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A Treasury of Great Group Activities for All Ages
You can create, host or facilitate group activities that leave participants glowing. The best group activity almost magically restores humankind’s sense of belonging and community.
Participants ask for more, and often describe them as the most fun they’ve ever had. Really good ones can:
- Draw families and neighbors closer together
- Deepen a classroom’s intelligence and improve its behavior
- Make adult and kids' parties and workshops "the most fun ever!"
- Produce work place and team bonding
- Reconnect people with nature
- And even help sports teams play better as a unit
Need something low-cost to throw together at the last minute for a few kids? Want ideas and plans for larger community gatherings? This site offers the best of the best from more than two decades of designing and facilitating unique, innovative plans for:
- Home and neighborhood gatherings
- Families (including extended, blended, adopted and reunions)
- Classrooms and homeschool
- Camps and retreats
- Outdoor activities for kids, adults and mixed-age groups
- Kids’ sports, after school enrichment, and more meaningful parties
- Youth groups (teen to young adult)
- Activities for adult shared-interest gatherings (such as book groups)
- Seasonal celebrations and holiday activities
- Work place team bonding
- Spiritual gatherings
- Easy fundraisers for groups
- And even articles for turning your love for hosting or facilitating fun gatherings into a sideline or full time home-based business.
What we can offer you:
Dan, Amy, and Ellie have been involved in research and online writing for many years, and group activities are favorite topics and lifestyle. Along with their own group and community adventures, they scan the globe to showcase the best others have succeeded with.
For 25 years, Barb professionally and voluntarily designed and facilitated fun, bonding and educational gatherings for all ages. As a researcher and professional writer of books and feature magazine articles, her history and experience in eco-farming keeps her joyfully involved in the evolving rural community.
About the Great Group Activities Site This site offers group activities -- how tos and ideas -- we've created ourselves or found through searching for the best. Come join the fun!
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Fun group activities for grown-ups or intergenerational groups Many fun group activities to create: Independent movie nights, kitchen cosmetics clubs, making book clubs even more fun. Child care ideas, finding members, even fun group activities for profit .
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Family activities for bonding, learning and a lifetime of loving Great family activities can restore the family bonds an older era once took for granted, while helping families excel in an exciting new world.
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Great Block Party Ideas and Community Activities for your Neighborhood Innovative block party ideas and community activities transform neighborhoods into supportive mini villages. Turn your neighborhood into a fun, close-knit and even financially prosperous community.
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Living in the Country: Friendships and Natural Rural Community Development Living in the country? Hope to? Rural group activities and community gatherings lead to friendships and natural rural community development.
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Seasons and Holidays Activities: Celebrate with Meaning Seasonal and holidays activities can turn off the commercial noise and bring us back home to deeper meaning. Mixing the ancient with the visionary, enjoy our activities for the seasons and holidays.
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Ceremony ideas: From making candles to symbolic bridges Ceremony ideas including resources for how-tos on making candles, making masks, ideas for “releasing old ties, ” sending wishes to heaven, and more.
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Tips for Planning Family Reunions Planning family reunions: Great tips from organization to family T shirts to activities. Make your reunion a huge success.
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Outdoor activities for kids increase intelligence, joy, health and goodwill Outdoor activities for kids can help them see themselves and the world with new eyes. Here’s how we help nature work wonders with 21st century children.
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Kids' Sports Success (girls’ softball, boys basketball, & others) Kids' sports (girls’ softball, co-ed soccer & other team sports) can be more successful, fun and rewarding with certain creative group activities.
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The Right Kids’ Activity Can Change Their World A great group kids’ activity can fulfill the mind’s childhood quest to discover and achieve new abilities, build self-worth, and experience a sense of being a valued contributor. Lots of ideas here.
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Great Youth Group Activities The best youth group activities break the spell of parent-blaming, over-extended adolescent inertia, build inner wisdom, and reveal the joy of being wanted by society.
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Educational Activities for K-12 in a Changing World Here are educational activities & classroom models that have proven exceptional.
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Wedding on a farm: Tips and resources Planning a wedding on a farm? How-to articles, themes, resources, tips and ideas
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DIY Wedding flowers how-to Gather to create DIY wedding flowers for an enchanting and charming celebration
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Country Wedding Invitations Country wedding invitations: From customizing beautiful designs (100s to choose from) online to DIY methods with pressed flowers, sealing wax and more.
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The Second Wedding Ceremony & Pre-Wedding Activities for Lovers, Not Enemies The third or second wedding ceremony and its pre-wedding activities are usually being planned by couples who now know what they really want. Here are ideas.
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Seeking wedding farms for a marriage ceremony? Here are some favorite wedding farms, plus how to shop for free for farm wedding destinations in USA and around the world
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Top 22 farm wedding inspirations from actual weddings Great farm wedding ideas from favors to entrances to vintage and farm girl wedding attire
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Country wedding reflections & ideas Three great country wedding ceremony activities and rituals from the most successful weddings in the countryside
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Small Home Business Ideas to Start with Friends or for Working with Groups Small home business ideas for groups of friends to start together, or for individuals who like to work with groups (teach workhops, plan events, start a kids camp).
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Seeking wedding inspiration? Fill yourself with wedding inspiration with photos of unique wedding attire for the creative historic ceremony or country wedding
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Historic costumes for events, theater, or just plain fun Historic costumes from lavish & realistic enough for Hollywood to great but less expensive to creative and almost free!
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Group T shirts from DIY at home to online customized Need group T shirts for your group? Family reunion? Camp?
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