I am planning to present this event to our board in October. In doing some research I found that May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and also National Salad Month.
Things I had thought of: Staff vs. Parents game (volleyball, softball, etc...), Juice and salad bar, Organized playground games (jump rope, dodge ball, etc...), see if we could get trial memberships for sports clubs to use as door prizes, fitness info and some performances of some kind (gymnastics, etc...).
Our school has done family fun and fitness nights, they get local clubs to come in and have tables explaining their group. Like Figure skating, Ice fishing, Sun safety, bike safety stuff like that. Of course it depends on the weather. One year it had a stress free theme and there was meditation, make your own stress balls, stress water bottles, etc. For winter exercise, we had skiing on two by fours, snowman bowling(not real snow) stuff like that.
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
Sounds like fun! We haven't ever done a family fitness night, but we have had events that incorporated adults and children playing volleyball and doing hula hoops together, and it was a blast. (The kids particularly liked seeing their parents hula hoop!) And what about dancing? You could have a mini-sock hop in one room. And maybe flag football or soccer on the playground? It would be nice to remind people that family fitness can be activities they enjoy doing together.
Hello all! I'm the President of a K-5 Elementary School and would like to know if anyone out there has run a family fitness night, and what you've offered. So far, we're having aerobics instruction (20 minutes); yoga (10 minutes) as well as jump rope and hula hoop contests for the kids, maybe even a basketball shoot-out. Healthy snacks will be served from a local market. What do you think? Should I add anything? Thanks for the input!
