Every summer I try to have at least one major project that I know will blow them away. It's really hard to predict my numbers, and that's why I plan for one major one. Sometimes my attendance is as low as 2 - and it's not that we don't do something fun, I just have to save the super-awesome stuff for the big days.
So summer before last I found a tutorial on making your own hula-hoops, and I thought, "I'm going to do that with my teens!" It really is simple to make. The hardest part is gathering all the supplies. The second hardest part is the wait the teens had because I had to help them one at a time, so they played Apples to Apples while they waited.
When I started researching this, I found all sorts of stuff. Like about calculating hoop size for your body. We did the standard to the top of your hip - which let me tell you, made all the difference for me. I'm 6' and *cough* pounds. Ok, I'm not a small girl - and as such, I need a much bigger hoop! Makes sense, right? Once I made it and tried it out, I did so much better than I ever had! I've never been able to hula-hoop! It was great!
I didn't have a whole lot of options for decoration in my small town, so I just bought a bunch of different colored electrical tape and let the teens go to town. Once everyone's hoops were made, the decoration part definitely took some time. As far as I can tell, everyone loved the craft.
Warning: this is obviously not a cheap program to do. You *could* charge a few bucks for this program if you needed to, or just even it out by doing other less expensive programs for awhile. Truth be told, I probably spent about $100+ for about 12 teens or so. Would I trade it for the world? Never.
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