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Plan of Action for your event: Step 2 Choosing your activities
The Family Learning Festival website has an A-Z of activity ideas. Before choosing your activities you may wish to think about:
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Activities that family members can do together. Family Learning is all about parents/carers and their children learning together.
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The types of activities you target families are interested in. If possible ask them beforehand.
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What people will learn. If you run a face painting session make it a fun learning activity. You could look at make up through the ages or a the science of the skin.
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Incorporating a crowd puller. Some activities always prove to be popular such as football sessions, circus skills or car boot sales. These can be used to attract people, who may then go on to try a new family learning activity.
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Holding a competition. Competitions, especially involving prizes, really get people’s attention and can help you attract lots of free publicity.
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Taking your event to your audience.This could include shopping centres, sports halls or the high street. People prefer to take part in events where they feel comfortable and which are ‘everyday’ venues. Outreach programmes are a good way to start a relationship that could have them stepping through the doors of your venue at a later point.
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How you can inspire further learning. The Family Learning Festival is all about encouraging people to carry on learning. To find out how to run activities that encourage families to carry on learning, download our guide Discovering New Worlds: linking family activities to further learning.
Choosing a theme
Family Learning Festival Award winners have found that having a strong theme for their event contributed to its success. A theme can be used through the whole of an event from the types of activities on offer to the promotional activity to the evaluation techniques. You may wish to use one of our Family Learning Festival themes. For 2009 the overarching theme is ‘Get Together – Discover More’ and it has a number of smaller themes:
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