Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Local Park Day/Meetup Ideas

These are some of the ideas I had for some local community input for meetups. I am going to post them here, in case they benefit anyone else and so I will have them for future reference :)


List parks ideas in the county and relevant info (like if there are parking fees or water play opportunities or ducks we can feed, if it is pet-friendly or not, etc.). Only requirements are that there are bathrooms closeby and grassy area for sitters and crawlers :)


Park Day Fun: I love what ideas a group can contribute, so I thought this could be a great place to compile those. Some I was thinking are:

potluck -- we can all just bring whatever foods we want to contribute and the kids can snack throughout the day or whatever works for each of us, but we can enjoy variety :)

chats -- we can have planned topics to discuss. I love building and destructing and restructing things with kindreds :)

book club -- we can pick a book per month to read and discuss

lending library -- we can post up books or movies or CDs or whatever that we are willing to share with each other

fun fairs -- opportunities to share something in a way we want with each other (open to suggestions of how to do this)

cleaning fairs -- after spring cleaning bring your extra wares to the park to sell, trade, barter, or give away

music days -- bring an ipod dock or CD player and jam our favorite tunes

playshop -- pursue and interest together as a group


More than just parkdays: I would love to connect on more than just a weekly park day. Maybe we can compile ideas of other events, etc. that a fellow groupmember may want to attend with someone here, or ideas of things we can do at a fellow community member's house (I have hosted weekly informal dance, where we pick some kind of dance style to learn for a day or whatever, and all-ages learn and dance and have fun; some have done game nights, movie nights, etc.). This is usually an ongoing list, so people can connect on current events :)

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