
Grandparents Day Go-cart Derby
Each year we place a special emphasis on the unique contribution of grandparents during our worship service. Following the service and morning tea, kids' activities are organised (jumping castle, face-painting, balloon modelling) and a BBQ lunch is provided. There will be competitions included: best decorated kid's skateboard, best home-cooked dessert. And, the big finale is the Grandparents Day Go-cart Derby. Four winners (different age-groups) will each take home a shiny, new go-cart.
Needless to say. it's a very popular event. Grandparents push their grandkids around the race course and those children without grandparents can adopt a willing substitute from within our church family.
Grandparents Day Go-cart Derby
Each year we place a special emphasis on the unique contribution of grandparents during our worship service. Following the service and morning tea, kids' activities are organised (jumping castle, face-painting, balloon modelling) and a BBQ lunch is provided. There will be competitions included: best decorated kid's skateboard, best home-cooked dessert. And, the big finale is the Grandparents Day Go-cart Derby. Four winners (different age-groups) will each take home a shiny, new go-cart.
Needless to say. it's a very popular event. Grandparents push their grandkids around the race course and those children without grandparents can adopt a willing substitute from within our church family.
Activity teams
We've found that it runs smoothly and eases the load if we organise a director to oversee the event and various teams responsible for various aspects of this event: Lunch Team, Setup Team, Kids' Activities Team, Competitions Team, Go-cart Derby Team, First Aid Team, Decorations Team, Promotion/advertising Team. Everyone helps with the clean-up following the event.
So, for our planning meeting and to add a little retro touch, we organised a bit of fun.
We've found that it runs smoothly and eases the load if we organise a director to oversee the event and various teams responsible for various aspects of this event: Lunch Team, Setup Team, Kids' Activities Team, Competitions Team, Go-cart Derby Team, First Aid Team, Decorations Team, Promotion/advertising Team. Everyone helps with the clean-up following the event.
So, for our planning meeting and to add a little retro touch, we organised a bit of fun.
Simple team quiz
Since we're looking at grandparents and earlier eras, we devised an ice-cream quiz that looks at retro ice-cream varieties. We handed out PaddlePop ice-creams as our team arrived. After a brief introduction, we gave everyone a copy of the quiz. The quiz provides a brief history of ice-cream production and then asks what date popular ice-creams were introduced. Then, we had pictures of the ice-creams and asked for volunteers come up and try and place them in order of date introduced. It certainly generated a lot of noisy discussion and was a great start to our planning meeting. The quiz file is included below if you would like to make use of it.
Since we're looking at grandparents and earlier eras, we devised an ice-cream quiz that looks at retro ice-cream varieties. We handed out PaddlePop ice-creams as our team arrived. After a brief introduction, we gave everyone a copy of the quiz. The quiz provides a brief history of ice-cream production and then asks what date popular ice-creams were introduced. Then, we had pictures of the ice-creams and asked for volunteers come up and try and place them in order of date introduced. It certainly generated a lot of noisy discussion and was a great start to our planning meeting. The quiz file is included below if you would like to make use of it.
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