As summer fades into fall, it’s time to celebrate the season with your residents. Here are five autumnal ideas to add to your resident calendar.
1. Host a fall festival
A fall festival is an exciting way to welcome the season of the harvest. Set up stations in your community room — or outdoors, if weather permits — with fall-themed activities.
Adjust your festival to meet your residents’ needs. If your community is home to families with kids, offer activities like fall-themed face painting, pumpkin decorating, and simple fall crafts. For residents with pets, you can host a doggy costume contest. Adults may enjoy fall-themed crafts and DIY projects like making a fall wreath, sewing fabric pumpkins, and creating a decorative chalkboard.
And don’t forget your fall playlist!
2. Fall potluck
Nothing says fall like comfort food. Host a potluck in your community room and ask residents to bring their favorite fall dishes, like chili, casseroles, and pumpkin muffins.
Looking for a more low-key alternative? Host a breakfast booth outside of your leasing office. Delight your residents on their way to work by serving up hot apple cider and donuts. Your residents will appreciate the fun fall treat.
3. Football-watching party
Touchdown! Invite your residents to an evening of cheering, snacks, and camaraderie during primetime football. Rent a big screen TV — the bigger the better — and encourage your residents to root for your local college or professional team. You can even encourage some friendly competition by asking residents to wear their favorite team’s colors.
4. Movie night
An outdoor movie night is a fun way to bring your community together. To make sure your event is a blockbuster hit, choose a popular feature, and provide ample seating and snacks. If temperatures in your area are too cool for a movie night, bring your event indoors or schedule it for a warm afternoon.
5. Halloween events
Gear up for the scariest holiday of the season by adding some Halloween-themed events to your calendar.
From hosting a costume contest to setting up trick-or-treating stations around your leasing office, there are dozens of ways to celebrate Halloween on site. For costume contests, consider offering separate categories for children, adults, and four-legged residents, and don’t forget to post the best pics on your social media channels!
Want more Halloween ideas? Try creating a haunted house, launching a pumpkin-carving contest, or hosting a scary movie night. Your residents will love these spooktacular ideas.
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