We have an Activity Night three times a year. It is a really big deal too. It's held on a Friday night from 7-9. Only students of our school are allowed. The parents drop them off and pick them up and they are not allowed to leave early unless their parent comes into the building and signs them out. At the beginning of the year, the student and parent sign a permission slip with "rules". Students without a permission slip cannot buy a ticket.
The kids buy tickets at lunch for $1 ($2 at the door). We have a DJ in the commons, the gym is open for sports, then down our main hall (class rooms are closed off) there is DDR, foozball, ping-pong, playstation, gamecube, bingo. We open our concession stand where we sell soda, water, candy, pizza, nachos, & hotdogs. We even get Smoothie King to come and sell smoothies (big hit!). It takes a lot of parent volunteers, but they never seem to lack them. Last Activity Night probably 2/3 of the student population showed up!

pwoodfin;127673 wrote: Hi parents and teachers,
I am looking for "Fun Night" ideas for an evening with Middle School age students.
Paige Woodfin

We recently volunteered in St. Bernard's Parish - helping with relief efforts post Katrina and found ourselves at a school helping with the art program during the day.

We found out that the school had planned a family night for the 4th, 5th and 6th graders that night and we asked if we could help. They had a Sports/Math theme. We are theatre peformers, but we figured we could come up with something that would use our theatrical skills and serve their needs. Perhaps you could use the idea we came up with as well.

"Theatre Baseball": We roped off an area, set up 4 bases, grabbed the cards from our Guesstures game (it's a lot like charades). The first batter stepped up to bat with their invisible bat. We pitched the invisible ball with finesse and comically dodged it. When they got to 1st base we gave them something to act-out. Their teammates had to guess it in 3 tries or they were out. If they guessed correctly they moved on to 2nd base and something harder to act-out. And so on, until they got home and all player had a turn at bat.

The other game areas had bowling, sports related mad-libs, sports themed word search. The students collected stickers for participating and then turned in their game sheets for prizes like books and sports trinkets (such as soccer, baseball, and football key chains).

Hope you can take this idea and run with it!
Act!vatedly Yours,

Dennis, Kimberly and Zephyr Goza
www.activated-storytellers.com
The ever-nomadic Act!vated Storytellers are in Arlington, TX – next show at the library in Laurel, MS 2/1

* This week's Act!vated Audio Story "Pecos Bill" from Texas! media.libsyn.com/media/activated/Pecos.mp3

You can have a science night... there are many experiements the kids can do and the cost would be minimal-- again, I'd talk to the science teacher about some ideas.

Thanks Dawn,
Great ideas. We are meeting this evening and I will give your suggestions. Any luck with Bingo?
Paige

We held one last year at our middle school. It went great and we have another planned for this Feb. We had a big twister game (taped 4 sheets together). We had a cake walk, sleigh rides, line dancing in the gym, game room w/ board games, and concessions & silent auctions w/ items donated from local businesses. This year we are going to add a chili challenge and keep the concessions easy. Good luck

Hi parents and teachers,
I am looking for "Fun Night" ideas for an evening with Middle School age students. The event will be held in the gym and cafeteria area. I have reviewed the packet "How to host a fun and games night" which is more geared for elementary. We are looking for an event to hold annually between the elementary age carnival and the high school age dances. I appreciate all of your commments and ideas!
Paige Woodfin