We had our Get Movin' Night during the National turn off your TV week. As this was our first year doing this, we went on the small scale to get our feet wet with it. We set the gym up with an obstacle course (2 lanes so you could race a friend), basket ball drills, hockey shooting, Hula Hooping, Jump Roping (we taped jump roping songs on the wall), Red Light Green Light, etc... It was a success. The kids really enjoyed, and so did the parents. The obstacle course was the hit of the night; kids raced their friends and their parents! Parents even raced their spouses - it was so much fun!
We actually had Dad's sign up to help with this event and they were fantastic! This is a perfect event to include the Dads. We had our Bagels with Dad breakfast a few weeks before so it was a perfect opportunity to elicit volunteers.
Next year, we plan on holding this again and going even bigger with inviting others from the community to share information. We plan on purchasing water bottles with our school name and Get Movin' Night on it so that the kids have something from the evening.
The packet was very helpful; we just lacked volunteers because April was a busy month with sports. We plan on moving our night to a winter activity.