EVENT PLANNING FOR KIDS
In this paper, we are going to prepare a trip for the kids to an educational tour as part of P.E program in the school curriculum. This will involve a lot of creativity and patience, and it has to be fun for everyone. I am going to lay down the activities and themes of this trip and some few tips to guarantee the success of the journey.
The age group for this educational trip ranges from 6 years to 10 years. The events we are going to have include games, magic shows, amusement park and magic shows. There would be activities like clay sculpture work for both boys and girls, face paintings and dance parties and competition. This will involve the kids between 6 years to 8 years. The age group of between 8 years and ten years will be considering they are old enough, and there would be the following activities and events. Professional magician shows, music shows for the biggest hits among them and the treasure hunting. With their age group, these events will make sense to them more (Koutsoupidou et al., 2009). The activities and games will be kept short and simple since children always have a limited attention span.
Lunch for the children will be carried with us as part of the hygiene so that the children cannot find themselves eating from the hawkers. Children sometimes eating at the parties can be very meticulous work. The lunch will be limited and straightforward like a few snacks that the children will enjoy, and they should not be expensive so that it will cut the cost. There is a team of volunteers from the teacher’s section that will oversee children’s activities since handling children is not an easy task. They will be allocated to different target groups.
We decided that we would visit the weeklong program in the Washington dc called the camp broadway in the summer. They offer musical theatres for the kids and other educational sessions for the kids. We then contacted the organization, they booked for us a day with the kids, and every program was put in place for the trip. We obtained the pieces of equipment for the day and materials that the kids needed for learning—musical instruments and the attires that they required for the practice.
There were rules that we put in place for the trip that will guide the team and everyone on the board, including the children. We were going to use the school bus for the journey, and therefore the timetable and sequence of events were written down to save time. We provided the fee amount that will be paid for the trip to gather for the expenses, sent them to their parents, and drafted a proposal of the same to the organization as they charge for the services they provide. There were prices that we needed to carry with us we were going to award different groups depending on their performance in dances and play.
There was also registered on the same about the trip both by the students and by teachers. This helped us in knowing the number of people who were going to attend and in budgeting for the trip.There was also a team of representatives who were sent to check on the venue before the visit to see if the facilities were enough for the children we were going for the trip with.
At the end of the trip, we plan that we will pay the stuff of their excellent work and send thankyou notes to the parents, organization and all those people who took part in the project. We then went overboard to examine the students with tests to see if the goals for the trip were reached.
References
Koutsoupidou, T., & Hargreaves, D. J. (2009). An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Psychology of Music, 37(3), 251-278.