Idaho @ Play Day!

This is one of our required service days as part of our AmeriCorps placement. We all met at the Serve Idaho conference and began planning for an event. We identified the Whitney Community Center as the location for our activity since the after-school program is well-attended by a large population of under-served students. Our goal was to provide a fun, active kick-off to summer. The event was a hit with over 80 students and adults participating we had 10 different activities, but the two most popular (by far!!) were the box fort building and bicycle rodeo.

The AmeriCorps team that put the event together. Special thanks to Sheralynn (front, in grey) for being the coordinator.

It was cool to be inside the box fort!

Looking for extra-large Jenga? We had it!

The bike rodeo was a huge success.

Lots of drop-in games were available and everyone got a Frisbee to keep!

I was able to get bikes donated by the Boise Bicycle Project and we had a member of Safe Routes to School from the YMCA come and teach the kids about bike safety. We even had a boy who learned how to ride a bike that day!