September 20-26, 2010
Ideas, Events & Resources for Organizations
List of Activities/Events You Can Offer: Organizations
A Sharing Nature day camp, a guided hike, a night walk, orienteering – this list will give you all sorts of ideas for hosting a great nature event during Take Me Outside Week.
How Your Library Can Host a “Where Do the Children Play?” Documentary Public Showing
This documentary geared for adults will inspire parents and caregivers to take the kids outside! It is a 55-minute PBS documentary that “examines the social and technological trends that conspire to rob children of their birthright: time and opportunity for unstructured, spontaneous play, especially outdoors in nature.”
Sharing Nature with Children Books by Joseph Cornell
Sharing Nature with Children and Sharing Nature with Children II, by Joseph Cornell of the Sharing Nature Foundation, contain descriptions of nature activities that anyone can use to help children and youth develop a closer relationship with nature. Order them online here or check them out of your local library.
Sharing Nature Activities for Families and Youth Groups booklet (allow time for it to download - it is a large file)
This four-page booklet gives quick descriptions of activities that are easy to do with children and youth in nature. They are drawn from Joseph Cornell’s two Sharing Nature books (described above). Download it and take the kids outside for fun right now!
Order an "Ask Your Teacher To Take You Outside" T-Shirt
A national organization, also called Take Me Outside, produces these t-shirts to inspire students and teachers to head outside.
Organize a Play Day through Kaboom
KaBOOM! Play Days are part of a movement to bring play back into the lives of children by activating communities to celebrate and improve the quality of play. Play Days help build awareness for the importance of play, empower individuals to become advocates of play, improve the quality of play spaces nationwide, strengthen communities and bring good-ol’-fashioned fun to every corner of the country. The KaBOOM! Play Day website helps you plan for your big day.
Take Me Outside Logo
Use this logo to help promote your event:
•Web version of TMOW logo
•Print version of TMOW logo
If you experience problems in downloading the print version of the logo, please contact us and we'll email it to you.
Event Poster and Flyer Templates
Adjust these templates to promote your event. Print them and post around your community and/or email them to your contacts:
•Poster template (11 x 17)
•Info sheet (8.5 x 11)
Take Me Outside Week Registration Handbills
Use these handbills to promote Take Me Outside Week to families who attend your events. Print and cut (three to a page).
Public Service Announcement Template
Adjust this template to help promote your event and send it to newspapers, radio and TV for inclusion in their community events promotions. Send it three weeks in advance.
Media Advisory Template
Adjust this template with your event details (no more than one page). Send it a week in advance of your event to editors and reporters and again a day or two before.
News Release Template
Adjust this template with the details of your event (writing it as if you were a reporter) and send it to editors and reporters immediately after your event.
Nova Scotia Media List
Promote your event(s) using various media outlets listed here.
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