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Partners: Planning Guides and Activity Tips
The more you encourage activity and active play to happen, the more kids will want to GO. You can work with the VERB campaign on a small scale: use the campaign materials once or twice to keep the message fresh. You can work with the VERB campaign on a grander scale: organize community-wide events for tweens to try new physical activities.
VERB in Your Community
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Designing a Successful VERB Scorecard Campaign in Your Community
This publication guides the reader through the process of designing
a program that gets their community (including businesses,
non-profits, and schools) involved in promoting physical
activity among 9 to 13 year olds. This 22-page, easy-to-read
guide provides background on VERB, explains the scorecard
program, and provides suggestions that assist the reader in
modifying the program to fit their particular community. 
Having A Successful Physical
Activity Event:
Your guide to making physical activity appealing to 9 to 13 year
olds
Community-based organizations are
integral to motivating kids to be active. By having local
physical activity events, communities can take advantage of the
interest that kids have in VERB. A local event could take many
shapes and forms, but for it to appeal to tweens, the emphasis
must be on fun.
Event Logistics Guide: Planning A Community-Wide VERB™ Activity Zone Event Producing a community–wide VERB Activity Zone event is a great way to bring the VERB campaign to your community. Health fairs have long been an effective way to introduce adults to the importance of health screenings and preventive health measures. That, however, does not work for kids. Kids are interested in what is cool and fun. That is what a community–wide VERB Activity Zone event is all about.
Use Campaign Research in Your Programs
Make physical activity more fun and appealing to tweens by using some of the campaign’s research findings in your existing programs and classrooms:
- Help tweens discover new activities they enjoy. Children this age respond to
the spirit of adventure, discovery and finding their own thing.
- Prizes are great incentives for kids! Give away small prizes such as stickers
or water bottles to reward kids for their efforts.
- Design activities with input from the kids. They will be more inclined to
participate because they want to, not because they have to.
- Some tweens prefer activities with a competitive edge, while others simply
like playing a game with friends. Find out their preferences. All tweens will
experience the rewards of being active if it is enjoyable for them.
- Tweens, especially girls, like social interaction with friends. It makes
playing actively more fun and offers opportunities for peer recognition and
praise.
- Praise kids just for trying something new and getting active. Your encouragement means a lot to them.
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- Page last reviewed: August 1, 2007 Historical Document
- Page last updated: August 1, 2007
- Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health
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